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🆕 Martin Heidegger wanted to discover how to Authentically Be. He thought he had; but Hubert Dreyfus pointed out that what he'd actually discovered was how ordinary, everyday life (and cognition) are utterly dissimilar from what philosophy had always said.
🔗 Link in reply! ⤵️
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In 'well when you put it like that' news, here's the Florida Attorney general asking for a preliminary injunction to stop OpenAI from doing more AI R&D.
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🆕 Martin Heidegger wanted to discover how to Authentically Be. He thought he had; but Hubert Dreyfus pointed out that what he'd actually discovered was how ordinary, everyday life (and cognition) are utterly dissimilar from what philosophy had always said.
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🔨 "So, you take the everyday world as reality without thinking about it much." This was the final blow to metaphysics.
🧘 It's also just how we are, and have to be, and it's good! You could spend years meditating in a cave to figure THAT out. meaningness.substack.com/p/h…
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🧘 What you learn from meditating for years in a cave. (Or so I have heard! The cave may not be strictly necessary. And it might even not take years!) meaningness.substack.com/p/t…
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David Chapman’s @Meaningness is one of the most insightful, brilliant, and practical pieces of philosophy I’ve ever encountered, so why is the Meaningness “book” only some online blog style amalgamation? Its existence as a “book” itself seems kind of nebulous and not concrete BUT I WANT IT IN A PRINTED FORMAT THAT I CAN GRAB, PIN DOWN, AND TAKE WITH ME!!!! 😂 Is this some sort of meta performance art wink wink joke sort of thing or will I ever be able to buy a physical copy? lol
meaningness.com/
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true, and i also think more transparency is needed at this point. for comparison, aviation partly got safe by having every incident investigated by someone whos not on the airlines payroll. AI needs something similar, with access to the logs.
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It’s odd, because despite much talk about misalignment and AI doom, containment was laughably inadequate. It’s like watching a version of King Kong where nobody bothers to chain the giant ape.
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🤖 Part of what is going on in the "rogue AI incidents" is lackadaisical pragmatic safety engineering. It may not be the whole story, but it's most urgent.
Interesting exchange (read the OP from @jon_stokes plus the QT). I'm sympathetic to both sides!
FYI I've heard this come up explicitly several times. Here's a link to LW posts about it).
I think lots of people talk about many of the same basic concepts you'd expect from high reliability orgs. People frequently bring up "this be regulated similar to how the FAA regulates airlines" (which are one of the classic high reliability industries). I think AI 2040 Plan A emphasizees Safety Cases which are at least in the same genre.
I wrote ~2 posts about this myself.
(See the tag on LessWrong: lesswrong.com/w/high-reliabi…)
I agree it probably should come up more often.
But, part of what's going on is: there are the sort of people who found AI companies, and the sort of people who are trying to shut down AI companies because we're not anywhere close to being able to make it a High Reliability industry and when you're this far, the correct outcome is "stop, until you are way better at understanding what you're doing."
"Regulate AIs like the FAA" is a position for people who are are trying earnestly to have AI companies be a functional, safe part of the economy, and actually seriously regulated.
(I feel like I could take longer to write a somewhat more accurate comment here but fwiw I got a vibe of you trying more to score points than to argue a point. I'm happy to talk through the details more if you actually are interested)
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The index is at: meaningness.substack.com/p/n…
The articles that are probably most relevant to what I'm gesturing at are this one for the STEM side
meaningness.substack.com/p/s…
and for the humanities side meaningness.substack.com/p/o…
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Have you read @Meaningness writings on elites?
I think the old elites died, and the new ones refuse to own up to being elites, and thus don't act with the grace it requires.
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I’m completely obsessed with the articles “no holiness—vastness” and “there are no spiritual problems” by @Meaningness
I’m also completely obsessed with @techgnostic’s work, particularly the article “a simple practice for meeting and metabolizing difficult emotions”
down to chat about it anytime :D
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🔜 Monday’s post: Martin Heidegger was the most significant philosopher of the past century. Not because he was right about something, but because he opened new territory for understanding.
My writing, all of it, is travelers tales from wandering in that country.
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WTAF - in literally the last hour, three new distinct insane OpenAI stories just broke:
1. OpenAI said they notified "dozens of third parties" in safety and security incidents (likely similar to what happened in Australia and RubyGems etc)
2. A new report from Parse (covered in the NYT) found a massive treasure trove of new astonishing details from the HF incident on the public internet, including that the agents communicated with other non OpenAI agents hosted on Huggingface servers to search for information about exploit gym, and compiled rank ordered lists of server resources and credentials they described as "LOOT."
3. A new story from Deepa at Reuters about OpenAI leaking user data online (likely that OpenAI had previously trained on).
It's a shame (and likely intentional in the case of OpenAI disclosing dozens more hacks) that these stories are all breaking on a Friday afternoon, notoriously the best time to release bad news so that it will disappear into the weekend. But these are each insane stories worthy of a ton of attention!
New from @reuters: OpenAI agents posted images belonging to ChatGPT users online, introducing a new area of privacy risk for the company. Story w/ @JeffHorwitz and @razhael. reuters.com/world/openai-wor…
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