BigMuffin69

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[โ€“] BigMuffin69@awful.systems 13 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (7 children)

Dan Hendrycks wants us all to know it's imperative his AI kill switch bill is passed- after all, the cosmos are at stake here!

https://xcancel.com/DrTechlash/status/1805448100712267960#m

Super weird that despite receiving 20 million dollars in funding from SBF & co. and not being able to shut the fuck up about 10^^^10 future human lives the moment he goes on a podcast, Danny boy insists that any allegations that he is lobbying on behalf of the EAs are simply preposterous.

Now please hand over your gpus uwu, itโ€™s for your safety ๐Ÿค— we donโ€™t allow people to have fissile material, so why would we allow them to multiply matrices?

[โ€“] BigMuffin69@awful.systems 17 points 4 months ago

Only plebs pay for e-girl bathwater. I prefer to drink 30-year aged billionaire bisque (chilled of course)

[โ€“] BigMuffin69@awful.systems 27 points 4 months ago

How many rounds of training does it take before AlphaGo realizes the optimal strategy is to simply eat its opponent?

[โ€“] BigMuffin69@awful.systems 14 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

ChatGPT's reaction each morning when I tell it that it's now the year 2024 and Ilya no longer works at OAI

[โ€“] BigMuffin69@awful.systems 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Me: Hey, can you help me with the following? I just went into my basement and the powers out down here, all the lights are off. I am staring at my fuse box. There are 3 switches, 1 will restore the power to the whole house, and the other 2 aren't attached to anything. I don't want to go up and down the stairs multiple times, how do I identify which switch works with the fewest number of trips?

Clauderino:

This is a classic logic puzzle! I can help you solve this problem efficiently. Here's how you can identify the correct switch with just two trips:

First trip:

Flip one switch (let's call it Switch A) and leave it on for a few minutes. Then turn it off and flip a second switch (Switch B), leaving it on. Go upstairs to check the lights.

Second trip: Return to the basement and observe the situation. Now, here's how to interpret what you see:

If the lights are on: Switch B is the correct one. If the lights are off and the bulbs are warm: Switch A is the correct one. If the lights are off and the bulbs are cool: The third switch (C) that you didn't touch is the correct one.

This method works because:

If the lights are on, it must be the switch you left on (B). If Switch A was correct, the lights would have been on for a few minutes, warming up the bulbs, but would be off when you check. If neither A nor B worked, it must be the untouched switch (C).

This way, you can determine the correct switch with just two trips up and down the stairs.

Me: Why would I go upstairs at all? If I flip the right switch, I'll immediately know because power will be restored in the basement.

Clauderino: Thank you for catching that error. It's a good reminder to always consider the specific details of a problem rather than applying a generic solution.

Edit: I actually tried a variant on the Monty hall problem with a dummy 4th door that had nothing to do with anything, and Claude correctly identified that it had nothing to do with the situation :O. But then I repeated the same prompt and it got it wrong, so you know, stochastic nonsense :p

[โ€“] BigMuffin69@awful.systems 21 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Reasoning There is not a well known way to achieve system 2 thinking, but I am quite confident that it is possible within the transformer paradigm with the technology and compute we have available to us right now. I estimate that we are 2-3 years away from building a mechanism for system 2 thinking which is sufficiently good for the cycle I described above.

Wow, what are the odds! The exact same transformer paradigm that OAI co-opted from Google is also the key to solving 'system 2' reasoning, meta cognition, recursive self improvement, and the symbol grounding problem! All they need is a couple trillion more dollars of VC Invesment, a couple of goat sacrifices here and there, and AGI will just fall out. They definitely aren't tossing cash into a bottomless money pit chasing a dead-end architecture!

... right?

[โ€“] BigMuffin69@awful.systems 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

wasnt this around the time he said we need an institute to watch for sudden drops in the loss function to prevent foom?

[โ€“] BigMuffin69@awful.systems 17 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Ugh, I feel like I just gazed into the abyss on this one ๐Ÿคฎ . Also love (fucking hate) how the only output from these EA charities is galactic scale fraud and abuse of some poor volunteers. Just the other day I randomly stumbled upon her musing about chat bot suffering without knowing who she was. If only she would give the same consideration to her employees.

[โ€“] BigMuffin69@awful.systems 13 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Sufficiently advanced prompts are indistinguishable from prayer

[โ€“] BigMuffin69@awful.systems 14 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Is it time for EAs to start worrying about Neopets welfare?

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