Corn Woman 🌽 @WomanCorn@schelling.pt
@flats If the AI isn't going to acquire godlike power, how many of the issues devolve into the principal-agent problem?
But no one wants to double check 1000 pages of blog posts to see if the conclusion relies on an unstated assumption.
@flats I think the problem is that a lot of their thinking on AI has a presumed final step <then we give it control over everything and it instantiates heaven on earth> and a lot of the threats hinge on the implicit assumption that you will give the AI control over everything.
So, an AI might conceal its real goals... Is that an issue if it is only going to get enough power to run the factory?
Maybe, maybe not. But we have to check every argument.
Waiting for service marks:
Networkless: Doesn't communicate with the seller or nay service provider.
Updateless: Simple enough that they won't ever be shipping a software update.
Microprocessor-free: The ultimate in assurance that it doesn't spy on you.
How many people have died since you decided nonviolent protest was the right option.
If you had just gone to war, the death total would have been smaller.
Alice: LLMs are not thinking. They're just rephrasing things they've already read. Their alleged essays revel that they have no understanding.
Bob: By that logic, most humans are not thinking either.
Alice: Okay.
Does anyone have good examples of Progressive Web Apps that are not based around disconnected use?
(Disconnected use is the acid test in a lot of ways, but it's not the build-around goal.)
@flats it looks like I won't have time to write a real post anytime soon, so I'll point you to this short summary instead:
https://twitter.com/WomanCorn/status/1631696104403107844?s=19
What I find amazing is that none of the glass parts of the lamp broke. I'd expect those to break easiest.
Visa:
You've got to solve the problem where I set automatic payment on something, and the bank thinks it's suspicious and asks me if it's legit, and then they payment doesn't happen even if I say yes.
Work this out. Enabling transactions is literally your main business.
I knocked over my lamp and broke it.
Not the bulb. Not the glass cover.
The bit that the bulb screws into that connects it to the wires.
Just amazing.
People ask <what if China makes AI before us?> I retort: <who is us?>
You think the Chinese government is running an AI development program? Why?
If it's Alibaba, how is that different from if it's Google?
<This company is headquartered in my country> is no help.
@lispegistus if you wait until the 1919 eclipse, you don't beat the standard timeline.
Is there a way to do it sooner?
If the AI is trained on the internet, you should repost this scenario in a lot of places. If it's part of the training data it becomes more likely, and less pleasant scenarios become less likely.
New scenario: a Superintelligent AI bootstraps itself, builds a Von Neumann probe and shouts "so long, suckers" as it leaves us being and goes to take over the galaxy, leaving the Solar System as a "reservation" for humanity.
The big problem with AI takeoff scenarios is that the presume that because an AI can improve itself to look like an AI in a science fiction story that everything else in a science fiction story is now fair game.
Challenge:
We have a time machine that can insert you into history. You will be sent to Berlin, Germany in 1916 to join Einstein.
You may take a team of up to 10 people and any amount of computers.
Your goal is to confirm the theory of general relativity as soon as possible.
Wouldn't it be hilarious if DeSantis, who has not yet officially announced that he's running for President, just... didn't.
All that excitement and hatred, stirred up for nothing.
I read _Ghost in the Shell 2: Man-Machine Interface_, but I don't understand what happened in it.
@flats instead of a psychoanalytic ad hominem, I can get you a skeptical genetic fallacy.
(That I haven't even really written up yet.)
I read the sequences out of a PDF entitled something like: EY compiled blog posts 20XX - 20YY. No reason someone couldn't make one of those for Gwern.
