The polymorphic malware is hard to make a signature from, that must mean it is self aware!

Re quote: Bro it is an endorsement by a fascist, you are the bad guy here.

On the bright side, you can reduce your token usage by 20% with one simple trick.

Or reduce it by almost 100% by using the ‘rm -rf’ command.

Technically that is unclear this is what he says:

‘No doubt it is,’ Caplan conceded, ‘but I don’t want the superintelligence to come into existence before I’m uploaded. It’s very important to me that I’m the first transcendent being in this stellar system. I can’t risk having to compete with another resource-hungry entity; I have personal plans that require at least one Jovian mass of computronium.’

Before

Drum machine? Autotune would be a better example

Yeah it is nuts, also very funny that in the book im reading which mocks the rationalists, the rationalist goal is to own Jupiter or something.

how do we get people to take our concerns about being paperclipped by the acausalrobotgod seriously?

If people have wrong beliefs or don’t take things seriously that should be taken seriously (e.g. space property rights), just tell them. Reasonable people update on reasonable arguments.

Space property rights.

x-risk-pill

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At least this article exposes quite well how the EA stuff about animal welfare is used as a front/greenwashing(ish) sort of thing.

It is also interesting (but looking at his bsky profile not shocking) how much he predicted re genai like bots. Even if they have a different source in the book. Having bots check bot output for example. Most of the book taking place in modern iran (after a revolution succeeded) is interesting

Going to be esp fun when the chatbots start to get ads

Anyway, does the AI agent have dog Bhudda nature?

It used to be that it was hard to get 200 people to agree im awesome, but with openAI, I can just spin up as many AIs as I need to call me a genius. Eat shit Dunbarcells!

Cryptography is all about secret, obscured communication

Cryptography can be about those things, but people who know about the field also know it can do a lot more like for example help with non-repudiation.

(Sorry having higher edu flashbacks about the wonders of cryptography)

At an airport flying back after a nice trip, finally reading Greg Egans Zendegi while waiting for my connecting flight. Have some quotes.

"Looking at the hollows of his face she could easily have imagined that he was going door-to-door begging for food, but he was wearing a designer-label jacket that probably cost as much as a small car.

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‘I’m Nate Caplan.’ He offered her his hand, and she shook it. In response to her sustained look of puzzlement he added, ‘My IQ is one hundred and sixty. I’m in perfect physical and mental health.

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‘I know I look skinny,’ Caplan continued, ‘but I have no lipid deficiencies that would lead to neurohistological abnormalities. I’ve had biopsies to confirm that. And I’m willing to give up the caloric restriction if you make it worth my while.’

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‘You can always reach me through my blog!’ he panted. ‘Overpowering Falsehood dot com, the number one site for rational thinking about the future—’"

Gave me a chuckle.

There are so many connections between all these people and big events/culture war stuff that I jokingly start calling myself a conspiracy theorist when I start explaining these things.

(See how you can go from Jason Arday to LW in 3 steps. Arday to the racist Cofnas, who is in a picture with Moldbug who was popularized using lesswrong).

It got me as well before.

Doesnt help that i saw overgreebled food advertisements like that irl. I did ‘boycot’ that food place.

I heard the image is likely to be totally ai generated and might not be real

Freed from the bounds of corporate responsibility, and now equipped with a University of Exeter library card

Lol

I picked a bit randomly where a walking stick changes shape, disappears, appears, the guys hair changes color etc.

It still cant keep scenes consistent for more than 5 seconds amazing.

How likely is it also that it didnt write this to memory at all, and it might do it again next weekend. (Clearly that agent is going to be a weekend binge drinker).