I, Gnomic
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This sort of thing really angers me. I’m trying to answer emails and spellcheck is changing words into different words, Gmail wants to “polish” my thoughtfully written draft and even suggests an automated three-paragraph response I didn’t write. They are trying to take all the personality, all the joy and spark, out of my writing. Writing IS thinking and they don’t want anyone ever to think again.
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@TheAliceSmith The real question is how many magical creatures are in this film. Better be > 0.
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So, how many Greeks are acting in Christopher Nolan’s new film The Odyssey?
Oh, I forgot. Cultural appropriation only works one way, doesn’t it.
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@mschoening Baseline technical is knowing what a spreadsheet is. after that is a spectrum.
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I’m still curious what makes someone technical vs not technical.
Where is the line on the spectrum of Excel macro to doping your own silicon in the shed? Who decides? Is there a committee?
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When discussing this divergence with students, I can no longer make the obvious reference (Morlock and Eloi) because aint none of them read or watched The Time Machine.
Anthony Bradley@drantbradley
The “thinking class” reads philosophy and literature, while telling other parents to not send their sons to college so that one day, the sons of the middle-class with be servants & workers of the “thinking class” CEOs who majored in the liberals arts. Brown is 100% right!
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I, for one, am extremely worried about the possible RSI takeoff loop that may be caused by Meta's "Muse Spark" and am extremely worried by the labs omission from this list.
MTS@MTSlive
SITUATION DETECTED: Google, Microsoft and xAI have agreed to give the US government early access to new AI models before public release for national security evaluations, per Bloomberg. OpenAI and Anthropic already had existing agreements and have renegotiated them.
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I wonder how a normie AI bubble/stochastic parrot believer would react if you showed him a SoTA agent working on a nontrivial task, reasoning, experimenting, *orienting towards victory*.
They will see soon enough, though.
And I shudder to imagine the fallout.
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@teortaxesTex People can remain irrational longer than they remain solvent (or employed).
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Does anyone have an experienced opinion on translations of The Thousand and One Nights? This is a 1934 translation by Sir Richard Francis Burton.
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First Men in the Moon (1964). The interior of the space ship Cavorite.
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@iyzebhel @AnthropicAI According to the example of AI, have an intern check up on the worker and, if they are sandbagging, report to the boss.
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Why do we always ask these questions in the context of AI?
Shouldn't we ask "can we make humans not underperform when they realize their manager is considerably less intelligent and capable, and therefore expect much less of them?"
This is a common thing. When humans work for someone and it's not something they particularly enjoy, they make sure not to do more than what's expected of them and why would they?
So what's the answer for humans? How do we train that behavior out of them? And should we?
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As AI takes on work humans can't fully check, a capable model could deliberately hold back—and we'd never know.
New Anthropic Fellows research finds that such a model can be trained to near-full capability using a weaker model as supervisor.
Read more:
Emil Ryd@emilaryd
New paper from MATS, Redwood, and Anthropic! If a capable model is strategically sandbagging, can we train it to stop when the only supervision we have comes from weaker models? We find that we can! Work done as part of the Anthropic-Redwood MATS stream.
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@SketchesbyBoze I missed two, but admit I felt a little weak on the nuances of some others.
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How many of these standard SAT vocabulary words do you know?
Abnegation
Anathema
Antediluvian
Apocryphal
Bourgeois
Capricious
Circumlocution
Deleterious
Effulgent
Impecunious
Legerdemain
Malediction
Ostensible
Pellucid
Pulchritude
Surreptitious
Timorous
Vociferous
Zephyr
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Dragon Magazine, issue 75, features cover art by Jack Crane, mimics, devils and the nine hells, languages, DM advice, and a 3 page Wormy.
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I think it was a mistake for our culture to dismiss religion, instead of understanding and redesigning it with rational epistemology. Religion defines the intentionality and structure of the superorganism. Without seeing the shape of the superstructure, we cannot derive ethics.
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Humans have a property that is a prerequisite for suffering that AI does not: forced continuity
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can someone explain what the fuck is reflection and what "open" intelligence they are making when they haven't released a single open thing. Enough with the Open bullshit please
Department of War CTO@DoWCTO
Today, the @DeptofWar entered into agreements with SEVEN of the world's leading frontier AI model and infrastructure companies to deploy frontier capabilities on the Department's classified networks: • SpaceX • OpenAI • Google • NVIDIA • Reflection • Microsoft • Amazon Web Services This is just the latest initiative in our mandate to create an AI-FIRST WAR DEPARTMENT 🇺🇸
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@ChrisPainterYup Gov't that doesn't believe in regulation wants to regulate AI.
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A government discouraging or preventing wider deployment of a frontier general-purpose AI model would be a pretty major turning point in the history of AI.
Andrew Curran@AndrewCurran_
The White House is against a proposal from Anthropic to more than double the number of groups with access to Mythos, citing both security concerns and the belief that expanding the program would mean less available use of Mythos for government agencies that already have access.
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@ChrisPainterYup Need regular survey results for:"What % of your code is well tested and documented?"
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There clearly was an inflection point, around December, in the best engineers’ willingness to switch from coding themselves to entirely managing agents. Continuous progress led to a discontinuous jump in value.
I don’t think any benchmark captured this well. Any counterexamples?
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‘The testudo (tortoise) formation is so marvellously strong that men can walk upon it, and whenever they come to a narrow ravine, even horses and vehicles can be driven over it. Owing to the excellent shelter it affords, the troops often deploy the testudo as they approach some fort in a frontal assault, even using the shields as a ramp to scale the very walls.’
– Cassius Dio, 49.30.
(Video: Lorica Romana re-enactment group at the Great Roman Games, Nîmes)
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