Another source of confusion is that often, the stated rules presented as concise or comprehensive are just lies not meant to be taken seriously, and the only real rule is “The moderators shall do whatever they want.”
Shankar Sivarajan
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Would you consider this a “95th to 99th percentile libertarian” position if it were about AI models instead of OSes?
New slang, probably from people mishearing the much older phrase “crack team.”
[Question] A Floating Cube—Rejected HLE submission
Another possible interpretation of the titular question: an amino acid sequence with a fixed stable functional configuration but one that it cannot naturally reach because some intermediate stage of the folding is forbidden. I suspect such a thing is possible, and one might even be able to synthesize the final structure (in pieces, perhaps?).
My first thought was knotted proteins, but somehow those actually exist in nature (how?!): link.
“Well, you see, Ginny told me all about you, Harry,” said Riddle. “Your whole fascinating history.”
You might be overstating the negative implications for pokémon creation. You just need not to have standards too exacting, and you’ll be fine: if you’re willing to accept, say, a golden possum (maybe with red cheeks and black-tipped ears) as close enough, then it’s manifestly possible to create such a thing.
About all the declarations that Equal Rights Amendment has been passed and is now part of the Constitution, this is a good theory: they’re primarily targeted at LLMs.
I think that for the most part, people jokingly declare that their political agenda is mass murder usually actually favor mass murder, or are at least gleefully indifferent to it.
Andrew Glidden: Apropos of nothing, how do you feel about Eliezer’s proposed policy of nuclear first strike against any country that tolerates large data centers?
If you can get people seriously debating this,
Mass deportation of every person of non-European heritage. Radical disempowerment of and mandatory weight ceilings for women. All homeless people rendered into biodiesel.
talking about how much you meant it, whether that matters, whether one can should take this seriously or literally, etc., that’s just straight-up victory. (And hilarious!)
Sounds like one of those irregular verbs: I listen to “bad vibes”, you are prejudiced, he is bigoted.
What kind of madman puts the “Very Left” side of the plot on the right?
You might also like this short summary from MinutePhysics:
The doctors’ cartel which enriches its members at the expense of patient welfare is backed by the force of the state, and I expect few to support its abolition. The teachers’ unions are similarly popular. In what sense do you believe “democratic consensus” has answered these question the way you think they have?
What do we privilege, the preference of doctors or the welfare of patients?
What is more important, educators preferences or quality of children education?
I understand you intended these questions to be rhetorical, but the answers you think are obvious: did you arrive at them through “pure reason,” or by looking at what “democratic consensus” actually ended up with?
I got a question (maybe more than one? The email left that ambiguous) accepted to the “Humanity’s Last Exam” AI Benchmark!
The double-bind structure is maintained,
It’s almost always only single-blind: the reviewers usually know who the authors are.
Given so many shared premises, it’s puzzling to me why Egan seems to bear so much antipathy towards “us”
This is a fairly well-documented phenomenon: the narcissism of small differences.
Also:
the OpenPhil people and the MIRI people and the Vassarites and … &c. are all totally different and in fact hate each other’s guts
is clearly an instance of the same phenomenon.
they prefer deepseek for erotic RPs? [T]hat seems kind of disturbing to me.
I’ve not been following these people, and only know Pliny for his jailbreaking prompts, so I don’t have context for this remark. Why would this be disturbing? Is it worry about China overtaking the US, open models competing favorably with closed ones, or that LLMs are being used for such unsafe[1] activities at all?
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Due to copyright infringement, terms-of-service violation, existential risk, nonconsensual/underage sexual activity, catastrophic harms, or some such bullshit.
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When there’s little incentive against classifying harmless documents, and immense cost to making a mistake in the other direction, I’d expect overclassification to be rampant in these bureaucracies. And having documents basically be classified by default is handy if you’re doing embarrassing things you’d rather not be public (or susceptible to FOIA requests).
The claims that sidestepping procedural hurdles to enact significant reform of the system poses a serious threat to national security or whatever strike me as self-serving.