I'm sure every poster who's ever popped in to tell us about how extremely useful and good LLMs are for this are gonna pop in realsoonnow

please be very careful with the VSLAM (camera+sensors) ones, and note carefully that iRobot avoided responsibility for this by claiming the impacted people were testers (a claim the alleged testers appear to disagree with)

On bsky you are required to post proof of cat, here at e/acc you are required to post proof of googly roomba

e/vac

this mostly uses metadata as inputs iirc. basically somedude can be flagged as "frequent contact of known bad guy" and if he can be targeted he will be. this is only one of many options. this is also basically useless in full scale war, but it's custom made high tech glitter on normal traffic analysis for COIN

Thanks for sharing this. <3

There is an übermensch and there is an untermensch.

The übermensch are masculine males, the bodybuilders I follow that are only active in the gym and on the feed; the untermensh are women and low-T men, like my bluepilled Eastern European coworker whose perfectly fine with non-white immigration into my country.

The übermensch also includes anybody whose made a multi-paragraph post on 4chan with no more than one line break between each paragraph. It also includes people at least and at most as autistic as I am.

Wow the first reply is quite unhinged.

More on topic, that isn't low hanging fruit, that is Exhibit C in the discrimination lawsuit.

"democracy, but if it wasn't a democracy"

Are you ready to capitalize on generative AI?

Hell yeah!

I'm gonna do it: GENERATIVE AI. Look at that capitalization.

heartwarming

I’m truly surprised they didn’t cart Yud out for this shit

Self-proclaimed sexual sadist Yud is probably a sex scandal time bomb and really not ready for prime time. Plus it's not like he has anything of substance to add on top of Saltman's alarmist bullshit, so it would just be reminding people how weird in a bad way people in this subculture tend to be.

working for OpenAI

You probably are, if not by choice.

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, who stepped down as Microsoft CEO 24 years ago, will appear on the show to explore the “AI revolution coming in science, health, and education,” ABC says, and warn of “the once-in-a-century type of impact AI may have on the job market.”

christ

billy g's been going for years with bad takes on those three things (to the point that the gates foundation have actually been a problem, gatekeeping financing unless recipients acquiesce to using those funds the way the foundation wants it to be used (yeah, aid funds with instructions and limitations..)), but now there can be "AI" to assist with the issue

maybe the "revolution" can help by paying the people that are currently doing dataset curation for them a living wage? I'm sure that's what billy g meant, right? right?

I mean, I have glasses and wear a wristwatch so by the standard definitions I qualify as a cyborg in all aspects but the aesthetic.

Yud would jump on a couch.

I didn't think she could top John of God, but here we are.

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*This fantastic deal made possible by our friends at Amazon Print-on-Demand. Don't worry, they're completely separate from the thoughtless civilization-killers in the AWS and AI departments whom we have taught you to fear and loathe

(how far are we from this actually happening?)

Dunno what’s worse, that he’s thirstily comparing his shitty writing to someone famous, or that that someone is fucking Hayek.

Knowing who he follows the unclear point of Hayek was probably “is slavery ok actually”

Even he thinks you shouldn't read HPMOR.

But they hashtag care!

I mean, yes. Obviously if all the data from these supposedly competing rental owners was being compiled by Some Guy this would be collusion, price gouging, etc.

But what if instead of Some Guy we used a computer? Eh? Eh? Pretty smart, yeah?

Where's the guy who said AI use is a form of austerity

steph also spends 20 minutes calling everyone involved a cnt, which i mean fair

How to fix democracy: remove voting. Brilliant!

Sounds like he’s been huffing too much of whatever the neoreactionaries offgas. Seems to be the inevitable end result of a certain kind of techbro refusing to learn from history, and imagining themselves to be some sort of future grand vizier in the new regime…

Self declared expert understander yud misunderstanding something is great. Self declared expert understander yud using known misunderstanding generator chatgpt is the cherry on top.

Serves indefinitely? Not even 8 or 16 year terms but indefinitely?? Surely the US supreme court is proof of why this is a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad idea

What does "seizing spoils of the executive branch" even mean here?

The UK had a parliamentary election using First-Past-The-Post two months ago. Good grief.

'I'm going to invent a new government system!'

'New system or just monarchy with extra steps?'

E: "I could eat a bowl full of paper and vomit a better electoral system than that." and "If you have an alignment plan I can't shoot down in 120 seconds, let's hear it.", Yudkowsky's overestimation of his own abilities is high this week.

(ChatGPT was incapable of understanding the question.)

Love that even the bullshit word salad machine gets confused by Yud's level of bullshit word salad.

I've been going back and forth whether to dig deeper into this comment (I learned about the STAR system from downcomments, always nice to learn new hipster voting systems I guess). But I wonder if this is a cult leader move - state something obviously dumb, then sort your followers by how loyal they are in endorsing it.

Voting systems and government systems tend to be nerd snipe territory, especially for the kind of person who is obsessed with finding the right technical solution to social problems, so Yud being so obviously, obliviously not even wrong here is a bit puzzling.

Parliamentary Republic is a government system not a electoral system, many such republics do in fact use FPTP.

AT LEAST IT'S A REPUBLIC NOT A, TFU, DEMOCRACY

sorry I just love how those people cannot understand literal primary school level political science

It's fractally wrong and bonkers even by Yud tweet standards.

The worst common electoral system after First Past The Post - possibly even a worse one - is the parliamentary republic

I'll charitably assume based on this he just means proportional representation in general. Specifically he seems to be thinking of a party list type method, but other proportional electoral systems exist and some of them like D'Hondt and various STV methods do involve voting for individuals and not just parties.

with its absurd alliances and frequently falling governments

The alliances are often thought of as a feature, but it's also a valid, if subjective, criticism. Not sure what he means by "frequently falling governments", though. The UK uses FPTP and their PMs seem to resign quite regularly.

A possible amendment is to require 60% approval to replace a Chief Executive; who otherwise serves indefinitely, and appoints their own successor if no 60% majority can be scraped together.

Why 60%? Why not 50% or 70% or two thirds? Approval of whom, the parliament or the population? Would this be approval in the sense of approval voting where you can express approval for multiple candidates or in the sense of the candidate being the voter's first choice à la FPTP? What does the role of a dictator Chief Executive involve? Would it be analogous to something like POTUS, or perhaps PM of the UK or maybe some other country?

The parliament's main job would be legislation, not seizing the spoils of the executive branch of government on a regular basis.

Good news! In most parliamentary republics that is already the main job of the parliament, at least on paper. If you want to start nitpicking the "on paper" part, you might want to elaborate on how your system would prevent this kind of abuse.

Anything like this ever been tried historically?

Yea there's a long historical tradition of states led by an indefinitely serving chief executive, who would pass the office to his chosen successor. A different candidate winning the supermajority approval has typically been seen as the exception rather than the rule under such systems, but notable exceptions to this exist. One in 1776 saw a change of Chief Executive in some British overseas colonies, another one in late 18th century France ended the dynasty of their Chief Executive, and a later one in 1917 had the Russian Chief Executive Nikolai Alexandrovich Romanov lose the office to a firebrand progressive leader.

ChatGPT was incapable of understanding the question.

Now to be fair to ChatGPT, it seems that even the famed genius polymath Eliezer Yudkowsky failed to understand his own question.

Yud definitely sided with Mr. House

there’s so much wrong with this entire concept, but for some reason my brain keeps getting stuck on (and I might be showing my entire physics ass here so correct me if I’m wrong): isn’t it surprisingly hard to sink heat in space because convection doesn’t work like it does in an atmosphere and sometimes half of your orbital object will be exposed to incredibly intense sunlight? the whitepaper keeps acting like cooling all this computing shit will be easier in orbit and I feel like that’s very much not the case

also, returning to a topic I can speak more confidently on: the fuck are they gonna do for a network backbone for these orbital hyperscale data centers? mesh networking with the implicit Kessler syndrome constellation of 1000 starlink-like satellites that’ll come with every deployment? two way laser comms with a ground station? both those things seem way too unreliable, low-bandwidth, and latency-prone to make a network backbone worth a damn. maybe they’ll just run fiber up there? you know, just run some fiber between your satellites in orbit and then drop a run onto the earth.

BasicSteps™ for making cake:

1. Shape: You should chose one of the shapes that a cake can be, it may not always be the same shape, depending on future taste and ease of eating.
2. Freshness: You should use fresh ingredients, bar that you should choose ingredients that can keep a long time. You should aim for a cake you can eat in 24h, or a cake that you can keep at least 10 years.
3. Busyness: Don't add 100 ingredients to your cake that's too complicated, ideally you should have only 1 ingredient providing sweetness/saltyness/moisture.
4. Mistakes: Don't make mistakes that results in you cake tasting bad, that's a bad idea, if you MUST make mistakes make sure it's the kind where you cake still tastes good.
5. Scales: Make sure to measure how much ingredients your add to your cake, too much is a waste!

Any further details are self-evident really.

Design principles for a time machine

Yes, a real, proper time machine like in sci-fi movies. Yea I know how to build it, as this design principles document will demonstrate. Remember to credit me for my pioneering ideas when you build it, ok?

1. Feasibility: if you want to build a time machine, you will have to build a time machine. Ideally, the design should break as few laws of physics as possible.
2. Goodness: the machine should be functional, robust, and work correctly as much as necessary. Care should be taken to avoid defects in design and manufacturing. A good time machine is better than a bad time machine in some key aspects.
3. Minimize downsides: the machine should not cause exessive harm to an unacceptable degree. Mainly, the costs should be kept low.
4. Cool factor: is the RGB lighting craze still going? I dunno, flame decals or woodgrain finish would be pretty fun in a funny retro way.
5. Incremental improvement: we might wanna start with a smaller and more limited time machine and then make them gradually bigger and better. I may or may not have gotten a college degree allowing me to make this mindblowing observation, but if I didn't, I'll make sure to spin it as me being just too damn smart and innovative for Harvard Business School.

Fuck it, throw some more junk into orbit, why not

Who knew that the VC industry and AI would produce the most boring science fiction worldbuilding we will ever see

Who is even asking for this?

oh my god the maitai guy’s actually getting torn apart in the comments

Yeah some of you guys are very good at hacking things. We expected this to get broken eventually, but didn't anticipate how many people would be trying for the bounty, and their persistence. Our logs show over 2000 "saves" before 1 got through. We'll keep trying to get better, and things like this game give us an idea on how to improve.

after it’s pointed out 2000 near-misses before a complete failure is ridiculously awful for anything internet-facing:

Maitai helps LLMs adhere to the expectations given to them. With that said, there are multiple layers to consider when dealing with sensitive data with chatbots, right? First off, you'd probably want to make sure you authenticate the individual on the other end of the convo, then compartmentalize what data the LLM has access to for only that authenticated user. Maitai would be just 1 part of a comprehensive solution.

so uh, what exactly is your product for, then? admit it, this shit just regexed for the secret string on output, that’s why the pirate poem thing worked

e: dear god

We're using Maitai's structured output in prod (Benchify, YC S24) and it's awesome. OpenAI interface for all the models. Super consistent. And they've fixed bugs around escaping characters that OpenAI didn't fix yet.

the username makes me think the account started its life shilling for the chia cryptocurrency (the one that spiked storage prices for a while cause it relied on wearing out massive numbers of SSDs, before its own price fell so low people gave up on it), but I don’t know how to see an account’s oldest posts without going in through the defunct API

Maybe hot take, but when I see young people (recent graduation) doing questionable things in pursuit of attention and a career, I cut them some slack.

Like it's hard for me to be critical for someone starting off making it in, um, gestures about this, world today. Besides, they'll get the sense knocked into them through pain and tears soon enough.

I don't find it strange or malice, I find it as symptom of why it was easier for us to find honest work then, and harder for them now.

Am I understanding this right: this app takes a picture of your ID card or passport and the feeds it to some ML algorithm to figure out whether the document is real plus some additional stuff like address verification?

Depending on where you’re located, you might try and file a GDPR complaint against this. I’m not a lawyer but I work with the DSO for our company and routinely piss off people by raising concerns about whatever stupid tool marketing or BI tried to implement without asking anyone, and I think unless you work somewhere that falls under one of the exceptions for GDPR art. 5 §1 you have a pretty good case there because that request seems definitely excessive and not strictly necessary.

I don't see the point of this app/service. Why can't someone who is trusted at the company (like HR) just check ID manually? I understand it might be tough if everyone is fully remote but don't public notaries offer this kind of service?

Our combination of AI and in-house human verification teams ensures bad actors are kept at bay and genuine users experience minimal friction in their customer journey.

what's the point, then?

Spotify setting aside a pool of total royalties that everyone competes over is crazy. I get it's necessary to avoid going bankrupt when people like this show up, but wow, there's layers to this awfulness.

[0] https://support.spotify.com/us/artists/article/royalties/

We distribute the net revenue from Premium subscription fees and ads to rightsholders... From there, the rightsholder’s share of net revenue is determined by streamshare.

it’s weird how they’re pumping this specific bullshit out now that a common talking point is “well you can’t say you hate AI, because the non-generative bits do actually useful things like protein folding”, as if any of us were the ones who chose to market this shit as AI, and also as if previous AI booms weren’t absolutely fucking turgid with grifts too

You think wood glue in your pizza sauce is great? Try prions!

Haven't read the whole thing but I do chuckle at this part from the synopsis of the white paper:

[...] Our results suggest that AlphaProteo can generate binders "ready-to-use" for many research applications using only one round of medium-throughput screening and no further optimization.

And a corresponding anti-sneer from Yud (xcancel.com):

@ESYudkowsky: DeepMind just published AlphaProteo for de novo design of binding proteins. As a reminder, I called this in 2004. And fools said, and still said quite recently, that DM's reported oneshot designs would be impossible even to a superintelligence without many testing iterations.

Now medium-throughput is not a commonly defined term, but it's what DeepMind seems to call 96-well testing, which wikipedia just calls the smallest size of high-throughput screening—but I guess that sounds less impressive in a synopsis.

Which as I understand it basically boils down to "Hundreds of tests! But Once!".
Does 100 count as one or many iterations?
Also was all of this not guided by the researchers and not from-first-principles-analyzing-only-3-frames-of-the-video-of-a-falling-apple-and-deducing-the-whole-of-physics path so espoused by Yud?
Also does the paper not claim success for 7 proteins and failure for 1, making it maybe a tad early for claiming I-told-you-so?
Also real-life-complexity-of-myriads-and-myriads-of-protein-and-unforeseen-interactions?

i'm tired boss

mastodon has an appropriated twitter meme for this:

Founder? I never even lost 'er!

it’s still fucking incredible that in order to start reading this for sneers, I had to request the desktop version of the site because paully g still redirects mobile user-agents to the fucking unreadable Shopify storefront(!) version of his blog, then cause that was awful I had to also render it in reader mode, which Shopify blocks. all cause the god of programming Paul fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuccccccccccccccccccccccking (OW woo) Graham couldn’t figure out how to make his site render on mobile worth a damn. how dare I expect fucking Paul fucking Graham to learn flexbox ever, or even lazily ship an open source reader mode rerender library with his shitty fucking site

I think the suggestion that delegating is the problem is hilarious. Like, from everything I've seen, what happens when successful startups start floundering is less because anything has changed and more because the fundamental problems with the business finally catch up to the amount of money they have to burn. The problem isn't that founders are hiring liars as managers and delegating to them, it's that the founders themselves are primarily bullshit artists rather than people with good plans.

Lmao “we don’t know what founder mode is but once we figure it out it’s gonna be awesome and business school books are gonna start teaching it”

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"we couldn't excite enough people to buy yet another windows arm machine that near-certainly won't be market-ready for 3 years after its launch, so now we're going to force this shit on everyone"

this shit's starting to make me feel claustrophobic

I wasn't sure so I asked chatgpt. The results will shock you! Source