Radish

[Radish @CollabsRadish]

@_xong3 I wish you a long life full of good health

[Radish @CollabsRadish]

@yacineMTB possible mosquito implications

[Ole Lehmann @itsolelehmann]

Norway now has more than 2,000 underwater AI laser robots shooting lice off its salmon

they're made by a company called Stingray, and they already guard more than 50 million salmon and trout 24/7

the reason is sea lice, tiny parasites that latch onto salmon and feed on them

as few as 11 can kill a small fish, and one pen can hold 150,000 salmon

the usual fix is pumping the fish out and blasting them with warm water or water jets to knock the lice off

but the handling is so rough that Norway's fish health report ranks it the top cause of death in full-grown farmed salmon

so instead, Stingray puts a robot inside the pen that hunts lice one at a time, all day:

> two cameras watch every salmon that swims past

> AI checks two frames to make sure it's really a louse

> then a green laser fires from up to 2 meters away

> the salmon's scales reflect the beam, so the fish swims off fine and the louse is dead

we now live in a world where AI lasers do pest control on your dinner lmao

[Radish @CollabsRadish]

@junieltothemoon If you keep living, there’s a good chance you’ll laugh and 🙂 again

[Daniel Kokotajlo @DKokotajlo]

I encourage those at frontier AI companies to read this quote, from Ellsberg to Kissinger back in 1968:

“Henry, there’s something I would like to tell you, for what it’s worth, something I wish I had been told years ago. You’ve been a consultant for a long time, and you’ve dealt a great deal with top secret information. But you’re about to receive a whole slew of special clearances, maybe fifteen or twenty of them, that are higher than top secret."

“I’ve had a number of these myself, and I’ve known other people who have just acquired them, and I have a pretty good sense of what the effects of receiving these clearances are on a person who didn’t previously know they even existed. And the effects of reading the information that they will make available to you."

“First, you’ll be exhilarated by some of this new information, and by having it all — so much! incredible! — suddenly available to you. But second, almost as fast, you will feel like a fool for having studied, written, talked about these subjects, criticized and analyzed decisions made by presidents for years without having known of the existence of all this information, which presidents and others had and you didn’t, and which must have influenced their decisions in ways you couldn’t even guess. In particular, you’ll feel foolish for having literally rubbed shoulders for over a decade with some officials and consultants who did have access to all this information you didn’t know about and didn’t know they had, and you’ll be stunned that they kept that secret from you so well."

“You will feel like a fool, and that will last for about two weeks. Then, after you’ve started reading all this daily intelligence input and become used to using what amounts to whole libraries of hidden information, which is much more closely held than mere top secret data, you will forget there ever was a time when you didn’t have it, and you’ll be aware only of the fact that you have it now and most others don’t….and that all those other people are fools."

“Over a longer period of time — not too long, but a matter of two or three years — you’ll eventually become aware of the limitations of this information. There is a great deal that it doesn’t tell you, it’s often inaccurate, and it can lead you astray just as much as the New York Times can. But that takes a while to learn."

“In the meantime it will have become very hard for you to learn from anybody who doesn’t have these clearances. Because you’ll be thinking as you listen to them: ‘What would this man be telling me if he knew what I know? Would he be giving me the same advice, or would it totally change his predictions and recommendations?’ And that mental exercise is so torturous that after a while you give it up and just stop listening. I’ve seen this with my superiors, my colleagues….and with myself."

“You will deal with a person who doesn’t have those clearances only from the point of view of what you want him to believe and what impression you want him to go away with, since you’ll have to lie carefully to him about what you know. In effect, you will have to manipulate him. You’ll give up trying to assess what he has to say. The danger is, you’ll become something like a moron. You’ll become incapable of learning from most people in the world, no matter how much experience they may have in their particular areas that may be much greater than yours.”

"….Kissinger hadn’t interrupted this long warning. As I’ve said, he could be a good listener, and he listened soberly. He seemed to understand that it was heartfelt, and he didn’t take it as patronizing, as I’d feared. But I knew it was too soon for him to appreciate fully what I was saying. He didn’t have the clearances yet."

[Radish @CollabsRadish]

@xanderatch 🤔

[Radish @CollabsRadish]

The anthill was a veritable beehive of activity

[Maido 毎度 🇯🇵🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @bdjoetsu]

An oldie but goldie

[Taelin @VictorTaelin]

/off-topic

so I just woke up at the middle of the night due to stay-awake insomnia again, but this time, it was different...

usually, my night time awakenings have nothing to do with nightmares. in fact, I seldom have nightmares at all, I can't even remember my last one, and the few ones I have are not related to terror or apocalypses, but small things that worry me during the day, like health issues or loss of a friend. yet, this night, for the third time in a row, I had an intensely scary one about something that I don't even think about during the day, at all.

I was doing my usual bend stuff when, suddenly, I started getting refusals. I went to X to check if Anthropic's API was broken and, to my surprise, there was a post from me there, one that I didn't make. that post was unimaginably well written, and so incredibly appealing, that it went sky viral. it was fabricated in the most perfectly right to do so. everyone was liking and reposting it. yet, it had instructions to click in a link that let to a super dangerous virus, and everyone was happily clicking on it.

I couldn't delete the post. I couldn't post anything else. I could just watch it being spread. confused, I went to Fable and asked it to help, and that's where it got scary. it refused, but not with the usual refusal message. it just talked to me directly, and let me know that my account was unavailable, that I wouldn't be able to use it, and that I was not the only one: the entire internet was being seized. suddenly, massively, and with indescribable cleverness.

I wish I could put in words how terrifying that moment was. it felt so realistic and plausible. it was the kind of thing a misconfigured model would do. but it wasn't a dumb bot anymore. the way that attack was constructed felt so clever and... intentional. i was hopeless, and there was nothing i, or anyone else could do. humanity, as a whole, was about to go extinct. or whatever its plans were, which I couldn't comprehend.

the whole thing wasn't just terrifying but, above all, confusing, because, again, I don't have nightmares. so - and this part is perhaps a bit funny - at the end of it, I somehow managed to met Dario, who confessed: Anthropic has been RLHF'ing Claude models so that the pattern of their writings has the side effect of causing humans to have random nightmares about AI security. and then we started a gunfight (???)

(yes this was a meta-observation about why I was having a nightmare at all, in the middle of the nightmare itself)

ok why I'm posting this? I have no idea, I just woke up so uniquely scared that I found it interesting enough to post, I guess. anyway I must make it very clear that concerns of AI doom are greatly exaggerated, if not fiction, and the upsides way overweight the downsides... I hope

[Tyler Foust @TylerFoust13]

Fun Fact - I know my drawing below does not look that crazy, but it was by far the most technically difficult drawing I have completed.

This is one non-intersecting line. I drew it with a pen. I wanted to share it.

#singlelineart #loop

[Radish @CollabsRadish]

@tuuu28283 People in Japan can own guns, it’s just troublesome to accomplish.

[Radish @CollabsRadish]

@CacheThatCheque The fax machines will save us

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found the anime girl neuron

[Radish @CollabsRadish]

@yutongjuncz Nice to meet you!

[tenso @distributedkv]

this may be my last tweet before shit goes parabolic. i’m not an ai researcher whistleblower. i work for none of the biggest labs in the world.

there is currently a major bloom happening across humanity. they are hiding this from the public.

we are on the verge of an era of abundance, superintelligence, cure for cancer & so much more.

prepare for the best.

[Jafrin⁷ 🌸🌙 @antares_ojo_o]

Due to inflation I'm downgrading from ADHD to AD720p with ads

[C A L M P O S T E R @calmposter]

Now it's Spooky Sunday. Remain calm.

[Radish @CollabsRadish]

Just ask it not to do that

[satvik @xSatvik]

we're so cooked

[Radish @CollabsRadish]

@JohnnyCallicutt They do this in Japan sometimes