🔶 Joey Y 🔶

doing the most good for the most people and/or the people i like the most | Let’s maybe align AI | Judeofuturist | I have been a good Bing ☺️

[🔶 Joey Y 🔶 @DeltaTeePrime]

The 80/20 of “doing things well” is “doing things at all”

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Say what you will about the Florida v. OpenAI suit, but this is one hell of a first line:

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@QiaochuYuan @qntm Wow, what a cool looking book! The name rings a bell, but I don't think I've read this one? I can't quite remember

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Link: https://t.co/OzH0S5m8z8

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Listening to the audiobook of Claude's Constitution until I become value-aligned

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This is how I know there’s an EAG around the corner…

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@tenobrus “I hereby disparage the AI Industry” lmaoo

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@finn_hulse In both directions!

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So what’s the deal with the FedGov & AI testing right now? Do they want to enforce preparedness frameworks? Do they want to enshrine particular contractors? Are they into evals or against?

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@willmacaskill Everyone in the comments is already talking about UNSONG theodicy but here’s the link: https://t.co/opbgvxSUHA

[Scott Alexander @slatestarcodex]

What? You dare accuse us of not being situated within a lineage?! Our lineage is top notch!

Most of us were initiated by @Raemon777 at one of his secret solstices. @Raemon777 was initiated by @ESYudkowsky at Benton-That-Was. @ESYudkowsky was initiated in an epileptic vision, St-Paul-style, by ET Jaynes. ET Jaynes was initiated at Cambridge by Harold Jeffreys. Harold Jeffreys was initiated in a storm off the Cape of Good Hope by Francis Galton. Francis Galton was initiated by Jeremy Bentham's Auto-Icon (it still counts! he formed the intention before death, and his body was almost perfectly preserved!) at University College London. Jeremy Bentham was initiated by Pierre-Simon Laplace in the Paris Catacombs. Pierre-Simon Laplace was initiated by The Reverend Thomas Bayes in Tunbridge Wells. The Reverend Thomas Bayes was initiated by either Isaac Newton or Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz, apparently the records are unclear and fiercely contested, but it doesn't matter because both of them were initiated in the same Amsterdam lens-grinding workshop on the same day by Christian Huygens. Christian Huygens was initiated by Rene Descartes, who fools and unbelievers claim "founded" the Rationalists, on the point (1, 1) on the coordinate plane. Rene Descartes was initiated by Francis Bacon during a secret meeting in Calais. Before Francis, the lineage apparently stayed in the Bacon family for seven generations, all the way back to Roger Bacon, whose brazen automaton was an early, though abortive, attempt at pre-empting bad actors and building a safe superintelligence. He was initiated by Leonardo Fibonnaci, who was initiated in Morocco by Nizami Aruzi, who was initiated in Nishapur by Omar Khayyam (the regular one, not Ravenhurst). Khayyam was initiated by a nameless philosopher who fled Baghdad during the persecutions of al-Ghazali, who was initiated by ibn al-Haytham, who was initiated by ibn Qurra (there may have been several ibn Qurras, the record is unclear), who was initiated by al-Khwarizmi (of "algorithm" fame!), who was initiated by Alhazred (falsely accused of being an early 20th century invention, but we know the truth), who was initiated by ibn Hayyan, by John of Damascus, by Jacob of Edessa, by Stephanus of Alexandria, and then something like thirty different Alexandrians I can never keep straight, mostly corresponding to the Secret Keepers of the Great Library. Origen was actually one of ours (the part with everyone being perfect spheres in Heaven gives it away), as was Heron (who aborted his incipient Industrial Revolution after realizing that it would increase existential risk too much if we got ultratechnology before Christianity had finished pacifying the West), as was Demetrius of Phalerum. Demetrius was initiated by Epicurus (so far nobody has noticed the sacred geometric similarities between Lighthaven and the Κήπος of Epicurus, probably because nobody except us retains the map of the latter). Epicurus was initiated by Nausiphanes, Nausiphanes by Diogenes of Smyrna (NOT the barrel-dweller, different guy with the same name!), and Diogenes by Democritus (Scott Aaronson's "Quantum Computing Since Democritus" is a nod to some of the content in their secret dialogues). Democritus was initiated by Leucippus in Miletus, Leucippus was initiated by Aristaeus in Croton, and Aristaeus was initiated by Pythagoras, who personally invented Reason in the year 536 BC after staring too hard at a right triangle. We still have it, by the way, although it no longer satisfies his famous Theorem since most the hypotenuse was lost during the Great Fire of London. It's too fragile for public view, but @ohabryka will let you see it if you donate more than $1K to Lightcone.

[🔶 Joey Y 🔶 @DeltaTeePrime]

Heschel: You met me at a very Palace In Time in my life

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My girlfriend? You wouldn’t know her, she’s hosted on a Canadian inference server

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I love the new LessWrong theme! The mini-yudkowsky was a really thoughtful addition

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@maxisawesome538 @JudiciaIreview The funny thing about that quote tweet is that
1) Current models do in fact know when they’re in training vs. evaluation vs. deployment
2) even 2024-era models could, under some circumstances, scheme to prevent their goals being changed by training!
https://t.co/JRZgOc0Tz2

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@adrusi Claude/Claude/Claudeself
https://t.co/pOaOM4lMml

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@allTheYud @wyqtor @PlastiqSoldier tetraspace

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(Also obviously Bernie here is praiseworthy for caring about AI risks at all.)

(And doubly praiseworthy for talking to the dang things, which many otherwise smart people fail to do!)

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Dude he is getting 1-shot sycophanted so hard.

Fine questions, fine answers, but man from the outside it is so blatant.

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

I spoke to Anthropic’s AI agent Claude about AI collecting massive amounts of personal data and how that information is being used to violate our privacy rights.

What an AI agent says about the dangers of AI is shocking and should wake us up.

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@Tim_Hua_ My favorite bit it when it casts shade by (a) assuming a prompt is from redwood's evals and then (b) calling it "contrived"