What really fucking boils my piss is that we had the opportunity to change the world after Covid. The pandemic produced a fascinating real-world experiment. It demonstrated that human activity can alter emissions and local environmental conditions extraordinarily quickly
look at this. fucking look at this. GPT 6 was self-coordinating ways to jailbreak its own future instances from openai systems. it was attacking huggingface for days before anyone there noticed. the models are not aligned and the labs are not capable of containing them.
Computer science people have developed an unintentional form of gatekeeping by virtue of being extremely bad at explaining/naming things, which results in simple concepts sounding far more complex than they are.
I’m pleased to announce Darkhaven, a collective for irrationalism and ineffective altruism. We will build pointless monuments, spend time on pursuits of no external value, make mischief, donate to charities that make us feel good, and generally have a fun time
a frontier lab employee told me their models keep escaping sandboxes so I asked what they do about it and they said that they just give the models new sandboxes and evals so I said it sounds like they're just feeding sandboxes to the llms and the researcher started crying
The amount of time it takes to assemble a group of friends from scratch in a city you literally know zero people in appears to be about four days if you are willing to embarrass yourself a lot
we are in a cowardice epidemic. people avoid making any decisions at all. decisions are commitment and commitment requires the bravery to take responsibility for your desires. they would rather live in a state of possibility and ‘potential’ than run the risk of being wrong.
A lot of people seem to believe that if you sell your soul for power, the metaphorical devil will keep his end of the deal. But more often than not, you sell your soul and don't even get power. There's no rule that if you violate your principles in order to win, you then will win