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Long lived repentance

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@tenobrus @ChaseBrowe32432 Agreed it’s mixed but I think the willingness to take it seriously supersedes most other concerns. I also view Covid, while mishandled as a good prior on how the government will try to do right by the people in extreme circumstances

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@WillManidis It’s almost as if the body tells you how you slept

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@chrislakin Probably. They lifted 401k rules during Covid. Covid response seems like a good model of what they would do when push comes to shove

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@_ueaj Data poisoning humanizer firms

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@deredleritt3r @_simonsmith Perfect example is fable beating Pokémon using only vision. In some ways this was the biggest thing on its release

https://t.co/ntu7iCmASr

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@tenobrus Really excellent news. The people do have some form of spoken power for now

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@tenobrus I think there’s more beauty in being destroyed by the collective chaotic force of humanity than the good intentions of a few elites

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@hlntnr @scaling01 The issue here is broadly this behavior could be expanded. Frontier labs can start writing the rules of reality and gaslight the populace. That’s already happening with grok but it was so clumsy it came off as amusing.

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@deredleritt3r @BlackHC It’s not just about sensibility. What other types of “degraded performance” will be included in future models to uphold company interests or even founder/individual values. But hey I guess musk already does this explicitly with grok

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@tenobrus The issue here is it sets a precedent. It means you can trust model outputs, not due to hallucinations but due to specific designs by the frontier owners. How else could this be utilized in bad futures?

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@tenobrus Congratulations! Immortalized

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@Sauers_ I’d love to take look

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@Sauers_ Did you use CAA to find the vector on prompts similar to these output examples? Interesting angle

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@_job01 @dwarkesh_sp @AbieRohrig I don’t know but calling your senator is a good thing! Check out https://t.co/MC6khD68zr

[Dwarkesh Patel @dwarkesh_sp]

In medieval times, within the arms race of ever more demonic torture devices, some sadistic genius came up with the idea of the Little Ease.

This was a prison cell built so small in every dimension that a grown man could not stand upright in it nor lie down at full length nor properly sit.

The pain is relentless and without relief and inflicted by one's own body. Prisoners were known to go insane within a few days. A stay at the Little Ease was considered even more cruel than the rack, the thumbscrew, and the other ghoulish machinery of the Tower of London.

A breeding pig will spend her whole life in a version of that box.

These are social, roaming creatures (more intelligent than dogs) who will never leave this corset of steel.

They have been selectively bred to be bigger than their frames can support. Yet we put them in cells so confined that they cannot comfortably sit, and their attempts to do so (for example, by sneaking their limbs into adjacent stalls) reliably lead to fractures and sprains.

They cannot sweat, yet have nothing to roll around in to cool themselves off. Except their own manure, which (contrary to the common misconception) they are so averse to (thanks to their strong sense of smell) that new sows will often suffer from constipation to avoid soiling the space from which they eat and sleep.

Here is how the writer Matthew Scully described what saw at one of Smithfield’s “gestation barn”:

> “Sores, tumors, ulcers, pus pockets, lesions, cysts, bruises, torn ears, swollen legs everywhere. Roaring, groaning, tail biting, fighting, and other “Vices,” as they’re called in the industry. Frenzied chewing on bars and chains, stereotypical “vacuum” chewing on nothing at all, stereotypical rooting and nest building with imaginary straw. And “social defeat,” lots of it, in every third or fourth stall some completely broken being you know is alive only because she blinks and stares up at you … creatures beyond the power of pity to help or indifference to make more miserable, dead to the world except as heaps of flesh into which the [insemination] rod may be stuck once more and more flesh reproduced.”

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The Save Our Bacon Act is trying to unroll the few state protections we have against this barbaric cruelty - for example California’s Prop 12 - which banned the sale of pork from pigs kept in gestation crates.

It’s incredibly important we don’t end up with this sort of federal preemption.

SOB will not only kill the most important animal welfare related laws in the US of the past decade, but more importantly, it will also restrict ALL future legislative progress (aka how the animal welfare movement has gotten its biggest wins).

The Senate is currently deciding whether to add the SOB Act to the Farm Bill.

With relatively little money now, we can discourage the most pivotal senators in the Ag committee from backing this amendment.

Defeating this bill is even more important given the amount of philanthropic funding I expect to come online in the next year or two.

It will plausibly be over 10x more expensive to repeal SOB than to prevent it from passing in the first place.

All that money that could be spent transforming our society's relationship to mass animal suffering will instead have to be spent just getting us back to where we are right now.

That's why money spent now fighting this bill (and I mean right NOW) is so effective.

If you’re in a position to donate six figures, please DM me.

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@AaronBergman18 @dwarkesh_sp @AbieRohrig What’s the best way to contribute if you have little money

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@bayeslord Evolution gave humans one hell of a prior

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@bayeslord Everything is going to get bottlenecked. This is only stage one. Robotics/biotech. Anything we point AGI at will experience a bottleneck if we want to get the true benefits

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@tenobrus Anyone remember the creepy pastas around this kind stuff when image prompting had to have like 50 adjectives to work right

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@bayeslord People were still posting through 1999