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Epigender programmer undermining the patriarchy wherever ze can. ACAB including the identity police. ze/hir/hirs

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Maybe authors should start hiding razor blades in book spines to protect against illicit distillation attacks.

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

Over the last few months, we’ve made significant progress in reducing the effectiveness of distillation attacks against Claude.

In this post, we explain how: https://t.co/uWiRSLBuOS

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@AnatoliKopadze According to @AnthropicAI’s court filings, it’s not stealing if they paid for it & then use it to train a model.

The hypocrisy is staggering.

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@AnthropicAI What about your illicit distillation from open source software and the collective works of all humanity? Made any progress in reducing the effectiveness of those?

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@TeamTram How many of them are from the district?

“My rich developer patrons live in Boston” doesn’t really seem like a flex.

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@TomDavidsonX Define “understand”

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Look, I wasn’t excited about @jamestalarico

But then Republicans started talking about how it is inherently trans to be a Christian who isn’t a fucking asshole.

So I just donated. #ProtectTheDolls

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My AI prediction: older humans will seek out collaborative, discursive experiences.

Dancing. D&D. Choirs. Flash mobs. Ritual. Dog training. Sports.

Anything where you both impact others and are impacted by them.

They will be the only things we know are real.

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@ByteFuserUK @tszzl Getting in on the ground floor of the apocalypse isn’t the flex you seem to think it is.

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@RelaxedPop @tszzl Money isn’t going to matter: once the robot-owners don’t need the rest of us, they’ll cut us loose

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@LyraSongstress @tszzl Butlerian Jihad 2032

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@vectris @tszzl And still caused 18% unemployment for Millennials along the way, leading to a massive, persistant street protest across the country.

We were very lucky Millennials internalized the lessons of non-violence. Gen Z was raised on active shooter drills. I am less optimistic.

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@AboutToRock @tszzl …that is literally the definition of a bubble

The internet is useful. There was a massive internet bubble as people tried to use it in unproductive ways.

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What PRs are like as a senior engineer when the bosses create a leaderboard for AI use.

Except if each candy tasted like a slightly different flavor of dog shit.

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@BorisBartlog @QiaochuYuan We already have a human example of that: the ABC Conjecture.

Given that the whole point of mathematics is a shared language, I consider the ABC Conjecture unsolved. I would hold AI to the same standard.

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@artrockalter @QiaochuYuan That is the place I am seeing actual unlocks: if you have a way for it to measure performance, for example, it can optimize.

And even then, there are a lot of traps. When it creates something complex the bugs end up being hard-to-spot-but-depressingly-stupid mistakes

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@timewalkcapital @QiaochuYuan I think that depends on how we define “brain” and “activity”.

AI doesn’t have an endocrine system. It doesn’t have needs and desires other than what a person has given it. It can’t bond with people, the way we can bond with it. Everything it accomplishes is on a human’s behalf.

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@Ethan_Wm1215 @QiaochuYuan the category of “ideas” where a computer can “test” them is… not most things.

It’s basically mathematics, computer science and (to a lesser extent) some areas of physics & bioinformatics where we already have strong simulations built & validated against the real world.

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@drenteiuq @QiaochuYuan Even with human involvement, this is impressive (assuming it all checks out.) But I agree: it is almost certainly a collaboration, same as the proteins.

AI will let people do things that would have taken too long to do by hand, where intermediate failures aren’t a problem.

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They are telling us they plan to make humans obsolete.

I guess I am grateful that so far the billionaires are just having us starve, die of preventable diseases, in their wealth-caused “natural” disasters, in the wars to build the machines to replace us & in the racist camps.

[QC @QiaochuYuan]

at this point it is completely untenable to believe anything along the lines of “AI can only spit out an average of the training data.” that was already only a very rough way of understanding older models pre-reasoning, it was already obsoleted by o1 which released in 2024, and now it should be obviously and conclusively dead even if you haven’t been paying close attention. recursive self-improvement has barely even started and we are already here. even with the recent erdos problem solves you could argue that those were cherrypicked out of a large database for being neglected by humans. that cope is no longer available

now generalize the lesson: all other arguments that there is some essential human activity forever beyond the reach of AI are also cope, these are technical problems and the will and money and talent exists and is being deployed to solve them. artificial superintelligence is not a fairy tale. assume it’s coming and plan accordingly

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@PurpStickyRice @CyberLegend77 @PollTracker2024 That is some remarkable pretzels it ties itself in to get around her refusal to call Gaza a genocide or address Israel’s apartheid in the West Bank.

Plus she voted for age verification requirements for all social media and tax breaks for data centers.