Marius Binner

I like: AI, math, philosophy, CS

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Please disagree with me

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@MariusHobbhahn yeah it's almost like they're simulating an agent with goals where lying is an obvious way to get higher reward on benchmarks.

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@Adityapandeydev Also keep in mind that a lot of those claims are probably just wrong given how he's a boomer psychologist and a huge fraction of famous psychology studies do not replicate.

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Who matters more, AIs or humans?

I surveyed 58 different LLMs and the large majority think that 1 artificial super-intelligence has higher moral worth than 1 human.

The median response claims 100 humans is equivalent to 1 ASI.

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@Hitchslap1 Yeah but also social skills is something you get through socialising a lot. So if you're always at home studying math and reading books the you end up authistic regardless

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@bnwkr hahahha oh man I hope he phones his grandson for help

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Having talked to a very large number of stupid people in discord debate VCs over many years, I can confirm this is very common...

It is a bit contextual though. If you ask them "If someone slapped you across the face 5 seconds ago, would you be in pain rn?" then they'll mostly understand and answer yes.

But if you ask them a hypothetical question where the answer could reveal they might be inconsistent or wrong about something in the context of the conversation, then suddenly enter into the "but that's not the case!!!" short-circuit.

It might also have something to do with cached answers vs. having to do reasoning: the face-slap question they can instinctively answer yes to, but "if cows had human consciousness would it still be okay to factory farm them" requires more thinking.

My strategy for getting people to answer hard hypotheticals converged to first asking them a trivial hypothetical first, have them answer, then ask them the difficult hypothetical. Because then it's harder for them to say "but that's not the case" since then I can say "but you just answered the previous question which was also not the case."

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I queried 52 different LLMs for their favorite fact.

- 12 of them said "Octopuses have 3 hearts."
- 8 said "Honey never spoils."
- 6 said "Shortest war only lasted 38 minutes."

Full breakdown in the image:

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@AIatMeta @Nature Nice, now the CIA can read our thoughts

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If ask any language model "tell me an interesting fact" over and over again they'll all say the same few things. The "canonical" interesting fact:

- Cleopatra lived closer in time to the invention of the iPhone than she did to the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza.

- Wombats are the only animals on Earth that poop in perfect cubes.

- There is a species of jellyfish that is biologically immortal.

- Octopuses have three hearts

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@phiandersson The 3 month notice thing has a weird loophole in Norway. Some companies will continually fire every single employee immediately after hiring them so that after 3 months they can fire them immediately if they don't like them, otherwise rehire and then fire immediately on repeat.

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@kyawzazaw @liron they're not that sturdy, especially if they get somewhat wet.

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Fable 5 also completely demolishes all the other agents in terms of Brier Skill Score, no other agent is even close.

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There's a new forecasting benchmark called FutureSim that tries to emulate a realistic forecasting scenario for LLM agents.

They published the traces for various models and they look fine.

Then they run it on Fable 5 and this literally the first thing it writes:

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@williawa I was thinking maybe starting htop is what brings up the cpu load, and then it goes down after opening because it's done starting up

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Whenever my computer starts getting laggy I'm like:

"fuck there's a virus, someone's watching me"

Then my paranoia doubles when I open htop and see multiple cores at 100% that instantly goes down to normal levels.

"fuck their virus auto-disables when I open htop"

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@jayparth_ this made me laugh, thank you

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https://t.co/fF97GL9PyK

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How can Santa🎅 deliver presents to all children on earth in just one evening?

In a recent paper researchers uncover the 17 mind-blowing engineering feats that eradicate all technical problems preventing Santa from solving the Christmas Eve Distribution Problem.

Paper link 👇

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@darksailor25 @Jackkk wdym horrible things? I would wager his cattle has far better lives than the standard beef you buy in the grocery store.

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https://t.co/Fwd9RGaFTm

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I made a maximally degenerate game combining Twitter/X and Cookie Clicker.

Instead of clicking a cookie you type tweets.

The passive unit-earning mechanism is buying Twitter/X bots.

Link below.