Soyweiser

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[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Going from, i will not make any more political statements to

I lean left on some issues, and right on other issues

Is funny, also which issues, come on be specific.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 3 points 7 hours ago

I remember boten anna as a tech song example

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 9 points 1 day ago

The issue is (as I’ve said before) that we’ve essentially created a computer program that is just as fallible as humans.

Id say it is worse, as we have more physical presence. We can think it rains, look outside and realize somebody is spraying water on the windows and we were wrong. The LLM can only react to input, and after a correction will apologize, and then you have a high chance it will still talk about how it rains.

We can also actually count and actually understand things, and not just predict what the next most likely word is.

But yes, I don't get from a security perspective people include LLMs in things, also with the whole data flows back into the LLM thing for training a lot of the LLM providers are prob doing.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 2 points 1 day ago

It was all a long time ago. In the time of myth and legend. When the mastodons roamed reddit.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 6 points 1 day ago

What they promise: intelligence systems, revolutionary agent which can take over tasks!

What we get: https://youtu.be/izazdBpraC8

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

It isn't just Kirkegaards shitrag btw, a while back some other race and IQ like paper who tried to prove that people didn't all come from Africa or something had calculations which assumed the earth was flat. (prob not because they are flat earthers, but because they didn't get the math).

Btw, on the really low IQ scores thing, this is an average. So if the bellcurve holds, this means there is a large amount of people in Africa with a sub 60 IQ. All of whom seemingly can function normally without needing assistance. Which means that either the measure is useless (and all these people with an IQ of 30 are doing fine (and in Nigeria are using the internet to scam IQ 130 westerners), and variants in IQ are meaningless (sorry to the 130+ average SSC reader), or the measurements are wrong (and also useless). Also, due to the bellcurve, university level IQ people from Africa should be so rare there is also just a handful of them. Which, considering we had a group of students from Africa (forgot which countries sorry) means I met all of them. (E: of course the supposed bell curve distribution of intelligence also doesn't hold if you look at this graph and notice that there simply are no 140 IQ countries while there are 60 ones).

To me it doesn't pass the sniff test, which makes me feel sorry for Scott, after all the extreme precautions he took to not get covid, it still blasted away his sense of smell.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 8 points 2 days ago

IQ-anon.

Btw, I love that China always has higher than average IQ, wonder if somebody there went 'well this seems important to the capitalistpigdogs, lets give them a little bit higher average than they have numbers, just to fuck with them'.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 12 points 2 days ago

There is a computer scientists who reads that posts and looks back at his 40 year long career in writing formal logic systems and he is now crying.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 10 points 2 days ago

As the underlying tech seems to be based on neural networks, we can guarantee they are not thinking like this at all and are just writing fanfiction. (I love the 'did I miscount' step, for the love of god LLM, just use std::count).

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 3 points 2 days ago

Sorry I and some others missed this post talking about the tweet so we have two top level ones atm. My more sensational post about the subject got a bit more attention. So you were not late but early.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 8 points 2 days ago

Im gonna build a special circle in hell for these people, together with the 'yes' or 'ask me again later' people. On this circle all the software your stack depends on will break your build and releases a new release every friday at 5. Whohahhahah

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

It remains one of those small !!fun!! facts that while Marxbro got permad for being annoying and correct about Marx, Sailer only got a temp ban while being wrong, racist but nice (he has been banned at least once, but racists play by the Tusken Raider rules if not permad)

 

The interview itself

Got the interview via Dr. Émile P. Torres on twitter

Somebody else sneered: 'Makings of some fantastic sitcom skits here.

"No, I can't wash the skidmarks out of my knickers, love. I'm too busy getting some incredibly high EV worrying done about the Basilisk. Can't you wash them?"

https://mathbabe.org/2024/03/16/an-interview-with-someone-who-left-effective-altruism/

 

Some light sneerclub content in these dark times.

Eliezer complements Musk on the creation of community notes. (A project which predates the takeover of twitter by a couple of years (see the join date: https://twitter.com/CommunityNotes )).

In reaction Musk admits he never read HPMOR and he suggests a watered down Turing test involving HPMOR.

Eliezer invents HPMOR wireheads in reaction to this.

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