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Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · SE Gyges
“this is 2023, the most powerful open source llm is llama 2, and dario's position is that open source is a bioterrorism risk i am pretty sure they are, in fact, in that corner, they just try to filter which things they say in public www.judiciary.senate.gov/…” evidence ↗
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“this is 2023, the most powerful open source llm is llama 2, and dario's position is that open source is a bioterrorism risk i am pretty sure they are, in fact, in that corner, they just try to filter which things they say in public www.judiciary.senate.gov/…”

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SE Gyges: good morning jensen huang, ceo of nvidia, browbeat everyone in ai to sign a letter saying that open source and open research are generally good things everyone but anthropic has signed currently. o…
SE Gyges: imagine google reading the room and figuring out how to "yes, and" a letter of platitudes faster than you
SE Gyges: i don't even mean to insult the letter! the things it says are all true and clearly need to be said. sometimes you gotta say ten true and obvious things in a row on company letterhead but, it shoul…
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4 experts · 46 posts · 8d ago
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“Exploiting software is a classic dual-use capability. Exploiting software can be useful to break into systems, but it can also be useful for finding weaknesses in software to fix those issues. Beca…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Research & technical analysis · 2 Markets & investment · 1
Pwnallthethings: This is going to be a big deal, but easy to get the wrong end of the stick on it. So I think it's worth breaking down what actually happened, why, and what it actually means, based on the public in…
Pwnallthethings: Upfront tl;dr: a model at OAI hacked out of a constrained environment inside OAI and hacked a *different* company autonomously, without authorization from any human in order to creatively solve a t…
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5 experts · 23 posts · 4d ago
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“don’t worry now it is “safe”” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Policy & governance · 2 Questions & unknowns · 2
Dustin Moskovitz: Apparently the government is against moving the AI frontier until jailbreaks are solved. For the uninitiated, jailbreaks have existed since the beginning and as far as we know so far, cannot be sol…
Grace: I’m so curious what the actual jailbreak is
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3 experts · 25 posts · 19h ago
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“"AI is so dangerous we must have a plan for USG to deliberately intervene to pace it" and "it is important to have open-weight models that are not controllable by anyone (e.g. to pace it)" seem to …” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Policy & governance · 1 Opportunity & adoption · 1
SE Gyges: here's who signed both the Pacing the Frontier letter released today and the Pause AI letter in 2023 demanding an end to all research for six months also, raw counts for "signed today's letter" and…
SE Gyges: fundamentally this is an anthropic thing that managed to recruit some people from other companies
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4 experts · 26 posts · 5d ago
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“in case anyone doesn't know this the thing about open weights models being made by stealing outputs from big players is almost entirely made up to justify regulations locking openai, anthropic and …” evidence ↗
SE Gyges: in case anyone doesn't know this the thing about open weights models being made by stealing outputs from big players is almost entirely made up to justify regulations locking openai, anthropic and …
SE Gyges: i cannot explain the timeline better than Rohit here it is literally impossible to have made Kimi K3 off of Fable outputs on this timeline
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4 experts · 17 posts · 18d ago
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“I don't think they changed their mind. I think it was intentional to set the precedent that people should not be building on their big version of Opus that they were primarily using to distill and …” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Tim Kellogg: what is Anthropic’s plan exactly? Sol kicks ass and they’re just going to *take Fable away???*
SE Gyges: i am pretty sure everything they had a plan for turned out not to happen and they're just sort of winging it atm
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3 experts · 13 posts · 9d ago
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“or rather, it threatens this fantasy” evidence ↗
Shared emphasis Markets & investment · 2
ae: i like how AI policy think tanks will put out papers like "AGI could drive wages below subsistence level" and then not realize that the obvious implication of their paper is that they broke capital…
SE Gyges: imho, the end of 20th century capitalism is, apparently, also unthinkable; i guarantee you that if more than 50% of the currently working population is no longer working, capitalism as we are famil…
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3 experts · 6 posts · 8d ago
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“if there weren't an existing cult that tried to make everything worse because they imagined it would prevent the inevitable apocalypse I would be the doomiest, i just happen to think that faction i…” evidence ↗
Hagen Blix: I'd be quite curious about huggingface's description of this (they're generally less comfortable in the "unreliable narrator" territory)
SE Gyges: so as it happens i think every doomer prophesy is wrong but it's true that if you just make them hill climb blindly you get results like this
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2 experts · 10 posts · 19d ago
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“my computer shouldn't demand emotional labor” evidence ↗
SE Gyges: the hardest part of having LLMs solve novel problems is that they constantly want to come back with partial success or tell you it's too hard
SE Gyges: no seriously a significant fraction of my job is now preventing them from giving up and copping out at stuff. it has significantly messed up my week. it makes you into a whip cracking, paranoid mid…
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2 experts · 8 posts · 16d ago
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“exactly one thing like this accidentally escaped containment and it's when gpt wouldn't stop talking about goblins” evidence ↗
SE Gyges: both sides answers are a measure of how craven you are and this is a pretty accurate graph tbh
austin: yeah no this all tracks
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