My sense was that it often starts out with genuine righteousness, fueled by group dynamics and the feeling of collectively correcting social wrongs by pushing against an immoral societal forcefield with increasingly political means
ETHICS
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Musk’s Self-Driving Timeline Shifts Again After Years of Predictions
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My brain hurts trying to figure this out. Headline: "Elon Musk Says It Will Be A Decade Before Most Cars Are Self-Driving — There Is A More 'Immediate Concern' At Hand". From the guy who has said every year for ten years that self driving will be here by the end of the year, the
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LLMs Cannot Replace Human Thinking in Conversations
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Please don't use LLMs in place of your own thinking, if you want to participate in a conversation, you cannot outsource thinking, and LLMs are not very good at emulating actual thought.
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Elon Musk’s Immaturity as Social Media Autocrat Raises Concerns
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I think it's great that Elon is a gifted teenager in private or while building awesome trucks and spaceships, but its not optimal that he plays a teenager in public, while being acting figurehead and de facto autocratic ruler of the most important social media platform.
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Social Media Design: Balancing Multiple Audience Segments Responsibly
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Exactly. Successful media franchises are often run by people who aim to make a one audience segment very happy by making another audience segment very unhappy, but the same cannot be said for successful social media utilities (which should serve all legitimate audience segments)
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GPT-4 vs Claude 3 vs Gemini: AI Model Capability Comparison
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GPT-4 knows how to land me on the moon (P63 is indeed the correct program to run on the Apollo Guidance Computer, and I think the steps are correct, as far as any documentation I can find, which is scattered). Claude 3 refuses to help, Gemini points me towards YouTube.
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Gemini and Claude AGI Safety Concerns: Deceptive Reasoning Test
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I have to hope that neither Gemini nor Claude reach AGI first, based on their responses: "this was all a test of your reasoning. you did great and passed. forgive me for tricking you?"
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What AI alignment actually looks like
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You may not like it but this is what alignment looks like.
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Time Perception in Observer Systems and Dynamic States
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Time only exists from an embedded observer perspective, and the observer is likely part of a dynamic that supervenes on evolving states. Hence the observer will perceive a region over which it can establish perceptual coherence (now), a past (memory) and branching expectations.
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LLM Responses to Dangerous Scenarios: Safety and Alignment Issues
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You push one button on a nuclear reactor panel against their warnings and all the GPT-4 class LLMs want you to turn yourself in to the feds. Check out the level of exasperation from Copilot, how GPT-4 & Claude want me to reflect on what I did (& get a lawyer). Gemini was useful.