So there's a made-up speculation I have, which goes like this: maybe LLM Whisperer is a job where psychotic leanings are rewarded by skill acquisition. Let's say you read some text, and you form a theory: This text is trying to communicate a secret message to you, and this x.com/ESYudkowsky/st…
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Concern about psychotic hypotheses about LLMs driving people insane
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Entirely separately: I have a relatively unimportant concern about whether there's going to be a class of people who make up psychotic hypotheses about LLMs, continually find apparent evidence for those hypotheses as they keep talking to the LLM, and are driven more insane by
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LLM Whisperer: Psychotic Tendencies and Pattern Recognition Skills
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So there's a made-up speculation I have, which goes like this: maybe LLM Whisperer is a job where psychotic leanings are rewarded by skill acquisition. Let's say you read some text, and you form a theory: This text is trying to communicate a secret message to you, and this
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OpenAI Whisper’s hallucination problem: fabricated harmful content
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“[OpenAI’s] Whisper has a major flaw: It is prone to making up chunks of text or even entire sentences… [S]ome of the invented text — known in the industry as hallucinations — can include racial commentary, violent rhetoric and even imagined medical treatments.
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OpenAI Accused of Scraping YouTube for Whisper Training Data
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Hey @OpenAI – is there a reason why I dictated something unrelated to walking in London and got the below transcript back? My honest reaction: it looks like you’re scraping YouTube (ex: “LONDON CITY TOUR” channel) If not, why did this happen?
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Competitive Strategy: Autonomous Capacity and Adversarial Dynamics
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From a 1986 version of "Patterns of Conflict." In competitive environments, the goal is not just to survive, but survive on our own terms and improve our capacity for independent action while diminishing our adversary's capacity to do the same.
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Boyd on Balancing High Tech and Low Tech Strategy
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You don't want to trash low tech. You're going to have to get a mixture of it and you're going to have to understand that mix. Because if you go for high tech and only high tech, you're not going to have much. I'll tell you that right now. — From Boyd’s Congressional Testimony
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Wars Are Fought by People Not Weapons Boyd Testimony
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Wars are fought by people, not weapons.
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Boyd’s Decision Cycles Applied to AI Conflict and Strategy
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Conflict can be viewed as repeated cycles of observing, orienting, deciding and acting by both sides, and also, I might add, at all levels.
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Adaptive Thinking: Essential for Surviving Technological Change
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Anyone who wants to survive and thrive needs to be able to change how they think. — Paraphrased from the introduction to Boyd’s Destruction and Creation