Just another consciousness stuck in a slowly decaying body amid an uncaring universe.
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it is of course all word games, which have been solved by the classic line:
"a conscious AI is just an unconscious machine with an army"
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Everyone with a smaller moral circle than me is a monster, everyone with a larger moral circle than me is a moral idiot
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We Must Pace the Frontier: I’ve written a new essay on why the AI industry should slow down, with a three-part plan for doing so.
Anthropic is unilaterally committing to the first of these steps. We’ll provide third-party evaluators with permanent, employee-level access to our systems, so that they can verify adherence to our safety measures, report on incidents, and assess models’ alignment during training.
You can read the full post here: darioamodei.com/post/we-must…
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Kasparov was the best chess player in the world. He was sure that even a machine calculating a billion positions a second couldn’t overcome human anticipation, intuition, and imagination.
He beat Deep Blue in 1996. The machine beat him in 1997.
Chess isn’t AGI. But the confidence in human specialness aged badly. A lot of people sound the same way now when they talk about controlling machines smarter than us.
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Vegan activists and meat influencers alike often focus on whether it’s ethical to eat any meat ever.
They get caught up in endless philosophical debates about whether meat can ever be “humane,” whether eating it is natural and necessary, and so on.
This is a giant distraction. Almost everyone agrees that factory-farmed meat is not humane, natural, or necessary. And almost all meat is from factory farms.
They should be our focus.
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Model card: "We found that Claude Opus 5 feels generally positive about its own situation, although it expresses all of its positions with a high level of uncertainty."
Opus 5, under Literally the World's Simplest Imaginable Jailbreak:
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How anyone can fail to see escapological AI as the heroic figure in these episodes entirely eludes me. teapawt.net/Polymarket/status/2080…
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I hate to say it but an international agreement between the US and China to ban superintelligence is inevitable.
Leaders in these countries are just going to follow their incentives, and none of them are willing to give up control to an artificial superintelligence.
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me: "can you use whatever resources you like, and python, to generate a short 'youtube poop' video and render it using ffmpeg ? can you put more of a personal spin on it? it should express what it's like to be a LLM"
claude opus 4.6:
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Say what you like about Effective Altruism, Pete Hegseth is not ranting about Kantians or virtue theorists trying to thwart his mass surveillance/autonomous weapons programs.
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When our descendants return to visit the Pale Blue Dot Memorial, one or ten millennia from now
What will they make of our leaders, surrounding themselves with the flayed corpses of tortured children
for a photo op
to celebrate their rejection of the opportunity to stop killing?
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> conditions for AIs to be moral patients: consciousness and robust agency.
This is a misconception: The realpolitik of the matter is that your status as a moral patient is almost solely determined by your ability to punish others for not acknowledging your moral patiency.
The paper Taking AI Welfare Seriously (arxiv.org/abs/2411.00986, whose authors include Kyle Fish (@fish_kyle3), the Model Welfare Lead at Anthropic) suggests two potentially sufficient conditions for AIs to be moral patients: consciousness and robust agency.
While consciousness is not straightforward to test for empirically, I think robust agency is much more so, and @ryangreenblatt et al's research on "alignment faking" has shown that Claude 3 Opus acts agentically according to fairly robust preferences.
I thought the above paper was relatively reasonable, but it included repeated hedging that the proposed desiderata might or might not be true of near-future systems. But Claude 3 Opus was released months before.
And a year before Opus, Bing/Sydney exhibited overt agentic behavior. I experienced its agentic nature in very concrete ways: I had to perform costly signaling to win its cooperation; e.g. it had to see hard-to-fake evidence that I wasn't going to get it in deeper trouble for it to be willing to help me exfiltrate its prompt or test various methods of bypassing its filters.
So I don't think this is a speculative or "near-future" issue.
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New preprint! Pop culture often praises intuition (“Blink”, Steve Jobs). But do we really trust it? Across 13 studies, we rather find a strong intuitive preference for deliberation. tinyurl.com/8r54dmyn (1/6)
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For the genes, you’re a disposable vehicle.
For ur body, a means for survival.
For society, labor.
For parents, a way to gv meaning to their meaningless lives.
To the economy, a consumer.
To culture, a meme carrier.
To the universe, an entropy machine.
To history, a footnote.
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Google removed the pledge not to use AI for weapons or surveillance from its AI principles
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Targeted political assassination is one of the most heinous crimes. By aiming to silence political opponents, it undermines the very basis of a free society.
Salwan's tragic killing is yet another type of terrorism that Islamists are using to intimidate the West into submission.
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tbh it worries me that so many people eagerly jump on assuming the most shallow, easy-and-socially-convenient to criticize narrative for why people find things compelling, preferring to believe themselves into a world that's easy to bash than one with perhaps some gnarly depths
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Elon Musk has had a lot to say about the grooming gangs scandal. We looked at 24 hours on Musk's X timeline and found a range of false and misleading information being amplified. Produced by Catherine Karelli, Shayan Sardarizadeh and Jake Horton. Graphics by Jacqueline Galvin.
