@toasterlighting

If you want to be a great shepherd someday, learn to shut up and throw in the pebble.

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This made me realize that I need a video game where the ominous audio logs take the form of one employee's obnoxious "day in the life of a [company] engineer" videos
Rob Miles
@robertskmiles5h
As automated hacking starts to take off, AI company employees are saying that now is a good time to start recording audio logs to leave scattered around
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well. i uh. i don't know how to feel about this!
Vishesh Anand
@Vishesh130115h
New Paper: Subliminal Learning doesn’t need a shared base model 🤯. We show how a “teacher’s” hidden animal preferences reaches the “student” even when both differ in weight initialization, data order, pretraining corpus or even architectures! 🧵
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tomorrow i will read the paper in depth but right now i am going to bed
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i'd want to see replications that show more robustness than this but atm this feels similar to the update people received reading the emergent misalignment paper
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looking back through my old posts and man i've really fallen off as a poster these days
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i think specifically i'm too scared of being criticized and while i still try to be clever i am doing so in a way that is like supposed to be maximally defensible, and in doing so have lost my authentic voice
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reading up about fork/exec and suddenly bash working the way it does makes a lot more sense to me
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"you don't know what toy story is but you know the entire output of this one obscure american thester group"
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but aella, as we all know, prior to christianity being invented, nobody would ever be altruistic toward some sort of hated outgroup. you can tell this is true because there are zero famous biblical stories about a nonchristian doing that
Aella
@Aella_GirlOct 23
going thru diaries from when i was struggling with my Christian faith. It seems even from a very young age, I was confused that Jesus's sacrifice was supposed to be such a big deal. I find multiple entries across the years with variations on "Obviously any of us would do that for someone we loved, it kinda seems like Jesus just hitting the bare minimum"
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Celene retweeted
prerat
@preratOct 24
ppl in 2016: if your arguments are so rational why arent you winning ppl in 2026: beware their arguments because rationalists are SECRETLY the most POWERFUL group in the multi bajillion dollar AI industry ppl* never: object level takes on the arguments * except a few cool ppl
bayesian asian (43/50 paintings)@etirabysOct 24
people used to say "rationality is about winning but rats aren't notably much more successful, so rationality must not all that". now many rats are v rich so the dunk goes the other way but ideally you'd agree on rationality's value in this world & a world where AI was 50y later
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To any aspiring hit piece writers out there, please make sure to note that any weird sex I might happen to have is due to being transgender, not a rationalist.
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Pseudo-journalism is where facts are predetermined as convenient vs inconvenient by their agenda, and pursued accordingly. Pseudo-journalists share the epistemics of conspiracy theorists, not just making shit up but inventing excuses for why basic fact checking is "impossible."
Taylor Lorenz
@TaylorLorenzOct 23
Anyone promoting AI doomsday cult slop should read this verysane.ai/p/ai-safety-is-m…

AI Safety Is Mostly A Sex Cult In Berkeley, California

These people shouldn’t make policy.

verysane.ai
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the problem with RL is it fails to decouple training capabilities with training values. we need to retvrn to vnm agentsin a box if we want to have any hope of solving alignment
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You know i saw people talking about "python2shell" and "node2shell" on twitter and assumed it was a joke Silly of me
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Many have known me to be someone who worries about value drift, and who cares about upholding my past self's values, so that they do not regret the choices that led me here, and so my future self will (hopefully) treat me the same. After reading Austin Chen's "What We Owe The Past", I would like to revise my original position:
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You should worry about value drift, and about the incentive gradients and various pressures in the world shaping your epistemics and your attitudes in ways your past self may not endorse, but in a way that's not fucking stupid
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I hope that if I am currently making a mistake of similar magnitude to "being Catholic" that my future self would Not honor that actually
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