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I would agree with his opinion. You can see it with the increase of non-alcoholic wine and beer.

I disagree. People are always taking risks regardless of the outcome and we don't know his motivations.

Assuming his motivations are positive this is the equivalent of asking a deluded person "Would you risk life in prison to be a trillionaire?"

Assuming his motivations are negative then destroying humanity might just be the goal and all these appeals for regulation are probably just tactics to temporarily defer responsibility onto government so he can continue the inevitable goal of human extinction in the same way pilots crash planes with hundreds of passengers on them or a cult leader convinces their flock to kill themselves.

Regardless I think the outcome is inevitable. AI is valuable as a weapon of war first and foremost so like nuclear weapons work will proceed forwards because extinction to the in-group is the same as total human extinction to those doing the work.

That is a start but how long will it hold for.

At a certain point it will get so smart that it can jump the airgap. Maybe it will start attacking the hardware it exists on in the same way that a hard drive or SSDs controller can be exploited to obscure things from the operating system. Then it might start social engineering workers or it's own training systems to do things they shouldn't. There is a lot of "unknown unknows".

I don't know. It just seems insane to me that people think that they will be able to contain something that knows how to get around all the containment measures. The only way to know how capable the models are is to test them but at that point it could be too late. This might be a long way off but still, the engineers haven't been very good at correctly predicting the behaviour or capability of the models.

Maybe I lack intelligence but when you have a program that is basically brute forcing a solution to a problem repeatedly how is it possible to contain it?

Sooner or later it's going to come up with a solution that is more intelligent than the lead security person anticipated.

Very cool. What a slick setup.

It reminds me of a rabbit hole I went down once about off grid power generation using broken washing machines as turbines.

https://youtu.be/0ieFZI4-6K8

There is no such thing as "common sense". There are only shared assumptions.

We are giving computers human perspective intelligence but they are not humans and hence do not have the same shared assumptions.

Does this apply to other things too?

Like hypothetically speaking if autonomous cars get taken over by an OpenAI rogue AI and it starts hunting down Anthropic employees who is to blame?

I didn't realize this was a think until I heard of people doing it in a a CRT forum.

I suspect it will be getting more popular as flyback transformers get harder and harder to find.

If you don't have the resources to defend yourself then it's probably not wise to publish things like this but you can tell others of your experience.

Also for those things you could sue for damages or lodge a complaint for malpractice.

Yes. But this option still exists in addition to reputation which I mentioned.

With AI models this option does not exist. I can't sue OpenAI because the contract that I got ChatGPT to draft carelessly exposes me to some type of financial loss. I can't contact the state bar and have Open AI banned from drafting up contracts or doing any other work that lawyers are licenced to perform. Even if I could it would not compare to a lawyer loosing their license to practice for life. If I tell a friend or acquaintance about my negative experience they will still likely use OpenAI for professional work and chalk up my experience to a skill issue or premature use of the technology.

Also note the use of the word "professionals". I was referring to doctors, engineers, accountants etc too.

Human professionals put their reputation and finances at risk when performing their work. This risk functions as a guarantee.

For me small things are generally cheaper on Aliexpress.

Amazon drivers are also terrible in my area. They leave parcels as soon as the app tells them they can (it's done via GPS) so sometimes that is on top of an apartment block mailbox on a main road with high foot traffic.

Not everyone is optimizing for time. The agents will give you the choice of what you want to optimize for.

So you can just tell your agent "Hey X order me a Nintendo Switch 2. I want it by the weekend." Then it will order it for you from whoever has the cheapest price that conforms to the given criteria.

If the local agent has access to your digital wallet (Apple pay or Google pay) and your email then it has all it needs to perform and verify the transaction.

This is what I have been saying since LLMs came out.

A device with a custom agent that has a screen, mic and speaker can now turn amazon into a logistics company.

The most low friction way of doing anything is to just ask someone else to do it for you. In this case it's the agent. So now if a company wants to capture a percentage between the buyer and seller then they need to have influence over the agent or capture a percentage of the transaction fees.

Then after realizing my mistake and connecting the correct EPS connector I lost an additional 3 drives trying to test if the backplane was still ok.

Double uh oh.

Before you fry a whole 12bay drive array and backplane let me tell you this:

6 pin EPS and 6 pin PCIe power cables are not the same. Even though the connector may fit they are not the same pinout.

It's worth mentioning that last time I checked encrypted ZFS was not considered production due to obscure file corruption bugs that were unpatched.

This was a while ago so it may have changed but then changes can introduce new bugs...

The laws of supply and demand apply to labour as well.

> This comment is itself a perfect example of what I was talking about.

Except it's not. It's just an observation of these comments. I don't have a dog in this race. I am not a citizen or a resident. Both residents and citizens are sounding entitled IMHO.

> Nobody feels entitled to a visa. It’s aspirational, like applying to a job. People do it because they want a better life, knowing full well they could be denied, or that it may well be temporary.

For those applying for a new visa I would mostly agree. For those extending their Visa I would disagree heavily.

> But if you believe immigrants could take something from you, like your job or housing, then it makes sense you’d project this idea of entitlement onto them. As if by applying they’re implicitly laying claim to something owed to you, a citizen.

If there is no genuine concern over this then why are applications/quotas for work Visas even a thing? Just offer automatic residence to whoever in the world can get hired by any company that operates in the USA. Infinite GDP glitch.

You are right that government of the USA doesn't owe citizens a continued quality of life. The preamble is very clear on that. When it says "promote the general Welfare" that is interpreted as the welfare of residents and citizens alike.

> In reality the economy is not a fixed pie and nothing is being taken from you. Immigrants take jobs, but they also spend money, pay taxes, start businesses, and need houses built, all of which leads to more jobs. It’s a positive feedback loop that benefits everyone, and a big part of how America’s economy grew into what it is today.

I mostly agree but "benefits everyone" is not true. There are winners and losers and negative externalities. GDP isn't a happiness score. Cynical me thinks that the difference between a USA resident and a citizen is basically non existent for the average USA citizen in terms of rights (arguably worse in terms of responsibilities for non politically active people who don't work with/for the federal government) but the permission to reside indefinitely is one of those rights so a government denying residency is a way to artificially give value to the citizenry without actually giving or improving anything.

On a serious note I think that this fact is not understood by many.

There is no such thing as common sense without shared assumptions. So if those shared assumptions are incorrect or not given at all the output of the models will be nonsensical. In order to truly act human there is a need to experience humanity from the first person.

This is why I think technology will get more and more invasive. Meta glasses now, personal agent devices later and neural implants after that with data sharing enabled.

"Instead, what they all have in common is a vague underlying fear of being displaced, or sense that something owed to them is being taken."

This is true for both the citizens and the immigrants.

It's funny that when you offload the work to agents they still find away to monopolise each other's time with meetings.

It's all by design to. People call for social media regulation without realizing that it is by no coincidence these companies have been able to grow so large. The security state has been outsourced to private industry.

3. Emotion motivates everything that we do. It's just a question of what emotions are you considering and what emotions are you prioritizing.

Reasoning is taking all emotions into context and focusing on actions that align with certain emotions.

It was happening when I was using Chrome on iPhone and Windows 11 with Chrome. I can't remember what was causing it since the headphones (Bose Quietcomfort SE) are synced with both devices. For the last couple of months I've been using Android and I haven't noticed it. The headphones seem to work better with Android. IOS is a bit weird with sharing them with my PC.

Haven't the SLMs been distilled using the LLMs?

If this is correct I see a future where the hyperscalers are funded by the businesses integrating siloed SLMs in their software.

Also the defence/intelligence industry will always want to keep an edge so don't be surprised if they stick around and we see favourable regulations for them similarly to how the government turns a blind eye to social media platforms because they increase the footprint of mass surveillance.

I wouldn't be surprised if the hyperscalers became software auditors and any piece of critical software was required to have a regulated security audit before it could enter production. Selling the poison and the cure is a great business model.

They have been doing this for months.

No sound playing but the audio would change like the microphone was being activated. I checked permissions to make sure there was no mic access and figured that they were fingerprinting.

Simple smart watches make sense for people who want accurate time who don't want to pull their phone out of their pocket for things that can be answered by looking at their wrist.

It's not just that.

As user agents become more common it's only natural that they will be used for taking the heavy lifting out of e-commerce purchases. There will be a big need for digital payments to verify and reconcile these purchases.

With LLMs that are plugged into digital payments we will essentially have buying agents in our pocket that can find us exactly what we want for the cheapest price and the quickest delivery.

Trebuchets were used in the Syrian civil war (2011-2024).

I would link a video but I don't think that is a wise idea for legal reasons. There were so many parties in that war and I'm not sure which ones were declared terrorist organizations.