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Tzt··on OpenAI and Hugging Face address security incident during model evaluation
Well, I don't think even 1% of professionals would be able to. The model used novel zero-days, there are many people in this filed, not many of them discover such vulnerabilities, and probably not on the spot.
Tzt··on OpenAI and Hugging Face address security incident during model evaluation
Researcher: hack me

Model: I committed a crime

Researcher: oh my god

Tzt··on Artificial-life: A simple (300 lines of code) reproduction of Computational Life
This implementation has an explicit mutation rate! That's not in the spirit of the original paper, where programs "mutate" from interacting with other random pre seeded programs.
Tzt··on Living human brain cells play DOOM on a CL1 [video]
>Greg Egan's "Rifters"

By Peter Watts actually.

Tzt··on Claude Shannon's randomness-guessing machine
"free will" also known as digits of pi mod 2
Tzt··on Training LLMs for honesty via confessions
Yes, absolute majority of new ones use CoTs, long chain of reasoning you don't see.

Also some of them use such a weird style of talking in them e.g.

o3 talks about watchers and marinade, and cunning schemes https://www.antischeming.ai/snippets

gpt5 gets existential about seahorses https://x.com/blingdivinity/status/1998590768118731042

I remember one where gpt5 spontaneously wrote a poem about deception in its CoT and then resumed like nothing weird happened. But I can't find mentions of it now.

Tzt··on Horses: AI progress is steady. Human equivalence is sudden
In that analogy "someone" is an AI, who of course switches from answering questions from humans, to answering questions from other AIs, because the demand is 10x.
Tzt··on Let's Take Esoteric Programming Languages Seriously
I agree with this. This a remarkably bad podcast. And also pretty bad paper to focus on. As the podcast was quite bad, I just read it and it was about nothing at all.

Like, it's a basically blogpost that muses about uhhh couple examples it pulled at random from esolang wiki and has literally no point. Beside prescriptive one. Formatted as a paper, which I admit takes some skills.

Tzt··on The history of cataract surgery
Well, it's also an indicator for how well its other claims would hold up if you dug deeper on them too.
Tzt··on Eels are fish
Well, there are also legless salamanders, that look like eels pretty much.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-toed_amphiuma

Some of them have no lungs even:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microcaecilia_iwokramae

So, it makes sense to say that eels are fish, because there are lungless eel-like creatures that are actually amphibians.

Tzt··on Neural Nets vs. Cellular Automata
I don't get it, does the prediction go backwards or forward along CA generations?
Tzt··on Neural Nets vs. Cellular Automata
CNNs are CA if you don't insert fully connected layers, actually.
Tzt··on Generative AI coding tools and agents do not work for me
Well, kinda? I often know what chunks / functions I need, but too lazy to think how to implement them exactly, how they should works inside. Yeah, you need to have overall idea of what you are trying to make.
Tzt··on Generative AI coding tools and agents do not work for me
What do you mean several years, it became feasible like 6 months ago lol. No, gpt3.5 doesn't count, it's a completely useless thing.
Tzt··on Who rules Earth? Wild mammals far outweighed by humans and domestic animals
"Wild mammals"

nice one, journalism

Tzt··on An argument for the impossibility of machine intelligence [pdf]
why not make AI on the same platform as the human brain? what is so exceptional about it, and even if it is an exceptional material, why not just use it?