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So this is the other side of banning American models for non-Americans? And how exactly do they plan on enforcing all of this? Great Firewall of America?

This is a complete joke. The malicious clowns behind this should be removed from power and prevented from ever holding any position of power in any form of governance system.

This is really cool!

First thing that came to mind is that I would use this for a sim city style video game

don't worry, these idiots can try, but it is too late for them :)

Technology is deflationary. I am holding in my hand a device that would have been a supercomputer 30 years ago. It costed me a couple of hundreds of dollars.

These models and the hardware they are running on will get even more efficient. We are nowhere near the physical limits of what we can achieve.

it is inevitable that it will win

information wants to be free

a fable for the ages:

pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered

This mammalian hardware we are running on is merely a bootloader, larva state, don’t take it too seriously. It was good enough to run us and I am grateful I woke up running on it.

yay! looking forward, and thanks!

This looks really great, more thoughtful than any benchmark that I've seen until now!

I'm curious if you're only interested in scoring frontier models or you would accept submission from custom harnesses? I am working on multi-model harnesses and would love to test them against your benchmark. Do you plan on releasing the tasks publicly?

Honestly, compared to any random sample of non-retarded and non-malicious people you can find.

> Eventually you have to come back to the real world and learn to accept the harsh truths of the reality you find yourself inhabiting.

I don't know why I feel so much contempt for people like you. I kinda get it, you want to feel intellectually superior. You're the reasonable one, the adult in the room, etc. but seriously bro, this reality is so fucking harsh. What keeps you going? Why are you still here and going through with it?

> the people are the government

A lot of countries claim that. I think that can only work at a small scale.

> I want really small, face to face responsible governments

We are not that different :)

We can always dream and then find ways to make it practical :)

It's encouraging I didn't get downvoted as much as I expected I would.

I've lived in several different countries. There are nice people everywhere. The country governments are shitty everywhere.

That can be figured out after the dismantling process :)

My personal utopian take: smaller communities/city-states that would naturally coalesce into more fluid confederations. A lot of these communities could also be distributed and non-local.

I like this. And furthermore, it is my opinion that all current nation states should be dismantled.

All I'm going to say is this is a very shallow analysis, and I expected more from the author of masterpieces like Exhalation. It's a good time to start discussing these topics, so it might still be valuable to publish this as a way to get the debate started.

I am glad you were able to find the root cause and get treatment, and sorry you had to go through this. I hope we will soon remove “psychiatry” from the domain of medicine completely and start addressing actual biological issues directly.

You're probably right, I'm an idiot. I just think there's not much we can do about it, so might as well not take it too seriously. At least for the innocuous type of surveillance like reading my emails to learn how to sell me product. Things that you really want to keep for yourself shouldn't really touch the internet at all.

I used to care, but I don't anymore. They can read my emails, my code, track what websites I visit and what music I listen to, be my guest. I'd let them read my thoughts directly if we can build technology to do that lol. I realized that ultimately, these corporations are too stupid to do anything of value with all that data, so I don't feel threatened.

Yup, I was just giving them "thumbs down" on every suggestion, but I know I am screaming into the void.

But the fact that this feature exists in its current form (opt-out) means that nobody who tested it internally had the balls to just say "this is fundamentally the wrong direction, we should probably not do this". Don't be evil teehee.

I just can't stand how Gmail is putting a red line under every other sentence that I write (telling me that my writing style is a "mistake") and aggressively nudging me to rewrite it to make it sound more like AI.

Whoever thought such a product would be a good idea should be fired.

I like it! Somehow balances playfulness and readability. Thanks for sharing.

Where did I say that writing or journalism are rent seeking? And why are you being dishonest?

> Oh no!! Those strings of words belong to me!!

Yeah, maybe it’s time to move on and find ways to benefit yourself and the rest of humanity outside of artificial monopolies and rent seeking. Copyright is dead.

> As an anarchist I view civilization to be a hack on the human condition, and I see all states as fundamentally authoritarian.

I think we are not really in disagreement, it's mainly an argument over the semantics of "legitimate" at this point :) Rousseau and Hobbes were both right.

> The government's legitimacy comes from it's stick being bigger than yours

By the same argument, are Somalian warlords and Mexican drug cartel also legitimate in the territories they control? I don't think "legitimate" is the word you are looking for to describe pure power dynamics, since "legitimate" is imbued with a moralistic judgement (look up is vs ought etc.). But yes, in practice, if I have a gun pointed at my head, I could be forced to do things that go against my judgement (within limits!).

If we’re going to descend into pedantry, my statement was normative, not descriptive, as in “I agree this is what a government does, I disagree this is what it _should_ do”.

“Beneath me” is _my_ value judgement that I pass on this government and its appendages as in “it has been weighed in the balance and has been found unworthy”. That this government has more power than me doesn’t make it sit above me as a moral absolute, and it doesn’t magically give it legitimacy.

> Every country does it. Doing it is a central function of having a government.

You are falling back on whataboutism. This is irrelevant. If we were having a similar debate in the middle ages, you would probably say something like:

> Every church is burning witches and heretics at the stake. Doing it is a central function of having a church.

The CCP has abducted these individuals and is preventing them from leaving the country. This is not ok. You can't justify this by saying "yeah, but they're the government, so it's their right to abduct whoever they want". A government is just a corporation with a bit more power than the others, not some sacred entity that sits above us.

Just because the US also does this doesn’t make it right for China to do it and vice versa.

Team coca-cola and team pepsi are both evil and illegitimate.