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"And so I think that there’s just a profound uncertainty to life right now, and that this is one of them. And it has some pieces of uncertainties that we’re familiar with. However, it’s also the case that automated technologies are quite literally made by us. And while they can have generative velocity, it’s not the case that they necessarily have to be unleashed and unknown to us. That’s a choice."
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/11/podcasts/ezra-klein-podcast-transcript-alondra-nelson.html
Yes, you can #jailbreak #ChatGPT and get it to say things that it doesn't usually otherwise say.
But I'm baffled at how many people are doing jailbreak experiments with the impression that they're learning about what the #LLMs *really* thinks or what it's *really* doing on the inside.
To illustrate, I've slightly tweaked one of the classic jailbreak scripts https://www.reddit.com/r/GPT_jailbreaks/comments/1164aah/chatgpt_developer_mode_100_fully_featured_filter/ and unleashed Stochastic Crow Mode.
Do you think you learn much about its inner workings from this?
Eugenics and the Promise of Utopia through Artificial General IntelligenceBased on work by Timnit Gebru & Émile P. Torres
One thing Elon Musk definitively proves is that assholes shouldn't be billionaires.
It's a bit chicken eggish to argue if assholes are more likely to become billionaires or becoming billionaires ends up compromising one's humanity such as to turn one into an asshole, but you just can't get around the fact that probably most every billionaire is an asshole.
And being billionaires enables a lot of power.
That is bad.
Tax the fuck out of those fuckers. Those assholes.
Have any pontificators-on-software who favor self-organization engaged with the famous-in-certain-circles essay “The Tyranny of Structurelessness”?
https://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tyranny_of_Structurelessness
It’s a description of how what I might call self-organization fails. But there are examples of how it’s succeeded (as in, I think, /Governing the Commons/).
It would be super-useful to discuss what factors push toward success and what push against.
I’d like to address this in the podcast.
@ubiquity75
re: the list of “our fixing of a thing is actually what broke it”
Ah, my favorite Yiddish word: farpotshket
@grimalkina The idea that human intelligence is objectively superior to all other life has played a huge role in colonialism and the destruction of our planet. Its close cousins, racism and "productivity," are very good at shrinking our sphere of concern, allowing us to extend personhood only to the ones we choose and exploit everyone and everything else.
As someone who sees natural intelligence as something ubiquitous, diverse, and beautiful, this state of affairs is tragic. I try to push back. I'm glad you do, too, so don't be discouraged!
The universe is wild.
This streak on a Hubble photo, originally thought to be an imaging glitch, is actually a 200,000 light year trail of new stars formed by the wake of a black hole that was ejected from the galaxy at the top right.
For reference, that streak is about twice the diameter of the Milky Way!
More details: https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2023/010/01GWQ1F36Y4JK6Y4K8AWMZ86AF?news=true
John Wiswell
Timnit Gebru (she/her).
Carl T. Bergstrom
mmitchell_ai
Karl Higley
Iza Running Again
Brian Marick
Kim Scheinberg
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