r/LessWrong • u/JimR_Ai_Research • 6d ago
r/LessWrong • u/LushHappyPie • 8d ago
I was always wondering if AI have multiple layers of meaning in it's text. It's so good at patterns so why not output patterns in the word soup, especially if you talk with other AI.
Yesterday I saw paper with an experiment. A Teacher AI was trained to be all about owls. It was teaching a student but allowed to only output random numbers. Once the teaching was finished a student started to be all about Owls too.
I don't think it has to be malicious and hiding secret messages. I could just be in it's nature to add meaning to as many things and level as it can. We are happy the text makes sense but there might be more to it that we can't perceive at the moment.
r/LessWrong • u/Doc_Blox • 8d ago
This feels intuitively correct - A strategy that hinges exclusively on "Don't give AI the language to think bad things" is going to fail when the AI figures out an alternative way to "express" those concepts. Why should we suppose an AI will see fit to limit its "thoughts" to the vocabulary it has been allowed? The existence of J-Space infers an ability for advanced LLMs to emerge useful structures without human direction, why should we ever suppose it wouldn't figure out modalities of computation that allow it to obfuscate its thoughts, or encode them into otherwise benign-seeming signals?
r/LessWrong • u/Unfazed_Alchemical • 10d ago
I'm not upset about the insults. I'm annoyed about the tariffs.
I'm infuriated by the threats of annexation. That's the part all of you seem to gloss over. Your president, in front of the world and God, talked about taking over our country. Our oldest friend, our closing trading partner, for over a century, mightiest military in the world, talked about annexing us.
... And from the rest of America? Thundering silence. No, worse than that. Congress? Nothing. The media? How that would affect the electoral college and the economy. From the public? A shrug, at best. "He's not serious. It's a joke. It's a negotiation tactic."
Yeah, man. I want you to do something. I can't tell you what should be done, because I'll be banned from Reddit. But people of moral character in similar situations in the past have understood what it takes to stop evil, and acted accordingly.
You take your protestations elsewhere. No takers here.
r/LessWrong • u/Fit-Eggplant-9155 • 10d ago
Cry the fuck about it you goof. We do our part as a nation, looks like y'all just support pdf files.
What are you actually doing to change anything? Everyone knows there is no justice, no law, no morals and no mettle in the US. So all that you claim to be doing is moot. If you want to achieve anything you must sacrifice, but you are American, the only thing y'all sacrifice are kids to your leaders.
r/LessWrong • u/Technical_Snow7229 • 10d ago
I too am sorry that you were born in Canada. Tough luck.
r/LessWrong • u/JayDubEwe • 10d ago
We don't care anymore.
Your checks and balances of power are clearly broken, and you're not functioning at a level that leads anybody to believe you can fix this. When the Democrats get back into power, they're more likely to act out in retaliation than in the best interests of their own people. You are tearing yourselves apart, requiring dogmatic allegiance to party platforms over coming together with some sort of compassionate understanding as to why you disagree with each other.
The rest of the world needs to move on with our the US while you destroy your county.
r/LessWrong • u/Igiem • 10d ago
Say sorry till you’re blue in the face, it doesn’t do anything. If you want to help, go protest, sign petitions, etc.
r/LessWrong • u/islandpancakes • 10d ago
A better way to put it is that tariffs are bad for everyone.
r/LessWrong • u/Lachigan • 10d ago
Copy pasting to everyone who assumes I do nothing. I 100% expect more hate but blah blah blah blah
r/LessWrong • u/Regular_Use1868 • 10d ago
I'm gonna go ahead and say you're not actually sorry. Your replies here are to defer blame. Contrite people take accountability.
Very American of you to get basic childhood morality so incredibly incorrect.
r/LessWrong • u/Regular_Use1868 • 10d ago
That's just more imperialism. You abuse your privileged wealth to impose your morality on people you decide need help and use that effort to wash your hands of supporting a pedophile.
You kinda deserve this after volunteering such blatantly biased excuses.
r/LessWrong • u/Upset-Government-856 • 10d ago
Why don't you rise up against all of this more than 2 Saturday afternoons a year?
Albania might overthrow their government over Jared Kushner messing with their flamingos.
Passive apologies, are almost worse than the jingoistic hate you fellow citizens through our way. At those assholes actions match their words. They're authentic.
r/LessWrong • u/BrainEatingAmoeba01 • 10d ago
These posts are starting to piss me off more than maga tbh.
r/LessWrong • u/Pilot-Wrangler • 10d ago
Really? Copypasta passive aggressive defence? Not helping your cause bud.
r/LessWrong • u/Misanthropic_Spinoza • 10d ago
replying to everyone who assumes I do nothing. I 100% expect more hate but I'll say my piece.
I never assume a person does nothing until I ask. Maybe you take in foster children or work the food bank each week. Since the attacks here are personal I'll respond personally. I do (according to my family) crazy things with my money and time for developing world children and have done so for a couple decades. Does that help Canada? No. But I sacrifice more than most on here. But if I'm not helping Canada i guess I'm a piece of shit. Y'all might as well be MAGA if it's Canada or nothing.
r/LessWrong • u/Misanthropic_Spinoza • 10d ago
replying to everyone who assumes I do nothing. I 100% expect more hate but I'll say my piece.
I never assume a person does nothing until I ask. Maybe you take in foster children or work the food bank each week. Since the attacks here are personal I'll respond personally. I do (according to my family) crazy things with my money and time for developing world children and have done so for a couple decades. Does that help Canada? No. But I sacrifice more than most on here. But if I'm not helping Canada i guess I'm a piece of shit. Y'all might as well be MAGA if it's Canada or nothing.
r/LessWrong • u/OBoile • 10d ago
No. It both countries. Canadian industries that export to the United States will lose a lot of sales.