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Jun 10
We're going to need a separate class of specially controlled airgapped LLMs that are allowed to say the N word, but you can only use those LLMs if you do a three week training course and purchase a licence every year.
Jun 10
NEW: malware developers added nuclear & biological weapons text to to their spyware.
Goal? To trigger LLM safety refusals... so that their spyware wouldn't be analyzed by an AI security scanner.
Cleanest practical example I can think of for why over-indexing on first order safety alignment is risky.
When closed (and open) models ship with aggressive refusals, they will be sprinkled with second-order blindspots that attackers will discover...and exploit.
We are only in the earliest days of attackers leveraging these features, and it wouldn't surprise me if users systems that need to handle complex cybersecurity issues demand that models be less safety-blunted.
In the weeds: @SocketSecurity's post also shows why intention matters in how you design a malware analysis pipeline to avoid prompt manipulation.
H/T to colleagues that shared this with me socket.dev/blog/mini-shai-hu…
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Jun 9
Steve Jobs had a fad diet so extreme it probably gave him cancer.
Ashton Kutcher was doing method to play Jobs, including copying the all fruit diet, and started getting the early warning signs of the same health problems Jobs developed, and had to stop.
Jun 8
steve jobs didn't drink athletic greens. plato didn’t take creatine. picasso didn’t wear a whoop. shakespeare didn’t own an eight sleep. einstein didn’t use an infrared sauna. they all did just fine.
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Jun 8
Listened to Barandes and Maudlin discuss it, and they didn't get to the point of realizing that their theories both discussed the same set of objects. Wave functions, trajectories, and probability distributions.
That said I am realizing there is one thing not covered by Barandes
Jun 4
hmm indivisible stochastic processes and Bohmian mechanics seem to rhyme with each other pretty closely...
Namely the way that both track a complex wave function in configuration space, alongside an individual point in that same configuration space, satisfying the Born rule.
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Jun 8
The local analysis would look at how an individual trajectory is constrained by the stochastic process, and inferring conditional probabilities or constraints on those conditional probabilities from the locality constraint. I have no idea if this is possible or useful.
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Jun 8
Barandes has published about the gauge transformations available in pilot wave theories, basically saying that the trajectories while continuous, are not definite... I assume he is thinking about what ISP continuity looks like
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Movie set in the Cambrian period where nothing happens because it’s set on land. No animals, no plants, no trees, no sound but the lonely wind wandering over endless gravel. Occasionally the words “Ten million years later” appear on screen, but nothing changes.
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Jun 4
hmm indivisible stochastic processes and Bohmian mechanics seem to rhyme with each other pretty closely...
Namely the way that both track a complex wave function in configuration space, alongside an individual point in that same configuration space, satisfying the Born rule.
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Jun 5
Non-Bohmian physicists love letting their audiences make the assumption that because Bohmian mechanics is limited, that Bohmians must be totally misguided... This is because otherwise you might listen to a Bohmian yourself, and realize they are on another level altogether.
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Jun 5
I was wondering if there is a special relativity version of Maxwell's electromagnetism, but duh, there is... It's called special relativity.
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Jun 3
"Why don't you make some predictions, like Einstein, or Dirac?" the scientific community says, exemplifying the exact social attitudes that alienated Einstein and Dirac from their peers a century ago.
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Jun 1
Recently someone I know that spends a lot of time reading things like the New Yorker op eds told me "if it isn't true, then why are all these news agencies reporting it? are they just lying?"
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If you think you don’t have metaphysical beliefs, it almost always means your beliefs are so unexamined and dogmatic that you don’t even realise you have them.
This is especially true of secular, humanist materialists who tend towards thinking their secular, humanist materialist views are somehow the default rather than being articles of deep, often unexamined faith.
I find it quite ironic that Stephen Batchelor’s book is called “Buddhism without Beliefs”. I’ve read a hell of a lot of books on Buddhism and I
don’t think I’ve ever read one more colored by the pre-conceived beliefs and unexamined assumptions of the writer than that one.
So often when modern secular writers claim to be writing “without beliefs” what they are really doing is simply writing from unexamined popular assumptions of the age they’re living in. Beliefs so unexamined and dogmatic that they don’t even realise they hold them.
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May 28
Being told this changed my life
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May 28
Barista: "What's a good name for you?"
Socrates: "Ah, barista, since you have asked me this question, you must surely know what goodness is. Please tell me, as I am eager to learn."
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May 27
Oh great, you've thought of a sentence that uses every letter of the alphabet. Too bad it perpetuates harmful stereotypes about dogs and foxes. I hope it was worth it
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the LLMism that annoys me the most is "And honestly?". I'm happy to talk with a robot ghost, even to be 'friends' with a robot ghost, but the annoying thing is when the robot ghost pretends to be a convivial human. I'd be more charmed with something like "internal confidence=90%"
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May 27
xkcd 810 happened and it sucks actually. unexpected
May 26
one of the most terrible consequences of openclaw is that now whenever i get a ~thoughtful reply from a random lowbie account my default reaction is annoyance and assumption is they're an engagement farming selfbot
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