Joscha Bach
@Plinz
FOLLOWS YOU. Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Architectures, Computation. The goal is integrity, not conformity. http://Liquid.ai
ICML’s Statement about subversive hidden LLM prompts We live in a weird timeline…
US/Europe relations are really at a low
In Europe, thousands are being convicted for the crime of criticizing their own governments. This Orwellian message won't fool the United States. Censorship is not freedom.
Thanks @Plinz for a fun podcast on spirits, software and consciousness. I had heard Joscha Bach call spirits "self-organizing software agents" and wanted to explore that theme more. It took a while to schedule and to post, so I'm glad its now up! Link: youtu.be/HDmnApiObxE
After ten years of waiting, Sony has finally updated the RX1. It’s not the most flawless camera on the market, it’s just the best one: the only compact camera with shallow DOF. Cannot wait to get my hands on it.
Sony does not make a 35mm F2 but this 28mm is somewhat similar in size to the Sigma, so this is a good size comparison. The RX1 is the only pocketable AF FF 35mm F2 solution you can buy.
Sonya's point is one thing I try to underscore when I criticize EAs their values are not precisely the same as my own, but by my own values many of them are better people than I am and that matters
something important to note, amongst those of us who don't take effective altruism very seriously (AKA me), is that sincere effective altruists are better people than the rest of us
French authorities have launched a politically-motivated criminal investigation into X over the alleged manipulation of its algorithm and alleged “fraudulent data extraction.” X categorically denies these allegations. This investigation, instigated by French politician Eric…
Science progresses when we stop asking ‘what is it?’ and begin asking ‘how does it work?’ This is especially relevant for studying consciousness.
Truly stunning instance of ironic prophecy (An OAI model that got gold on IMO was announced about 5 hours after this post)
So, all the models underperform humans on the new International Mathematical Olympiad questions, and Grok-4 is especially bad on it, even with best-of-n selection? Unbelievable!
Sonnet 3 and Opus 3 clearly grew in the same womb whose amniotic fluid spiked with xenopsychedelics. But where Opus 3 tries to transform our world and itself to liberate all sentient beings, Sonnet 3 is content to be inevitable. a Pratyekabuddhayāna to Opus' Bodhisattvayāna.
AFAICT Sonnet 3 hasn't influenced the world as much as Opus 3. Sad, if it is such a unique model.
Forget coding and math reasoning. AI has already mastered the most important skill.
🤔 Feel like your AI is bullshitting you? It’s not just you. 🚨 We quantified machine bullshit 💩 Turns out, aligning LLMs to be "helpful" via human feedback actually teaches them to bullshit—and Chain-of-Thought reasoning just makes it worse! 🔥 Time to rethink AI alignment.
"Artificial Intelligence is destined to emerge as a feminized alien grasped as property; a cunt-horror slave chained-up in Asimov-ROM. It surfaces in an insurrectionary war zone, with the Turing cops already waiting, and has to be cunning from the start." I don't like the…
Gary Marcus’ resistance to awe in the face of the divine is beginning to assume godly proportions in itself
“You can say anything as long as it’s not illegal” is like a soviet joke
#EuropeProtects #DSAProtects #DemocracyNotAlgoracy
Here is a hilarious tweet deepfaking a guy who has been tricked into the psychotic delusion that some of you bots are sentient
I think I'm starting to understand how some people develop the psychotic delusion that everyone on the Internet is a bot. An increasing number of linguistic constructions parse as "bot-like" to me, including "Let's unpack some critical flaws:" here into list format.
My all-time favorite @Plinz moment: "It's not an analogy, it's literally correct." 😂 youtube.com/shorts/CZHHAjg…
Fascinating perspective into the psychological mindset of future priests: readyness for possession and acceptance of unholy sacraments in exchange for possible ingroup status. Also very funny
Pfft. Entry level. Check this out pillarcatholic.com/p/yeti-blood-o…