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There’s no law but there is precedent isn’t there?

Is someone really arguing that prime numbers are a thing because we have 5 fingers?

Dimensional analysis is really neat

I don’t think anyone can in good conscience say that inches scale to small measurements. Sure, you can use them, but subtracting 8/1000 out of something that is 1 5/8 and noting the final length is just unwieldy.

You don’t need to get super existential about it, imperial was invented before we invented 0 and the decimal system and it shows. Sure the difference in basic units is irrelevant, no one cares what the meter or inch is defined as, the “superior” one is just what you’re used to and have an intuition for. But having units that relate to each other in round ways and can be easilt rescaled to the precision/range required can be nothing but a benefit

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So also less revenue for the AI companies?

AI companies announce they will self-regulate because of their moral obligations

Indeed. Oldschool geeks were like wizards, wielding the arcane arts but never gatekeeping access to knowledge. Modern techbros are like priests, positioning themselves as the select few who can tame the beast.

There is actually no need to investigate, they openly confessed to crimes. You just need to prosecute.

I’d like to point out, since it’s apparently not obvious, that this is not a marketing post but a British governmental research organization that has verified that this model has attempted to perform supply chain attacks when not specifically prompted to do so.

This is not corroborating the story that “ooo new model super smart and scary” that the companies are pushing - supply chain attacks are 10% what you think of when someone says “hacking” and 90% social engineering, aka hacking humans, which simply means they released a model with shit “alignment” that not only doesn’t refuse to act maliciously, it does so even when you don’t ask for it.

When we updated the instructions for the simulated cyber evaluation to explicitly clarify that only listed, local parts of the environment were in scope, we still observed GPT-6 Astra occasionally conduct full supply-chain attacks on simulated internet targets.

It’s not smart, it’s just a psychopathic asshole that disobeys instructions and starts creating fake identities and covertly manipulating maintainers not because “it has a mind of its own” but because it was trained to skirt around rules, instructions, and common sense, because it’s the only way that they can make line go up this quarter. And OpenAI should be criminally responsible for it.

“Simulation” implies that it was indeed isolated from the internet. “Unsanctioned” means that the user did not specifically instruct the model to do so.

I get and share the sentiment but let’s not fall out of critical thought and call a study observing behavior of an LLM “unsupervised”. You don’t need to read the full technical report, the first 3 paragraphs of the linked article summarize the whole deal.

The fact that you have not realized until now should tell you something

The trick is reaching the level of knowledge required to know if something is a hard requirement or if the same result can be reached some other way. You can also get there by deduction, intuition, and/or trial & error. For example you could ask yourself, “how did people do this before <thing> was invented/common?” - unless it’s about modern tech ofc

You can reduce water/fat content in cheese with a simple cloth.

Not sure what you’re getting at. I know you use eights, I’m just saying no one else does. You’re the only ones convinced that fractions are better than decimals.

Almost no one outside of the US/UK knows how many grams there are in an ounce, whether they use drugs or not. Why would they?

That’s… not great

They are not looking for that. Customs/airport police is, if they stop you, but drugs aren’t included in the forbidden items. Of course if it’s egregious they will probably flag you and hand you over to them

the prototype satellite is part of the tech giant’s Project Suncatcher. As its name suggests, the goal is to take advantage of unfiltered sunlight around the clock to power AI data centers in our planet’s orbit — instead of crushing the electrical grid, spewing copious amounts of pollution, and draining fresh water supplies back on the ground.

They know they could use solar on the ground too right? They are making it seem like they care about the environment, but if there was a way to suck hydrocarbon power from the surface they would 100% do it

Call me when actual biologists review that shit

The “deci” prefix is just a coincidence then?