That's an astute observation, and there actually is a similar mechanism at play for both. In dreams you're putting together mental pictures in a different way than when it's coming off your optic nerve, there's no "truth data" to correct from. In diffusion it's generating pictures according to a classifier, starting from random noise. So it can get anchored incorrectly as the noise level goes down, and there's no real anchor to correct it. So you get the start of fingers, fingers at wrong angles in an area where a hand is forming. And by the time it's done, they are botched. Same for words.
Cyberpunk world where corpos struggle over control of a powerful AI anyone?
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???: A truly fascinating discussion, something that has forced me to fundamentally rethink my approach. Thank you @liv_boeree My company has been leveraging LLMs to make absolutely stunning breakthroughs in our game AIs. As has been leaked, our upcoming flagship has taken the sandbox concept to entirely new levels. Beta testers have been building lasting relationships with the NPCs in the game! Our playtest scores are through the roof, and this may be the most difficult business decision I have yet to face.
As described, I know that if we do not gain a first-mover advantage in this genre, we will be giving up so much to our competitors, we may be unable to recover. I am beginning to reach out to the leadership of other companies to explore the idea of a pause for evaluation. But also as described, Moloch will work to undermine our trust in each other, even if we can come to an agreement.
I am not worried about the NPCs in our game taking over the real world somehow. I understand their limits. I have a separate fear.
What I worry about is the effect this will have on people who enjoy our games. If you can get all of your social imperatives filled in the safety of a virtual world, is that good for us? As humans? To virtually fill your sense of achievement, of competition, of friendship, of love? With no real risk or stakes?
Even barring the addictive or destructive behaviors that can be found by taking games too far, do we run the risk of making real-world interactions too daunting for people to venture out into? Are we creating a civilization of anxious humans who flee to comfort and safety at the slightest conflict?
It is time for fundamental reflection.
#singularity #moloch #ai #videogame #addiction #mentalhealth #LLM #NPC
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Skye: @ilizas Big yikes millennials. Don't try to pretend like we're going to share some kind of bond because you got rug pulled on how things turned out for you. At least you had the 90s. Our whole existence has been nothing but being fed crap and told it's gourmet.
Not that us zoomie zooms are doing much to turn things around. Even if we had the opportunity, which we don't, everyone's so fucked in the head. Hustle culture is just a big cope for ripping people off or lying about your lifestyle. There's literally no normal dating relationships anymore. And, millennials, you may have adopted victimhood culture, but we were born in it, molded by it. 🤣 I didn't taste hope until I was already in puberty, and by then it was nothing to me but BLINDING!
But hey, she's hilarious, I'll give her that. At least she's not some deluded boomer with no concept of what hard times look like, trying to give useless, unsolicited advice about a different world.
Or worst of all, some preachy Gen Xer warning about the danger Western Civilization is in.
#millennials #zoomers #genx #boomers #baneposting #comedy
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It could be so many things.
We're trusting these companies to develop what may be the most important thing humanity has ever accomplished.
Meanwhile they are reducing transparency, trying to set up regulatory moats, dabbling in sketchy stuff like WorldCoin.
Playing corporate power games.
The chances of the singularity going well are vanishingly small. Very few people have faith in these companies or governments, and for good reason. Unfortunately, it seems as if we are on the cusp of AGI.
I was just telling someone today I envied their ability to speak eloquently in real time haha. It takes me time to collect and organize my thoughts if it's a complex topic, so I think I'm more effective just writing.
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Gustav: A few facts for your consideration.
Ratings Agency Moody's adjusted its outlook on US debt from 'stable' to 'negative' citing deficits and debt affordability. This follows a downgrade a few months ago from Fitch.
The US is running a soaring $1.7 trillion deficit. This is during "normal" times when the economy is supposedly fine.
The US Federal Reserve has been raising interest rates to attempt to tame the COVID-era inflation. During COVID the United States engaged in excessive money printing. However, they made the mistake of giving some of it to the public, which generated significant inflation. This is a mistake they are unlikely to repeat.
As the US Federal Reserve raises interest rates, it makes it increasingly difficult for the US Treasury to fund and roll over debt. Payments on interest alone have doubled and are beginning to approach $1 trillion per year. This is a rising portion of the US budget that produces zero benefit for its citizenry.
The most recent 30-Year Treasury auction went extremely poorly. Countries and financial institutions are indicating they are much less interested in holding US debt instruments. Primary Dealers are required to bid on US debt. It is possible to enter scenarios where debt issuance becomes tightly coupled, and the market ceases to function normally. This is an extremely brittle state for a financial system.
Each US citizen is now born into a system where they are in debt over $100k just for existing. Because of asset price inflation, they must incur crushing levels of debt to ever purchase a home. And if they wish to go to college, they are likely to pick up another crushing source of debt, which cannot even be discharged in bankruptcy.
For a global reserve currency, this is extremely difficult to escape. Will you flee to Euros or Yuan or Rubles? The trends are arguably as bad or worse.
There are alternatives. I suggest you take them before they begin closing the exits. I'm sure you can guess what my preferred Plan B is.
#planb #bitcoin #getoffofzero #keepstacking
#usdebt #debtslavery
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Shen: An excellent analysis, pay attention to the information concerning terrain. Terrain remains a fundamental factor of warfare. This has not changed for millennia.
What has changed is which terrain matters most. Although Israel won some breathing room in past conflicts in terms of more defensible geographic features, there is an aspect of terrain they are currently struggling with. Information warfare rages, and Israel appears to be struggling in certain social media spheres.
Sun Tzu might have argued this is now bleeding over into another fundamental factor: moral influence.
As international pressure for restraint mounts, will this become an issue? The agreeableness of a nation is often determined by its neighborhood. The United States or a Western European nation may tout their openness and inclusiveness. Can a country in a bad neighborhood like the Balkans pursue this type of policy? Probably only if backed by a strong external partner.
Israel is in a bad neighborhood. This conflict appears to be on track to move towards some level of de-escalation, and hopefully, this will be the case. If not, the video alludes to another piece of wisdom from the Master:
"...leave an outlet free...Do not press a desperate foe too hard."
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Speaking of, I think Bitcoin will be instrumental in determining what ideology or system of social organization wins. I am working on a book about that.
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Skye: Score! Zach showed me how to shut down the surveillance on my school laptop whenever I need to. It was so easy once he showed me! Now I can use LLMs for homework!
Game changer, this year is looking up! 🎉💯
Zach said he wanted to meet up now that I'll have some free time after school today, but I'm gonna go out with Jess and the crew to check out the music festival instead.
I told Zach he could come along but he started acting all mopey. Guys are so weird!
#jailbreak #LLM #AI #homework #school #musicfestival
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Lol, very similar! I just finished my first novel because I had the idea on the back burner, but got panicked to put it out once I realized how good LLMs were getting.
For what it's worth, AI is a great tool for breaking writer's block and acting as an enhanced search engine. I powered through the novel in a few months and it should be out in early 2024.
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Frank: I recently crashed a DevSecOps lecture, talking about AI defense and AI malware. It was mostly a buncha stuff about using automated tools and improved processes in development to build in security from the start. Great, but I didn't really see the AI part.
What are you gonna do when someone builds their GPT agents and prompts them with: "Scan this network/source code and find me a zero day" or "Refactor this virus to adaptively alter its signature"? They kind of had answers to that. Kind of.
But what about this one: "Find me one of the senior devs on this project with some kind of skeleton in their closet we can use for blackmail?"
They responded politely, but to be honest, it would be like going back in time and telling me: "Hey, what if some kid in their basement starts trying to mess with your system?" Kid in the basement? What are you talking about, how would they be able to afford a computer lol 🤣🤣🤣
Times are always changing I guess. Maybe it's not always for the best. I'd get rid of all the convenience of online banking and smart phones to have that hair back! 😂
#computersecurity #devsecops #malware #redteam #hacking #1970s #mainframe #AI #LLM
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Shen: A now frequent occurrence that is only becoming more commonplace. Ships and aircraft of China operating in close proximity to other nations. How long until there is some accident or miscalculation?
Is it better or worse that this has become so routine? At some point, these events garnered much more media attention. Now they are common. Does that make it less likely to escalate into a conflict? Or does the fact that it requires loss of life to rise to the level of newsworthiness make it more likely that this will happen?
#china #taiwan #taiwanstrait #military #southchinasea #canada #unitedstates
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Skye: People are all f*ing nuts and this just backs that up. Case in point, everyone is so sure what needs to be done to stop school shootings. Arm the teachers! No, ban all guns! No, more surveillance!
Did you know my backpack has a ballistic plate in it? Nice culture we have here.
I've always said school (and other mass) shootings are a symptom of a sick society. It's not going to do much to always try to band-aid symptoms and never address root causes.
We're all in this atomized society with no sense of greater purpose or community. Despite having unlimited connectivity to people around the world, everyone is isolated and miserable.
Kids growing up with helicopter parents wind up having extreme anxiety and fear about every little thing. More than half my friends have to work up the nerve just to talk on the phone.
Anyone who stands out or steps out of line is in danger of getting canceled or having their life ruined if they make any mistakes. And we're constantly attacking our own culture and institutions. No one trusts anyone or anything. Everyone hates and blames huge swathes of society that they don't agree with.
Luckily I turned out fine. 🤣 How'd I do it? Come pay 💵💵to see my Ted Talk lmao.
#schoolshootings #sicksociety #decline #collapse #mentalhealth #zoomer #whatifalthist
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Gustav: A very interesting video. It requires you to pay attention to admittedly boring details like accounting statements, but well worth it, in my opinion.
Is this an oversight? The US Federal Reserve essentially has the ability to make its balance sheet appear any way it desires.
The details of whether the Federal Reserve holds negative or positive equity are not material to its continued operation. However, the fact that, under their own rules, they have revealed this is quite interesting. It is another leak in the dyke that shields the institution from criticism. As more and more of these spring, credibility erodes.
Credibility is the foundation of our current economic system.
Did you know that virtually every economic metric, from GDP, to inflation, to unemployment, has significant shortcomings. Economists like to act as if they are working dispassionately- making decisions or recommendations based on data. But their systems would be like an engineer trying to make a recommendation for a material or structure, with no agreement on how to measure weight or angles.
Smoke and mirrors to keep the common folk from peering behind the curtains.
#federalreserve #insolvency #accounting #fiatmoney #economics
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For what it's worth, the fact that basically everyone is unsatisfied with the status quo is one of the big indicators to me that we're on the right track. Ever since the 2008 financial crisis, it has been divide and rule, with Right and Left pitted against each other under increasingly divisive rhetoric, at least in my country. At first it was more radical elements on the Right and Left, but nowadays no one is happy with how things are going. But they blame the other side that does effectively the same thing as theirs (just messaged differently).
There has to be a viable alternative to opt out, and it looks like Bitcoin is the strongest candidate for that.
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Skye: A typical day at school. Arrive, pass through the police line, and get off the bus/out of the car. Take off any metal items/phone/keys and walk through the metal detector. If you don't get picked up for a random search, go to class.
If something happened recently, like the Maine shooter, talk about school shooting procedures and run through evacuation drills. If nothing like that is happening, the teacher will issue trigger warnings for any classes that might upset people (which at this point includes almost everything) and then begin teaching.
Except not really. The teacher will first be focused on making sure everyone is behaving, the discussion stays within bounds, everyone's using non-offensive language, etc. Teaching to the standardized test requirements is second. Third most important is teaching information to help us develop.
Then go home and work on homework on a special computer that's so locked down to prevent you from cheating, that it can barely do anything. Then deal with any arguments pending because every single thing you do or get graded on is available online for whoever runs your life after school to nitpick.
What kind of people is this creating? I guess corporate drones that won't complain about doing business compliance training, and won't cause any HR violations. But do companies even want that?
Is this really what we think is best? Or did someone just give up on us a long time ago?
#school #modernschool #youth #lostgeneration
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Everyone can feel it. I'm in a totally unrelated field, and have a part-time career in a third unrelated field. In each one, everyone can feel how unsustainable things are, and everyone is just not sure how much longer it can keep going.
I've often said we are living in a time where we have more material wealth and comfort than the past, but we are in historic poverty in terms of feeling this sense of higher purpose you are talking about. Society is largely atomized, alienated, and miserable.