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[–] swlabr@awful.systems 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

gilding the lily a bit but

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 10 points 5 days ago

Does a sealion have bootlicker nature? Ugh.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 14 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Please, señor software engineer was my father. Call me Bob.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 9 points 1 week ago

Oh yeah to be clear: I also find this kind of reporting to be disingenuous and disgusting.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 60 points 1 week ago (5 children)

NBC/the media really killing it with painting him as a self-radicalised spook.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 5 points 1 week ago

One too many poop pills

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 7 points 1 week ago

"I'm going to double down on not reading this article herpa derpa gerpa poop" that's you. Please fuck off

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

FWIW, I read this somewhat charitably: I didn't read this article as "I want there to be prediction markets in journalism" as much as "The right-wing fuckos are very into this shit, so expect for it to froth up out of the sewers in 2025." That being said, as discussed elsewhere, many of the finer points are questionable.

N.B: I am not aware of Lorenz's shit opinions.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 28 points 1 week ago

Techbros: “I’m hungry for that Lab Grown Meat!”

Labs:

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's probably worth 14B in the way a fire that you feed 14B of cash into is worth 14B

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Oh yeah, haha. I often face the dilemma dilemma in which I have to choose between ignoring the 'incorrect" usage (i.e. not a choice between two things that are difficult to choose between) and seethe OR mention the correct usage and look like a pedant. Sometimes it's a trilemma, and I'm all over the shop. But more seriously, I usually let it slide and let people use it to mean "a situation".

I doubt that Lorenz has a dilemma in line with the correct usage. I couldn't fight the urge to steelman, spoilered below, which I suspect this is nothing near what Lorenz had in mind.

exhausting Steelman within. I only tried to come up with something, it's not a good steelman. I'm so sorry about this.In the world that Lorenz posits, where prediction markets somehow represent accurate news reporting, either a journalist participates in the market whilst reporting news (conflict of interest), or they don't, and they are bad at their job (and not performing at your job is unethical, I guess?)

 

original link

“If all of this sounds like a libertarian fever dream, I hear you. But as these markets rise, legacy media will continue to slide into irrelevance.”

 

Abstracted abstract:

Frontier models are increasingly trained and deployed as autonomous agents, which significantly increases their potential for risks. One particular safety concern is that AI agents might covertly pursue misaligned goals, hiding their true capabilities and objectives – also known as scheming. We study whether models have the capability to scheme in pursuit of a goal that we provide in-context and instruct the model to strongly follow. We evaluate frontier models on a suite of six agentic evaluations where models are instructed to pursue goals and are placed in environments that incentivize scheming.

I saw this posted here a moment ago and reported it*, and it looks to have been purged. I am reposting it to allow us to sneer at it.

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Didn’t see this news posted but please link previous correspondence if I missed it.

https://archive.is/XwbY0

 

Kind of sharing this because the headline is a little sensationalist and makes it sound like MS is hard right (they are, but not like this) and anti-EU.

I mean, they probably are! Especially if it means MS is barred from monopolies and vertical integration.

 

Uncritically sharing this article with naive hope. Is this just PR for a game? Probably. Indies deserve as much free press as possible though.

 

Followup to part 1, which now has a transcript!

As is tradition, I am posting this link without having listened to it. (too many podcasts)

 

Discussion on AI starts at about 17mins. The Bas(ilisk) drop happens at 20:30. Sorry if ads mess up my time stamps. I think this is the second time it’s come up on the show.

 

Don't expect a good or deep analysis of FTX or any TREACLESy stuff here.

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