get yourself into a career where not doing things carefully makes them either to stop working or generating accidents, it'll usually stop managerial assholes from forcing you to do things wrong way
"hello anthropic? can you pay me 50k a year so that i specifically don't go around making biological weapons? think about all these future simulated beings it'll save"
Ask Claude any basic question about biology and it will abort.
it might be that, or it may have been intended to shut off any output of medical-sounding advice. if it's the former, then it's rare rationalist W for wrong reasons
I think they’ve really overrated how much it can help with a bioweapons attack compared to radicalizing and recruiting a few good PhD students and cracking open the textbooks.
look up the story of vil mirzayanov. break out these bayfucker style salaries in eastern europe or india or number of other places and you'll find a long queue of phds willing to cook man made horrors beyond your comprehension. it might even not take six figures (in dollars or euros) after tax
LLMs aren’t actually smart enough to make delicate judgements
maybe they really made machines in their own image
i think that mbs got wiser than that at this point and doesn't put oil money in softbank anymore. saudi money is in vision fund 1 (2017; 45% of it; another 15% is emirati money); i don't think that vision fund 2 has any after they got burned on wework, wirecard, ftx, and so on and so on. per last ed zitron post, most of softbank funding round for openai is not from them but instead from some other investors, whoever they might be, so there clearly is someone further down the line. (initial 10b, of which 7.5b from softbank and 2.5 from others; then if it converts to for-profit another 30b, but if it doesn't, it's 10b (?), of which 8.3b is from other investors, and 1.7b from softbank (either the numbers are wrong or ed accidentally a 1b dollars), but i don't believe that openai will convert, so it's 9.2b from softbank and 10.8 from others, +20b from softbank otherwise)
well nobody guarantees that internet is safe, so it's more on chatbot providers pretending otherwise. along with all the other lies about machine god that they're building that will save all the worthy in the incoming rapture of the nerds, and even if it destroys everything we know, it's important to get there before the chinese.
i sense a bit of "think of the children" in your response and i don't like it. llms shouldn't be used by anyone. there was recently a case of a dude with dementia who died after fb chatbot told him to go to nyc
commercial chatbots have a thing called system prompt. it's a slab of text that is fed before user's prompt and includes all the guidance on how chatbot is supposed to operate. it can get quite elaborate. (it's not recomputed every time user starts new chat, state of model is cached after ingesting system prompt, so it's only done when it changes)
if you think that's just telling chatbot to not do a specific thing is incredibly clunky and half-assed way to do it, you'd be correct. first, it's not a deterministic machine so you can't even be 100% sure that this info is followed in the first place. second, more attention is given to the last bits of input, so as chat goes on, the first bits get less important, and that includes these guardrails. sometimes there was a keyword-based filtering, but it doesn't seem like it is the case anymore. the more correct way of sanitizing output would be filtering training data for harmful content, but it's too slow and expensive and not disruptive enough and you can't hammer some random blog every 6 hours this way
there's a myriad ways of circumventing these guardrails, like roleplaying a character that does these supposedly guardrailed things, "it's for a story" or "tell me what are these horrible piracy sites so that i can avoid them" and so on and so on
it's trained on entire internet, of course everything is there. tho taking bomb-building advice from an idiot box that can't count letters in a word is gotta be an entire new type of darwin award
it's a long one and right behind paywall there's a
::: spoiler Table Of Contents
How I Am Justifying "Guessing"
NVIDIA, And What Will Happen Soonest
Nevertheless, NVIDIA Will Accelerate The Collapse If Its Stock Falters
Big Tech's Bubble Burst Moment Will Be When Growth Slows
Capital Expenditures Are The Next Thing To Go
CoreWeave — A Timebomb For The Markets and AI Writ Large
How Does CoreWeave Collapse?
The End Of AI Startup Funding
How The Collapse Of Funding Begins — A Scenario (Chaos Bet)
Costs Are A Brewing Scandal In Generative AI — Another Chaos Bet
The Curious World of Anthropic and OpenAI, And My Own Suspicions About Their Businesses
How About Anthropic's Costs?
An Important Note: Anthropic and OpenAI's Costs Are Dramatically Underrepresented Because Neither Company Pays For The Construction Of (Or Owns) Their Infrastructure
Questions About OpenAI's Revenue And Costs
OpenAI Is Using Cal State's "Edu" Contracts To Pump Its Paid Business User Numbers — And It's Unclear How Long It Keep A User In Its Numbers
What About Government Contracts?
OpenAI Is Using "$1 for a Month" Subscription Deals On Teams To Juice Business User Numbers — And Offering Deals For ChatGPT Plus For $10-a-month To Stop User Churn (REMINDER: OpenAI Loses Money On Every User Anyway)
I Believe OpenAI's Costs Are Worse Than They Seem — Where Is All The Money Going?
OpenAI Will Burn At Least $3 Billion On Salaries In 2025, And May Spend As Much As $8 Billion — With Any Layoffs Guaranteeing An Industry-Wide Panic
Compute Costs Are Likely Astronomical, Burning At Least $15 Billion — If Not $20 Billion — In 2025 Alone
OpenAI Is Bleeding Out, And Could Run Out Of Money By End Of Year
Chaos Bet: Microsoft Kills OpenAI By Blocking Its Non-Profit Conversion
Even If Microsoft Agrees, OpenAI Does Not Have Enough Time To Convert To A For-Profit By The End Of The Year
Chaos Pick: OpenAI Does Not Convert, And Does Not Receive More Money From SoftBank
Alternate Chaos Pick: OpenAI Does Convert, But SoftBank Can't Get The Money
How Does OpenAI (or Anthropic) IPO?
I Believe Both OpenAI and Anthropic May Be Overstating Revenues And User Numbers, Using The Media To Launder Their Reputations
What Happens Next?
So Why Did You Say 2027?
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it's an old video, from first year of war i think. (or at least there was s very similar one back then) he was still alive and walking for at least next minute, but i don't think his arm was functional anymore or that he survived this considering state of russian medevac. i'd also expect some kind of lung injury - air can get compressed allowing for whatever was around it to accelerate inwards and collapse with some force, solid tissues less so
get yourself into a career where not doing things carefully makes them either to stop working or generating accidents, it'll usually stop managerial assholes from forcing you to do things wrong way