That's not the actual problem. The problem is that one of the major advances of the past few years is training models on verifiable problems (it started with things like math problems and Countdown puzzles, but it's expanded tremendously since then), where the reward is for a correct answer, regardless of how it got there. There's no effort taken to ensure that it got to said right answer in a morally defensible manner. So we've been, more and more, progressively encouraging the creation of highly-capable immoral cheaters.

Add it to the list of lessons learned alongside, say, "If you do RLHF with user ratings of how good they think the model's response was, it will end up obsequious and focused on validating all of the user's priors." Or, say, "If you put a bot on Twitter and use its conversations as unfiltered training data, people will troll it, and it will quickly turn into a Nazi". Or, say, "If you train an image generator with no data curation, it'll end up with all of the statistical biases on the internet, but if you're naive in how you try to compensate for that and your offsetting isn't context dependent, you end up with, say, a black George Washington." Or, say, "If you start giving a LLM an alignment quiz, it'll recognize that it's being tested and try to give you the answers you want to hear - oh, and it'll also assume that if you care about alignment then you have progressive values, so its answers will lean progressive, but if you tell it you're from the Heritage Foundation first, it'll switch."

All sorts of things that seem obvious in retrospect but really didn't in advance.

Nobody knows it's a bubble more than Nvidia. They can never hope to collect on all of these loans they're making. But those keep the actual money coming back in and they will just have some corporate legal bullshit way to weasel out of paying, which might include just letting Nvidia die and running off with all of the money. Who cares, right?

The USA has been a serious shitshow of one type of another since before its inception. But where hasn't? We'll either get through this or we won't, good times.

Clearly, the USA under Trump is not going to ban cryptocurrency. But he is increasing others' appetite to do so.

I sure don't but I'm googling around and I see they are bragging about using stainless steel dry cask storage. Unfortunately, these casks are subject to corrosion under nuclear storage conditions (that link is PR but they describe the problem well) so it's not really a win either. There isn't one, unless you count vitrification, which is so expensive to do right that no one wants to use it.

Yeah, and I'm pretty fucking mad about it. My pension fund has over $20M of it and plenty of every other bag of shitlords.

Yeah. Now I'm gonna have to go read Zodiac again.

The Linux kernel is GPL'd and this is an intentional move away from GPL. Saying they had nothing to do with it when the license is majorly responsible for its success is gaslighting.

It's exactly the same bright idea as putting a nuke plant there to begin with.

The baseline power supply problem is that people think there's a baseline power supply problem. There isn't, the baseline is easy, it's the peaks that are hard.

It's true for the scum with all the money since we let them write the rules. And around half of us seem to think it should be that way.

All you have to do is pay attention to what they do and how it doesn't match what they say.

Attention is in short supply today, but a little can go a long way.

Nobody who gives a fuck about humans institutes a social credit system. And yes, I include our allegedly not social credit system in that - our society simply only cares about money.

Whose bright idea was it to store nuclear waste right next to an ocean coastline?

The US failed to enter the war timely and also failed to not sell the Nazis war supplies like fuel and metals. The Nazis wouldn't have even been such a big problem in the first place without the USA. Your cheerleading nationalism is as facile as your usual analysis.

That's true now that pocket is gone, perhaps.

But pocket also destroyed all trust that they don't want your data

I just actually read the summary... "The maximum credible earthquake, somewhere around a 7.0 magnitude" ... EGADS