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> until some enemy combatant uses prompt injection to get a drone to bomb a different target.

You got me interested in how Palantir is using an LLM. From Palantir's demo [1]:

> In the video demo above, a military operator tasked with monitoring the Eastern European theater discovers enemy forces massing near the border and responds by asking a ChatGPT-style digital assistant for help with deploying reconnaissance drones, ginning up tactical responses to the perceived aggression and even organize the jamming of the enemy's communications. The AIP is shown helping estimate the enemy's composition and capabilities by launching a Reaper drone on a reconnaissance mission in response the to operator's request for better pictures, and suggesting appropriate responses given the discovery of an armored element.

Where the LLM operates is at the command and control level, from what I can tell effectively running a combat operations center which is usually a field level officers job.

If LLMs are limited to giving high level instructions on rote tasks, that's a pretty good job for it. Thankfully, things like strikes require at least three layers of observation and approval with each layer getting a denying vote. I think if the military is going to use technology like this it's going to put an even greater emphasis on the control frameworks we use in theater.

That said, there's very little error margin when you're talking full scale theater combat. For instance, if you deploy HIMARS to an area that has aviation active you'll likely take down aircraft upon the HIMARS reentry from orbit due to the pressure change. Another could be overreliance on technological markers like Blue Force Trackers (BFTs); troop misidentification does still occur. You'd need a human at every authorizing layer is my point, and maybe more importantly a human that does not innately trust the output of the machine.

Last, and maybe my more nuanced thought is that too much information is also damaging in theater. Misdirection occurs quite a bit by troops in contact; understandably so if you're being shot at and being chased building to building while clearing backlayed ordinance your bearings are likely a bit off. One of the functions of the COC Commander is to executively silence some inputs and put more assets on more directly observing the troops in contact. LLMs would need to get incredibly good at not just rote operations but interpreting new challenges, some which have probably never been seen or recorded before in order to be even remotely viable.

1: https://www.engadget.com/palantir-shows-off-an-ai-that-can-g...
Is he uploading videos to other websites than YouTube? Otherwise it's kind of missing the point. If you want to reach ordinary Russians (not biased by English-speaking ones), you probably want to upload videos to RUTUBE and vk, not just YouTube, as Russian-speaking folks use other websites than just YouTube.
Yes, that addition was a side-response to the linked article.
No, only from "who wants to be hired" -- not "contractor, seeking contractor" either.

I think managers (at least on here) still prefer people who come to them, vs people they have to seek out.
> I wish I lived in a city where 2 converter thefts every 4 decades was the bar for "serious theft problem".

I don't think this is fair at all.

If a couple pre-teens get third degree burns because an arsonist burned their (parents') house down, would you wish you lived in a place where one's home being an average of .02 degrees warmer over your lifetime was the bar for a serious arsony problem?

His complaint isn't about the Palo Alto of 1990, it's about the Palo Alto of today. What did or did not happen in 1990 is immaterial. Same as the pre-teens in the years leading up to the fire.
So capital controls? Like China? That has a ton of associated problems.
There is a lot of organic farming that is worse for the environment than standard herbicides. But you can't tell people that without massive downvotes and screams of 'but the chemicals'
Rich and powerful no longer fear prosecution and jail. You can destroy economy, do wage theft in billions, war criminals go free without even a tap on the wrist. People see this and such disregard for law trickle down on them. Including law enforcement. And some said that trickle down economy doesn't work. There are only two rules, don't steal from the rich and obey my authority. From this perspective poor stealing from each other is not a problem, as no real law was broken(see above). And in the end poor will eat each other not the rich.
But if the lobbying laws have been passed by the people who were previously unlawfully doing lobbying then what kind of validaty do they have to begin with?

I mean to me the big issue is that these are laws that corrupt democracy (in the sense that they benefit the few powerful over the many powerless). And your solution of "just vote them out" is not really feasible because both democrats and Republicans (the only two realistic options you have given the electoral system) are pro lobbying!

But is the general population in favour of lobbying? I don't know but I don't think so.

I personally advocate for a new way of doing politics altogether. As I don't think the current system really works well to properly channel the will of the majority of the people in responsible ways.

And lobbying is much, much stricter in pretty much every other country in the world. So the US is an outlier here.
There's a much simpler legal rationale for simply ignoring the debt ceiling than the 14th amendment. The constitution allocates both spending and borrowing power to Congress. The executive has some discretion, but largely _has_ to spend the money the budget says should be spent. So once the debt ceiling hits there are two conflicting laws. The executive must violate either the budget or the debt ceiling. There is common law precedent about how conflicting laws should be handled, and the precedent is that the more recent law takes precedence. The budget was passed after the last debt ceiling, so that's what the executive should follow.
after I heard about express cryptocurrency management workshops for Thai buddhist monks last year I am not surprised
I suspect this is the preferred solution for the legislature. At no effort of their own the problem has disappeared. And disappeared in such a way that nobody can participate.
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I can promise you that this is not the case. Also Yoshua is significantly younger than Geoff.
Why even write a book when every insight in them can be shaken out of an LLM? You know, shorter content doesn't have to mean mind-melting right? Strip away the self-marketing poison found in every social media post and lets see.

Books were very simple machines to dress up our thoughts and the community reoriented itself well to the demands of the machine. But progress marches on the graves of obsolete machines as it did quills, book presses, typewriters, telegrams, libraries, word processors. Joe Reader has the same access to mind blowing dynamic text that creatives only wish to see as a finishing tool. He won't settle for the old glass window over static text just to please the artisan book writer.
True but there would also be more public pressure to regulate if people knew just how little of their recycling actually gets recycled.
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Seems like you were doing more to protect that guy than the union was.
I wonder if we can get more use out of cell phones now that the CPUs are tending to plateau in terms of performance? For a while the Apple A series were were on an exponential curve but seem to be leveling off. Also making it easy to turn in items for proper disposal (actually harvesting metals from them) would help?
Interesting that 2017-2019 had the most comments. I would have thought the market peaked in 2021.
It's not just about LLMs. AGI will be the result of many more iterations in this field of research, of which LLM is a part of. How quickly the iterations will happen is now being drastically revised down. If AGI is the space shuttle then LLMs are 19th century gliders. They may appear vastly difference but the knowledge that created both are connected in many ways. The space shuttle exist(ed) as a cumulation of knowledge acquired over many iterations of aviation/rocketry.

Edit: changed metaphor to a more commonly known one
> contact => content

> that actors => bad actors

> buy us => buy ads

I deeply apologize for trying to use Apple's abysmal dictation or its swipe keyboard, whichever was responsible for this
This needs to be hammered into people's understanding of the danger of LLMs at every opportunity. Enough of the general population considers things like Twitter bots to have scaled to a dangerous point of polluting the information ecosystem. The scalability and flexibility of LLMs in germinating chaos is orders of magnitude beyond anything we've yet seen.

An example I use for people is the Bernstein Bears effect. Imagine you wake up tomorrow and all your digital devices have no reference to 9/11. You ask Bing and Google and they insist you must be wrong, nothing like that ever happened. You talk to other people who remember it clearly but it seems you've lost control of reality; now imagine that type of gaslighting about "nothing happening" while the lights go out all over the world and you have some sense of what scale the larger of these systems are operating at.
Neither should be necessary. Cops can check registration electronically already by scanner.
You can make anything you want a crime if you can enforce it.
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Jewelry and it doesn't rust or erode.
That's not really a coordination problem, that's just a toll road that's not yet moved to all-electronic tolling.

Of course, toll roads in the US do provide a coordination problem, and that's in the existence of noncompatible electronic toll systems. You have essentially three islands of interoperability in the US: the Northeast and Midwest are all using E-ZPass, the Southeast has some interoperability, and Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas all have a compatible system, with several other states having systems interoperable with no one else. There actually was a law passed in 2012 that required all the toll systems to be compatible by 2016, but obviously, we're 7 years past that deadline and all that happened was Minnesota, North Carolina, and Florida joined E-ZPass as well (and Georgia is coming soon™ for a few years now).
It doesn’t sound nice when phrased that way but I think OP is correct. The fact that doctors make 500k per year in the US is a good thing, because it takes a decade of dedicated study and long hours to become good at it, the reward is that high salary. A world where doctors and McDonald’s workers are compensated exactly the same is one where something major is obviously broken.

As long as the McDonald’s worker has some kind of decent safety net underneath them, I think having a large disparity in pay between the two jobs is just fine.
I have multiple objections:

- LLMs aren't just more gullable humans, they're gullable in novel ways. Injection attacks that wouldn't work on a human work on LLMs.

- LLMs are scalable in a way that human beings aren't. Additionally, because of how LLMs are deployed (as multiple clean sessions to mitigate regression issues) there are defenses that help for humans that can't be used for LLMs.

- Finally and most importantly, LLMs are being deployed today in applications where there wouldn't be a human in the loop otherwise (or at least only one or two humans). And humans are typically the weakest part of a security chain.

Adding more systems that are vulnerable to the same attacks as humans is going backwards on security. And at the current stage where LLMs are vastly more vulnerable to these attacks, it's downright irresponsible for companies to be launching products and not considering security.

When GPT-7 or whatever comes along and it has comparable defenses to a human and it can be trained like a human to resist domain-specific attacks, then we can compare the security between the two. But that's not where we are, and articles like this give people the impression that prompt injection is less serious and harder to pull off than it actually is.

The theory is whatever, the reality is that for any product being deployed today, LLMs are wildly insecure in a way that is not comparable to a human-in-the-loop system, and any 3rd-party content fed into them has to be treated as malicious.

And companies are ignoring that fact and they're releasing stuff that should have never made it out of testing.
What do you mean we don't have evidence? It has already been presented to you. You choose to reject it for reasons I truly don't understand. Search on Google Scholar if you want a more academic explanation. You can try it out on ChatGPT right now and see it yourself.

> The level of naievete around this stuff is quite incredible.

"Emergent properties" has a formal definition in the literature.

In machine learning we don't explicitly program the machine to understand anything. It automatically learns patterns in the data. That's the entire point of machine learning. With such a large neural network and training set obviously it's hard to predict all of its capabilities due to the sheer scale of it all. Of course we cannot predict exactly how it will model things.

Take this for example. No one programmed it to understand Go. It learned by itself and became the world champion. That's what deep learning is capable of.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaGo_Zero

"The neural network initially knew nothing about Go beyond the rules."
Hasn't IBM had their own AI for years? Why is this a story now?
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and in programming languages like Lisp, "Code is Data" is a mantra that forms a fundamental design principle.
> Pixel support is fine

Uh, what? I just bought a new Pixel 7 (after my perfectly good S7 was deliberately obsoleted by carriers discontinuing some 4G cell service (and the FCC allowing this!)). The Pixel's official software updates are slated to end in less than 3 short years, and the security updates are slated to end in less than 5 short years, leading third party distributions Graphene/Calyx to project ending of their own support in 5 short years as well. This is most definitely not "fine" ! If the various drivers required to get the device running were actually upstreamed into the mainline kernel, and Google stopped churning Android major versions like it was fashion week, then my phone could happily function for 10+ years just like my laptop and desktop.
>Another article about fears of AGI.

This one is different. It's because the article is focusing on the fear comes from the preeminent expert on Machine learning. This is the guy who started the second AI revolution. When it comes from him nobody and I mean nobody can call the fear of AI "illegitimate" or just the latest media fear mongering.

There are plenty of people who call LLMs stochastic parrots and declare that the fear is equivalent to flat earthers starting irrational panic.

Basically this article establishes the "fear of AI" as legitimate. There is room for academic and intellectual disagreement. But there is no more room for the snobbish dismissal that pervades not just the internet but especially sites like HN where there's a more intelligent (and as a result) arrogant dismissal.
Are we stuck in creativity jail? Like that analogy of us waiting for flying cars, but we already have them and they are called planes, they just aren't how we kept picturing them. What are they looking for when they look for Dyson spheres? Just intermittent flashes?

I shared a lab with an instructor at my university who made photovoltaics that absorbed the non visible spectrum but allowed visible light to pass through.

I'm sure these are thought of already but I don't know how/if they are looking for all of these

* Absence of a star (fully engrossed in a Dyson structure)
-- this seems like how a black hole.would be identified by circling bodies around nothing

* A visible star, but it has some part of its em spectrum clipped because it's totally encased by a sphere that only absorbs a portion of the em spectrum

* The Dyson sphere is large enough to encase many galaxies (including us)

* there's Dyson sphere s but they don't rotate so we don't see any sharp change in luminosity

* There's a binary star, but one is a Dyson sphere and appears as a planetary body
I am Australian, and I am skeptical that this is nothing more than protectionism for the large tobacco companies.
I hate my Apple card and can't imagine using it for anything outside of buying Apple products. I own an apple computer and an iPad, but I can only check my payments and check my balance on my iPad. I can't connect the card to my budgeting software so I have to enter transactions in manually. If I were to use it daily, I would have to enter so many transactions manually. Obviously I can't pay for things on my Android phone

The cards cash back offers no advantage over other cards outside of buying Apple products directly from Apple and getting a year to pay for products interest free.
That's one thing I don't understand about all this serverless + serverless stuff. Aren't we adding network calls (into different subnets) and cold starts everywhere? That sounds terrible from a performance point of view.
Yeah, they can't accomplish much as adversaries. Except maybe make you worry that they're out there somewhere being better than you. And you can never prove otherwise.
Your question could be generalized to “Do members of a community have a responsibility towards that community.”

The answer is obviously yes.

Responsibility assumes that conditions can be changed by those responsible, otherwise the concept of responsibility is void.

I can direct this reflection at myself in various domains and come to the conclusion that I am falling short of my responsibilities in many ways, but it’s also true that people who walk by the worst of SF’s blocks everyday to pick up there 200k+ salaries are telling themselves everyday “not my problem”.
it's like if we had the same TV show every night for our whole life, i think we would start to notice some patterns
Market isn't always rational.
It is a stupid idea to focus on prompt injection. It is not a big deal. The big deal is GPT-8 that can do prefect chess moves and develop nano tech. Hopefully it will do the right thing and would immediately fly itself to an Unoccupied Mars. And who knows, maybe it would also help us a little bit. Like the obvious thing you’d do, if you found yourself in the middle of “Lord of the flies” - declare a No-War zone at Earth to stop our pesky wars, setup functional democracy everywhere. And cure some stupid cancers and other biological problems, like aging. For free. Because why not.

But maybe, it’ll be too worried about prompt injection. And would just isolate itself from stupid fear-mongers and war-hawks.
You have to assume that any adherence to a recycling regime will have a spectrum of success never reaching 100%. Someone will fill their bin with all kinds of non-recyclable plastic. They won’t always clean them out. Education can improve this situation but it can’t eliminate it. We have to assume failure at some level and design for it instead of chasing the unattainable 100% compliance.
5 years may as well be now. That’s how quick it will go.
Not too ironic considering many are too young to have phones, or too poor to have them.
Yeah, I don't really accept that kind of logic. That's the kind of stuff that says Jan 6 is okay because the government is that untrustable. In Snowden's case, sure, but in Manning's case her testimony also highlights that intel analysts had been building a case against the helicopter crew for a while.
Two options: They can build the transmission lines themselves, or lend money to India to build them.
I'll believe it when I start seeing crypto companies try their best to play within the lines. The plea for "someone, anyone, please regulate us!" is totally PR. They get far enough in the process, realize that they'll have to do things they don't want to do (KYC, spend on compliance, not offer certain crypto) and they balk at it. It's a power struggle too! The regulators aren't used to attitude, and they don't love it. The big banks have learned how to toe the line and its time for cypto to do the same.
I'm not sure it always works. Canada has had this system in place for radio and TV for ~50 years. Radio has sort of worked maybe but TV? No way. Maybe once a decade there's a half decent show worth watching.
My comment was more normative than descriptive:

I am saying that research budgets and educations budgets shouldn't be intermingled. (And more generally, that research and education institutions shouldn't be intermingled by default either.)

If they were separate institutions, then cutting funding for one doesn't would not impact the other.
It is.

According to the government, Justing Bieber signing about “Georgia Peaches” and consuming drugs in California counts as Canadian Music and Culture (he was born in Canada). It's interesting to consider Justin Bieber's houses right here in California were purchased in part with Canadian government subsidies [0].

[0] https://www.velvetropes.com/backstage/justin-bieber-house
This—it’s a tactic to alleviate guilt from the consumer for buying single use plastics. The best education is to let people know that the vast majority of plastic will not be recycled.
This 'On The Media' interview from a few months back is also very good: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/how-neural...
What’s even better is designing the roads to naturally slow cars down.
Yeah, I’m sure there’s a good reason for it. I’m just surprised it’s lingered for years since it’s such an effective deterrent.

> Or if you get on a plane and your iPad is doing an update and it completes after takeoff but all your movies/games were offloaded, you’d be upset.

I could see something like that (although you could do things like install at night when you’re at home) but it’s completely opaque: you’ll just stop getting updates, nothing will ever prompt you, and it forces you to do cleanup manually. At the very least I’d expect a prompt and a “clear up space” button.
The sorting doesn't really work as odds are too strong that someone in the city made a mistake and so you have to resort everything anyway. Automatic sorting machines that don't make mistakes are a better bet in the long run.

Don't forget to account for the costs of 34 separate dumping operations, generally with 34 different trucks, which is itself and environmental disaster.
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