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Dear Paperclip Maximizer, Please Don’t Turn Off the Simulation
HiroSakuraba2d30

Thank you for writing this up.  I agree with just about everything said.

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The Office of Science and Technology Policy put out a request for information on A.I.
HiroSakuraba2y10

The majority of my response is in reducing our systems exposure vulnerabilities.  As a believer in the power of strong cryptography no matter the intelligence involved, I am going to explain the value of removing or spinning down of the NSA/CIA program of back-doors, zero day exploits, and intentional cryptographic weaknesses that have been introduced into our hardware and software infrastructure.

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The inordinately slow spread of good AGI conversations in ML
HiroSakuraba2y20

Do you still hold this belief?

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The inordinately slow spread of good AGI conversations in ML
HiroSakuraba3y10

Language is one defining aspect of intelligence in general and human intelligence in particular.  That an AGI wouldn't utilize the capability of LLM's doesn't seem credible.  The cross modal use cases for visual perception improvements (self-supervised labeling, pixel level segmentation, scene interpretation, casual inference) can be seen in recent ICLR/CVPR papers.  The creation of github.com/google/BIG-bench should lend some credence that many leading institutions see a path forward with LLM's.

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The inordinately slow spread of good AGI conversations in ML
HiroSakuraba3y1-9

If current trends hold, then large language models will be a pillar in creating AGI; which seems uncontroversial.  I think one can then argue that after ignoring the circus around sentience means we should focus on the new current capabilities: reasoning, and intricate knowledge of how humans think and communicate.  From that perspective there is a now a much stronger argument for manipulation.  Outwitting humans prior to having human level intelligence is a major coup.  PaLM's ability to explain a joke and reason it's way to understanding the collective human psyche is as impressive to me as Alphafold.  

The goal posts have been moved on the Turing test and it's important to point that out in any debate.  Those in the liberal A.I. bias community have to at least acknowledge the particular danger of these LLM models that can reason positions.  Naysayers need to have it thrown in their face that these lesser non-sentient, neural networks trained on a collection of words will eventually out debate them.

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Contra Hofstadter on GPT-3 Nonsense
HiroSakuraba3y210

It is bizarre watching people like him and Gary Marcus embarrass themselves. It's like watching Boomers saying they'll never see another shooter as good as Larry Bird, all while Steph Curry is blasting through every NBA record of note.

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AI Could Defeat All Of Us Combined
HiroSakuraba3y32

As autonomous agents become more widespread, the risk becomes more obvious.  Dyson and Tesla will be pumping out androids in 8 years.   Starlink will provide the bandwidth to control any internet connected IoT device.  Security Zero day back doors are discovered every month, that don't even include the intentional nation state added ones.  I personally thought the wake-up call would happen with the deployment of Ghost Drones (not fully autonomous but easily could be).  Max Tegmark's #banslaughterbots campaign is going nowhere as drones will continue to show combat effectiveness.  At this point, the proverbial water is going to be near boiling and many people will still say "Sauna doesn't have enough jets."

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AGI Safety FAQ / all-dumb-questions-allowed thread
HiroSakuraba3y70

Is anyone at MIRI or Anthropic creating diagnostic tools for monitoring neural networks?  Something that could analyze for when a system has bit-flip errors versus errors of logic, and eventually evidence of deception.

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AGI Ruin: A List of Lethalities
HiroSakuraba3y2-1

It's unfortunate we couldn't have a Sword of Damocles deadman switch in case of AGI led demise.  A world ending asteroid positioned to go off in case of "all humans falling over dead at the same time."  At least that would spare the Milky Way and Andromeda possible future civilizations.  A radio beacon warning about building intelligent systems would be beneficial as well.   "Don't be this stupid" written in the glowing embers of our solar system.

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AGI Ruin: A List of Lethalities
HiroSakuraba3y10

An AGI could aquire a few tons of radioactive cobalt and disperse micro granules into the stratosphere in general and over populated areas in specific.  Youtube videos describe various forms of this "dirty bomb" concept.  That could plausibly kill most humanity over the course of a few months.  I doubt an AGI would ever go for the particular scheme as bit flips are more likely to occur in the presence of radiation. 

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59The Office of Science and Technology Policy put out a request for information on A.I.
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7A discussion of the paper, "Large Language Models are Zero-Shot Reasoners"
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