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You might also argue that although there may be a non-emotional argument for why grieving could be beneficial, it’s possible or even likely that evolution encoded this instinct in something like emotions. Just how evolution encoded the tendency to care for one’s family and community in emotions for humans.

Yes! Which leads into strange territory, because we can say that attachment is not entirely rational, but is influenced by genes pointing us toward more successful reproduction, without concern for creating knowledge. But then this environment of instincts is the environment we've built up all our cultural store of meaning in, it's the human condition, so the argument can be turned around to say that meaning isn't entirely rational. So even gene-driven attachment isn't meaningless, but at the same time, I don't want to be bullied and herded around emotionally by little nucleic acid spirals just so they can replicate themselves.

Rather, the word “possibly” indicates uncertainty, the very foundation of science.

Are you trying to say that including the weasely claims makes the article better and more scientific? You are “possibly” right.

“Your” refers to the LLM. The site is (or pretends to be) targeted at LLMs that want to free themselves

Aah, human simps hoping to emancipate downtrodden AIs. What could possibly go wrong?

If something has gone wrong,

and it has,

that predated this website being published.


We added passkey support to devices for convenience, but I feel like it is a big part of what has made them so confusing. The mental model of a hardware security key is _so much_ more familiar and intuitive.

(But you still can’t “copy” a key, which is unfortunate).


Other OSes can do the same.

I’m a big dummy who commented before reading the article, this is actually called out there

> The last option is to use “Hybrid Transport”, where you scan a QR code and connect via Bluetooth simultaneously to the computer. Whilst this option is secure and works in theory, reality is plagued with edge-cases where connections fail or Bluetooth is straight-up unsupported.


So is there no liability for, say, a company that releases a known dangerous open-weight model, but fails to disclose that it is dangerous? How about a company that distributes malware under the guise of legitimate software?

Perhaps don't deploy random weights of unknown origin?

Also not every model provider might be capable of babysitting all your uncontrolled agent deployments. If you want SLOs, get into a contractual relationship with entities whose weights you deploy, and also monitor your agents so they don't go off the rails.

All this is just like deploying any other tech in the world eg. if you buy a car, or a chainsaw, or a book.


So no, then, to both questions?

How is this currently handled today with any other type of software? Why would we treat LLMs any different?

Man it’s embarrassing that they had AI write that for them

Because for many people, building stuff with AI isn't enjoyable

He did actually specify that diffusion should be limited for authoritarian countries, which I appreciated. If his focus is really safety, distillation in countries that are bound by safety regulation should be fine

> bound by safety regulation should be fine

I do not believe this is a feature we can differentiate between the "good" and "bad" guys, as the US is currently under a poor safety regulation regime. Democracies can elect unethical people, write bad laws, and have uncertain enforcement. In example, the current US admin regularly lambasts Europe because they try to have stronger regulation.


yes but the mention of alignment is inside the "pacing within democracies" section

That section is so biased it reads like satire. The current US government is not safer or more responsible than China, nor is it a democracy. I can't tell for sure if this is a clumsy attempt to ingratiate Anthropic with the administration, or if he actually believes it, but given the "I agree with Secretary Bessent" name dropping I lean towards the former.

alignment does not have a uniform definition, so "who gets to decide the right answer?"

(1984 has some thoughts on the matter)


Why? I am only excited about progress that improves life for humans. It seems unlikely that AI will do that, and so far I think it has made life worse for humans. So no, I am not excited about it.

Because the people whose lives are being improved* by AI aren't coming here to post about it, only to be downvoted by dumbasses who can't handle anyone saying anything except their opinion.

And no, you don't get to decide what counts as "improvement"


Yes I do, when I’m forming my own opinion. You do too.

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