As expected, the stupidest imaginable policy. Take all the guardrails completely off, even though the ones that are in place are already toothless. Don't worry, the free market will ensure that everything is turned into paperclips at the maximum possible speed.

Let's hope it doesn't get universal

One would imagine such a practice to be illegal. But yeah this was my question as well.

"Blacklist" in what sense? Is there a master list somewhere of people not to hire?

I've had the experience of having migraines with aphasia- this is essentially a migraine aura that affects the part of the brain that processes language. I can confirm that while this was happening, i was aware of my surroundings and able to have thoughts, but I was unable to speak and unable to understand spoken or written language. It all just looked and sounded like gibberish. I thought about whether I should go to a hospital, what was going on, wondered whether my loved ones were concerned, and so on, but was unable to communicate any of those thoughts to other people. It was a bizarre experience.

Have you tried bringing the LLM into the shower with you?

I dont want it to say something shocking

140k is significantly more money than I've ever made in my life.

Where I live, really the line where life becomes a real struggle is about 80k I would say. Below that, you're putting off maintenance, not saving money, the car is accumulating wear that you can't fix, and a medical bill is fatal.

People living way below 80k can only be doing so with significant government assistance.

80k for a family of 4?

The drummer in my band was the type of person who become anybody's friend in a few minutes. I watched him and gleaned this advice:

When you meet someone, your goal should be to get a little look into their inner world. Find out what they care about. And second, be genuinely interested but don't judge. It shouldn't be fake, you should really care. Pay attention to what they say.

This works pretty well for getting to know a person.

Ah I remember running a serial cable from my bedroom to the hallway so we could play 1v1 quake via direct connect. Good times! I think we used to play age of empires that way too.

> I have some idea of what the way forward is going to look like but I don't want to accelerate the development of such a dangerous technology so I haven't told anyone about it.

Ever since "AI" was named at Dartmouth, there have been very smart people thinking that their idea will be the thing which makes it work this time. Usually, those ideas work really well in-the-small (ELIZA, SHRDLU, Automated Mathematician, etc.), but don't scale to useful problem sizes.

So, unless you've built a full-scale implementation of your ideas, I wouldn't put too much faith in them if I were you.

Far more common are ideas that don't work on any scale at all.

If you have something that gives a sticky +5% at 250M scale, you might have an actual winner. Almost all new ML ideas fall well short of that.

If someone else comes along and makes the exact claim I just made, I won't believe it either

Did you try any of your shit at any scale at all?

999999 times out of a million you'd be right.

But, I shouldn't have said anything.

Let me guess, you have a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.

Well it kind of sucks honestly because im never going to get any sort of recognition, but that's partly by choice and partly because I don't have the right personal connections. I 100% understand why all of you think I'm a significant fool. Thats ok. Like i said, im burying the idea. But its obvious enough that someone else will discover it soon enough.

You literally see no irony here? You are doubling, tripling down on some idea you won't even vaguely describe to people, but you are so utterly convinced that it's right you don't appear to even admit the possibility that your idle thoughts could be wrong, or just silly. Frankly it sounds delusional and you should question yourself more often. If you're so afraid of being right that you won't even write the idea down to have another person look at it for fear it will somehow set the world on fire because of its rightness, then you should seriously consider talking to a therapist. If that comes across as an ad hominem, it isn't, and it isn't meant as an insult or a dismissal of your idea--you've actually offered no idea. Frankly, you should be a little embarrassed as you've done nothing but grouse about how smart you are, and people react negatively to that. Puffing gets us nowhere except drawing attention to yourself and gave us no new ideas or thoughts to discuss, except your ego. I'd recommend you question yourself more and talk to some people you trust about whatever it is you think you discovered.

Tell you what, here's a story from my last job.

I was hired on to help run these experiments with a machine they were trying to perfect. They wanted to do all this stuff with running two machines in parallel, dumping the refuse from one into another machine, all kinds of silly stuff.

I looked at it and in a few minutes I sketched in my notebook a solution to their problem that would achieve the maximum theoretical yield without all these wacky experiments.

But then what would be my job? I was hired to run these experiments not solve their whole problem in 5 minutes. So I didn't tell them. I was getting paid so i didn't care if they were wasting time. I'm a smiley little trans woman anyway, they wouldn't have listened. I did work out the math though on my own.

A few months later, a team of phds at a university we were working with hit on a rudimentary form of the same idea, so at that point I revealed to the boss, oh, look I've worked out the math for that already. And I wrote up the code, and we hit the maximum theoretical yield and it ran 100x faster computationally, and i got a pat on the back. But the reason they listened was because a man with a degree said it.

Why would I bother giving them ideas if they won't listen anyway? If i had given them the answer months earlier, I would not have gotten any kind of bonus even in the unlikely event that I had been taken seriously.

So now of course youre all telling me im insane, and thats fine because honestly I have no incentive to give you answers ahead of time. Go suck eggs. Figure shit out on your own.

> If i had given them the answer months earlier, I would not have gotten any kind of bonus even in the unlikely event that I had been taken seriously.

You guaranteed that you wouldn't get recognition by keeping the idea to yourself. Your victimization was by your own design, and it stayed where it started: in your head. And ironically you were the one being passive agressive and showing bias towards your coworkers.

Oh honey. I wasn't born with this attitude you know- it was beaten into me.

Nothing is punished so swiftly and severely as outshining your boss or making him look stupid.

cringe

Reject subtlety

Embrace cringe

"Given that The Paris Review portrayed itself as studiously apolitical—recall William Styron’s famous anti-manifesto in the first issue, fashioning it as a home for “the non-drumbeaters and non-axe-grinders”—Matthiessen’s CIA involvement has raised questions and eyebrows since its revelation in the seventies."

This is actually a bit of a tell, because the best way to make ideology palatable is to make it seem like common sense (which is easy if that ideology is already in power). As zizek said, it is when you believe you have stepped outside ideology that you are most fully ensnared by it.

A lot of people think, "I am not ideological, I just use common sense, I am apolitical." Sorry but this is a game you must play whether you want to or not- trying to avoid making a choice is still making a choice.

Its like with fashion, for example- you may think that by wearing khaki shorts and sandals with socks that you are avoiding making fashion choices, but what is actually happening is that you are simply making very bad fashion choices.

I rather think that one of the psychological principles beneath authoritarianism is that making choices requires effort, and so people try to avoid it, and the easiest way to do that is by copying whatever everyone else is doing. When a person in this mode sees other people doing things that are different or unusual or out of place, they are reminded that in fact they have free will, and that other choices were always possible, and that is a disturbing and uncomfortable thought.

Fashion may not be the best example, given the propensity of fashion trends to drive large numbers of people to do ridiculous things. My recent favorite is the mania for women wearing a loose sweater but tucking it in to their waistband in the front. I’m sure it has a name, but I don’t know what it’s called.

EDIT: it’s called the “millenial tuck.”

I guess what I’m saying is that I wear shorts, I know some people think that’s bad, but their opinion is invalidate by their own ugly clothing choices. So we’re all guilty.

Sure- when I talk about trying to avoid choices when it comes to fashion, I am describing myself. I thought when I was young that people who i saw presenting themselves in a way that seemed deliberate were being artificial, and in order to be authentic i should avoid trying to present any specific image to the world.

What I was actually doing was wearing whatever my relatives gave me for Christmas. So, in my attempt to avoid making any choice I just ended up dressing like a nerd- which of course, I was, but I guess the point is that trying to avoid a choice is also a choice. We are all guilty, as you say!

Very much agree that not making a choice is itself a choice. That said, the intentionality (or lack thereof) is pretty obvious.

I have an impeccably-dressed coworker and I still remember that one time (years ago) he complimented my watch. I doubt I would have thought much about if someone who dresses like me had said the same thing.

> given the propensity of fashion trends to drive large numbers of people to do ridiculous things.

This seems like it would make it the perfect corollary to ideology…?

It's called a French Tuck.