Only dutch/german people can create the very long loops.
E: I'm reminded of the upcoming game called: "Planetenverteidigungskanonenkommandant"
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You have not taken the lessons of the philosopher Piccolo to mind. You should wear even heavier boots in your day to day. Why do you think goths wear those huge heavy boots? For looks?
Yeah, he’s a very non provably non-nefarious well meaning guy who thinks Richard Lynn is on the money, cites Cremieux on the subject and platforms Emil Kirkegaard et al in the comments while giving money to aporia, and who will never shut up about IQ heritability, ever.
Scotts niceness filter is a superpower. He could tell people he wants to cannibalize them Hannibal Lector style and people would not instantly recoil and go 'he doesn't seem that nefarious'. It is impressive, esp as I always felt I had the opposite power, a reason for me to not go into politics. When I argue for something, people seem to instinctively want to agree with the side I'm arguing against.
It occurs to me that one way to frame this technology is as a precise inversion of Bayesian spam filters for email.
This is a really good observation, and while I had lowkey noticed it (one of those feeling things), I never had verbalized it in anyway. Good point imho. Also in how it bypasses and wrecks the old anti-spam protections. It represents a fundamental flipping of sides of the tech industry. While before they were anti-spam it is now pro-spam. A big betrayal of consumers/users/humanity.
It gets worse, as the advisory doesn't even mention to delete emails/pictures from the cloud, so the people who are likely to listen to these kinds of advices are also the people who are the least likely to understand why this is a bad idea and will delete their local stuff. (And that is ignoring that opening your email/gallery to delete stuff costs more than keeping it in storage where it isn't accessed).
"HOW TO SAVE WATER AT HOME
- Install a rain butt [hehehe] to collect rainwater to use in the garden.
... [other advice removed] - Delete old emails and pictures as data centres require vast amounts of water to cool their systems."
That was what I meant, I was being a bit sarcastic there.
iirc it was in one of the episodes just after Trump had won and I was just listening and going 'euh, think yall are a bit too joking about this'.
Yeah, I was very disappointed in the risky business guys who while initially skeptic at LLMs and very mad that after the christchurch neo-nazi shooting cloudflare protected them. Went to "well Trump'16 wasn't that bad on cybersecurity, and project 2025 is also pretty good, even if a bit odd in tone, we will have to stay positive and wait and see Haha!" and being a bit more into AI hype. (the latter pays a lot of their bills of course).
And look at this AI critic/sysadmin who also is for sale (yes, this bit is joking from my end).
Meanwhile, the right-wing prepper types were breaking out the N95 masks they’d stockpiled for a pandemic
This included Scott ssc btw. Who also claimed that stopping smoking helped against cov. Not that he had any proof (the medical science at the time even falsely (it came out later) claimed smoking helped agains covid). But only the CDC gets judged, not the ingroup.
And other Scott blamed people who sneer for making covid worse. (While at sneerclub we were going, take this seriously and wear a mask).
So annoying Rationalists are trying to spin this into a win for themselves. (They also were not early, their warnings matched the warnings of the WHO, looked into the timelines last time this was talked about).
But maybe the security guys should be getting into AI.
Sadly in my exp the security people are getting more and more into using LLMs for various stuff. Could also just be because that is where all the money is now.
I have not tried it yet, but apparently there is an open source alternative for github called https://codeberg.org/. Might be useful.
This does leave out the constant cost (per video generated) of training the model itself right. Which pro genAI people would say you only have to do once, but we know everything online gets scraped repeatedly now so there will be constant retraining. (I am mixing video with text here so, lot of big unknowns).