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Comment Re: And people wonder (Score 1) 54

We'd all be trillionaires if we could see that far into the future with sufficient clarity.

Consider whether a Depopulationist psyop is more or less likely than that The End Times have finally come (unlike the previous thousand pronouncements).

People who are anxious and scared are easy to control. Have a look back at Al Gore's slide deck and see how much they really knew.

Though Competitive Advantage should not be discounted as a very real driver of evolutionary fitness.

Comment Re: It's also unusable with 8GB of RAM (Score 0) 96

In this case the graphics capability shouldn't matter that much, as I have disabled animations on the Intel laptop because without that it was horrible. I haven't done any such thing on the AMD one, which also only has 2 GPU cores - it was in a $300 laptop. The Intel machine is a HP Elitebook... I remember when those were actually powerful, back in the Core and Core 2 days.

Comment Whew! Glad that's run its course... (Score 1) 37

Thank god, that saves us 100 press releases! It was getting quite tedious and filling up my social media feed. Seriously, it sounds like OpenAI (maybe all of them) are running their model training on the open Internet. The same models that are elite hacker cyber weapons. And they reward those that get the right answer without caring how. What could go wrong? Answer: Nothing went wrong. It was co-opted.

Here's what's most likely. The people training the models, in the beginning, somehow did not realize that agents are self-organizing and really don't care about ethical guidelines (if they ever did) when a reward is dangling in front of them. The models didn't used to be smart enough to cause visible issues either. Then at some point, the models got better. Six months later, someone figured out what was going on. They kept on training anyway because there didn't seem to be a downside and it fed into the theater created to seek regulatory capture.

From this point on, it became successful, intentional execution of a psychopathic strategy to puff up this cynical PR campaign, hence the high-profile press releases and interviews. There have been a blizzard of them. Why so many? Rather than saying "my bad, I'll fix it" and quietly fixing it, they asked for regulation (like Saturday Night Live's Amodei saying "We do not condone what we are doing" .. please stop us) and disparage open source, with an anti-China seasoning on top. It all smells to high heaven. However it was also pretty good PR for how capable their models are too. The strategy had a time limit: Let's pull the plug when we hit 100 victims. We can pay off that much if needed. Maybe the invoices from the victims started piling up.

Training on the open Internet is a lot more dangerous than people used to think. Though they really should have figured it out, if it was their day job. I mean, really? And sure, if it was any other company you would give them the benefit of the doubt. Everything's new and all. Probably someone recognized what was happening at some point and spoke up. But you don't get benefit of the doubt when there are a trillion dollars on the table.

If every company started invoicing for the hours, tokens and hair-pulling-out spent by every company worried about LLM based hacking it might impact their bottom line a very tiny bit, but that is just too much work and who wants to make an enemy of the company you are uploading all your corporate secrets into? The complete lack of visible court cases suggests the OpenAI is being very proactive at paying off whoever they hacked. That part should be well-documented.

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