> a weight file you can’t trust is still a black box Important to note, LLMs are still black boxes even if you use a more open source model, I.e open training data or even if you train it yourself!
Making a language that an LLM can't use is one challenge, but making one that at the same time humans CAN use is a whole other issue. This language seems quite annoying to use as a human!
What, exactly, is the point of this post, and especially the point of it on HN? It appears to be a rant directed at 2 people on the internet that has nothing to do with tech.
I've been going to anthrocon for 10 years and a furry for longer. Ever year there are multiple posts about it, both on Twitter and in telegram. In fact once a friend of mine was drugged there. Also as a furry I dunno if…
i honestly don't think that's true actually. especially since a lot more people go to anthrocon, but even per-capita i bet AC is higher
I gotta say I'm confused about the entire reason this is important. Any furry convention has just as many IT professionals (and probably a few AI devs), but people aren't posting about Anthrocon and talking about how…
> If you use RSS for feeds outside of a community you moderate, there is no replacement. RSS has been a beloved part of the open web wow. Nothing else to say about this. This is pretty evil.
I don't really get the metaphor here. What is the reasoning for the name Universal Bone Dissolver? Is it trying to imply the only purpose is harmful and negative?
Screaming fire in a movie theater is legal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shouting_fire_in_a_crowded_the...
This is a reason AI regulations definitely need to be done at the government level, with teeth. Regulations need forced transparency, independent audits, and teeth to ensure that, to continue the metaphor, Germany…
This piece kinda just reads like a smear campaign that says "these people are associated with some other people who i think are weird and icky, so it's better to let the government (i.e Trump) control AI". I think…
> Why are you treating those as if they're separate things? Because they are? You haven't explained at all your belief that they are the same. > This is just completely wrong. Don't mistake the path by which something…
> Nukes don’t get “worse” because of physics, not because of laws. Yes, that's my point, that's why the metaphor is wrong
> Criminals using LLMs does not make the LLM situation bad If you believe that bad things are not bad then there's nothing left to say. A billion people are going to die because you don't understand what is bad.
The point is the risk is in counties being gifted or assisted in making it, not them building it on their own.
Given what's happened since then with propaganda and wide spread scams, I think the original concerns about that have proven quite accurate
> Presumably performance on the level of the current frontier of AI would be achieved in short order and the ceiling would only continue to advance from there That's an enormous presumption! You're saying that even in…
We only know about the stuff in https://www.anthropic.com/threat-intelligence-report-septemb... because it's not open source. I sure you the open source and Chinese models are being used in this same way.
North Korea got it with help from China, Israel got it with help from France. They didn't do it on their own.
> Not in the way you seem to be thinking, no. Nuclear weapons can be banned because they are prohibitively expensive to research and build. You can't reliably hide a nuclear program. Isn't that true of AI as well? Data…
Sure, it's possible for regulations to make things worse, i will agree. But without regulations it's pretty clear things are going to end up VERY bad, and the only knob we have to make it not bad is regulations. So it's…
I don't think giving them free reign is going to do anything positive for it either.
To further the metaphor, didn't the ban on nuclear weapons research work? We don't have pocket nukes, and there's very little risk of random countries acquiring their own due to the amount of work involved. To be…
That's a valid concern, but some of that is outright impossible. Banning chinese models and killing open source training is not happening without massive unified international cooperation, and that sort of level of…
Honestly, fair point. There's not much truth to go around these days. But still, doing nothing is also a massive power grab. We're facing a technology with no comparison in the history of humanity: the creation of a new…
> a weight file you can’t trust is still a black box Important to note, LLMs are still black boxes even if you use a more open source model, I.e open training data or even if you train it yourself!
Making a language that an LLM can't use is one challenge, but making one that at the same time humans CAN use is a whole other issue. This language seems quite annoying to use as a human!
What, exactly, is the point of this post, and especially the point of it on HN? It appears to be a rant directed at 2 people on the internet that has nothing to do with tech.
I've been going to anthrocon for 10 years and a furry for longer. Ever year there are multiple posts about it, both on Twitter and in telegram. In fact once a friend of mine was drugged there. Also as a furry I dunno if…
i honestly don't think that's true actually. especially since a lot more people go to anthrocon, but even per-capita i bet AC is higher
I gotta say I'm confused about the entire reason this is important. Any furry convention has just as many IT professionals (and probably a few AI devs), but people aren't posting about Anthrocon and talking about how…
> If you use RSS for feeds outside of a community you moderate, there is no replacement. RSS has been a beloved part of the open web wow. Nothing else to say about this. This is pretty evil.
I don't really get the metaphor here. What is the reasoning for the name Universal Bone Dissolver? Is it trying to imply the only purpose is harmful and negative?
Screaming fire in a movie theater is legal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shouting_fire_in_a_crowded_the...
This is a reason AI regulations definitely need to be done at the government level, with teeth. Regulations need forced transparency, independent audits, and teeth to ensure that, to continue the metaphor, Germany…
This piece kinda just reads like a smear campaign that says "these people are associated with some other people who i think are weird and icky, so it's better to let the government (i.e Trump) control AI". I think…
> Why are you treating those as if they're separate things? Because they are? You haven't explained at all your belief that they are the same. > This is just completely wrong. Don't mistake the path by which something…
> Nukes don’t get “worse” because of physics, not because of laws. Yes, that's my point, that's why the metaphor is wrong
> Criminals using LLMs does not make the LLM situation bad If you believe that bad things are not bad then there's nothing left to say. A billion people are going to die because you don't understand what is bad.
The point is the risk is in counties being gifted or assisted in making it, not them building it on their own.
Given what's happened since then with propaganda and wide spread scams, I think the original concerns about that have proven quite accurate
> Presumably performance on the level of the current frontier of AI would be achieved in short order and the ceiling would only continue to advance from there That's an enormous presumption! You're saying that even in…
We only know about the stuff in https://www.anthropic.com/threat-intelligence-report-septemb... because it's not open source. I sure you the open source and Chinese models are being used in this same way.
North Korea got it with help from China, Israel got it with help from France. They didn't do it on their own.
> Not in the way you seem to be thinking, no. Nuclear weapons can be banned because they are prohibitively expensive to research and build. You can't reliably hide a nuclear program. Isn't that true of AI as well? Data…
Sure, it's possible for regulations to make things worse, i will agree. But without regulations it's pretty clear things are going to end up VERY bad, and the only knob we have to make it not bad is regulations. So it's…
I don't think giving them free reign is going to do anything positive for it either.
To further the metaphor, didn't the ban on nuclear weapons research work? We don't have pocket nukes, and there's very little risk of random countries acquiring their own due to the amount of work involved. To be…
That's a valid concern, but some of that is outright impossible. Banning chinese models and killing open source training is not happening without massive unified international cooperation, and that sort of level of…
Honestly, fair point. There's not much truth to go around these days. But still, doing nothing is also a massive power grab. We're facing a technology with no comparison in the history of humanity: the creation of a new…