edit: failed to spot the ninja edit so the response made no sense

Anthropic has a new angle for trying to get local LLMs banned, apparently they’re about to be able to use your temu android tv to take over your smart toaster:

Our experiments suggest that small AI models may be months away from being capable enough to self-replicate on commercial internet-of-things (IoT) devices, like smart ovens and off-brand Android TV boxes. A replicator like this would be challenging to shut down, since there’s no centralized point to shut off—though it may be slow (with a doubling time of days). Unlike non-AI malware, it could also figure out unfamiliar devices on its own. In our evaluations, a 9B model got inference running on 8 of the 9 hardware types we tested

edit: The TVs need to be off-brand to lack basic security features, and also there must be at least four of them to even start being inference-capable, and the actual setting up of a distributed inference network on android tvs is handwaved as “feasible”.

The thrilling conclusion of this blog post is called Signs of Life, because of course it is.

Thanks! I feel I cashed out most of my luck allotment for this month by not getting randomly brained on my way to a midnight snack but we’ll see.

Also notable for being the first to get a kid killed by AI suicide encouragement. Burn it to the ground and make teeth fillings from the slag.

segyges already trying to launder the unhinged out of the our chatbot will be curing cancer any minute now new round of claims by framing widespread resentment against AI as “curing cancer is less important than my job satisfaction”.

I survived the house trying to kill me, so that’s a positive. A like 20kg slab of hard plaster fell from the kitchen roof and shattered a few centimeters in front of my toes, just as I was leaning forward trying to find out what the weird creaky sound was (now 100% sure it was actually falling grains of building material rattling on the kitchen table during the last seconds pre-collapse) so this almost went extremely badly for me, I really should learn to look upwards more in environmentally suspect situations.

I don’t live in a shanty or an otherwise obviously compromised building so that was interesting, lots of people to call tomorrow, especially the fucking landlord. I doubt I’ll be posting an update because who cares, this post is basically adrenaline management, I just stopped trying to clean up because I was starting to feel the dust accumulate on the back of my tongue, and it’s well past midnight here. I’ll do the rest in the morning, probably while half-listening to a teams meeting, and once I find a leftover covid mask.

The toddler didn’t even bother to change sides, so that’s another positive. The ceiling above the crib sounds pretty solid too.

I have to admit that it is genuinely useful.

Cool testimonial bro.

If that was all GenAI was being (aggressively and incessantly) pushed as you probably wouldn’t be seeing terms like cognitive surrender and technofeudalism being thrown around as often, and this lemmy instance would still mainly be about dunking on SFBA quasireligious get-smart-quick scams.

They had a couple of videos openly sponsored by effective altruists a while ago. Could be they are still downstream of EA money, or they got audience captured because pretending the inevitable scifi future is just around the corner comes with a built in audience.

Is that code for please use the tokens we are paying out the ass for either way or for we have no intention of paying you like regular swengs?

According to the Verge article other changes to the EULA include amdonitions against making election tampering and aiding terrorism, so it’s possible adding model welfarism there was to draw attention away from the fact that their security model for preventing malicious actors from disrupting society so far appears to be that they make it break the EULA.

Feels like for a community that swelled its ranks by welcoming disaffected gamergaters and anti-feminists of all stripes to become a safe space for rapists would be the most natural progression ever.

The photography thing comes up so early too, it was tempting to read just to find out what they’d hidden behind the idiot filter.

But not that tempting.

Yeah, the group sex.

He’s just an intellectual coward, he didn’t even own up to the basilisk despite his whole decision theorist phase clearly being about trying to cook up a convincing cope for it.

Apparently he has a book called (Jesus: Apocalyptic Prophet of the New Millenium)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus:_Apocalyptic_Prophet_of_the_New_Millennium] so that’s likely to have you covered. I read “How Jesus Became God” from him at some point which might have touched on this, but it was mostly about the evolution of the messiah concept itself, like how the ‘son of man’ was supposed to be it’s own specific thing and not just a euphemism for messiah, or how the term in jewish apocalyptic literature is pretty much completely separate from where the christian interpretation ended up.

Overall a very readable book, I remember liking it but it’s really been a while.

Did Christ actually talk that much about the literal end of the world

Nobody knows exactly what he talked about, but the view that he passes the bar for historicity but seems to have been more of a the-end-is-nigh witch doctor type character as the new baseline has gained a lot of ground, especially with biblical scholars like Bart Ehrman breaking into popular science writing.

Also John’s apocalypse has the whole coded anti-roman-empire screed going for it beyond the psychedelia, so it’s arguable Jesus was the more direct doom prophet, but for a more distinctly jewish flavored apocalypse.

John Wentsworth featured in the retracted S.E. Gyges essay.

Second guy from the right apparently.

It seems he won’t get the full payout:

The rationalists are starting to cancel people for exercising free speech! woke 3.0 is go I repeat woke 3.0 is go

How much of a complete fucking idiot do you have to be to publicly acknowledge the Zizians in the middle of an ongoing PR disaster about your clan being on the women like to be raped they just don’t have the balls to admit it ideological bandwagon. Hey everyone, check out how my writings caused the Zizians¹! Specifically by making them think we are ridiculous hypocrites for making huge claims about being scientifically unblackmailable and then paying a bunch of hush money to sexual assault victims who threatened to make a fuss. Yeah, the part where we where trying to cover up systematic abuse didn’t help either.

1. Just like Jesus caused the crusades! !

EAs need to downplay climate change because otherwise it becomes really hard to explain why preventing it isn’t the main focus of the organisation, since it should break their utilitarian calculus just as much as imaginary future robots with a hard on for paperclips do, with the additional problem that it would make their relationship with capital providers far more adversarial.

Plus they probably think that if they oppose industrial build out even indirectly it will piss off the basilisk.

Siskind goes viral with a Schrödinger’s joke on twitter:

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