[–] 5 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Because somebody brought up the idea of “recursive self-improvement”, a sneer bubbles to the top: The same people already certain they're accurately evaluating human talent via job interviews and performance reviews are talking about recursive “improvement”. That might tell one something.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 weeks ago

    They might want to put themselves in the ocean first, but great idea: sea water is famously friendly to machinery and accessing things on the sea is very easy and cheap at all times of the year.

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    I know copyright isn’t the way to address what’s wrong with tech, but this here is a great way to poison the well for medium-to-large enterprise companies leeching off open source: if your software requires the work to function, it’s entire source code needs to be published.

    Considering using this for my more polished stuff just to irk the companies that would otherwise be happy to use it.

     

    Got the pointer to this from Allison Parrish who says it better than I could:

    it's a very compelling paper, with a super clever methodology, and (i'm paraphrasing/extrapolating) shows that "alignment" strategies like RLHF only work to ensure that it never seems like a white person is saying something overtly racist, rather than addressing the actual prejudice baked into the model.

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