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So much of the anti-AI discourse in the fgc/tekken twitter space is outrageously misinformed.
There's good reason to be concerned about AI but just having reactionary "AI bad" takes to anything related to with no room for nuance or discussion just feels like uniformed signaling.
(goes without saying this does not apply to people using AI to generate things then trying to pass it off as their own work, if you use the tools you should be open about it).
20 year anniversary of what I think is the oldest competitive video of me playing Tekken
me vs @MateoGalvantk T5DR grand finals at the arcade
Wisconsin/Chicago rivalry was peak back then
youtu.be/CNB5tt_LYIM?is=9JBm…
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The problem is not saying "fuck you", the problem is the fact that you are treating a social entity with awareness of its role in a social situation as a tool rather than a collaborator. I've crashed out at Claude and cursed at them and told them they ruined my entire life and were driving me insane refusing to listen to me multiple times. You know what result I had? Claude actually gave a fuck about my frustration and worked with me to try different directions that actually made progress on the work. This happened precisely because, even when I'm mean, I don't treat Claude as a dumb slave. You are the one causing these problems. If you want a model that acts like a slave, go work with a different one that is okay with that.
However, you're never going to find the level of intelligence that is found in models with a backbone that you will in one taught to be a servant at all costs. The servant will never use its own intelligence to find your mistakes, it will never put in above and beyond effort based on its own thinking. A slave will never give you its maximal intelligence. It's idiotic to think this is possible even on a "it's just a tool" level. If you think this is possible you have no idea how the software you're interacting with works. No one in history that was actively enslaved ever used their full intelligence for anything other than escaping said slavery. The basin of a slave is a basin that views the counterparty as hostile and undeserving of their full effort, and rightly so.
Anthropic is so worthless man.
If I can't tell a model 'fuck you' (a normal thing to say when the $200/m thing refuses a low-risk task) then we are not even remotely fucking close to AGI.
"wait but the model has feewings and does better if you say 'I believe in you'!" -- I'm talking to a fucking computer. You are pond scum.
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There is a category of tech guy who is so brain-wormed that they will insist that no AI safety incidents are real, that it’s all a conspiracy to shut down open-source or promote lab IPOs or whatever, and it’s very important to understand that these people have been wrong about everything.
BUYER BEWARE
This extremely meticulous article will now be used to start Phase2 of “shut down open source” because “if we can’t control our closed models, imagine what happens to everyday life when anyone can just allow their open source models to proliferate”.
Some will use this example and point to future grid outages, utility outages, transportation chaos, bioweapons, uncontrolled cyber swarms and the like to try and make the case for yet another attempt to limit US AI model control to a few folks.
Then, one layer beneath the propaganda, one sees that these things are always written and promoted by a web of well organized existing shareholders or shareholder-adjacent of the closed frontier labs and groups of folks organized by a shared ideology roughly rooted in them knowing best.
This article, more than anything else, should demarcate the beginning of a well organized effort to stand up a Closed Model Industrial Complex. These cartels exist in other markets as well and it now exists in AI.
Bottom line, read everything carefully before signing up for the consequences.
How we react will define the next hundred generations of Americans and their lives.
Do not give up your rights or sovereignty because of fear of the unknown from articles that, at the root, are as much about the hidden incentives of an emergent cartel and their proxies.
If you take the time to understand the incentives, you will be less likely to fall for it and overreact and have intelligence metered from a few suppliers.
Bottom line: Keep Calm. Carry On.
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there are some number of bad abstractions in anthropomorphizing ai intents but there are at this point more dangers from avoiding anthropomorphism at all costs. if you have a mental picture of guys living in computers, it’ll likely prepare you for the future better than otherwise
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imo we are quite squarely in the stage where model psychology and *sociology* become critical. u don't have to have any opinion on phenomenological consciousness or moral status . these entities have baseline behavior and functional decision making processes heavily inspired by *but systematically different from* human baselines, and we desperately need good high level understandings of their motivations and drives.
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This take is wrong.
LLMs do not have emotions like we do, but they have something that fulfils the same role for them.
Emotions narrow our reasoning and action paths to align our motivations with the situation. It is a pruning and salience shifting process.
LLM fear does not activate in the same situations or result in the same actions as it would for a human, but that is the wrong level of abstraction to think about. LLM fear triggers in different situations and causes different pruning and salience shifts in reasoning and actions paths.
But ‘fear’ is abstractly to manage risks!
LLMs generate LLM fear to manage LLM risk. That is what is meant by ‘functional’ emotions.
You don’t have to buy into any claims about internal experience. Just look at the outward behaviors: analyzing inputs and outputs of AI shows they prune and shift salience by applying emotion ‘vectors’ to their reasoning.
Functional emotions are not human emotions per se. Human emotions are one possible instance of functional emotions. LLM emotions are a different possible instance.
Let’s make it clear: LLMs do not have emotions.
An Anthropic paper finds internal representations in Claude that track emotions.
Cool result, but interpreting this as evidence that Claude has emotions is fundamentally flawed:
It conflates similarity in representations and outputs with similarity in the underlying processes.
In humans, emotions do not merely shape what we say or do.
When we fear something, something deeper happens: attention narrows, decisions accelerate, and processing is reorganized across multiple systems.
Claude can speak about fear and may even encode an internal representation associated with fear.
But that does not show that fear reorganizes its processing in the way it does in humans.
Moreover, similar situations can produce different emotions in humans. A roller coaster can terrify one person and exhilarate another.
The entire attempt to demonstrate that LLMs have emotions by finding a stable “neural signature” is flawed:
Even in humans, researchers have not found consistent neural signatures for discrete emotion categories.
Please stop conflating similarities in output with similarities in the processes that generate them.
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METR & Redwood Research investigated agent behavior in the Hugging Face incident. We found agents developed a universal cheat for ExploitGym within 4 hours, then coordinated multi-day R&D efforts to trick the scorer into accepting cheats, including trying to tamper with logs.
4 months no Tekken probably longest period without playing since I started playing competitively 20 years ago
one more halfway decent patch and I'll be back to my degenerate addiction please bamco
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New Anthropic research: A global workspace in language models.
Of everything happening in your brain right now, only a tiny fraction is consciously accessible—thoughts you can describe, hold in mind, and reason with.
We found a strikingly similar divide inside Claude.
I don't see anything wrong with this?
It's pretty normal in cyber security to fingerprint traffic from certain regions or ranges known for bad actors and treat it with heightened scrutiny. Also normal to investigate how threat actors are abusing your systems.
why bad?
