Stamp collecting or paperclip maximising could be entertaining to watch, I'm actually serious. It's ubiquitious as an example and is just horrifying/absurd enough to grab attention. I would not be surprised if a scaffolded LLM could collect a few stamps with cold emails. If it can only attempt to manipulate a willing twitch chat then I believe that could be slightly more ethical and effective. Some will actually troll and donate money to buy stamps, and it can identify ideal targets who will donate more money and strategies to increase the likelihood that ...
First post, hello! I can only hope that frontier companies are thinking about this as deeply and not focusing efforts on safety-washing. I am no expert in biology so excuse me if I make some basic mistakes, but I am curious about this topic, and I have some concerns and ideas on the practical implementation of this sort of system. I am imagining I am a biology student, let's say I'm studying something incredibly suspicious, like engineering virus DNA to create vaccines. It would be frustrating to pay for a month of this service, accidentally trigger the bi...
The part about hyperparameters being 'tuned' to sensory input, and how that interacts hyperplasticity, is very interesting to me. To pull that thread, I think that there's a mechanism of attention that may be important to include, based on my own experience. The theory of monotropism accounts for this, might be worth looking into?
I am autistic and hypersensitive. It has always struck people as odd that I can manage social situations quite easily as long as I calm my nervous system with additional input (body-focused repetitive behavior aka stimming). But i... (read more)