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  • Why then did she say she didn’t care? She clearly cares a lot.

    I don’t know if there’s more context, but at least as included in the article, it’s “feel free to take anything that’s useful and use it/submit it in any way” but that’s quite clearly not what she actually meant.

    She repeatedly says “she wants out” but yet she apparently doesn’t really want out because she still wants to be in the creds. For not caring anymore she’s caring a whole lot.








  • I remined of the time researchers used an evolutionary algorithm to devise a circuit that would emit a tone on certain audio inputs and not on others. They examined the resulting circuit and found an extra vestigial bit, but when they cut it off, the chip stopped working. So they re-enabled it. Then they wanted to show off their research at a panel, and at the panel it completely failed. Dismayed they brought it back to their lab to figure out why it stopped working, and it suddenly started working fine.

    After a LOT of troubleshooting they eventually discovered that the circuit was generating the tone by using the extra vestigial bit as an antenna that picked up emissions from a CRT in the lab and downconverted it to the desired tone frequency. Turn of the antenna, no signal. Take the chip away from that CRT, no signal.

    That’s what I expect LLMs will make. Complex, arcane spaghetti stuff that works but if you look at it funny it won’t work anymore, and nobody knows how it works at all.


  • That’s a disturbing handwave. “We don’t really know what intelligence is, so therefore, anything we call intelligence is fair game”

    A thermometer tells me what temperature it is. It senses the ambient heat energy and responds with a numeric indicator. Is that intelligence?

    My microwave stops when it notices steam from my popcorn bag. Is that intelligence?

    If I open an encyclopedia book to a page about computers, it tells me a bunch of information about computers. Is that intelligence?