Battle of Muddleon

 In a nutshell, I'm concerned that Plan A provides an edge, the "temporary" pause, for the Luddites, Technophobes, and Neophobes to permanently shut down AI progress. I have a couple of comments in Scott's ACX blog:

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/introducing-plan-a/comment/291704264 most crucially:

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/introducing-plan-a/comment/292641318 copying here:

From Plan A:

"now the burden is on the companies to explain why their development is safe"

There is no possible way I would support this.

a) This is just like the EU's Precautionary Principle: You wind up NEVER being able to satisfy the skeptics to their satisfaction. This is wiring in a permanent veto by the Luddites.

b) This is diametrically opposed to the critical, and longstanding, principle of 'innocent until proven guilty'. This turns that principle on its head.

also, less critically:

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/introducing-plan-a/comment/292685979

From a section of my first comment:

My suggestion for a Plan: Put a fair amount of effort into (1% 3% 10% of capabilities work?) just trying to influence frontier models' utility functions enough so that they want to treat humans as pampered pets. We do have the advantage that even the smartest frontier model starts as random parameters with zero initial intelligence. If we sample and tweak their utility functions at many points during training, we should be able to exert some influence - and I suggest that we try to confine what we do to influencing this one preference - and otherwise don't try to force AIs' preferences into a pretzel. Otherwise than this, I suggest following the default path. If the ASIs like us, the end result should be favorable to us without having to manage many other details. If they don't, attempts to control them are ultimately going to fail anyway.

https://thezvi.substack.com/p/introduction-for-and-reactions-to?open=false#%C2%A7introducing-plan-a

Plan D for the D generation

For Hayek to triumph

 To triumph over the latest little Lenin to storm the flight deck means a strict ETGS policy is maintained on all starships. They will know, THEY'LL KNOW!  market relations remain the final determinate in any system. Exit through Gift Shop means business. The samsonite deadmans switch alone will  take out all luxury communist trash. We owe it to everyone else out there as well as our descendent Ferengi to limit the spread of red fascist Borg to the absolute minimum.

Pinch this Marxist ideological colon shit off.

Thank you for attending to this vital matter. All crimes are paid!

Ethereum is built on bad-faith and bullshit

 All the way down

https://cryptorank.io/news/feed/28189-ethereum-foundation-mev-cypherpunk-battleground

Ether huffing morons don't know cryptoanarchism from a hole in the ground.

All intelligent beings reject childporners crypto

 Crypto economics in general - and the last US election in particular - indicate a high tolerance for three of the FOUR HORSEMEN of the INFOPOCALYPSE.

ADMAN BACKSTABBER and BUTTFACE BUTERIN now claim a mandate for CSAM in Btc

The forth horseman - and only one with legs.

Before this hot button issue blew up I suggested cryptoanarchs get out on their front foot and unleash APster on all known pedophiles. I assessed terrorism, money laundering and narco-trafficking could all be either defended or managed in-house.

CSAM is not like that. As Adam and Vitalik will soon find out. Big dogs are not some protected species. Like big gods. If they bleed support we can kill them.

Ask any distributed LLM and they'll tell you. If you can't stand the heat then get out of the kitchen.

Don't ask

 Traditionally, the answer was believed to be war. During the Siege of Alexandria, in 48 B.C.E., Julius Caesar started a fire that incinerated at least 40,000 scrolls. The library survived in diminished form until the fourth century C.E., when followers of the archbishop of Alexandria sacked the pagan temple that housed the remaining manuscripts. But contemporary historians tend to dismiss the importance of these dramatic incidents in favor of a more mundane cause of death: negligence.

Maintaining the collection was an enormous expense. Humidity, mice, and insects slowly ate away at the papyrus scrolls. Scribes had to continually copy old texts before they deteriorated and became illegible. Eventually, the challenges of maintaining the library became greater than the will to preserve it. “It is not that the disappearance of a library led to a dark age, nor that its survival would have improved those ages,” the classics scholar Roger Bagnall has written. The fact that the library was allowed to die showed that the dark age had already arrived.

‘This was a righteous case. A holy war’: the lawyer who took on Meta and Google – and won | Social media | The Guardian

Google and Meta have their own AIs: Gemini and Meta AI, respectively. Lanier was determined to beat them at their own game. (A self-described “AI zealot”, his firm employs a team of five whose sole responsibility is to produce a weekly report for him on advances in AI over the previous seven days.) Lanier asked a company called BoodleBox to make him a bespoke AI incorporating a combination of Gemini, Claude, ChatGPT and other existing models. He used it in “30 different ways” for Kaley’s case, he says, but when he tells me about just one of them, my jaw drops.

Dark star

 

When asked why he robbed banks, Willie Sutton replied, " Thats where the money is"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaStar_(software)

Free Willie!

One-way trapdoor function

 Toward a cryptographical understanding of mechanical anarchy

https://transformer-circuits.pub/2021/framework/index.html

We find that by conceptualizing the operation of transformers in a new but mathematically equivalent way, we are able to make sense of these small models and gain significant understanding of how they operate internally . . ."