A COMPUTER CANNOT FIND OUT

[hvanleeuwen@mastodon.social]

@mjd in all honesty: if you replace “computer” with “human”, you hit the uncomfortable truth

• most humans don’t reliably “find out”
• most humans do fuck around anyway
• society mostly just hopes the consequences aren’t catastrophic

humans are somehow permitted to experiment their way through life. but if you applied the same standard, no fucking around unless you can guarantee safe outcomes, then:

90% of human behaviour would be illegal, regulated, or require a permit

[ll1t@mastodon.social]

@freddy within the context of reinforcement learning the model does, as there is a penalty. I’m aware of the intention and that it will not bear the consequences of, say, bombing a girls‘ school due to misclassification, but neither does Whiskey Pete and the rest of the chain of command. I feel that increasingly consequences are only felt at the receiving end of actions and it‘s not an LLM issue, they, as they are trained and used, are merely a symptom of a larger (justice?) problem

[computer@dice.camp]

@mjd
Excuse me?

[lori@cambrian.social]

@phooky @mjd @manu By that I assume you mean they are the observed, not the observer.

[lori@cambrian.social]

@RnDanger @mjd @d6 ack

[manu@freiburg.social]

@lori

Yes

@phooky @mjd

[alterelefant@mastodontech.de]

@mjd
#FAFNO?
Fuck Around, Find Not Out.
#FAFO

[heliomass@cosocial.ca]

@mjd @kkarhan We don't give IBM enough credit these days.

[kkarhan@c.im]

@heliomass @mjd sadoy #IBM quietly dropped that in their #AI - laced #Enshittification craze…

https://c.im/@kkarhan/116501367220659435

[howtophil@mastodon.social]

@mjd The computer can neither fuck around, nor find out. Thus it is the operator who does the fuckign aroudnd. And we must ensure that the operator finds out quite deeply and with great pain.

[frawst@fedi.fraw.st]

@mjd@mathstodon.xyz In order for our computers to be able to fuck around, we've invented an ingenious new way to give them a detailed understanding of finding out. We call it: the Torment Nexus

[tekhedd@byteheaven.net]

@mjd Oh come on, sure it can, as long as you set up a workflow to recursively train on the...hey what are you doing with that prybar? Can I help you wi