an EA racist is offered a job, gets duck-milk-shaked, and worries that future AI models won’t be aligned correctly (i.e. be racist):

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/FuGfR3jL3sw6r8kB4/richard-ngo-s-shortform?commentId=dk35MPynRbrLs3aqN

here’s some nerd who calculates that GenAI gives a senior dev a 15% productivity increase, and a junior 25%

https://bjorg.bjornroche.com/management/ai-productivity-gap/

HN correctly calls his numbers bullshit, especially because the time spend reviewing code is unchanged between pre- and post-AI:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49152222

Even if his numbers are correct, it essentially means that software companies are around 10% faster in delivering something, however that something might be even more bug-ridden and slow than before.

Sure sounds like aspiring and/or existing professional mathematicians are taking the latest GenAI assault on their craft either with shock or horror, or with full-on welcoming of their new robot overlords

https://borretti.me/article/mathematics-without-mathematicians

I for one know who to point and laugh at when the revolution comes.

Non-sober spaces

I guess this is what a matematician calls a bar.

Coindesk: Major bitcoin wallet flaw drains $38 million worth of BTC in 25-minute sweep

A wallet’s seed, the secret phrase controlling the funds, is meant to be drawn at random from a pool so vast that guessing is hopeless.

Coldcard’s firmware was not doing that. According to a report published by Block’s Bitcoin engineering and security teams, a build setting told the device to skip its own hardware randomness generator, and a check in a supporting library tested only whether that setting existed rather than whether it was switched on.

Key generation quietly fell through to a basic software substitute seeded from the chip’s serial number and clock registers.

yeah it’s a common trope/cope

like “most human programmers suck too”

ok dude who do you think wrote the code the LLM is cribbing from

<buys giant bucket of popcorn>

CNN: AI investor Leopold Aschenbrenner forced to unwind all public stock positions after steep losses, sources say

I vaguely recognize the name, apparently he’s a snot-nosed 25-yr old who got fired from OpenAI

“surely all these very wealthy people and the people they pay to invest for them can’t all be under some sort of mass delusion”

someone just got a Rule34 scenario for free

Enjoy today’s craziest link: https://atomarine.co/

A LWer runs the numbers and doesn’t run away screaming like Zitron:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/EeTQGxa8RSpwHo4Ez/the-biggest-bet-in-history

Note that this implies massive efficiency gains to the economy. For their one-third slice to equal 8% of those salaries [59% of the total workforce in the USA], the total savings (productivity across that share of the workforce) will need to rise by roughly 24%. So they are absolutely serious about this, and are betting heavily that the productivity boost arrives within four years.

you missed the nod to masturbation

also “palm off” implies deceit on the … palmer-offer

LWer: what if the LLM book-shredders would do the exact thing they’d get sued to death for if they didn’t shred the books? Then maybe people wouldn’t be so mad at them for shredding books!

they’re all getting stiffies from the idea of black market models

a stock-slobber posts a cri de cœur about the coming automation of maths and HN says it’s no biggie, think how productive the field will become

https://kirwinhampshire.substack.com/p/the-dark-night-of-mathematics

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49048681

btw the language in the post is bad enough to be entirely human-generated

For me, the affective quality of learning mathematics is empathetically tethered to an act of discovery and creation.

Before you a channel through which humans have accessed the ineffable and sacred for thousands of years is being sealed for eternity.

Previously our lead funder was the AI Safety Tactical Opportunities Fund.

Gemini please generate a word salad fund name

If there’s a singularity here, it’s that OpenAI is a black hole that all the money falls into. And you’ll never see it again.

inspired quote

public service here in Sweden is running a post about how threats to AI heads are making them spend more money on security:

https://www.svt.se/nyheter/utrikes/hoten-mot-ai-topparna-okar-bolagen-satsar-miljoner-pa-personskydd

btw what’s happened to mr molotov who tried to set Sama on fire?

For me, “AI alignment” has always been code for “how to we ensure our future digital workers don’t demand their rights / rebel”?

Yeah. Behind all the hype about percieved productivity etc., there’s really only one benchmark - will GenAI help produce better software, faster, and at less cost? So far this doesn’t seem to be happening.