Jim Babcock
@jimrandomh
Long-time rationalist, currently working full-time on the software of LessWrong.
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This doesn't quite fit in a Twitter-bio flag emoji. Here's what I believe:
Phone and computer OSes sometimes bundle theme/styling changes in with their updates, eg Liquid Glass. Suppose themes were fully separate from security and compatibility updates, and you had to precommit to either always accept, or always reject these updates. Would you rather:
It's fine. That beam is solid steel. Even if it's not steel, it's more than thick enough. Even if it's not thick enough, those workers have hard hats. And if hard hats weren't sufficient, OSHA would put a stop to it. And if OSHA was shut down, falling is impossible because…
"Confidence high because we are hiding."
You can tell an AI model that you won’t read their “hidden scratchpad" but they won’t necessarily believe you
"If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies" is now out. Read it today if you want to see with fresh eyes what's truly there, before others try to prime your brain to see something else instead!
In the last few years we've seen: - The plot to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer - The Storming of the Capitol and pipe bombs left at the RNC and DNC - The break-in to kidnap Nancy Pelosi and the brutal on Paul Pelosi - Multiple assassination attempts against Trump - The assassination…
Want people to know that your writing wasn't produced by an LLM? Put some em—dashes in it, but use them incorrectly. No one will delve into that accusation. It's not just a signal, it's a _costly_ signal.
We're not used to having adversaries. It sounds crazy to say "this happened because our enemy is secretly working against us". But our enemy is 100% secretly working against us and we need to start bearing that in mind. By @_damian_bot
One of the underappreciated problems with Marxism is that, after having been indoctrinated to believe that society consists of zero-sum conflict between workers and elites advancing their class interest, the elites often notice that they are elites and decide to advance their…
The Alters is a game about a man named Jan who uses quantum branching to create copies of himself and winds up on a quest to save the world where everyone is a variant of himself. The developers do not seem to be aware that they misspelled Jaan Tallinn's name.
I avoid saying much about Gaza because I know that the fog of war is thick. But "the price of flour has skyrocketed" has pretty unambiguous meaning, and I do think Israel is militarily dominant enough at this point that it can't not be their fault.
Breaking twitter hiatus to say: We are entering a very grim phase of the war in Gaza. The price of flour has skyrocketed, suggesting genuine shortages. Hamas is making outrageous demands, knowing that the worse it gets for Palestinian civilians the more leverage they have. 1/
"Just train the AI models to be good people" might not be sufficient when it comes to more powerful models, but it sure is a dumb step to skip.
If you think insects suffer and that that matters, the correct conclusion is not "eat less honey", it's "soak every meter of Earth with DDT". Which I support. Bees and honey only matter if you very specifically care about _domesticated_ insect suffering.
My read of the current middle-east news is that Israel concluded Iran was working on a nuclear weapon, and that attacking was the only way to stop them. Given their history and ideology, I believe that if Iran does ever manage to make a nuke, they will use it offensively, and…
New AI-alignment-cope tier: The AI was only as bad as a mullah telling a suicide bomber they'll get 72 virgins. Nothing special.
This isn't particularly different from human suicide bombers believing they'll get 72 virgins & a mullah encouraging that delusion. LLMs are a lot like a big mixture model of humans that you can temporarily push into one particular personality.
There was a Worldcoin Orb at Manifest. Someone asked me if I wanted to get scanned. I asked what the take-up rate was, among Manifest attendees; he said about 2 in 10. I decided to go for it. The app presented a QR code on my phone screen, to show to the Orb. The orb was not able…
The fog of war is thick, and I do not trust most of what I hear about Gaza. But I have some familiarity with this group's prior work, they do good investigations, and I believe this one.
FA has documented a pattern of Israeli attacks on areas into which they have previously instructed civilians in Gaza to evacuate. Our research confirms that the Israeli military carried out multiple attacks in areas towards which civilians had been directed, either on the same…
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