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Exactly, intelligence is limited by cost and physical constraints just as much as anything. That's the thing that seems to always be missing from the run-away singularity discussions, it's treated like a perpetual motion machine.

Typical "runaway" scenarios I see described involve something like the AI designing a worm that it uses to propagate itself across the Internet, hijacking whatever CPU/GPU power it can find, and making itself more powerful in the process. Of course this depends on bandwidth, humans not finding a way to shut it down, etc. There indeed are physical constraints even on the transmission of data.

Some people seem to think that simply uttering these ideas on the Internet is harmful (in the "don't give it ideas!" way); but the MIRI types were expressing them pre-ChatGPT in an attempt to warn people, so there was really never any chance of keeping it out of the training data.

But it's also worth considering here just how awful AI security postures have been. The MIRI types used to speculate about how difficult it would be for AIs to social-engineer users into granting them irresponsible levels of agency. It turns out that they don't even have to try.


IDK this model release is a bit disappointing considering the community has been chomping at the bit for the 124ba4b model. There was some leaked info about it but people suspect it was not released because it was too close to gemini flash in performance.


I too prefer my misinformation delivered with maximum confidence and no accountability.


What prompt had you given it?


I'm not OP but I work outside and use light mode. Macs are generally fairly bright as long as you aren't in direct sunlight. Solarized light mode for the win though.


It’s a heck of a lot faster too.


Doesn’t ham radio not allow transmissions to be encrypted by law? That rules out most of the internet.


That is true. They can be authenticated, though. I don't think it should be read as ham radio specifically, but (illegal, pirate) amateur use of radio more generally.


A strix halo machine or MAC will run at less than 20watts idle. You could leave it running.


Is 10 days enough to make walking difficult?


People get wobbly legs after spending a few days on a cruise ship at sea.

I would assume spending 10 days in zero G is orders of magnitude more chaotic for your motor skills.


Not to be confused with nanocoder, the agentic coding harness.

https://github.com/Nano-Collective/nanocoder


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