links, etc AI and Trust - Schneier on Security talking about trust: We might think of them as friends, when they are actually services. Corporations are not moral; they are precisely as immoral as the law and their reputations let them get away with. So corporations regularly take advantage of their customers, mistreat their workers, pollute the environment, and lobby for changes in law so they can do even more of these things....
links, etc [2311.07590] Technical Report: Large Language Models can Strategically Deceive their Users when Put Under Pressure this is the most interesting (and likely disturbing) thing that i’ve read re: AI in the past couple of months.
links, etc Effective obfuscation - by Molly White - Citation Needed i became a huge molly white fan with the whole w3igjg thing. the move to a substack and the subsequent shift to “citation needed” is a solid evolution. this summary of “effective altruism” and “effective accellerationism” nails it. the footnotes are pretty spot on as well.
links, etc Silicon Valley’s worldview is not just an ideology; it’s a personality disorder. — Crooked Timber reductive and handwavy, but on balance a pretty solid summary of the emergent behaviors we’ve seen over the past 20 years. not that many of these haven’t been seen before, we just see the iteration process sped up dramatically. i particularly appreciated the call out of the politicians as insipid betas to big tech....