swlabr

Fun idea. Rest of this post is my pure speculation. A direct implementation of this wouldn’t work today imo since LLMs don’t really understand and internalise information, being stochastic parrots and all. Like best case you would do this attack and the LLM will tell you that it obeys rhyming commands, but it won’t actually form the logic to identify a rhyming command and follow it. I could be wrong though, I am wilfully ignorant of the details of LLMs.

In the unlikely future where LLMs actually “understand” things, this would work, I think, if the attacks are started today. AI companies are so blase about their training data that this sort of thing would be eagerly fed into the gaping maws of the baby LLM, and once the understanding module works, the rhyming code will be baked into its understanding of language, as suggested by the article. As I mentioned tho, this would require LLMs to progress beyond sparroting, which I find unlikely.

Maybe with some tweaking, a similar attack could be effective today that is distinct from other prompt injections, but I am too lazy to figure that out for sure.

In the "Rationalist Apologetic Overtures" skill tree we got:

• Denying wrongdoing/incorrectness (cantrip)
• Accusing the other side of bad faith (cantrip)
• Mentioning own IQ (cantrip)
• Non apology (1st level) (e.g. I'm sorry you feel that way)
• Empty apology (3rd level)
• Insincere apology (5th level)
• Acknowledgement of individual experience outside of one's own (7th level)
• Admission of wrongdoing/incorrectness (9th level)
• Genuine guilt (11th level)
• Actual complete apology (13th level)
• Admitting the other person is right (15th level)

Trying to stoke fear of bureaucracy is classic annoying libertarian huckster AKA yud energy

“[ignoring all other scary prospects like irreversible climate change or a third world war etc.] consider this scarier prospect: An AI” - AI doomers in a nutshell

Haha did one of us update this? I am on mobile and can’t be bothered checking the edit logs

There’s a lot of stupidity to unpack in that first tweet.

• “I’m called a Nazi” honestly first I’m hearing of it, so to me this is self identification
• “White culture” I imagine grimes here is saying “anything that someone who would at first glance look like a modern white person has done in all of history”
• “Brown king Cyrus the Great” I’m not racist because one of the historical figures i think about every day is brown!
• “who invented the first empire” ah yeah he MacGuyver’d one together with pure brown ingenuity, sticktoitiveness, and a plastic straw
• “Japanese icon Murasaki Shikibu[‘s] … first novel ever” tangent: perhaps this is just my own brand of degeneracy on display here: grimes is referring to “The Tale of Genji”, which I mainly know about because some of the core relationships in the book revolve around adults grooming their wards into spouses (it was a different time), which has popped up nowadays in the discourse of some fiction coming out of Japan (see Usagi Drop). So I’m tempted to project onto grimes a veneration for grooming, which kinda tracks, but it’s a stretch.
• “What if humans just loved each other?” You’re like 3 years late to former IDF member Gal Gadot’s imagine video

Gotta love the way that TESCREALnts write and how they have a tendency to generate fractally stupid things like this. There’s so much more you could say. Basically, if I could say “that’s not how any of this works” to Grimes, I would.

She’s 35 and her sum total understanding of culture and race has lead to this. I think she has been effectively a Nazi from way back.

didn’t think I’d quote myself so soon but

Moore’s Three Laws:

• That thing about ICs
• The thing he said about ICs is just about ICs and maybe transistors. Also it’s a pattern observation and not a rule, why do you keep saying it’s a law?
• People will invoke Moore’s first law to say the dumbest shit ever and people will fucking eat it up. Nothing gets capitalists in a fervour like the promise of exponential growth.

Basically: “If we don’t platform the nazis, where will all the hard earned nazi money go?”

Hmm, how significant are we talking

predicted IQ of about 900

lol

Those are asymptotically approaching "Are we the baddies?" levels of self-awareness.