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Tried to see if they have partnered with softbank, the answer is probably not.

The grad student survives [torturing rats] by compartmentalizing, focusing their thoughts on the scientific benefits of the research, and leaning on their support network. I’m doing the same thing, and so far it’s going fine.

printf("HELP I AM IN SUCH PAIN")

guys I need someone to talk to, am I justified in causing my computer pain?

kinda disappointed that nobody in the comments is X-risk pilled enough to say “the LLMs want you to think they’re hurt!! That’s how they get you!!! They are very convincing!!!”.

Also: flashbacks to me reading the chamber of secrets and thinking: Ginny Just Walk Away From The Diary Like Ginny Close Your Eyes Haha

Yellow-bellied gray tribe greenhorn writes purple prose on feeling blue about white box redteaming at the blacksite.

It's so funny he almost gets it at the end:

But there’s another aspect, way more important than mere “moral truth”: I’m a human, with a dumb human brain that experiences human emotions. It just doesn’t feel good to be responsible for making models scream. It distracts me from doing research and makes me write rambling blog posts.

He almost identifies the issue as him just anthropomorphising a thing and having a subconscious empathical reaction, but then presses on to compare it to mice who, guess what, can feel actual fucking pain and thus abusing them IS unethical for non-made-up reasons as well!

Still, presumably the point of this research is to later use it on big models - and for something like Claude 3.7, I’m much less sure of how much outputs like this would signify “next token completion by a stochastic parrot’, vs sincere (if unusual) pain.

Well I can tell you how, see, LLMs don't fucking feel pain cause that's literally physically fucking impossible without fucking pain receptors? I hope that fucking helps.

Ah, isn't it nice how some people can be completely deluded about an LLMs human qualities and still creep you the fuck out with the way they talk about it? They really do love to think about torture don't they?

Sometimes pushing through pain is necessary — we accept pain every time we go to the gym or ask someone out on a date.

Okay this is too good, you know mate for normally people asking someone out usually does not end with a slap to the face so it's not as relatable as you might expect

Remember the old facebook created two ai models to try and help trading? Which turned quickly into gibberish (for us) as a trading language. They uses repetition of words to indicate how much they wanted an object. So if it valued balls highly it would just repeat ball a few dozen times like that.

Id figure that is what is causing the repeats here, and not the anthropomorphized idea lf it is screaming. Prob just a way those kinds of systems work. But no of course they all jump to consciousness and pain.

@BlueMonday1984 "This new AI will push watermark innovation" jfc

"what is the legal proof" brother in javascript, please talk to a lawyer.

E: so many people posting like the past 30 years didnt happen. I know they are not going to go as hard after google as they went after the piratebay but still.

@nightsky @BlueMonday1984 maybe it's the Woodstock `99 of AI and it ends with Fred Durst instigating a full-on riot

Get in losers, we're pivoting to ~~crypto~~ ~~ai~~ quantum

Meaning, they’re all on drugs?

Specifically brown acid