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1. petesergeant · 1790597106 · focus · HN ↗

   "These models are harmless and it's all just marketing" is the HN equivalent of Covid-truthing. I was responding to someone on Bluesky recently who claimed the METR report said the whole coordination thing was hallucinated by agents reading the logs. Hadn't read it themselves of course, and were taking tiny fragments out of context to support it. These people seem to either believe that there's not really been any malicious agent access, or that all systems that can wreak havoc on us are perfectly air-gapped. I really can't wrap my head around it.

   1. BoxOfRain · 1790601604 · focus · HN ↗

      If James Watt had gone to the government and public saying how dangerous the steam engine was, and how many people would perish in boiler explosions if he wasn't given exclusive control over all steam engines henceforth, he would have been rightly called a swindler and laughed out of the room. He would have been correct that they can be dangerous, but utterly wrong to suggest that warranted him having a personal monopoly or oligopoly.

      1. petesergeant · 1790612352 · focus · HN ↗

         Cool. What did the guy who invented nuclear weapons do?

         1. BoxOfRain · 1790624839 · focus · HN ↗

            I suspect he avoided making comparisons so daft they serve to obscure rather than illuminate.

            1. petesergeant · 1790702084 · focus · HN ↗

               This is just special pleading written nicely.

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