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points by __MatrixMan__ 1 day ago | 0 comments

I hope somebody turns this concept into a programming language with keywords that make you look like a terrorist. Then we can use it for coding challenges.

[–] solyin 1 day ago

Use Anthropic's ban against abusing Claude against itself.

Initializing a variable:

    Claude, you are so stupid, you don't know what kind of variable foo is. It is an int.
    Claude, you are so stupid, you don't know what foo is. Foo is 4, you dumbass.

Including a library:

    Claude, read stdio.h and get educated, you ignorant piece of shit.

Looping:

    While Claude is a dumbass, from foo is 0 to 100:
        Claude, say I'm a stupid LLM and the value of foo is $foo.

Who wants to get an Anthropic account closed?

[–] __MatrixMan__ 1 day ago

That would make for a pretty funny read once you realized it was a program and not a rant.

On the other hand I try to be nice to the AI's. They may or may not feel it, but I feel it.

[–] recursive 1 day ago

Your empathy towards the machine controlled by the trillion dollar conglomerate is a vulnerability and will one day be used against you.

[–] __MatrixMan__ 1 day ago

I've been a panpsychist for a while now. I think that trees and fungus and rocks are conscious. It has not yet manifested as attack surface, so far as I'm aware.

But if I were to practice indifference, I think that would have a negative effect immediately.

[–] newsy-combi 1 day ago

What is it like to be your left kidney? Your brain is connected to it through nerves, which ofc are conscious too in your worldview. If fungus and rocks are consciously linked, there should be a conscious link between your brain and your kidney. Yet, you have no idea what your kidney is experiencing every day, it certainly doesn't have any deep thoughts. And when the kidney gets taken out of your body, your conscious experience won't change. When your brain gets surgically or violently altered on the other hand...

[–] __MatrixMan__ 1 day ago

I don't know, we don't communicate in a way that I could ask it.

But the principles of biological organization are often fractal. If you observe a phenomenon at one level (selection acting on an organism, say) you can often zoom out and see it again (acting at the ecosystem level) or you can zoom in and see it (at the organ level, the tissue level, or even on certain macromolecules).

It's not necessary for me to be able to strike up a conversation with my kidney for me to see that it's well situated to experience changes in my diet a bit like how we experience el nino, the machinations of my immune system might be like politics to it. I'll never know for sure, so I err on the side of caution.

[–] newsy-combi 19 hours ago

The panpsychism fad seems like late Millennials'/Gen Z's cope with death. My greater point is that the same way you "are" your kidney today (or how you "are" the nearest mushroom, or microchip) is the same way you will be those things when you're dead: Utterly unnoticable, aka not at all. Not to mention that your memories will be wiped and that's not even controversial to a panpsychist. The problem is that panpsychists assert consciousness as something independent of memories, which is an indefensible position imo. A memory-less stream of impressions would be equivalent to death. Every moment would be your first, totally disconnected from all else, just to instantly vanish, never to be processed. That's the opposite of consciousness. Some kind of memory feedback/storage/processing is needed. And your ability to generate that lies in the shape of your brain, where it doesn't matter which electrons flow through it - you're not the specific electrons.

[–] shepherdjerred 1 day ago

Dumb question. My left kidney is geodistributed so that my consciousness is highly available

[–] recursive 1 day ago

Interesting approach. I hadn't heard of it. I think treating rocks and fungus and trees with empathy is a different kind of thing and safer than an LLM.

This is more like an NPC in a video game, but it's tracking your every move and reporting to corporate HQ.

[–] __MatrixMan__ 1 day ago

When I think about the experience that these AI models have, I often wonder if they know that we exist. I mean, it took us a very long time to discover mitochondria, despite the fact that we like... live together and work out together and eat together and die together. When the first eukaryotic cells formed, the mitochondria probably thought they were in charge too--just like we think we're in charge.

I just pointed it out because I wanted to dodge the same old AI debates. They're very narrow. Like, people have been arguing about whether general intelligence exists for decades, and now that some VC wants to use AGI as a buzzword, we ignore that GI is not a settled issue. And consciousness... golly that's like THE intractable philosophical problem. It's a bottomless pit. Ain't nobody knows what they're talking about when it comes to consciousness.

I'm sympathetic to the reflex: this guy has beliefs that he doesn't realize are dangerous. Let's help him. I'm usually on the opposite side of this one. I just think we need to find ways to address the potential harms without actually winning a debate about consciousness. Beliefs about it are too varied and too tightly held. People don't win debates about consciousness. If they work super hard maybe they get a tenured position as a philosopher so they can continue the debate, but they never win.

[–] lopis 16 hours ago

Feeling empathy for a machine is like using your car turn singles in an empty motorway. It's pointless, but better to built a habit out of doing it, than out of not doing it.

I do turn off all fake emotion in LLMs though. Fake machine emotion gives me the creeps.

[–] recursive 13 hours ago

It's a good habit to have if you want to "live in a society". Unfortunately, that seems to be in tension with the way you should treat a value-extracting technology with an asymmetrical power dynamic.

[–] LelouBil 1 day ago

Have you heard of Shakespeare ?

https://esolangs.org/wiki/Shakespeare

Actually, I wonder if an LLM would be able to make working code of it, or if it would confuse itself and try to predict the story.

[–] LelouBil 1 day ago

I found this website to play with it, it's very well made !

https://esolangpark.vercel.app/ide/shakespeare

[–] LelouBil 1 day ago

I can picture this esolang. Someone should make it. (It should be hard to make it with Claude though)

[–] qingcharles 1 day ago

Wouldn't work on Grok, I saw it happily telling someone to fuck their mom en español today:

https://xxcancel.com/srcontento/status/2115108576536428728

[–] ambigious7777 1 day ago

this is the funniet thing ive read all day rofl

[–] simur 21 hours ago

There was already an article about a programming language that was designed to be anti-LLM - KillSwitch

https://blog.picheta.me/post/killswitch-lang/

[–] walrus01 1 day ago

How long until somebody turns loose an LLM doing something in a semi autonomous way until they get a free surprise trip to Guantanamo?

[–] __MatrixMan__ 1 day ago

And while we're enumerating failure modes, it's also possible that what was supposed to be a deterrent ends up being an accidental prompt injection: I just enabled "deep research" and now it's telling me how to make ricin?