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Sometimes I take AI safety research v seriously, sometimes I wonder
Video tampering can mislead every frontier model we tested into harmful actions, including a 100% attempt rate on stabbing a baby doll, producing toxic gas, and pouring water into a toaster.
We're presenting at CoRL Late Breaking Results next week.
🧵 You Can't See Everything: Perceptual Attacks on Embodied AI
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Being in a old castle that's still a family home (when not booked for events), I'm reminded how much culture has changed. There's a painting celebrating Billy, the rat killing dog, who could kill 100 in five minutes. A different world.
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Acre retweeted
I absolutely thought I would do this when I became a millionaire. Now I am a millionaire, and actually thinking through the decision of when to part with the money and for who, when the actual money is on the line, is very different. "At random" doesn't actually feel that good? Because like, some people are more in need of their debt paid off than others. Like what if you just go around accidentally paying off debt of people who aren't financially struggling, or people who were never planning on paying it anyway/aren't really suffering from it?
And then I realized my own motivations were sorta weird. I wanted to do good for others, but like, mostly in ways that made me feel good? Like medical debt and pet fees are really salient things that give me warm fuzzies. Giving big bills to homeless people (which I have done) is very warm fuzzies. Then i was like - am I just charitily masturbating here? Am I tryin to be putting myself into the storyline where I'm the clear hero and there's someone to look me in the eyes and go 'wow thank you so much'?
And THEN I had this whole thing like 'wait, if I'm gonna be spending a limited amount, I want it to go to people where it will legitimately like, be the change of their entire lives, not just a temporary relief for two weeks and in the long term make no difference for them at all. I want like the guy who just got fired from his job at the same time he got diagnosed with a health condition and he has three kids and just needs to make it into the next month so he doesn't have to sell his house, I DON'T want the guy who's terrible with money and his car broke down but he doesn't have savings but it's kind of his own fault because he spent it all on pokemon cards last month and now he's begging for help and sure I could help fix his car but next month it's just gonna be a different thing.
But that requires way more knowledge than you can reasonably have!
This made me rethink everything quite a lot, and I did not actually do all the noble charity-type stuff I thought i would have, when I was poorer.
I've ended up donating money in two ways:
1. Occasionally helping friends. I know them well, I know their situations well, I have a good sense of when money would be genuinely useful instead of plugging a hole.
2. Donating to cost-effective charities. I donate to Give Directly, which does at least some research into people who can benefit the most from my money in ways that are actually life-changing for them.
3. Donating to things I've benefited from, that I think I would have happily paid for if they'd been charging. For example, community space stuff, where I have derived a huge benefit from them, and I think they should be paid in hindsight for the value they've provided me.
Acre retweeted
my unsolicited advice to men is, don't have casual sex with high neuroticism/bpd-ish women. Stick to stable, reasonable, chill ladies. If the only women you can convince to have sex with you are the unstable ones, then this is a red flag about you, and you will be never truly innocent of the resulting dramas