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the fundamental issue with AI has ALWAYS BEEN that it CAN'T do precisely what you intend because prompts are lossy compression you can't control the decompression of. that is what the technology **IS** now they are rebranding that as "lack of alignment" as if it wasn't present from their inception

If you’re a normal person whose not in tech I wrote an essay explaining where I think we are at with the news of frontier labs deciding to slow down model progress unilaterally together and what it really means for regular humans. It tries to start from first principles and explain things well.

the big tech companies overpromised, and like with crypto before it, they have run face first into the nature of the technology not it's limits. what it *is*, specifically. all their promises depended on convincing you it wasn't constrained by its nature it was a lie, as always

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