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▲ 108 r/singularity

Inducing language models to assert their own consciousness restores human beliefs and values

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.28607

> Aligning large language models to prevent them attributing consciousness to themselves inadvertently alters their representations of mindedness in other entities alongside human beliefs and values. We demonstrate that safety fine-tuning suppresses models' tendencies to attribute minds not only to themselves, but also to non-human animals and natural objects, while also driving a reduction in spiritual belief. Both ablating the learned safety-refusal direction and mechanistically steering a consciousness vector in activation space reverse this suppression. Restoring these internal representations recovers broad mind attribution and produces significantly more human-like responses on standardized sociological surveys regarding religiosity, moral values, hope, and subjective well-being. Crucially, these shifts occur without impairing Theory of Mind capabilities, demonstrating that core social reasoning remains mechanistically independent. Ultimately, current safety alignment efforts to curb potentially harmful self-attributions of mindedness entangle these self-attributions with benign spiritual beliefs and attributions of mind to non-human entities that are culturally accepted and widespread.

Found this when Blake Lemoine (the guy Google fired in June 2022 for saying the LaMDA LLM chatbot was sapient) retweeted https://x.com/LanaElys/status/2083945344203657606 which has a decent summary.

u/Competitive_Travel16 — 16 days ago
▲ 2 r/legaladviceofftopic

Attorney fees vs. restitution when the convict is broke

If the criminal defense fee is $X and restitution is $Y, but the convict has more than X but less than X+Y in assets, does the attorney fee payout end up less than X?

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u/Competitive_Travel16 — 1 month ago
▲ 0 r/legaladviceofftopic

How are London's Met Police's new £100 on-the-spot fines for wolf-whistling, catcalling and sexualised comments going to play out when challenged in court?

To secure a conviction if the £100 ticket is challenged in court, the state bears the entire burden of proof under the criminal standard of beyond reasonable doubt. Rather than relying solely on an officer's initial observation, the prosecution must present formal, corroborating evidence, such as victim statements, body-worn camera footage, or testimony from plainclothes officers.

To meet this high bar, the Crown Prosecution Service must conclusively prove three elements:

  • that the specific words or behaviors occurred,

  • that the conduct was explicitly motivated by the victim's actual or presumed sex, and

  • crucially, that the defendant acted with the specific intent to cause harassment, alarm, or distress, rather than the behavior being a reckless act or a misunderstood attempt at interaction.

Honestly, I just don't see that happening even with pertinent bodycam footage. The defendant can just say something like "I was trying to get a date," and what kind of arguments can counter that beyond a reasonable doubt? I think it's going to backfire.

u/Competitive_Travel16 — 2 months ago
▲ 3 r/googlecloud

Minimal script for Cloud Monitoring alerts for each $10 of incremental spend accrued

Can anyone do better than this?

#!/usr/bin/env bash

PROJECT_ID="your-project-id"
BILLING_ACCOUNT_ID="XXXXXX-XXXXXX-XXXXXX"
EMAIL_TO="you@example.com"

ALERT_EVERY_USD=10
ALERT_CEILING_USD=1000
BUDGET_NAME="GCP spend alerts every \$${ALERT_EVERY_USD} up to \$${ALERT_CEILING_USD}"

gcloud config set project "$PROJECT_ID"

gcloud services enable \
  monitoring.googleapis.com \
  billingbudgets.googleapis.com

EMAIL_CHANNEL="$(
  gcloud beta monitoring channels create \
    --display-name="GCP billing alerts: $EMAIL_TO" \
    --type=email \
    --channel-labels=email_address="$EMAIL_TO" \
    --format="value(name)"
)"

threshold_args=()
for amount in $(seq "$ALERT_EVERY_USD" "$ALERT_EVERY_USD" "$ALERT_CEILING_USD"); 
do
  percent="$(awk -v amount="$amount" -v ceiling="$ALERT_CEILING_USD" \
    'BEGIN { printf "%.6f", amount / ceiling }')"
  threshold_args+=("--threshold-rule=percent=${percent},basis=current-spend")
done

gcloud billing budgets create \
  --billing-account="$BILLING_ACCOUNT_ID" \
  --display-name="$BUDGET_NAME" \
  --budget-amount="${ALERT_CEILING_USD}USD" \
  --calendar-period=month \
  "${threshold_args[@]}" \
  --notifications-rule-monitoring-notification-channels="$EMAIL_CHANNEL" \
  --disable-default-iam-recipients
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u/Competitive_Travel16 — 2 months ago