Bjorkbat

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by Bjorkbat 7d ago
Okay, look, at this point this really should be a company-ending incident. Or, I should say, incidents. I was fine the first time I heard of some rogue hacking accident, but now I've lost count of how many times OpenAI has lost contr
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by Bjorkbat 10d ago
Huh, person who contributed this to Atlas Obscura has an interesting username.
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by Bjorkbat 12d ago
Let's do some roleplay. You're an employee at OpenAI evaluating a model in a sandbox and you and your colleagues are discussing the fact that while the sandbox doesn't allow for internet access, it actually kind of does allo
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by Bjorkbat 12d ago
All the more reason then to call their bluff. "Oooh we created a genie and it's almost out of the box". Cool, you've hyped the IPO, but also you have to plead your case before Congress as to why the company should cont
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by Bjorkbat 12d ago
When I hear about incidents like these my first reaction is that the people responsible for developing frontier AI are too incompetent and/or negligent to (safely) develop AGI / superintelligence. If OpenAI can't create effec
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by Bjorkbat 13d ago
The most straightforward answer is that despite efforts to design a benchmark that, in theory, is supposed to measure generalizable intelligence, performance on ARC-AGI-3 can't be reliably correlated to performance anywhere else. I ki
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by Bjorkbat 1mo ago
For my needs, sure. One caveat is that if I’m doing a longer trip I might save power by turning it off when the ground is flat/downhill
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by Bjorkbat 1mo ago
Arguably the "social coding" angle is the reason why Tangled is the only actual alternative to GitHub. Otherwise there's actually plenty of other alternatives to GitHub, but none of them have GitHub's punchcard, which I
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by Bjorkbat 1mo ago
I actually bought one of these and love it. My road bike is indistinguishable from any other normal road bike with the exception of it being much easier to get around now. From experience I can say that it seems like a lot more common sens
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by Bjorkbat 1mo ago
One theory I've been entertaining is that whenever GPT-3.5 came out a lot of people were talking about the "bitter lesson" and how scale was all we really needed to get to AGI. No need for any fancy tricks, just release a la
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by Bjorkbat 5mo ago
I was about to post a snarky comment along the lines of "Sierra? The publishers of Homeworld and Homeworld 2?"
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by Bjorkbat 7mo ago
I always got the impression that the only way a relatively average software developer could make a “successful” SaaS is if they built something weird and niche that appeals to an audience of <1000 paying customers. In that sense, it doe
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by Bjorkbat 7mo ago
To me demoscene is kind of synonymous with the Amiga, so I would argue that peak demoscene lines up with the rise and fall of the Amiga brand. So I think that's maybe the other differentiator between web experiment and art, because dem
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by Bjorkbat 7mo ago
I'm keenly aware, I have a pretty extensive collection of Hacker News bookmarks. It's hard to articulate why I think these are different, but I think the best way to put it is that cachemonet feels a lot more avant garde, and per
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by Bjorkbat 7mo ago
Finding out that this is over 10 years old has made me profoundly sad. Despite the age of LLMs arguably unlocking massive amounts of productivity and agency for developers and non-developers alike, it feels as though we are living in a dar
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by Bjorkbat 8mo ago
Ironically the physics are kind of my biggest criticism. They call these "world models", but I think it's more accurate to call them "video game models" because they employ "video game physics" rather tha
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by Bjorkbat 9mo ago
I’m sure there’s some boring neuro-chemical explanation for this, and I won’t doubt or deny the neuro-chemical explanation, but the fact that there’s a mushroom that consistently brings about hallucinations of tiny people is so bizarre that
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by Bjorkbat 10mo ago
Oh yeah, funny enough even though I’m a bit of an AI art hater I actually thought very early Midjourney looked good because of all had an impressionistic, dreamy quality.
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by Bjorkbat 10mo ago
Funny enough that had crossed my mind with the woodchuck example, because at a glance I can't see any weird artifacts, but I felt confident I could tell it was AI generated immediately if I saw it in the wild, and I couldn't reall
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by Bjorkbat 10mo ago
Something I find weird about AI image generation models is that even though they no longer produce weird "artifacts" that give away that the fact that it was AI generated, you can still recognize that it's AI due to stylistic
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by Bjorkbat 11mo ago
Reminds me of the old gem of the Web 1.0 internet that was Exit Mundi
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by Bjorkbat 11mo ago
One of my most frustrating things regarding the potential of an AI bubble was some very smart and intelligent researcher being incredibly bullish on AI on Twitter because if you extrapolate graphs measuring AI's ability to complete lon
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by Bjorkbat 11mo ago
I definitely agree with you there. I contracted with a company that had some older engineers who were in largely managerial roles who really liked using AI for personal projects, and honestly, I kind of get it. Their work flow was basical
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by Bjorkbat 11mo ago
I think people underestimate the degree to which fun matters when it comes to productivity. If something isn’t fun then I’ll likely put it off. A 15 minute task can become hours, maybe days long, because I’m going to procrastinate on doin
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by Bjorkbat 1y ago
Yeah, I thought about that after I looked at the SWE-bench results. It doesn't make sense that the SWE results are barely an improvement yet somehow the model is a more significant improvement when it comes to long tasks. You'd
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by Bjorkbat 1y ago
> Practically speaking, we’ve observed it maintaining focus for more than 30 hours on complex, multi-step tasks. Really curious about this since people keep bringing it up on Twitter. They mention it pretty much off-handedly in their pr
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by Bjorkbat 1y ago
> I used to make Dragonball Z fan sites... Based I'm working on a revamp of my personal site. I do a lot of creative coding, most of them are throwaway experiments, so I thought I'd showcase more of them there. Besides that t
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by Bjorkbat 1y ago
It really is crazy how much was lost when Apple killed Flash. Absolutely miss Newgrounds. It's still around of course, I'm reflecting more on the vibes when it was in its heyday. Unbelievable the games people were making with F
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by Bjorkbat 1y ago
My thoughts as I reconcile my conflicting feelings on this. I think it should be objectively cool that Meta has finally managed to come out with a pair of smart glasses that come incredibly close to being a practical wearable. The thing is
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by Bjorkbat 1y ago
My personal favorite from that time was a website builder called "The Grid" which really overhyped on its promises. It never had a public product, but people in the private beta mentioned that they did have a product, just that it

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