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by TideAd 3mo ago
The guardrails i.e. the classifier would also fire on Fable's output and even Fable's internals (i.e. prior to the shutdown people would see it firing when Fable got angry) https://x.com/repligate/status/
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by TideAd 7mo ago
GPT-5 codex variants with xhigh reasoning make great code reviewers.
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by TideAd 1y ago
This would be a great problem to have. Most scenes don't have enough event hosts.
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by TideAd 1y ago
What they're really saying is, "we make an effort to hire smart/effective people, as opposed to the places that don't and as a result have a soul-crushing mediocrity culture". Places that actually hire people that a
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by TideAd 2y ago
Realistically, lots of parts of capitalism never sleep, and having outages at night still costs lots of money, astronomical amounts if there was no one there to fix it.
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by TideAd 2y ago
The authors are basically asking the alignment problem to be well-defined and easy to model. I sympathize. Unfortunately the alignment problem is famously difficult to conceptualize in its entirety. It's like 20 different difficult cou
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by TideAd 2y ago
So, this is actually an aspect of superintelligence that makes it way more dangerous than most people think. That we have no way to know if any given alignment technique works for the N+1 generation of AIs. It cuts down our ability to react
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by TideAd 2y ago
Yes, they see it as the top problem, by a large margin. If you do a lot of research about the alignment problem you will see why they think that. In short it's "extremely high destructive power" + "requires us to solve 2
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by TideAd 2y ago
From everything I've heard it's less "not cool" and more "not valued by the Google promotion and advancement system".
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by TideAd 2y ago
> "I don't think it's crazy to believe that half the white-collar staff at Google probably does no real work," he said. "The company has spent billions and billions of dollars per year on projects that go nowhere
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by TideAd 2y ago
Once your number as high as $5.6m, is that even plausibly within the scope of early retirement? I feel like a lot of the value of getting a specific number is getting spooked by it! And then facing some real choices. Is it really worth N ye
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by TideAd 3y ago
I find this very strange, Microsoft has a lot of big internal high-performance services written in C#. You have to be intentional about some things - largely making sure objects are very short-lived or very long-lived, to avoid long GX paus
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by TideAd 3y ago
Ask ChatGPT. Literally ask it to explain how to do something, and explain it a different way if that doesn't work. Not sure what my advice would be before 2022 but this supercedes it.
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by TideAd 3y ago
Lots of Azure stuff is like that. Some big services internally at Microsoft refused to use their Service Fabric product, it couldn't handle the scale & complex deployment needs.
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by TideAd 3y ago
After many years of learning this lesson over and over again, that much my subconscious works on problems, I've finally learned to trust myself to step away when I feel like I'm grinding.
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by TideAd 3y ago
This is a pretty rude generalization, though I get it. As you grow in this career I promise you'll see people with real, serious problems caused/exacerbated by their white-collar jobs. I don't think the difficulty of other ca
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by TideAd 3y ago
It's more like: they'll want evidence it was you who accomplished that. Not for the sake of their product but for the sake of people management.
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by TideAd 3y ago
Scaling up also takes up a lot of resources so you're never able to scale up in response to load without hosing your database even more.
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by TideAd 3y ago
My aunt and uncle, whose main hobbies are drinking beer and watching football, pulled me aside at their daughter's wedding ceremony to tell me how much they love ChatGPT. My friend is a librarian at a high school. She tells me teachers
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by TideAd 3y ago
I think when a company is as openly hostile to the interests of its employees as Amazon, you shouldn't be surprised when there's hostility in return.
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by TideAd 3y ago
I worked a little investment firm in college. A few years ago I looked up my boss, the owner. Found out he was in prison! For stealing $10m from a bunch of retirees in a really careless, sloppy way. I think a surprising amount of people try
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by TideAd 3y ago
Company executives all understand that not adjusting for inflation is a salary cut though. When they make this move that's what they're trying to do.
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by TideAd 3y ago
Remember in the hot 2021 hiring market when Coinbase revoked offers because of a layoff? I remember deciding they were on my blacklist after that. I thought their leadership and recruiting were too disorganized to trust with my career. Of c
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by TideAd 3y ago
Microsoft employs a lot of lifers who have no idea how good tooling is on the outside.
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by TideAd 4y ago
yeah there is no way they'd want that kind of traffic unless the expense knobs were turned down. you might have 10 million queries on this thing per day. if it's just 1c/query that's already $100k/day.
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by TideAd 4y ago
Yeah, personally I like to know what the team & I are being evaluated on. I've been in the opposite situation, where there are priorities and goals that aren't communicated to me until way too late, and I ended up wasting a lo
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by TideAd 4y ago
And if they did complain, what then? Are you worried about the social lives they might be missing out on? About the friendships they might have had if they had a phone with Snapchat on it? A lot of social life for kids happens online.
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by TideAd 4y ago
(Related: https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/02/09/considerations-on-cost... ) A way I sometimes think about it: humans have made great technological leaps, but every day is a battle against decay. Everything tha
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by TideAd 4y ago
I liked the Teams video calls. But did you ever try to search for a message in a conversation, and have it give you just the message you wanted, without any surrounding context? Or have you ever tried to scroll through chat history, only fo
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by TideAd 4y ago
What do people do during the 10 years they have to wait in line?

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