abecedarius

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by abecedarius 3d ago
Yes! There's both the daunting problem of technically how can we even do this, and the broader problems of what's good/acceptable and how do we resolve that among each other. I believe this mismatch of rates of progress means
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Is There an 'I' in AI?(royalsocietypublishing.org)
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by abecedarius 3d ago
I agree with most of this, but you're misunderstanding "alignment" as coined. Yes, training powerful enough AI, any simple optimization target gets you malign behavior, because human values are not simple. If you insist on ma
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by abecedarius 4d ago
Was [2] meant to be https://www.amazon.com/Lines-Curves-Practical-Geometry-Handb... ? In my browser your link brought up a page with no book. I found the above by searching for Gutenmacher.
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by abecedarius 5d ago
fwiw I also observed a persisting slowdown soon after upgrading my Studio to OSX 26. Since I haven't been using it very much I'm short on data bearing on the cause -- maybe it was GPU use though I don't recall doing anything
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by abecedarius 6d ago
Thanks! You're better at search than me. It was part of a story, described here (last 3 pages): https://www.researchgate.net/publication/403044354_Photograp...
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by abecedarius 6d ago
> processes better regarded as generalization and prediction, which seem not only seem to have direct and obvious neural realizations If the workings of those circuits are obvious to you, I'd really like to learn. Do you mean the le
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by abecedarius 6d ago
This reminded me of a story/vignette which my fallible memory tags as by someone like Twain or Poe, about an automatic rewriting machine. It was put to work on the same passage with an ever higher intensity setting, becoming more and m
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by abecedarius 6d ago
Sounds like a problem that'd hit anyone running LLMs. I haven't tried on mine so far, but people do talk about ordering a $10k Mac Studio just for that. Anyone else see this? Does the OS version matter?
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by abecedarius 12d ago
Author also known for inventing (ro)BDDs later in the 80s.
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by abecedarius 14d ago
"The BASIC they did which we got ahold of the BASIC source code and enhanced t quite a bit was great." Thanks! I think this is still talking about his high school volunteer hacking rather than the MS Basic era. (i.e. doesn't
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by abecedarius 14d ago
From [2]: > Gates said: "I'd skip out on athletics and go down to this computer center. We were moving ahead very rapidly: Basic, FORTRAN, LISP, PDP-10 machine language, digging out the operating system listings from the trash
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by abecedarius 20d ago
I haven't tried this but sounds like https://github.com/cloudflare/cloudflare-os ?
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by abecedarius 1mo ago
This might come down to details of how you explain it: iirc Apostol took those basic moves (axioms) and calculated what the formula would have to be, rather than starting with a formula and checking that it has the properties of a signed vo
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by abecedarius 1mo ago
It seems to me more like determinants are often badly motivated. The way I remember it from Apostol's Calculus was like "a volume multiplier would be very useful; it needs to be a signed volume for linearity, which implies antisym
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by abecedarius 1mo ago
I didn't carefully read either of these, but it reminds me of https://blog.cloudflare.com/code-mode-mcp/ (note it predates the filing).
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by abecedarius 2mo ago
If your source is not open that's barely a speedbump, given a binary. At least that's my impression of the current state.
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by abecedarius 2mo ago
Some of us considered seeking one of these jobs and decided not to. Some have quit (e.g. Hinton, OpenAI people after OpenAI reneged on safety commitments). Now you're getting this message from people who passed the previous filters. If
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by abecedarius 2mo ago
Mainly my point there is that it doesn't seem reasonable to anchor advanced nanotechnology on the doubling times we're used to for industry. I don't want to guess just what to expect for early construction from a starseed arr
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by abecedarius 2mo ago
All our structural carbon is low tech by the relevant standards (civilization that can send star-seeds). https://dspace.mit.edu/entities/publication/49f95196-2ddf-48...
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by abecedarius 2mo ago
> complex and interdependent ecosystem That's why my other comment pointed to the autotrophs with the simplest requirements, and the (unknown but complexity-bounded) origin of life. > pace of biological activity is a lot slower t
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by abecedarius 2mo ago
In the outer solar system organics and water are abundant (and in the inner there are plenty of carbonaceous chondrites, admittedly not the most generic inner-system bodies). Agreed that metals should unlock wider opportunities in the inner
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by abecedarius 2mo ago
If physics were to forbid closure at small scale, how could life begin? And how does a micron-scale autotroph reproduce?
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by abecedarius 2mo ago
Yes, I was wondering why the focus on metals. (Admittedly they might be needed in trace amounts for catalysis, or convenient for conductors, etc., or for structural material if you're on a carbon-poor asteroid. Most metals are worse th
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by abecedarius 2mo ago
To target the "poor people need more money" problem, the most direct answer is give them money. If someone's answer is a variety of politically-allocated narrow subsidies, you should wonder what interest they're really a
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by abecedarius 2mo ago
This assumes the best models continue to be publicly available. There's some level of capability where it makes more sense to go in business for yourself.
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by abecedarius 2mo ago
The same AIs are doing math research now, you know. At what point do you stop explaining it all away?
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by abecedarius 2mo ago
"High speed" here can be taken in terms like this: the phase of the wave function changes rapidly with position and time. (Changing with position -> a superposition that's heavy on short wavelengths, high momentum; with ti
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by abecedarius 2mo ago
An OS is a virtual machine meant to be shared among programs. Sure the central examples expose most of an ISA that they run on themselves, but there are also examples like Inferno, Taos, AS/400.
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by abecedarius 2mo ago
Aside: the example question ("What is the intuition that two reflections gives a rotation?") could have a more intuitive answer involving flipping an actual flashcard over twice, funnily enough...

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