akoboldfrying

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by akoboldfrying 6d ago
The elevator not working
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by akoboldfrying 7d ago
A chair manufacturer should be free to offer a service whereby you pay a monthly percentage of your income for the use of a chair. I don't think many chair-users would opt for it, but I see no reason to ban it. Some services already wo
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by akoboldfrying 7d ago
> If I'm happy with the weights you've given me, and I'm not using your compute for inference and not wanting or needing any updates off you, why should you continue getting money off me and my customers? Because that&#x27
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by akoboldfrying 7d ago
I mostly agree, however: 1. When a nation perceives a threat as severe and imminent, attitudes harden quickly. This perception can be achieved independently of whether the threat is real. Nuking the other guy first, consequences be damned,
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by akoboldfrying 8d ago
Yes. But this is hard for mathematicians to stomach, because like everyone else, deep down in a place where they don't like to talk about at parties, they have egos and a sense of purpose based in part on demonstrating mastery of a tec
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by akoboldfrying 8d ago
I don't think we can confidently say, yet, that LLMs can't discover those connections. We just haven't explored them yet, because 99.99% of the prestige is locked up in proving hard results, which also happen to be easier t
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by akoboldfrying 9d ago
The linked CADO-NFS Inria page makes no mention of GPUs, and nor does its downloads page, which makes me think that TFA's factoring was done purely on CPUs. If so, there could still be considerable speedup on the table! The CADO-NFS pa
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by akoboldfrying 9d ago
All it would actually take to avert a jobs crisis is for the per-token price of LLM generation to increase to the point where humans are competitive in dollar terms for intellectual work. This could happen all by itself if the major LLM pla
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by akoboldfrying 10d ago
In some cases, this was because of a single person's brave decision (Vasily Arkhipov prevented Soviet nuclear escalation in response to US aggression in the Cuban Missile Crisis, and Stanislav Petrov prevented it in 1983 when Soviet mi
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by akoboldfrying 11d ago
That's fair, I hadn't noticed the word "violent" sneak into Gemini's answer (it wasn't there in my question). Highest overall crime rates: Memphis, Tennessee Oakland, California Portland, Oregon Detroit, Michig
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by akoboldfrying 13d ago
I asked Gemini to list the 10 most popular holiday destinations in the US, and the 10 places with the highest crime. There's only 1 place in the intersection: New Orleans. Highest violent crime rates: Memphis, Tennessee: ~2,400–2,500 p
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by akoboldfrying 13d ago
If work is needed for "crowd control", why aren't popular holiday destinations crime hotspots?
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by akoboldfrying 13d ago
If a video announcement and a press release would change a person's mind on whether this is AGI, I don't put a huge amount of weight on that person's conception of what AGI is.
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by akoboldfrying 13d ago
Humans dig ourselves into holes as well. Sometimes more intelligent humans are better at realising they are digging a hole and clamber out, but sometimes they just dig deeper. And: Is your work more difficult than finding proofs of or count
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by akoboldfrying 14d ago
Still 3.6 ("new") for me, even 3.7 is not available.
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by akoboldfrying 15d ago
The difference is that Altman and Amodei are doing something else besides making predictions that turn out to be wrong. Most obviously, they're running tech companies that are changing the way entire industries operate. We put a lot of
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by akoboldfrying 16d ago
1. How is it advantageous? 2. Assuming it really is: Why would this make it unlikely to be encoded on a single gene? As a layman, the only condition I'm aware of with this "downside but also upside" quality is sickle cell ana
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by akoboldfrying 16d ago
I largely agree with your take on the subjective value of writing that I happen to know was generated by a machine, but that is not at all what I'm talking about here. I'm responding to the specific claim in TFA that LLMs produce
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by akoboldfrying 16d ago
People seem to have very short memories. LLMs are easily capable of good writing. The fact that they are loaded up with obvious "tells" now is quite a recent development. One year ago, the writer Mark Lawrence posted an article [0
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by akoboldfrying 17d ago
Are you prepared to randomly serve data that is incorrect -- but in such a way that real people can easily detect it -- some very small fraction of the time? If so, you could serve iocaine-style bogus pages 1% (say) of the time that: 1. &
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by akoboldfrying 17d ago
That was somewhat helpful, thanks, but the most interesting aspect for me is how iocaine tries to determine whether a request comes from a bot (since if this can be done reliably, we're done) -- but on that, all the link says is that i
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by akoboldfrying 17d ago
Interesting. Judging by the number of "skinnable" computer and phone apps, a lot of people seem to really care about this kind of personalisation. I have never so much as changed the default background on a phone that I've ow
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by akoboldfrying 18d ago
Sure, this would also work. But it seems more complicated -- what would be the benefit?
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by akoboldfrying 18d ago
This is right. There's a reason people squat domain names that differ from well-known ones by a single bit flip. Think of how many old, shitty phones there are in the world, built using the cheapest available components and running in
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by akoboldfrying 18d ago
Was the advantage that the exe file's sectors were likely to be contiguous on disk, so the config data could likely be read in a single pass through sectors on the same track, as compared to probably having to wait for a full revolutio
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by akoboldfrying 19d ago
Thanks, I can see how invalidating the token after first use, or after a short time period, reduces the exploit possibilities. (If all upstream service providers that you depend on were perfect, this could be arranged separately for each JW
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by akoboldfrying 19d ago
How does the running app instance get the workload identity? The ways I can think of are (1) it's baked into the source code (worst possible security), (2) it's provided on the command line (also bad since command lines are visibl
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by akoboldfrying 19d ago
> Besides being bad advice What makes it bad advice? > this had the second-order effect of leading devs to believe they could put all their local env secrets in ~/.bashrc files You need some way to pass secrets to the app; doesn&
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by akoboldfrying 19d ago
Definitely. Even a custom compression/encoding that knows to treat the different fields differently -- just a 4-byte binary IP address for A records, normal LZ-based text compression of the domain name (perhaps using a custom starting
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by akoboldfrying 20d ago
Sorry, but I don't think that makes sense. Any mutiny-preventing deal that a union negotiates could instead have been offered voluntarily by the employer to all employees from the outset, no union required.

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