andy99

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LLMs are real, AI is fake(pluralistic.net)
11 points by andy99 2d ago|0 comments
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by andy99 4d ago
How much of the “danger” is from better models vs the harness? Isn’t the current risk due to how AI is configured, like giving it a full set of tools and internet access and a goal to hack stuff? If we think we need laws or gate keeping, wh
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by andy99 4d ago
Wouldn’t it most likely mean their progress is slowing and they want to make it appear as a deliberate decision for the good of humanity instead of admitting growth follows a logistic curve in advance of their IPOs?
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by andy99 4d ago
Is there any indication stretching leads to improved health outcomes like resistance training does per the article? Everything I’ve seen indicates it’s a “nice to have” if one has unlimited time but if you’ve only got an hour a day or whate
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by andy99 4d ago
I work out at home with dumbells, the one thing I miss vs a gym is some way to do lat pull downs. I can’t do a chin up and don’t feel like I’ve got a good way to work up to it. I also don’t work legs super seriously, I have 2x75lb dumbells
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by andy99 5d ago
Erlich Bachman: Jian-Yang, what're you doing? This is Palo Alto. People are lunatics about smoking here. We don't enjoy all the freedoms that you have in China. Anyway, when the talk of age verification first came out, I m
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by andy99 6d ago
When I saw the 192GB I first thought they might have beat Framework to market with a Gorgon Halo machine with unified RAM that Framework has teased. This is just a GPU workstation.
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by andy99 6d ago
Funny how they include nvidia, micron, and AMD revenue as “AI revenue” and that it represents that majority of industry revenue but presumably a big chunk of everyone else’s spend. Almost might as well include electric utility revenue as AI
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by andy99 7d ago
Interesting, thanks. Looks like also guilty of assuming the first place I saw it was the definitive source.
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Go F Yourself Sama(twitter.com)
4 points by andy99 7d ago|2 comments
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by andy99 7d ago
Found it really funny to see this attributed to a Slashdot meme
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by andy99 8d ago
Is there a specific concern you have, and what kind of performance penalty is it worth to you on say coding tasks? Conceptually, sure I understand, but in practice it currently seems like it amounts to just using a worse model without getti
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by andy99 8d ago
Agree benchmarks don’t tell the whole story. A better and easier evaluation of capability is whether anyone is using it for anything. Does Mistral have material market share for any application, including anything that would fall under item
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by andy99 8d ago
What’s the point of having “sovereign” weights that are worse than publicly available ones? Wouldn’t Europe be better off just keeping up-to-date on the Chinese releases? In the event of some schism requiring sovereign capability, or even i
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K2 Horizon(mbzuai.ac.ae)
3 points by andy99 10d ago|0 comments
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by andy99 10d ago
This misunderstands what it means to be better at writing. Root cause here is that writing is how humans communicate ideas. An LLM written thing isn’t doing that, it’s something equivalent to copy/pasting a Wikipedia article. Even if t
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by andy99 10d ago
So many people seem completely blind to LLM writing, they are fine sharing it on social media or at work. I think it’s people who are “not details people” and are used to judging something without reading it based on superficial cues which
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AI Slop(papers.ssrn.com)
15 points by andy99 10d ago|3 comments
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by andy99 14d ago
It’s funny, it’s obviously understandable why someone would vibe code a placeholder website, we’ve all probably done it. But I’m realizing a basic unstyled html thing with minimal copy is probably a better signal at this point for startups,
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by andy99 14d ago
“We’re looking for athletes” I’ve been a cleaner, and watched other people clean. I had a theory that if you paid $100k (or whatever good salary) you would probably get more value than paying 5 people 20k. I think there’s lots of value in p
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by andy99 14d ago
Do you have data on the tokens or $ cost of this?
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by andy99 19d ago
Very cool, after watching a minute it grew on me and I can see why the perspective is useful. My immediate thought is that this is what is would be like to drive in The Spindle in Neuromancer or any similar space environment that’s spinning
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by andy99 20d ago
It was funny to watch this discussion turn from skepticism at the top to then a bunch of proponents moving in and crowding out the rational voices. It feels a bit religious to me, at least unscientific, there are obviously no testable hypot
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by andy99 20d ago
I feel like there would be much more obvious practical differences if it was a real thing. The spectrum as described seems so different from one end to the other that we seemingly have people who can switch reality into a movie of their cho
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by andy99 20d ago
I’ve see no evidence it’s anything but this. I have no idea if I have it or not or just describe stuff differently. I think this is logically much more likely. It’s a “what does it feel like to be conscious?” or “is my red your red” kind of
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by andy99 20d ago
> techno zaibatsu Reminded of this discussion from a few days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49389372 We have the techno-feudalism and dystopia but none of the cool aesthetics from cyber punk or arguably even t
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by andy99 21d ago
Didn’t we just witness it? Become a critical ecosystem player then get acquired based on the value of that position.
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by andy99 21d ago
I thin HF holds huge power in how they’ve consolidated all the open models and data, but monopoly feels like a stretch here. They are in reality a fairly small startup with lots of alternatives (all of which are much worse at this point gra
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by andy99 21d ago
The open weights AI ecosystem is way too concentrated with HF. That said, it was clear they were going to either get bought or aggressively monetized at some point, Nvidia seems like it could be one of the more aligned acquirers. I do worry
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by andy99 21d ago
Is there reason to believe that outcomes would be better with many small players? Obviously the “blast radius” is bigger when it’s a big company with a huge footprint, but are incidents rarer and quality control better? Completely anecdotal

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