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by api 5mo ago
China copied the US. Now the US should copy China. At least with some things, like industrial policy.
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by api 5mo ago
That was one of my thoughts years ago after playing with early ChatGPT and local llama1: this proves that intelligence and consciousness do not necessitate one another and may not even be directly related . I’ve kind of thought this for ma
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by api 5mo ago
If AI as presently designed and operated is conscious, this ends up being an argument for panpsychism. As you say it’s static, fixed, deterministic, and so on, and if you know how it works it’s more like a lossy compression model of knowled
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by api 5mo ago
V4 plus one or more layers of NAT and all that junk objectively is more complicated, but it’s the devil people know.
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by api 5mo ago
Speaking of this: is anyone working on binary to source decompiler models? Seems like a no brainer and I could see it working exceptionally well especially if they were fine tuned for each language. So if you can tell it’s a Go binary use a
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by api 5mo ago
IT and telecom tend to have an ultra conservative if it’s not broke don’t fix it attitude. It won’t get deployed until enough customers ask for it or it’s required for something important.
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by api 5mo ago
It’s not. It’s IPv4 with more bits and some changes to Ethernet level lookup. The SLAAC vs DHCPv6 mess is not really a problem with the core V6 spec.
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by api 5mo ago
All the cyberpunk books belong in the nonfiction section.
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by api 5mo ago
The inability of governments to perfectly enforce laws and regulations shields us from their incompetence and corruption to some extent.
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by api 5mo ago
This is how they usually roll. They innovate sometimes in hardware but tend to fast follow or even slow follow in software and services. Apple Intelligence is a placeholder and a toe in the water.
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by api 5mo ago
No that’s just reactionary. The discourse around AI in the arts, and other creative and craft fields, is utterly identical to the discourse around photography when it came out to the point that you could search and replace terms and have th
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by api 5mo ago
I agree, but the problem comes back to how to evaluate quality at scale. That is very hard. It’s easier to just say no AI because that at least turns off the fire hose.
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by api 5mo ago
This is a spam problem more than anything else. It's not really an AI problem except that it's AI that is enabling this new type of spam. Imagine there's no AI, but for some reason you have people hiring armies of cheap overs
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by api 5mo ago
I’d say the same thing about Palantir. It’s very clear that they are playing into the hatred and speculation about them to puff themselves up and get attention in the “any attention is good attention” era. Being a literal comic book villain
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by api 5mo ago
They align with the actual motives of the people involved, which is lining their pockets. "America first" is for the rubes. The same is true of "fiscal responsibility." The GOP runs on this, but when they get into power
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by api 5mo ago
Tangent but: this is also why reducing greenhouse gas emissions is hard. As long as fossil fuels remain one of the cheapest easiest to scale ways to make power, there’s a similar incentive to cheat. If everyone else cuts emissions and you d
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by api 5mo ago
Most of what you describe here is overfitting: https://sohl-dickstein.github.io/2022/11/06/strong-Goodhart....
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by api 5mo ago
They are missing the point though. The point is not even to be faster but to show that the QC is QCing. It can be slower than random search, and in fact might be expected to be. It’s kind of like early fusion plasma experiments that require
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by api 5mo ago
Sure, I know that, but even a small down payment on crazy home prices is insane let alone the monthly payment. I suspect these stats are nationwide. There are places you can still actually buy a home without an exit event. Maybe genZ has wi
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by api 5mo ago
I’ve had a hypothesis ever since studying biology and things like complexity and emergence years ago: We will find life almost everywhere there is an energy gradient, a sufficiently rich substrate, and phase transition boundaries. Life is j
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by api 5mo ago
I can’t grasp the math. How are young people buying homes? Is the average income now over $100k? Or are they taking out mortgages they can never pay off, meaning they are almost renting not on a path to actually buying or owning and most of
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by api 5mo ago
This assumes two things: that AI will not asymptote due to limits in things like training data or compute, and that a superintelligence would necessarily cause our extinction. The latter is based on examining evolutionary history, but that
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by api 5mo ago
Makes me think of the old Monty Python joke so funny it kills everyone skit. Which makes me think of a thread years ago I saw on the modern equivalent: a meme so offensive (to literally everyone at once) nobody can see it without having an
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by api 5mo ago
I’ve always thought if we met super advanced aliens they would be… no more advanced than needed. In each domain they would use only the most complex thing needed to accomplish a task and no more. 100 years ago I might cook in a cast iron pa
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by api 5mo ago
You probably see that because many are low effort Reddit level comments. I’ve seen lots of long AI skeptic threads and people talking about the likely negatives of AI.
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by api 5mo ago
They might be converging somewhat. The ultimate limiting factor is training data. Eventually I think they will converge and then the competition will be on memory and compute efficiency, with the best being the smallest maximally capable mo
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by api 5mo ago
Cocaine bear, cocaine shark, cocaine… salmon?
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by api 5mo ago
The anti-AI discourse is almost identical to anti-photography diatribes from more than a century ago. Artists will also learn to use AI to make art. I don’t mean slop, which is low effort stuff and I tend to use that term regardless of whet
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by api 5mo ago
The point is being able to write it once with web developers instead of writing it a minimum of twice (Windows and macOS) with much harder to hire native UI developers.
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Here’s my understanding. The people involved in core Internet protocol design were used to the net being a largely walled garden of governments, corporations, universities, and a small number of BBSes and niche ISPs. Major protocol upgrades

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