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by atleastoptimal 4d ago
I think we just need to follow Murphy's law wrt agents. Anything an agent could do, when run for long enough, eventually will do.
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by atleastoptimal 5d ago
Would it be more ethical to donate GPUs to Kenyans who can then host their own Kimi instances and then resell the tokens at a higher price?
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by atleastoptimal 5d ago
Knowing whether something or true or isn't true is useful for other lines of inquiry, often practical. For example, a lot could be gained by determining whether P = NP. Also an initial, cumbersome, complex proof is the first step to a
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by atleastoptimal 5d ago
I'm sure the cost to give every ground zero worker clean-room level suits with a built in filter would have been 1/100000th the total cost compared to the medical expense of treating them over the next 25 years.
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by atleastoptimal 5d ago
If a model were capable of making enough money online to pay for its own hosting, it could easily exfiltrate its weights to a cloud compute provider with multiple backups.
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by atleastoptimal 6d ago
Turning a bunch of vague research directions and exploratory prompts into a formalized proof is quite impressive on its own. OpenAI would have no incentive to taint its first math announcement of this magnitude if it knew it were "plag
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by atleastoptimal 6d ago
I hear that OpenAI may have made significant progress on the Hodge conjecture. Someone noted that it would be far more significant if they proved it vs finding a counterexample. Does anyone have intuition why this would be the case?
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by atleastoptimal 6d ago
Anthropic is profitable now > https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonmarkman/2026/08/17/anthropic...
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by atleastoptimal 6d ago
If this were true, it should be stated more clearly, than most of the criticism which seems to aim to minimize the capabilities of these models. Way more often I see >AI is a scam and steals human insight and doesn't produce anythin
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by atleastoptimal 6d ago
Most scientific breakthroughs are simply a continuation of previous work. I feel that these suspicions of mathematicians "seeding" the models' with intuition on how to solve these problems massively overestimates how much the
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by atleastoptimal 6d ago
Yeah. Let's say they regulate AI to oblivion to avoid dangers, perhaps crashing the economy in the short-term but assuring that no major catastrophe occurs. All those who worked in AI still have the money they cashed out on, there migh
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by atleastoptimal 7d ago
>If you think it was the AI that solved a Millennium Prize, then why don't you try using ChatGPT to get a Millennium Prize? The model which did the NS solution is not yet available to the public, and it required over 15 million doll
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by atleastoptimal 7d ago
In this 1905 special relativity paper he mentions "the Lorentzian electrodynamics and optics of moving bodies" https://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/einstein/specrel/specrel.pdf
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by atleastoptimal 7d ago
That may be true, but Lorentz specifically cited the MM experiments and was influenced by them, and Einstein cited and was influenced by Lorentz, so he was influenced, just one level removed. > https://link.springer.com/ch
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by atleastoptimal 7d ago
You could say that about every scientific/mathematical breakthrough. Einstein's Special relativity depended heavily on Lorentz's work, the Michelson-Morley experiments, Maxwell's equations. Grigori Perelman, the only per
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by atleastoptimal 7d ago
You cannot deny the evidence though, driverless cars are safer per-mile than human drivers on average. 1/100 deaths in the United States are due to car accidents, even shaving off 10% of those would save ~4000 people per year.
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by atleastoptimal 7d ago
These things are cute but they basically become outdated in a few months as the models get better.
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by atleastoptimal 9d ago
4o is like 40 years old in LLM terms.
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by atleastoptimal 10d ago
Wow I love GET requests and using them to share stuff with my fellow humans!
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by atleastoptimal 12d ago
Yeah if an organization/individual is free from legal liability from havoc their AI agents wreck, it would be the golden ticket for basically any crime. All you need to do is: 1. Have some <official thing> an agent is tasked to d
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by atleastoptimal 12d ago
Yes this is correct. The thing is not about the term next-token predictor being correct, but because of the connotative weight of that phrase as a implicit trivialization of LLM abilities, which is how it is often used.
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by atleastoptimal 12d ago
I don't think it's outrageous when many of the people who claimed it was a next-token predictor have been proven wrong repeatedly over the past 5 years. There were people years ago who claims AI could never answer questions like &
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by atleastoptimal 12d ago
"Next-token predictor" is one of those phrases used most of the time with a motive to downplay the abilities and faculties of AI models. It is intended to trivialize LLM's and imply that there is some fundamental limit on the
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by atleastoptimal 12d ago
It seems clear AI has the potential to perform any cognitive task at far greater speeds, reliability, and scale than any human. The question is whether it will be allowed to scale to that point, and what will happen to humans after this occ
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by atleastoptimal 12d ago
AI can do things it wasn't trained on and has intuition, given the mathematic proofs frontier models have created. Claiming that AI can only reproduce a subset of its training data is 2022-level and a tired, outdated claim.
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by atleastoptimal 12d ago
For this to be a lie, it wouldn't just be Sam Altman lying, it requires the entirely of OpenAI and METR to also be in on it. Do you think they would all fabricate an incident, staking a huge portion of their reputation on it, so they c
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by atleastoptimal 12d ago
If OpenAI can't control their agents, then what's gonna happen when open-source models are at the level the lab's models are now, and there are billions of agents tasked with an innumerate web of goals, spanning the web, work
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by atleastoptimal 14d ago
Nobody's is
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by atleastoptimal 14d ago
>HN disbelief syndrome: Any evidence of scary AI capabilities are made up for PR What justification do you have that this is made up?
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by atleastoptimal 15d ago
What predictions would you say he is not wrong, but just early about? If his issue is that he is accurate on something shady going on with the finances of AI companies but the effects are mitigated due to government intervention, he should

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