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by awongh 20d ago
I get the structural comparison they are trying to make. But mortgages are not a frontier AI lab. They try to draw a comparison to the valuation of the real estate and the valuation of the hyper scalers in the markets. I would argue that th
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by awongh 1mo ago
The other thing with the AI debate is that it's nothing new- these kinds of failures are the same kind that have been going on for a long time, for the exact same reasons. Any time a local government fails people these same kinds of in
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by awongh 1mo ago
If they are using a true agentic TTS / LLM setup then this is just a first pass for them to implement fully AI answered 911 calls. Otherwise I can code this state machine condition for you in 10 minutes.
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by awongh 1mo ago
For the people who believe this, I think it deeply reflects how they think about all knowledge and the kinds of things they would use this technology for- "finding the answers to things without having to think about them"- that&#x
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by awongh 1mo ago
I don't agree with the luddite-esque AI views like using ChatGPT makes you dumber and it thinks for you , but- this is a real case of why people are angry and why they should be concerned about deployment of AI. The article says it&#x
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by awongh 2mo ago
Most people mean this to say that 1 trillion is a lot of money, but it still comes back to what you believe AI is- in hindsight, does 1 trillion dollars to build the internet sound like a lot or a little? (That is, spending 1 year of USA&#x
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by awongh 2mo ago
I don't want to save money so badly that I'd possibly undercut the quality of the code that gets created. *edit to add: that code quality (or lack of quality) is it's own cost
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by awongh 2mo ago
what's the threshold for model routing where you're willing to trust the router? For coding my own work I don't trust the model router, and it would have to be shown to be to save a real dollar amount. From a buying perspecti
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by awongh 2mo ago
I’m not sure I understand the analogy. You could say that the reason why artificial flavors work in food is because we know how to recreate flavors from first principle chemistry. The dislike of the artificialness of cheetos also doesn’t st
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by awongh 2mo ago
> LLMs are really only capable of combining different things into output In terms of how writers think about creativity this doesn’t reflect reality- there’s the old writer’s saying that there are only 7 stories (and other variations of
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by awongh 2mo ago
It's crazy how much bigger OpenAI is than Anthropic.
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by awongh 2mo ago
Maybe they are hoping that when the bottom drops out they will just be able to buy Anthropic or OpenAI for a few tens of billion.
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by awongh 2mo ago
But maybe the TPU advantage is in inference? That's what I assume because the number of compute cycles are going to be all in inference vs training. So they could train on GPUs if they want.
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by awongh 2mo ago
It says the original report was in the Information, which I can't see, but I'm skeptical that they includes the training cost? And how much that changes the figure?
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by awongh 2mo ago
Does it have "massive" margins? Afaik no one has said publicly what margins there are on an API call?
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by awongh 2mo ago
It seems like there are some credible rumors that Google is actually winning in terms of actually building models that work and don't lose money- between how they're able to price them, the TPU advantage and their capex advantage
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by awongh 2mo ago
I meant the attack would be the other way around- if an infected package had the git.exe file in their root. Or, the infected package could also copy that file into the parent project's root.
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by awongh 2mo ago
I guess this is only specific to a file in the root of the repo, so it doesn't allow for an NPM supply chain attack?
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by awongh 2mo ago
It's interesting that all models seems to be unbiased out of the box so far- that is, mostly reflecting the training data (the internet). The whole mecha-hitler thing doesn't seem to reflect fine-tuning, it was just a prompt chang
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by awongh 3mo ago
> But your brain works the other way around. First there is a concept, a feeling, an image, and then the words come out to describe it. After this I can't take the essay seriously- this sort of blanket statement about the one true h
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by awongh 3mo ago
For a lot of Americans the credit card system is another tax on being poor: People with stable jobs and good credit qualify for no-fee credit cards with rewards / cashback. As a consumer you benefit financially from having a credit car
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by awongh 3mo ago
It’s all about perspective, because Vercel is probably another 3-10x markup on AWS? These kinds of choices are kind of pricing range as engineering decisions in the end.
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by awongh 3mo ago
afaik prices for the big cloud providers haven't changed this much. Their instance prices are already inflated and they're probably willing to eat into their own margins to keep prices stable and just wait out the capex increase (
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by awongh 3mo ago
As a teacher I understand how difficult it is to explain complex topics in a simple step by step way. The site has some really impressive technical aspects, but the educational angle is the most rare and special! The simplicity of the langu
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by awongh 3mo ago
That's true now, but long-term (maybe just a few years) it doesn't seem feasible for the status quo to continue from a financial point of view. Spend for compute seems like it needs to increase to get the next iterations of models
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by awongh 3mo ago
I've started to have different models review things like architectural planning docs- and I think for these more "fuzzy" outputs the differences between the outputs can be quite different and I can use my own "taste&quot
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by awongh 3mo ago
afaik you are not the customer for customer support, and in the vast majority of cases human phone support is setup for the opposite case where people just want to be walked through something they can't find in the UI. So this isn&#x27
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by awongh 3mo ago
Both things can be true. If you're truly pessimistic this is the only thing you would expect, and not the other stuff that happened- a globally coordinated vaccine rollout to every country on earth.
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by awongh 3mo ago
Since covid I’ve actually become less convinced of this. Yes there were national interests at play and there was a lot of general chaos. But. The level of international coordination with vaccine rollouts and agreements between countries was
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by awongh 3mo ago
People surprised by this don’t know that the expertise that incubated silicon chips at Stanford and around the valley was based on electrical engineering work done for world war II / cold war radar technology, among other things. Stanf

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