barking_biscuit

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by barking_biscuit 3y ago
It's one of the biggest games in the world, so I can see the appeal of targeting Minecraft players, especially since a lot of them are children and don't know what's going on. I checked my sons computer for this malware yeste
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by barking_biscuit 3y ago
This is my take too. If we knew then what we know now, we'd probably make different choices.
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by barking_biscuit 3y ago
But then how would you loan out all your customers money to your shell companies?
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by barking_biscuit 3y ago
I remember fondly participating in the hype around crypto in 2017 and going in on btc/eth and also building a mining rig etc. The discourse on HN back then is quite different from today. These days we've seen scam after scam, frau
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by barking_biscuit 3y ago
I'm with you on this one. It was a solid argument in 2017, but even by 2018 the writing was on the wall for crypto. John Oliver recently did another segment on crypto and he absolutely nailed it in saying that the only real currency in
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by barking_biscuit 3y ago
It feels like we're at the pareto frontier. Technological advancement used to feel like it truly was progress, but we're now at a point where advancement is simply advancement, and we're well aware that as the technology adva
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by barking_biscuit 3y ago
This feels like the correct take to me.
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by barking_biscuit 3y ago
> What's "bad" enough to get a user banned from _all_ of Reddit? explicit deepfakes
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by barking_biscuit 3y ago
What's super confusing is people on r/LocalLLaMA often just refer too it as "ooba". The actual repo is https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui and you notice that oobabooga is actually th
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by barking_biscuit 3y ago
That's humans for you.
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by barking_biscuit 3y ago
>If we refused to advance out of fear, that fear will have done far more harm than access to AI will ever do. Like anyone could ever know that.
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by barking_biscuit 3y ago
Also people should know RT == Russian Propaganda
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by barking_biscuit 3y ago
If you define it like that, it's just the internet.
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by barking_biscuit 3y ago
We're all research professionals now.
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by barking_biscuit 3y ago
An absolutely huge part of it for humans is that as the complexity of the thing being reasoned about grows, the accuracy of the mental models declines. That and we also train billions of individual models on a narrow slice of reality, and l
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by barking_biscuit 3y ago
This is crazy cool. This would be epic as an extension for text-generation-webui, so that we can run it with local LLMs!
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by barking_biscuit 3y ago
At the risk of repeating classic HN Dropbox hubris... this just looks like what Automatic1111 + ControlNet is already doing.
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by barking_biscuit 3y ago
>So it is with any technological innovation. Should computers not have been invented because they eliminated jobs? Should steel? What about agriculture? The future is sure to be different, but that doesn't mean we should fight to de
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by barking_biscuit 3y ago
It's a fantastic interview. To clarify, his position boils down to something like "the risk is very real, the chance the risk materializes is quite significant, it's not a foregone conclusion that we are all definitely going
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by barking_biscuit 3y ago
>Do you have a counterexample of someone who's gotten their predictions right? Because if not, that should only terrify you even more. If there's anyone out there who predicted how LLMs would work in a way Eliezer failed to, an
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by barking_biscuit 3y ago
After watching virtually every long-form interview of AI experts I noticed they each have some glaring holes in their mental models of reality. If even the experts are suffering from severe limitations on their bounded-rationality, then lay
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by barking_biscuit 3y ago
>I used to be worried about AI alignment, until I realized something fundamental: We already have unaligned human-level artificial intelligences running around, we call them corporations We also call them governments. They can get pretty
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Ask HN: How do you personally define 'AGI'?
11 points by barking_biscuit 3y ago|29 comments
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by barking_biscuit 3y ago
Didn't know about this. Looks promising!
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by barking_biscuit 3y ago
Can we call it LLMPeg?
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by barking_biscuit 3y ago
Xenobots, even.
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by barking_biscuit 3y ago
I didn't get the punchline of this, so I asked GPT-4 to explain the punchline. Actually quite amusing.
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by barking_biscuit 3y ago
>"we can get results similar to OpenAI's API with our model that you can run on a Commodore 64!" I have felt similar frustrations with statements that feel disingenuous too. Thanks for articulating this with such a beautif
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by barking_biscuit 3y ago
No, the point is those people are also a black-box to you and they are a black-box that you trust because of YOUR training set and training process.
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by barking_biscuit 3y ago
>If you want to trust a prediction, you need to understand how all the computations work. I disagree with the premise here. You don't understand how all the computations work in the brains of people's predictions whom you trust

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