blagie

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by blagie 12d ago
The problem is that, in this arms race, unaligned AI has a competitive advantage over aligned AI. The second problem -- already seen in Ukraine v. Russia -- is that in a high-stakes situation, humans will take every safeguard off.
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by blagie 24d ago
Interesting comment. I am researching this in more depth as a result. Thank you. Two nits, or slight overstatements: > The US Constitution also clearly identifies the President as Command in Chief of the militia Is not quite true. He is
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by blagie 24d ago
> that's not what school is for Most people would disagree with you about the purpose of school. Article cites Dewey, who wrote a lot of text about what school is for. Friere is also worth reading there. You'll see a diversity
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by blagie 24d ago
I was explaining the article, not making a statement about how learning works. My comment was poorly phrased. I agree with everything you said, except Vygotsky. :) Vygotsky is worth reading, since: - He is evidence-based. He isn't just
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by blagie 24d ago
I should clarify -- since from both posts, my comment was ambiguous and misinterpreted: I was explaining the article, not my views, since the top-level comment did not read it. Regarding your comment, it is as wrong as the article. BOTH are
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by blagie 24d ago
You are wrong in understanding the article. Khan: Videos + rote exercises Learning: Projects, complex problem-solving, exploration, argumentation, etc. Dewey is worth reading.
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by blagie 24d ago
It's not a bad idea in concept, but the core problem is what he delivered was: "essentially global learning via all the Khan videos, in math, by him, and in other subjects, by his team." Khan Academy is 2010-era state-of-the-
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by blagie 24d ago
I am responding to the comment, not the article. The concept of Khanmigo was great. The implementation was basically useless. It was a great attempt, but the article explains the problem: "early OpenAI access" This was literally t
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by blagie 24d ago
... then (at least if they are far enough gone), you have elderly relatives who are not "free and accountable for their own actions."
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by blagie 24d ago
That's not quite what it says. "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." 1. The reason is well-regulated militias, but
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by blagie 25d ago
Personally, I think gun companies should be liable for any harm done by their products as well. We want rule-of-law, and in the US, people should have an absolute right to bare arms, as in the second amendment. Free market forces can then d
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by blagie 25d ago
> Yes, some elderly are disabled by mental decline or dementia, that's no different from a mental disability at any age. If there were a clean way to define it, I'd probably be better to change: - "elderly" to "i
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by blagie 25d ago
> are (as far as the law is concerned) free and accountable for their own actions I don't think you've ever had a relative with e.g. Alzheimer's or dementia. There's a fine line where the above stops being the case. &
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by blagie 25d ago
I think what's missing here is elderly. Arguably, that's even more harmful.
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by blagie 1mo ago
I agree with "just so pointless too - there are many good, better-illustrated, and better-explained human articles about the same circuit." However, to me, this reads more like human stupidity than AI slop. Certainly, my AIs would
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by blagie 2mo ago
I don't think it's slop -- the sources are books and it doesn't read like slop -- but the sources are more worth reading. It's more like an undergrad trying to fill word count, without getting why this is interesting.
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by blagie 2mo ago
You seem to be a product of Russian propaganda. My advice would be to read a non-Ukranian history book. What Russia seems to be doing is trying to split Ukraine from the West. It's not true that "russians having much better positi
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by blagie 2mo ago
> Unless of course you are actually pro-Russian and you're just playing this game at a higher level in which case... congrats because that is effective I seriously thought this was the case, but looking at the post history, it'
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by blagie 2mo ago
That's missing the point. When a toddler does something inappropriate, "but he did it to me" is not an excuse. If both kids did something bad, I want both to apologize, and both to move on. It's also not a contest for wh
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by blagie 2mo ago
Yes, these are very much among Russia's pretexts. There were others as well. Most have at least some basis as well. For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/422nd_Unmanned_Systems_Regimen... And yes, it is still
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by blagie 2mo ago
MIT has, predictably, become a cesspool of corruption. People called this about two decades ago. The problems are: 1) Ambitious people are drawn to such institutions 2) There are $40B swishing around 3) Incentives align for fame and impact,
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by blagie 2mo ago
Curiosity: For most of the past five years, I've known ways to do better than Anthropic, OpenAI, and friends in many ways, at least on paper. I know I was right about many of them since many would show up 6-24 months later tools from t
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by blagie 2mo ago
> But then, by standards of two decades ago, every website that cannot legally avoid showing a GDPR popup would be classified as malware. As it should be today. Alas, standards have changed. I don't think you've read GDPR. In E
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by blagie 2mo ago
> However, I continue to be amazed that Perforce survived Git. I assume its ability to handle large binaries has been what saved it. Curiously enough, the git data model is ideal for handling large binaries. The place it crashes-and-burn
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by blagie 2mo ago
> Everything I do is driven by a single goal: to make my startup successful so I can innovate in edtech. Nothing else. I believe you entirely. That comes across in everything you say. Huge harm has been done in education precisely by peo
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by blagie 2mo ago
I did try it. I'd provide feedback on how to make this better, but to be frank, I don't want to see this made better. I'd like open education made better. I'm on the other side here. Even if I did, I'm pretty sure y
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by blagie 2mo ago
> All we want to do is innovate. That's very clear. That's why we have spyware, ad tech, WWII-era German chemical weapons, the East India Company, Oracle's business model, fintech, ... Ask anyone 40 years older. Regrets fo
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by blagie 2mo ago
LLM-written clones of free software into proprietary seem to be a growing trend now. With manim, it's probably legal (I think MIT license?), but in general, it makes the world a worse place.
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by blagie 2mo ago
This sort of thing makes me depressed. The videos are LLM slop. You're a confused student. You do a web search. You run into something like this. It looks high-quality and professional. It is dogshit which no one can understand. The re
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by blagie 2mo ago
40+% of the slots at Harvard are taken up by ALDCs. That's most of the white students slots. If you're like, say, our vice president, you have quite literally a snowball's chance in hell of making it in. I doubt people are in

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