bossyTeacher

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by bossyTeacher 3d ago
> They are talking about slowing down the public facing AI development. I assume there already existed advanced models frontier labs only made available for national security. We just weren't told. I am guessing the announcement is
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by bossyTeacher 3d ago
Maybe. Anyway, let us not forget that both of these actions are unethical.
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by bossyTeacher 4d ago
> they can definitely ship and run to thousands of real customers Each of those customers, who also have access to LLMs and can therefore bypass his LLM built service by making their own LLM built service. Cameras in phones didn't t
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by bossyTeacher 4d ago
Can't help but feel that this related to the common observation that frontier model advancements have noticeably slowed down compared to the previous years. That this is a regulatory way to give themselves more time to manouvre themsel
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by bossyTeacher 4d ago
Is this the end of the 2022-2023 LLM race? A truce of sorts? Makes you wonder whether non-Western parties will agree with this.
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by bossyTeacher 5d ago
That is why you wash your food before eating it same as you do with legumes and rice (that likely also have had pesticide on them).
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by bossyTeacher 6d ago
"Making the world a better place." the Silicon Valley mantra that every dev out there and in here drank like a drug. People like Graham arguably have played a part in the transformation mentioned in the article. And many of us her
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by bossyTeacher 6d ago
Trust and OpenAI never go together in the same sentence. The answer is always no.
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by bossyTeacher 6d ago
Did you look him up?
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by bossyTeacher 6d ago
No. The whole issue is that the seller needs to maintain an online service to allow you access to the movies. This online service costs money so over time is likely not worth the cost. This plus the online service provider undergoing change
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by bossyTeacher 7d ago
I meant to say that most researchers have engaged in the unethical actions that Meta has. It's not that Meta is making it harder to report them but the fact that reporting them does not meaningfully disincentivise Meta from carrying on
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by bossyTeacher 8d ago
> so is every security researcher in the world if they want to be Most security researchers lack Meta's history: - Testing emotional manipulation features on thousands of users non-consensually - Adding spyware on underage users -
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by bossyTeacher 8d ago
> WhatsApp is end-to-end encrypted, - Meta data of your messages is not encrypted so meta can make a graph of who you talk to and when - backups are not encrypted by default so plaintext of your private chats can be obtained - even if yo
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by bossyTeacher 9d ago
>inferior Way to reduce a multi dimensional concept into a single scalar value. Care to explain what exactly make it inferior? Try using more than one word if you can.
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by bossyTeacher 10d ago
"it already completely outperforms humans in many cases in many areas" and "is prone to draw obviously wrong conclusions from thin air." seem contradictory imo. If the performance is not reliable, how can you confidentl
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by bossyTeacher 10d ago
'AGI' here defined as whatever Altman wants 'AGI' to be. This has always been the problem with terms such as "AGI" and "AI". They don't mean anything in particular. Depending on how you twist it,
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by bossyTeacher 10d ago
HN users are at the same time the brightest and the most clueless. Why on earth do you think they will agree to something that they will perceive as damaging to them in the present or in a possible future?
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by bossyTeacher 10d ago
> how is an AI going to affect anything in the real world? In 2026? Money. By paying enough, any human will do your bidding. And besides this, there are a lot of critical systems connected to the internet. Control over those gives you le
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by bossyTeacher 10d ago
> The western theory stuff you describe has almost no relevance at all when considered non-western musical cultures. Say it louder for those at the back. People keep forgetting that western theory was unable to explain why the blues (the
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by bossyTeacher 10d ago
Done on purpose. The assumption here is that this theory is the one and only theory.
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by bossyTeacher 10d ago
> if you get to the point where feel you want to learn more and take it seriously in and of itself, buy “The Jazz Theory Book” by Mark Levine[1]. In spite of what it says, there really isn’t any such thing as Jazz theory - it’s just musi
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by bossyTeacher 10d ago
"The problem was never the practice. It was that every explanation of music theory seemed to miss out the fundamental reasons for how and why things are the way they are. Here is a staff. Here are the notes on it. This is a major scale
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by bossyTeacher 11d ago
Hopefully, the have foreseen this and they have diversified adequately. Relying on a single source for most of your income is never good. Whether that is diamonds or oil. Hopefully they got their own sovereign fund up and running/
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by bossyTeacher 12d ago
I feel like some of the comments in here are astroturfing. HN is the wrong place to push for "it was a coincidence" explanations.
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by bossyTeacher 13d ago
"Disagreeable" is an euphemism. He seems to have embraced whatever core values he had. His incursion into politics and associations with far right, neo nazi and similar movements is quickly making him a person non grata. Americans
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by bossyTeacher 13d ago
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/850-of-elon-musks-recent-x-p... https://religiondispatches.org/2026/01/09/musk-endorsed-whit...
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by bossyTeacher 13d ago
Priorities. /s
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by bossyTeacher 13d ago
Paywall bypass: https://archive.is/20260903043457/https://www.ft.com/content...
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How AI can put out its PR dumpster fire(ft.com)
2 points by bossyTeacher 13d ago|1 comments
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by bossyTeacher 14d ago
> one person at the keyboard and the other person saying what's next My understanding is that there is no one person saying what's next but what's next gets decided by both people. Otherwise, the other person is just a typ

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