colinhb

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Project Tailwind: call for ambitious AI safety initiatives(coefficientgiving.org)
1 points by colinhb 7d ago|0 comments
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by colinhb 8d ago
Seems like in current cultural and economic context, short term extraction is what we’re going to do > In short, the indiscriminate use of powerful solution-extraction tools can achieve the immediate short-term goal of solving problems a
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by colinhb 8d ago
May be unfairly jaded or just well calibrated given the body of evidence, but I can't help but think of another quote about OpenAI leadership: > Not consistently candid
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by colinhb 8d ago
The allegations of contamination (using Tristan and Levent's work) aren't very well evidenced, but this behavior by OpenAI (from the authors' statement) makes them seem like the bad guys: > I said that if OpenAI released i
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by colinhb 8d ago
I think it's very unlikely that Tristan is making up these quotes, or pulling them out of context: > I said that if OpenAI released its result in the way proposed I would go public with what happened. The reply was, “Why would you r
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OpenAI's historic math solution overshadowed by credit controversy(axios.com)
3 points by colinhb 8d ago|0 comments
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by colinhb 9d ago
Wrong Michael Beckerman. Source: I know the TikTok Beckerman, but not the MSFT one.
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by colinhb 20d ago
It is already in current training data. Both the book and website.
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by colinhb 24d ago
The handling of dynamic libraries and closing over them into single dbs made this a fun read.
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by colinhb 1mo ago
Some overlooked iconic backgrounds/color-schemes for me: NeXTSTEP: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXTSTEP#/media/File:NeXTSTEP_... Plan9/Rio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_
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by colinhb 1mo ago
For a start, MechaHitler: https://www.reddit.com/r/grok/s/dKSx4CbRkw
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by colinhb 1mo ago
It is a weird meme that, as far as I know, originated with this reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/Amsterdam/comments/bt5rwl/just_got_... Now in several forums people just randomly talk about how grea
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by colinhb 1mo ago
There are many open source (not just open weight) non-US models - some of the more notable ones: - Soofi S, DE, ~32B - Apertus 1.5, CH, ~32B - EuroLLM-22B, EU, ~22B - LLM-jp-3, JP, ~172B - K2-65B, UAE, ~65B Soofi S and Apert
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by colinhb 1mo ago
Isn't this just Substack? I don't think they allow too much styling - body and section fonts, header size, header image and icons, etc. Could be wrong. EDIT: Oh the Jamverse website. Yes, agree 100% - apologies for missing at firs
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by colinhb 1mo ago
Do you think "Race Inspired Cosmetic Enhancements" is the origin of "ricing" / "riced-out" or a backronym[1]? Honest curiosity about language and language use. In fairness and full disclosure: I have belie
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Concern about AI spikes following OpenAI hacking incident(news.americanson.ai)
2 points by colinhb 1mo ago|0 comments
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by colinhb 1mo ago
Rather than make another top-level comment, adding here that Kagi is a better experience for me than Google or DDG. Not perfect, and I wish they would lean even harder into pure search (they're also developing AI features), but still a
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by colinhb 2mo ago
Was thrown off at first: your hn discussion link is for 2024, not 2004 (as currently written).
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by colinhb 2mo ago
Opus 5 hasn't been available for that long - long enough for benchmarks, but not really use and develop a subjective view on
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Polling: AI isn't immune from the diploma divide(news.americanson.ai)
2 points by colinhb 2mo ago|0 comments
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by colinhb 2mo ago
Thanks - so much easier to understand what Elk is (and why it is) than Ant.
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by colinhb 2mo ago
I’m not that deep in the JS ecosystem or runtimes, but I’m a little surprised by some of the claims here about being smaller, having fast starts, sandboxing, performance-competitive, etc. Does anyone have a sense of what insights, design ch
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FT: Apple sues OpenAI, alleging it stole top-secret information(ft.com)
7 points by colinhb 2mo ago|2 comments
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by colinhb 2mo ago
Apple has accused OpenAI and two of its employees of stealing top-secret information in a lawsuit filed in a California federal court on Friday, as the relationship between two of the biggest names in Silicon Valley unravels. Apple claimed
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by colinhb 2mo ago
My independent judgement and experience is along your lines, but I’m trying to also take Anthropic seriously: > “I don’t prompt Claude anymore. I have loops running that prompt Claude and figuring out what to do. My job is to write loops
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by colinhb 2mo ago
In general I agree with you, especially about how things should work, and find the current trend of claiming LLM-washing code hugely problematic. I do wonder what the analysis would be of these prompts were vibe-coded, though, since in gene
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by colinhb 3mo ago
What about work in units of median annual household disposable income, which are at least somewhat responsive to the distribution of money? What % do you think a reasonable voter should accept a person donating to a political campaign befor
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by colinhb 3mo ago
For most people, the concern is the money, not the voting. People don't want wealthy people reshaping politics to fit their interests through their wealth. They can vote for whomever they want.
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by colinhb 3mo ago
I agree with your common sense take of how it should play out, but Google has and will argue Section 230 protection for AI overviews, eg in Wolf River Electric v Google. https://www.startribune.com/google-ai-overview-lawsuit
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by colinhb 4mo ago
Attacking the cult of progress is a major through-line: > 12: Today, the human desire for fullness of life is at risk of being misled by deceitful goals, such as the prospect of a technology that promises to free us from all weakness, an

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