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by dumberquestions 3d ago
I never mentioned capability stalling, my point is that if you extrapolate the same rate of growth just a few years into the future, you quickly reach logistical impracticality, I don't think It's hard to deduce that AI compute ca
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by dumberquestions 3d ago
I don't think the technical aspect is true, performance has been growing fairly consistently, but the financial aspect, or more accurately the logistical aspect, is plausible; with competition as fierce as it currently is, for how long
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by dumberquestions 3d ago
How is that any different from calling Claude from any device in your local network? Or is 2 devices that much worse than 1?
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by dumberquestions 4d ago
As much as I would love to be able to download Fable or Astra, this doesn't sound very convincing. If I were Dario I would've argued that slowing down without sharing weights is already possible without the disadvantages of sharin
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by dumberquestions 4d ago
The year is 2035 and your lawnmower can go get its own fuel once it runs out, one day it does and it takes fuel from the neighbors car. Scenario A: The internal logs show that the model misidentified the car as a fueling station. Scenario B
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by dumberquestions 5d ago
>i haven’t seen any sign of these llms taking any action without directive What do you make of all the recent hacks and discreet message boards? That's unambiguously misaligned behavior.
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by dumberquestions 5d ago
It's not unthinkable, do you think all cloud providers with sufficient compute have perfect monitoring?
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by dumberquestions 5d ago
I don't know what the right balance is, but there should be some sort of friction. Feeds shouldn't be infinitely scrollable, for instance, and users could be made explicitly aware of how much time they're spending. Some peopl
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by dumberquestions 6d ago
You do realize that regardless of what was in the training data, the final solution included insights no human before had known, right? I share the same concerns regarding academic integrity but it would take a lot of motivated thinking to
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by dumberquestions 7d ago
No one really knows how this will play out, but it's still uncomfortable to think about robots figuring out how to reliably make things that look good, sound good and are full of meaning, would people still have any motivation to creat
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by dumberquestions 7d ago
It should be noted that these stories were 1000 word stories, with each one taking 5 minutes to read on average.
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by dumberquestions 7d ago
Well you have people in this very thread calling all of this a nothingburger.
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by dumberquestions 7d ago
Yet we have wiped thousands of species completely by accident, breed some for slaughter and consumption and trap some for entertainment.
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by dumberquestions 8d ago
The most sympathetic interpretation possible of the events for OAI is that they learned two mathematicians were closing in on a solution and decided to throw all of their weight behind getting there first, which honestly still doesn’t paint
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by dumberquestions 8d ago
The decline started in early to mid 2010's, this has little to do with AI.
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by dumberquestions 8d ago
Not that I have strong reasons to think this is not true, but what reasons do we have to think it is? Has this been audited before?
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by dumberquestions 8d ago
Why do you find it to be extremely unlikely?
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by dumberquestions 8d ago
>...has solved a millennium problem and is sitting on the result Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but the work involved here is not the actual millennium problem, but it concerns versions with an added external force that the author
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by dumberquestions 9d ago
I’m probably biased, but do you really think Meta is, on net, a positive to the world?
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by dumberquestions 9d ago
I don't think Facebook advertisers are being particularly irrational, it's just very interesting to point out how this ad business, despite leaving most of its users ultimately unsatisfied, can be so profitable.
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by dumberquestions 9d ago
I wonder what's the net value Meta offers for the world today. I had a similar thought about Elon the other day, for all his billions, only several million people use Tesla or Starlink, and SpaceX is cool I guess, but value and wealth
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by dumberquestions 12d ago
Something that needs to be light and runs on a traditional navigation stack (no AI) would be served well by an RPI.
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by dumberquestions 12d ago
They're generally aren't as accessible.
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by dumberquestions 12d ago
Raspberry Pi's are essential for a certain class of robots, they're small, light and mobile enough while still being computers, and they have all the pins you might need, most people who don't understand them are usually actu
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by dumberquestions 15d ago
Good thing that "would be nice" doesn't entail that they have to.
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by dumberquestions 16d ago
Predatory pricing is a separate issue from supply and demand.
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by dumberquestions 17d ago
I think people write a rough draft and let AI clean it and fill in the gaps, which leads to all usual phrases. I suspect some people have become so reliant on this they're now desensitized to AI speak.
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by dumberquestions 17d ago
True, it's a different issue when you don't have a choice, but I still think the ego aspect is not explored enough.
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by dumberquestions 17d ago
They actually fired many of the people warning about this.
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by dumberquestions 17d ago
A very gradual carbon tax that could've been introduced a couple of decades ago would've been more tolerable, and would've given the market and consumers more time to adapt.

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