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by exit 3mo ago
the point is that introducing data from a foreign source could lead to e.g. exfiltration: the model retrieves https://somewhere into its context and then gets confused, following instructions embedded there. it then retrieves http
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by exit 7mo ago
similarly, i think that something that someone took the time to proof-read/verify can be of value, even if they did not directly write it. this is the literary equivalent of compiling and running the code.
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by exit 8mo ago
i'm reminded of the film Annihilation, especially the entity encountered at the end.
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by exit 8mo ago
schemes exist for cryptographically verifying that an output is the deterministic result of some program run on some input. i'm at least aware of BitVM * as one example of this. i wonder whether such schemes could be used to prove that
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by exit 9mo ago
companies routinely demand and supply things of and to each other. i don't see why the economy necessarily has to "touch a floor" of human desire. a company could be founded with the goal of, for example, colonizing mars. ful
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by exit 11mo ago
yeah, i really think it accomplishes a lot. at a minimum, it makes it clear to others that they are not alone in thinking this regime is beyond the pale. people who are able to take other actions like engaging via the judicial system, or pe
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by exit 11mo ago
peaceful protest is not pointless, no. peacefully expressing opposition is enormously powerful. there is still hope that it will be the path out of this worsening nightmare.
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by exit 11mo ago
i wasn't aware of this feature - thank you for sharing it. with more awareness of /active perhaps these urgent political conversations can still survive on HN.
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by exit 11mo ago
"an architecture that learned more like humans" i.e. enduring countless generations of evolutionary selection and cross breeding, then fine-tuning a bit? although it could be interesting, i don't think training on progressive
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by exit 1y ago
I am sorry, but the sameness will be quantified and dealt with algorithmically, as and if desired. Dial up the temperature, launch however many parallel threads to research and avoid precedent, et cetera, ad infinitum. I am sorry, but all o
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by exit 2y ago
i'm curious, how did you arrive at "40-50%" possible human performance? the task of "predicting the next word" can be understood as either "correctly choosing the next word in the hidden context", or &quot
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by exit 3y ago
"a magic box capable of novel work" or a box whose content can be cleanly swapped out with future iterations which already demonstrate the potential for novel discovery: https://thenextweb.com/news/deepminds-a
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by exit 3y ago
"strong opinions, loosely held" (i think it was Bezos who first expressed this ideal?)
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by exit 3y ago
i wonder whether a deactivated (but not deleted) account complicates submitting a claim for a "current" account in any way?
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by exit 3y ago
upvoted but really, society has an extraordinary array of often incoherent desires we're trapped in an excruciating process of experiencing these desires assert and resolve themselves
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by exit 4y ago
just start new instances from the base image or useful checkpoints "The Age of Em" by Robin Hanson thinks through a lot of this in great depth
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by exit 4y ago
does doing awareness entail something non-mechanical?
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by exit 4y ago
i'm reminded of the short story "unwirer" by charlie stross and cory doctorow, which imagines a counter factual universe in which the internet was captured by corporate intentions much earlier https://en.wikipedia.
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by exit 4y ago
does agency equate to volition here? when humans exercise agency, is this more than a mechanical phenomenon?
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by exit 4y ago
> but this would require people to be able to manage their own private keys a few generations ago social networking would have seemed infeasible because it would require wide spread literacy (along with many other reasons of course). wid
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by exit 4y ago
> The main problem is that I don't have the 5-10 years to really sink into that comfortably to get there from raw experience, or the stamina to go through what would seem to be my own personal hell in the meantime. you've des
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by exit 4y ago
> I'd argue that if you're smart enough to be reading this website, you're smart enough to create and sell a piece of software to 10 businesses. it's both fascinating and horrifying to think through reasons this doe
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by exit 4y ago
i appreciate that "I cannot stress enough" is somewhat idiomatic, however it strikes me as odd to announce this but then not offer least some of the specific reasons you believe this.
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by exit 4y ago
> It’s important to frame the plethora of technological platforms and applications which have flooded increasingly into the workplace as only ever as good as the human minds using them. Nothing can replace this—the technology is a util
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by exit 4y ago
this brings to mind the recent announcement of cicero, which plays diplomacy: https://ai.facebook.com/research/cicero/
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by exit 4y ago
> There’s off-chain stuff happening. sure, i'm asking about businesses in general and that's why i specified "properly logged"
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by exit 4y ago
> if every accounting system were a relational database, and every entry had multiple foreign keys to every appropriate classification, we could virtually eliminate CPA's. i'd like to hear it confirmed from additional sources b
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by exit 4y ago
> It is not only overly polite this is a deliberate goal of OpenAI's training, not an emergent feature of the underlying technology. > constantly wrong how close to right do you think it gets with the "Three Pints of Guinnes
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by exit 4y ago
if all relevant business transactions and arrangements are properly logged, what more is there to do than algorithmically digest these records and produce a result? i'm trying to understand what the necessary human element is in the op
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by exit 4y ago
> The fact that they don't and if it is discovered, it will mean all of the work generated by them is not copyrightable and therefore everyone is free to copy it. They'd also have to lie to the copyright office and the busines

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