fidotron

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by fidotron 4d ago
Yes he does - it makes him one of the most powerful people on earth.
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by fidotron 4d ago
I mean, this seems fairly clear. Either OpenAI fails, and goes nowhere. Or it succeeds, in which case IPOing will be a quaint aspect of history. People really aren't following through on what it means for any of these companies to succ
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by fidotron 4d ago
So what you're saying is you're more valuable to advertisers . . . which means the amount you are worth to them grows with the amount you'd spend to avoid them. Unless this stuff is made literally illegal they will keep doing
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by fidotron 5d ago
Well if it proves useless presumably they'd stop doing it. But if AI is to recursively self improve understanding and evolving its own foundations, which are clearly mathematical, is essential. There is no need for humans to grasp what
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by fidotron 5d ago
> It's a bit like a tree falling in a forest. If an LLM proves a theorem but no one understands it, did it make a sound? But in future most proofs will be for consumption by other AI models in the pursuit of yet other proofs. It&#x2
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by fidotron 5d ago
Given the rate of progress in robotics, if AI works then there won't be anyone left standing to worry about. That's the whole point of doing it fast, otherwise yes they will attempt to slow things down so they can take advantage o
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by fidotron 5d ago
I see you don't understand the point, and you're doing that thing of imposing on me trying to help you understand it, which seems highly unlikely to work. Going back, again, to your quote: > I doubt that someone smart (as you p
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by fidotron 5d ago
Disenfranchising everyone at once beats disenfranchising enough to be a problem but not enough to motivate a solution, which is what the drip feeding achieves.
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by fidotron 5d ago
> really rapid change always creates huge openings for assholes and opportunists to take over. This all depends on where the change ends. If it ends with ASI existing then it all works out. If it ends with only sufficient AI to weaponise
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by fidotron 5d ago
Honestly, I don't think any of us know exactly what's coming. The difficult part is preventing the humans from causing the collapse of civilisation in the time before AI actually gets to ASI.
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by fidotron 5d ago
> I can't believe the AI boosters were right. Not even sure they can believe it. The AI field has known, but repeatedly ignored, that the knowledge work group would end up first on the chopping block, especially for those where ever
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by fidotron 5d ago
> It is valuable to ask questions about why things are the way they are in order to understand the fundamentals of it vs we should change these things because I am 'smarter than you' and I don't understand why things are d
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by fidotron 5d ago
Do any two teams actually operate it in anything like the same way though? What I saw of it, especially some years ago, was it was highly particular, and everyone had their own odd habits built around running it, ingestion, querying, everyt
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by fidotron 5d ago
> You only responded to - * I doubt that someone smart (as you put it) would deliberately want things redone because they don't understand it, that's a trait borne of arrogance not intelligence.* > Your response claimed that
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by fidotron 5d ago
> My point is that wanting things redone because you don’t understand it is dumb behaviour, not smart behaviour. Smart people can do very non smart things when they feel their status as smartest-person-in-the-room is threatened, which is
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by fidotron 5d ago
> I doubt that someone smart (as you put it) would deliberately want things redone because they don't understand it You're actually doing the problem behavior right here: denying the validity of the experience of seeing exactly
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by fidotron 5d ago
Guilty as charged, but at least somewhat self aware.
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by fidotron 5d ago
Like your sibling comment I saw this mainly with physics people doing data science: > Eventually you have to understand something. And part of that process is being wrong and annoying people. There is nothing more frustrating as a collea
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by fidotron 5d ago
It's a tough call but I'm not sure if physicist code or electronic engineer code is more frightening.
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by fidotron 5d ago
Physics, and to a large degree pure mathematics, has attracted a critical mass of the personality type that needs to feel like the smartest person in the room in any given situation. It has given them a slightly notorious reputation in acad
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by fidotron 5d ago
In the spirit of the "That's what she said" bot, you could train an LLM detector by accusing everything of being authored by an LLM and seeing which ones get voted up.
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by fidotron 6d ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20140423121426/http://www.libres... I refer you to the footer. (All time classic).
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by fidotron 6d ago
Underrated but true. It always was far easier to train a creative thinker in how to operate the tools needed to facilitate their vision than it is to get a great tools operator to have good ideas.
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by fidotron 6d ago
I almost think this doesn't go far enough. Now LLMs make a certain amount of genericity so easy it will become more repulsive than things which are full on bad taste to different sorts of people. My gut feeling is the web world will ex
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by fidotron 8d ago
What's eternally confusing about these outbursts is what did these researchers think would happen if their research actually . . . worked? It's as if none of them actually believed any of it was possible and then were caught with
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New urinal designs prevent messy splashes onto legs and the floor (2022)(cbc.ca)
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by fidotron 12d ago
I've seen anti terrorist police appear at offices because certain executives were trading so much porn they assumed there must be messages hidden in it. The noise has always been about the UN private network which is apparently absolut
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by fidotron 12d ago
Chrome product management is horrible. Chrome software engineering is some of the best ever done. (And no, I don't use it except for testing).
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by fidotron 12d ago
HN is just a less successful version of the exact same concept. The quality of bots on here is terrible.
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by fidotron 12d ago
While technically very impressive you would hope this effort would be reflected in a higher quality of resulting movie, but that doesn't seem to be the case. It's interesting that even their details mention essentially using it as

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