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by howunfortunate 4d ago
Interesting, I did not know this.
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by howunfortunate 4d ago
Is Greg Brockman right wing?
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by howunfortunate 4d ago
There's no logical error here if the end is actually near. So it all hinges on an empirical disagreement you have with them. There's nothing particularly unserious about that.
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by howunfortunate 4d ago
I am worried about those things too. But those things fall in a category of "things that are awful and I'd like to see solved", which is different than "existential risks which could see my kids dead, and there's no
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by howunfortunate 4d ago
In other words, we're still in the era of centaur chess.
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by howunfortunate 4d ago
I do not think hate alone usually slows things very much if they have economic utility (or people strongly believe they do) It's the byproducts of hate (usually regulation, but occasionally things like boycotts or PR disasters) that do
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by howunfortunate 4d ago
We're way past it, sadly. Luigi was insanely popular for the cold blooded murder of a CEO. Hundreds of thousands of people celebrated Charlie Kirk's murder within minutes of it happening , let alone the discourse you see now, a y
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by howunfortunate 4d ago
I find "bro" and "dudebro" to be such fascinating slurs. The previous incarnation was "neckbeard" / "obese dude living in mom's basement", so "dudebro" comes across almost like a c
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by howunfortunate 5d ago
To quote Mr. Krabs: "MONEY"
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by howunfortunate 5d ago
Yes. I'm having fun making an indie game, which will most likely never see the light of day, let alone profit. I'd definitely pay cents to dollars to have fitting background music. There's no chance I'd pay for a human m
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by howunfortunate 6d ago
This looks like it removes additional guardrails put on by Microsoft, not native guardrails from OpenAi / Anthropic?
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by howunfortunate 6d ago
I really don't think this is true at all. Do you have any evidence to suggest fully unrestricted frontier models are available for a price? Or...even exist?
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by howunfortunate 7d ago
Watching survival shows has made me internalize that laziness has a purpose: it helps you avoid needless expenditure of precious resources. The dishonesty worries me but the laziness doesn't.
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by howunfortunate 7d ago
> why isn't this done It IS done with every new model release. Why do you think SpaceXAI bought Cursor? And then immediately had a huge jump in capability with their next model version? It's just done in large batches for econo
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by howunfortunate 7d ago
Same vibe as people saying "addicted to sugar" or "sugar hijacks your reward system" Sugar is the original point of the reward system!
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by howunfortunate 7d ago
In a general sense I mean something like "arising through complex interaction between parts", like the murmurations of certain birds or unexpected mechanics found in physics sandbox games. In this specific instance I mean I don&#x
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by howunfortunate 7d ago
Ok just say "transformer" then. What can a transformer not do that people say they can do? The parent comment said, paraphrasing, "learn from interaction with the world", and I'm responding, they absolutely can alre
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by howunfortunate 7d ago
At least one mechanism to update transformers' internal states already exists, there is nothing stopping anyone from performing backprop after every session. It just has big technical and economic challenges. But I expect advances ther
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by howunfortunate 8d ago
> not a sign of it yet The reason people find "the singularity" idea scary is precisely because it could happen suddenly with little warning. Just curious - what would you personally say would be a reasonable "sign of it&q
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by howunfortunate 8d ago
Yes, catastrophic forgetting is absolutely one of the problems that needs to be solved to enable something like this. My broader point is just that there's nothing inherent to the structure of LLMs that stops them from updating their
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by howunfortunate 8d ago
I mean sure, but BERT can be and often is used as a next token predictor / generator. I could have used any series of NLP examples, the point is this CoT behavior only emerges when you get to a certain scale (and training style, presum
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by howunfortunate 8d ago
That's not quite true though. The fact that most models are in practice non-deterministic has been a huge point of contention. And there's nothing inherently stopping labs from continuously fine-tuning the weights after every new
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by howunfortunate 8d ago
I think that's relatively emergent too though! BERT never really did that (at least to my recollection), presumably because its training was never sufficient for it to develop corrective reasoning in a chain of thought.
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by howunfortunate 8d ago
As an MLE I feel these takes are too reductionist. You could say the (nearly) same thing about search. And content recommendation. And clustering. And topic modeling. And outlier detection. And spam filtering. And image diffusion. And dime
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by howunfortunate 8d ago
N of 1 is actually pretty decent for physics type stuff, which is mostly what they do. For medicine and nutrition...not so much.
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by howunfortunate 8d ago
There's something very sad about all these people spending so much energy on crazy intensive n of 1 experiments. If we could only get them to collaborate, we could get some real knowledge out of it!
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by howunfortunate 9d ago
To be fair, human scientists also frequently launder small modifications to pre-existing work as if it's completely novel.
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by howunfortunate 9d ago
> They sat on the end caps of grocery stores, far away from the News. TV news was regulated and there was a strict ethics code in place. This is our key point of disagreement, not any of the rest I strongly disagree that the "Real N
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by howunfortunate 9d ago
I actually think our information environment is better today than it was in say, 1930. A handful of newspapers that controlled 95% of the information was much more of a "precision guided missile", in terms of ability to control in
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by howunfortunate 9d ago
I strongly believe the worst vices of social media would all persist if there were zero advertising. You can see that by looking at more minor or fringe social media sites. Public "liking" is literally all it takes for people to d

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