imjonse

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by imjonse 6d ago
Not entirely joking but group teaching: fire up multiple AIs. Hear live talking in a foreign language, chip in when you want, they adapt to your level. Lack of human contact and alienation are real problems at all ages, but that does not me
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by imjonse 6d ago
It is not conspiracy theory. Optimizing for profit (which includes not crossing regulators/governments) is a good enough explanation usually. Big (and most small) companies put profit above anything else, so this is usually the right a
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by imjonse 7d ago
maybe that person was not awake to comment on yesterday's post? You're trying to force the reality to match your preexisting conclusion.
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by imjonse 7d ago
Google's Gemma models are usually celebrated, so were the llamas. If Meta releases Muse Spark it will also be a good thing. If Anthropic released a great open weight model I am sure that post won't be steered towards controversy a
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by imjonse 7d ago
it should be able to solve some of the five left Millenium Prize problems then in a few weeks.
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by imjonse 7d ago
OpenAI should put their internal model to solve the rest of Millenium Prize problems too (assuming their difficulty is in the same ballpark). That would be a proof the model did it without using existing work on the problem.
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by imjonse 8d ago
the proofs were verified in Lean, so unlikely.
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by imjonse 9d ago
From the Q&A: "Why did you move to Austin? [...] needed a bigger house, but we really could not afford to buy (much less build) anything bigger in Palo Alto." So there are a few more levels of richness above
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by imjonse 24d ago
This would have been really interesting about 20 years ago.
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by imjonse 24d ago
"When writing something intended for human consumption, (comment, commit message, reply to prompt) use as few words as possible. Pick every word meticulously to reduce the volume to a strict minimum. Be down to the point. Less is more.
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by imjonse 27d ago
Aaron Swartz's most famous book recommendation, in a now 20 years old blogpost ( http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/epiphany ), Chomsky's Understanding Power, contains many examples of such cases of those in powe
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by imjonse 27d ago
They lived before Boltzmann so it makes sense to call those the origin (dawn in the article).
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by imjonse 29d ago
If it's a highly profitable footgun why not? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRAM_industry_price_fixing#202...
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by imjonse 29d ago
I would have thought it's public repos that got the most AI slop recently as a form of gathering karma and boost CVs. It would be nice to know if private repo commits increased instead.
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by imjonse 1mo ago
The whole hysteria about 'fake news' 10 years ago was apparently an outrage against the public being duped, whereas is was in fact frustration that spreading fake news has been democratised.
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by imjonse 1mo ago
While there was legal slavery in some countries well into the second half of the 20th century, capitalism and workers' rights movements are definitely older than 100 years.
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by imjonse 1mo ago
A trip to the third world or even easier to a ghetto/favela/poor rural area in your own country is realistically achievable and may lead to an even more profound appreciation. A real life Chaos Monkey is easy to interpret as gamif
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by imjonse 1mo ago
Even on a site like HN, where rational and logical thinking is held in high esteem, and where few could be suspected of climate change denialism, a factual statement such as this one from the article: "On average, animal-sourced foods
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by imjonse 1mo ago
And which do the vast majority consume because that is the only one satisfying industrial scale consumption needs?
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by imjonse 1mo ago
If he were not such openly against open models and China, his potential hiring pool would include more idealistic people.
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by imjonse 2mo ago
"Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!" — Edgar Dijkstra Similarly, security post-mortems will show only the rogue AIs that were caught. I wouldn't be surprised if supervis
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by imjonse 2mo ago
"We're heads‑down building, and will have products to show by early 2027." By then frontier models may be able to do this by prompting. Even now it is very easy to get one of the chat interfaces to keep quizzing you and adapt
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by imjonse 2mo ago
I thought it was image recognition but RFID makes more sense. However just last week I accidentally 'hacked' it by having two small identical products thrown in the bin and their cardboard boxes fell right next to each other, so t
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by imjonse 2mo ago
homo sapiens could avoid wandering in the skies for 200k years, yes we can avoid it. Finding joy in life should not really be correlated with flying often to faraway places.
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by imjonse 2mo ago
I doubt you'll find many people here who are in alignment with a bigoted and criminal regime such as Iran's and its military. What may be misinterpreted as sympathy for them is sympathy for the suffering Iranians, and antipathy fo
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by imjonse 2mo ago
Time for OpenAI and Anthropic to close the gap by spinning up Kimi K3 on vLLM and running a distillation attack.
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by imjonse 2mo ago
>But perhaps we're the only intelligent species in the entire universe. That is also a possibility. Some big names in astrophysics, such as David Kipping, suggest strongly that we should not rule out that hypothesis They may be plan
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by imjonse 2mo ago
apps took off before browsers had the capabilities required for native-like behaviour (fast graphics, hw functionality, notifications) and then were used even for apps that could have been web-apps.
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by imjonse 3mo ago
While the majority of comments are absolutely right in recognizing and lamenting such situations plaguing our industry, let's not forget this is an ultimate first world problem. It can be stressful and frustrating but we are a privileg
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by imjonse 3mo ago
It's no coincidence cigarettes were named 'torches of freedom' to get women to start paying up for the privilege of using them a hundred years ago.

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