jackdeansmith

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by jackdeansmith 2mo ago
I think it would be entirely reasonable to ban death stars in private hands, the same way I think it's entirely reasonable to ban uranium enrichment in private hands. My point is that it's a question of fact about how risky an AI
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by jackdeansmith 2mo ago
>If the biggest danger of LLMs is that they can hack traditional systems This is doing a lot of lifting. If the biggest danger of LLMs is they could uplift bioweapon development, the situation is different. If the biggest danger of LLMs
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by jackdeansmith 2mo ago
I see a very clear link, very capable AI models are clearly able to find and exploit cyber vulnerabilities at a speed and scale not possible before. In the right hands, that's clearly a weapon
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by jackdeansmith 2mo ago
And what are those ingredients for biology, which can be constrained as effectively as uranium enrichment? I'd argue there isn't anything which can easily be restricted or monitored.
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by jackdeansmith 2mo ago
What about uranium enrichment?
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by jackdeansmith 1y ago
They can't. You have to explicitly give apps permission to access your photo library.
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by jackdeansmith 1y ago
I think it's a lot harder to have this particular type of communications failure if you're writing on a chalkboard. Imagine trying to write out that whole slide, it would take forever. If you really did have to present that inform
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by jackdeansmith 1y ago
I think this is clearly a joke
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by jackdeansmith 1y ago
>The real tragedy is not that Hims exists, but that it works so perfectly. Every day, thousands of people choose their compounded weight-loss drugs over FDA-approved alternatives, their combination ED pills over established single-ingred
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by jackdeansmith 1y ago
I misunderstood your comment then, my assertion is that models which have the same capabilities as current models will be cheaper in the future. I have no doubts that models with more capabilities will be more expensive.
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by jackdeansmith 1y ago
Want to bet? I'll give you 5:1 odds that tokens from a model with some specific benchmark performance (we can sort out the specific benchmarks or basket of benchmarks if you want to bet) will be cheaper two years from now.
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by jackdeansmith 1y ago
In my opinion most Anthropic models are the opposite, scoring well on benchmarks but not always way on top, but quietly excellent when you actually try to use them for stuff.
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by jackdeansmith 1y ago
What would convince you that a system is too dangerous to release?
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by jackdeansmith 2y ago
There was certainly some client side censorship, but also the model weights clearly had some of this baked in. You can try yourself by asking the same queries to r1 hosted by a US host like together.
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by jackdeansmith 3y ago
As someone born in 1997 and working in the software industry, one thing I’ve learned is that the discipline of software engineering is sometimes mostly about understanding the history of a system. Love reading stuff like this because someti
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by jackdeansmith 3y ago
Didn't know I wanted it, but I now really want P2P iMessage between mountain summits
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by jackdeansmith 3y ago
3D photo/video features did come to the pro phones flower/bird/food/tree/everything ID is in the new OS, it identified a plant genus in one of my photos yesterday. Pretty cool!
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by jackdeansmith 3y ago
Eric Gilbertson has become more than a legend in the Pacific Northwest mountaineering and peak bagging community, in part by revising the list of 100 highest peaks in the state with manual GPS and theodolite surveys. The writeups are great:
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by jackdeansmith 3y ago
EOR oil is lower carbon than non-EOR oil. Greenwashing seems excessive, there is no fraud here, everyone is very upfront about what they are doing.
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by jackdeansmith 3y ago
Carbon in the atmosphere is a stock and flow problem, even if we get to net zero emissions, we have just stopped the problem from getting worse. At that point, we need carbon capture to be scaled up and efficient. I don't think it&#x27
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by jackdeansmith 3y ago
> The nowcast produced the following estimates: • The biocapacity for the world in 2023 is estimated at 1.5 global hectares per person. • Humanity’s Ecological Footprint is 2.6 global hectares per person, of which 60% is carbon Footprint
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by jackdeansmith 3y ago
My guess is Tim Cook didn't wear one because Apple's media team didn't want every news article to use the screen grab as the header image (which is what happened with Zuc). They want the their manicured marketing material fro
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by jackdeansmith 3y ago
By not generating the fixed json structure (brackets, commas, etc...) and skipping the model ahead to the next tokens you actually want to generate, I think
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by jackdeansmith 3y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if by making code 5x cheaper to write, aggregate demand for code goes up by at least 5x, and possibly more. The history of computing is full of technologies that made it cheaper to create software (compilers, de
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by jackdeansmith 4y ago
Honestly a very confusing move for Twitter, third party client users are probably the easiest to monetize users that Twitter has. They have already demonstrated that they get enough value out of the service to go out of their way to use a d
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by jackdeansmith 5y ago
Feels to me like public pressure is on Apple to actually justify their argument that their App Store policies are for the benefit of their customers. If that results in more policies like this that really do improve customer experiences, th
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by jackdeansmith 5y ago
Right, yeah that's more important, there's no way to get a runaway chain reaction with an RTG
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by jackdeansmith 5y ago
Those are RTGs that harvest a couple hundred watts of decay heat for really remote applications. Often used in space probes, etc... Bit of a different safety profile since they're low power and generally don't have any moving part
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The climate solution adding millions of tons of CO2 into the atmosphere(technologyreview.com)
3 points by jackdeansmith 5y ago|1 comments
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by jackdeansmith 5y ago
I feel like a good first step would be requiring that any assets over some small cutoff be held in a blind trust. It wouldn't solve all problems, but it sure would solve a lot.

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