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by jkeisling 3y ago
The "tech bros" were right: The board absolutely were conspirators wrecking the company based on dogmatic ideology. "Tech bros" had clear evidence of Sutskever, Toner and McCauley's deep and well-known ties to the E
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by jkeisling 3y ago
Yes, the EAs and longtermists on the board probably disliked the commercial focus of “Open”AI or its rapid scaling; I’m not blaming them for Laundry Buddy. But make no mistake: the nonprofit board had even less interest in opening up their
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by jkeisling 3y ago
“Open”AI already was an unaccountable big corp. They’ve already refused not only to open their weights but to publish most of their research, to create an insurmountable gap with the rest of the world, and to legislate it in with lobbying.
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by jkeisling 3y ago
Phishing emails don’t exactly take AGI. GPT-NeoX has been out for years, Llama has been out since April, and you can set up an operation on a gaming desktop in a weekend. So if personalized phishing via LLMs were such a big problem, wouldn
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by jkeisling 3y ago
Just a brief reminder of the last hundred years of copyright: large lobbies like UMG, Disney, or Elsevier have hugely circumscribed the public domain for all but historical purposes (copyright lengths increased from 28 years to *128*). Open
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by jkeisling 3y ago
I’m not sure who the “we” is in your statement, “we do know with certainty that IVF is immoral”. As evidenced by the entire rest of the thread, this opinion is hotly contested. If you believe IVF is morally wrong, please at least explain wh
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by jkeisling 3y ago
How does open source compete with the Claude API? Easy: actually let you use the model. From the signup page: > Anthropic is rolling out Claude slowly and incrementally, as we work to ensure the safety and scalability of it, in alignment
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by jkeisling 3y ago
Governments are far harder to remove than tech firms. You may be able to ditch Google, but there's only one government in your country. And "democracy" doesn't prevent state surveillance. Most politicians back it, so vot
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by jkeisling 3y ago
Basic economics: The optimal number of people who die tragically in a burning building is not zero. Every person trades off some amount of safety for cost, that’s just part of living. It’s possible that this particular tradeoff isn’t worth
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by jkeisling 3y ago
The article makes a good point: we should prevent “open-washing” and draw a distinction between well-intentioned restrictive licenses like “Open”RAIL and true open source. However, I worry the name “ethical source” is itself a bit question-
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by jkeisling 3y ago
The source seems to be a February article from Automotive News interviewing several Toyota execs off-the-record: https://archive.is/0LZYf . The relevant quotes are midway through
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by jkeisling 3y ago
So “if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear”? Would you tell that to abortion rights activists in Mississippi, journalists reviewing the Panama Papers, or dissidents in China? Radical new idea here, but maybe you shouldn’t bel
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by jkeisling 3y ago
Shocking that this kind of knee-jerk anti-innovation sentiment seems to be the dominant mood on Hacker News these days. Whatever legitimate criticisms of SV startups there are, this is mere contentless anti-tech sniping.
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by jkeisling 3y ago
Yes, as a matter of fact, I do. If you look at even the US regulatory environment, for example: FDA approval for new drugs takes decades and billions, and enough said on America's "War on Drugs". The NRC has practically stran
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by jkeisling 3y ago
For those skeptical of the above comment, this technique absolutely works and powers production-grade models like Anthropic’s Claude. There’s plenty of literature on this, but here are a couple papers that might be helpful for people doing
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by jkeisling 4y ago
Yes, in an ideal world a competitor could just start up their own ChatGPT. However, over the last decade we've seen over and over that "just build your own X" isn't a real solution. Nearly all web-based businesses rely o
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by jkeisling 4y ago
From my perspective, our magic algorithm does indeed make us immune to the “consequences” of scraping copyrighted work. Legally, diffusion models learn from work rather than copying any specific piece, and copyright does not protect a style
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by jkeisling 4y ago
No, I don’t accept that it’s “the people” boycotting Kickstarter? It’s a small minority of media and activists threatening platforms with clickbait headlines, doxxing, and regulation if they don’t give up neutrality, and a larger group who
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by jkeisling 4y ago
Are you aware of the equally common objection to “I can tolerate anything except intolerance”: that if allowed to censor in the name of tolerance, our self-appointed guardians will simply call whatever they don’t like “intolerance” and cens