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by jsnell 3d ago
A keyboard/video/mouse switch.
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by jsnell 3d ago
But the proposal the article is reacting to is for literally none of that! It is quite literally the opposite, with its proposed measures applying only to frontier labs rather than grandfathering them. It doesn't say anything about ope
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by jsnell 4d ago
> Any AI model a company offers to the public has to be released as open weights. The obvious outcome of this plan would be frontier models not being released at all to public It'd be an amazingly bad outcome. Models accessible to t
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by jsnell 4d ago
I honestly don't even understand what straw man Doctorow is arguing against here. But he is wrong on the facts: these incidents were not merely the models already being in a infosec context and escalating beyond the intended parameters
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by jsnell 5d ago
I can't believe we're finding out about this from 3p researchers again (but nice job on the investigation!). OpenAI had two great opportunities to disclose this. The HF incident report, and in response to the German Wiki issue. It
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by jsnell 5d ago
A customer willing to make a multi-decade deal for half a reactor at a stable price is perfect for incentivizing new nuclear buildouts. The basic financial problem of nuclear is that it' capex heavy and opex-light, so the costs of the
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by jsnell 5d ago
> Claude wrote it in my voice That is not your voice. That is the most Opus 5 writing imaginable. But thanks for at least stating right up front that it was AI-generated slop rather than at the end. (Still flagging it.)
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by jsnell 5d ago
The ability to appoint a board member doesn't mean you get to control their every decision. Nor is their fiduciary duty just one shareholder. Of course usually hand-picked boards don't go against their benefactor, and they're
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by jsnell 7d ago
Native americans had like a 95% population mortality rate from infectious diseases in the first generation of European settlement, no? Measles, smallpox, flu, etc. The mortality rate from those diseases was higher than today because the pop
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by jsnell 9d ago
4) There are non-monetary limits on how many qualified people OpenAI can hire for these roles.
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by jsnell 10d ago
What do you mean by "most writing", how are you scoping it? Most HN comments aren't LLM prose. Nor are most HN frontpage submissions. But by reputation, most substack articles or or linkedin posts are. This is a case where we
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by jsnell 12d ago
The apparent advantage is exaggerated by them running Astra at six different effort levels, and almost everything else at just the maximum available effort. I don't really understand why they keep doing this. Either run and report ever
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by jsnell 12d ago
The "it's all just marketing" conspiracy theory is always totally detached from reality, but particularly so in this case. Your quote shows OpenAI is denying it being a hacking attempt, the opposite of what you say.
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by jsnell 13d ago
> In the same way that YouTube videos have a 0% chance of phishing, cross-site scripting, malware, and viruses. So, the same as in not actually 0%? Even though the video streams themselves were never used for attacks[0], the contents of
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by jsnell 15d ago
There are no ten year old H100s. The first production shipments happened exactly four years ago. I'm pretty sure your claim about TPUs is similarly exaggerated, only a v1 (barely) qualifies and would have no utility today.
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by jsnell 24d ago
It's not nearly all articles. It's predominantly for the AI-written articles. And no, it's not unsubstantiated allegations or "virtue trolling". The tells are painfully obvious, and can be verified with high quality
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by jsnell 26d ago
The margin is defined as (price-cost of goods)/(price); the highest it can be is 100%.
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by jsnell 1mo ago
No, that guy really just doesn't know what his address is. There is no fname.mlastname@ account. You can verify that very easily by sending an email to that address. 100% of the time it will arrive into your account. Or you can try log
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by jsnell 1mo ago
The article is entirely AI-generated, flagging.
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by jsnell 1mo ago
> So, do you care to provide a rebuttal to the article No, I already explained why rebutting the whole article is impractical. I might have been ok doing so for a single argument just as a demonstration, but your unwillingness to point o
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by jsnell 1mo ago
The immediate fallacy here is implying they need to make a profit to pay for compute. Profit is what's left over after you pay for expenses, not what you pay the expenses with. The sleight of hand (yours) is that those numbers don&#x
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by jsnell 1mo ago
Nobody can rebut 10k words of rambling across half a dozen of separate arguments in a forum post. It'd be too long, and there is no readership for a point-by-point rebuttal for the dozens logic errors, misreprentations and various slei
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by jsnell 1mo ago
As far as I can tell, Arxiv does not allow an AI to be listed as the author, so publishing there would not have been an option. https://blog.arxiv.org/2023/01/31/arxiv-announces-new-policy...
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by jsnell 1mo ago
100% of my income in the "employment" segment is coming from a single employer. That's an unsustainable level of concentration, showing there just isn't sufficient demand for my skills. Bubble!
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by jsnell 1mo ago
Original submission (460 votes) two days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49132058 For some reason comments got moved to this one.
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by jsnell 2mo ago
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49132058
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by jsnell 2mo ago
Flagging since statcounter's data is just so unreliable that discussing it is like discussing last week's lottery numbers. (Just a couple of weeks ago there was an equally implausible frontpage post showing the Firefox had more th
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by jsnell 2mo ago
Good grief that thread is sad, with it ending by Gary Marcus asking for the crank to be taken seriously.
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by jsnell 2mo ago
There's no business in straight-up news aggregation. Google News is purely a public service (it isn't monetized) and a liability (see the regular attempts by governments to make Google pay for news). Anybody with any kind of busin
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by jsnell 2mo ago
Now, now, let's be fair. I don't think LLMs are used for writing or editing the articles in any way. (Each reader can decide themselves whether what you wrote is unfair to Zitron or to LLMs.)

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