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by liamconnell 7mo ago
I think NYT uses multiple titles for some articles. I had copy pasted it
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by liamconnell 7mo ago
I’m guessing that Amodei meant it as a humorous inside joke. It’s also shorthand for “the end of massive R&D capex” and “the transition to market capture”. The final stage, what McKinsey types call “harvesting”, is probably not on Amode
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by liamconnell 8mo ago
> It is, but when a model/harness/tools/system prompts are the same/similar in the generator and reviewer fail in similar ways. Is there empirical evidence for that? Where is it on an epistemic meter between (1) “it s
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What does it feel like to be an agent?(liamconnell.github.io)
4 points by liamconnell 8mo ago|0 comments
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by liamconnell 8mo ago
Not mentioned in the article, but one interesting area where OpenAI could play is in participant identification and recruitment for clinical trials. In fact, ChatGPT could also help operate the clinical trials which is a highly paperwork in
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by liamconnell 9mo ago
> Someone would purchase it and run it again under a new company. That happened a long time ago! Microsoft already owns the model weights!
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by liamconnell 9mo ago
Loved Bluebeard as well. A mature Vonnegut who knew how to use motifs from his earlier work. And for an old guy, he kept his writing fresh and energetic. The miniature story of the dog without a tail always comes back to me.
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by liamconnell 9mo ago
I read the second two books this year and was unfortunately disappointed. First two were so fun but I think I got hung up on some of the more clumsy stylistic parts of the Endymion books. I guess my “trust” in the author comes from the styl
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by liamconnell 9mo ago
Neither are on-brand for hacker news but: [Best fiction] Stoner - John Williams [Best non-fiction] Say Nothing - Patrick Radden Keefe
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by liamconnell 9mo ago
The US crypto lobby has already raised over 240 million for the 2026 election. It’s a cancer attacking our society’s institutions.
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by liamconnell 10mo ago
Didn’t see that yet, interesting!
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by liamconnell 10mo ago
The CFO isn't talking about selling tokens to pharma companies. There's no money in that. She proposed revenue sharing. In this scenario, OpenAI's AI service helps discover drug candidates, and shares the IP ownership of the
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by liamconnell 10mo ago
Good point! On the other hand, Historically Amazon didnt compete with Google (until GCP). They do compete with Microsoft, which is pretty closely aligned with OAI. They also have large investments in Anthropic. Even if OpenAI did win here,
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by liamconnell 10mo ago
Yes that's what I meant. But Amazon will fight for its life to stop this. So OpenAI will have to go to other retailers, which don't have the same product catalogue size as Amazon. Best case scenario: Target or Walmart. But there i
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by liamconnell 10mo ago
Yes but its not relevant to the agent use cases (which are mostly about interacting with external systems). So agents built by Microsoft (Copilot) can natively interact with Office files in Sharepoint, and the Sharepoint product team can bu
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by liamconnell 10mo ago
Unfortunately for OpenAI, they are not positioned to capture value from any of the "big margin" use cases that they highlight as key to their future. I think all of these are pretty unrealistic for them: - Revenue sharing from dru
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by liamconnell 2y ago
> I usually play piano improvisationally, and manually hitting record never meshed well with that. So relatable. Congrats, looks like a great product. I just ordered one for my piano-player buddy for Christmas.
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by liamconnell 2y ago
Jane street did it for a long time. They are quite large now and only recently started bringing in program managers and the like.
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Archetypes of Knowledge-Intensive Applications of AI(liamconnell.github.io)
5 points by liamconnell 2y ago|1 comments
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by liamconnell 2y ago
Well I’m not saying I agree with it, but a comparison to the Great Depression is not out of context for an article comparing today’s economic situation to that immediately preceding the Great Depression!
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by liamconnell 3y ago
Do the private companies get some special IP rights on the public sector research? It seems like in a competitive market, those private companies would have thin margins. What stops a lower cost competitor from using the same public IP? I’m
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by liamconnell 3y ago
I lived in Argentina for a few years. There are plenty of problems with their public healthcare system that pretty much mirror any country with a troubled economy, but one day a work colleague recommended I visit the Favoloro Institute. I’v
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by liamconnell 3y ago
Gpt2 answers to gpt3. Gpt3 answers to gpt4. Gpt4 answers to God.
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by liamconnell 3y ago
If you study history you’ll notice that groups and their leaders are rising and falling, conquering and pillaging and then losing it all. The world is too dynamic for your reductive theory to fit in. Elites compete with each other. They don
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by liamconnell 4y ago
Well hold on now. Parent presented that as fact with no evidence too!
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by liamconnell 4y ago
I think you can integrate it with nginx, which would work well with postgrest.
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by liamconnell 4y ago
Not sure why you were downvoted. Parts of the book are indeed timeless! My favorite but is the idea that out of the jumble of documents produced, a few emerge as the pivot around which the majority of the team’s communication revolves. I’ve
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by liamconnell 4y ago
Great point. I have a comment below that goes into some of the difficulty with this distinction. To be fair, many small/mid-sized companies that act as suppliers to larger companies would basically have the larger company doing the car
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by liamconnell 4y ago
> government sequestration sites Well that would drive up demand for fossil fuels and profits for extraction companies, leading to more extraction. Is this a real idea (proposed policy in a country) or just something you wrote down?
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by liamconnell 4y ago
Great point. This would be great for a net importer country like the US. Germany (net exporter) wants their goods competitive abroad. On the other hand, if the US and other high-consumption countries collaborated on this it would probably b

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