magicalist

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by magicalist 3d ago
> The second was just for fun; it is fun. This is very far from the code we roll out at customers though. Which is fine, great even (I do the same thing!), but in trying different things outside your day job, it seems like you do und
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by magicalist 3d ago
> you need to resort to this kind of comment stalking to try to find ammunition for a general argument It's not a general argument, they made specific claims, but vague posted (and implying everyone else must be crazy) to the poin
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by magicalist 3d ago
> They're not "adding no value", the SLA is the value The code their Astra+Fable setup, automatically generated from requests customers leave in voicemails, is apparently so good they never correct it. If the stories bei
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by magicalist 3d ago
I mean they've boasted[1] about their generated code being so good that they add basically zero value and that they're riding out the rentseeking for as long as possible. Meanwhile they've apparently played with LLM porting o
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by magicalist 5d ago
intentionality was not what you were addressing, nor was it what the GP was clearly responding to.
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by magicalist 5d ago
Strict liability literally is crimes that don't require a guilty mind. That's different (sometimes) when, for example, you're found guilty of criminal negligence leading to someone being injured. Prosecutors don't have
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by magicalist 5d ago
> The same EPA that under 5+ administrations has taken no material action to reduce the effects of climate change? Huh? The endangerment finding was in 2009. The problem is that we have a very litigious set of polluters and then we ele
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by magicalist 5d ago
> It's this sort of thing that motivates people to burn down the institution you might be trying to defend. lol, yes, this sort of thing is what many people who voted for Trump were saying, and things are going great for them. &gt
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by magicalist 5d ago
I mean, let's say you spun up a swarm of agents to rewrite a large component of a well used open source library to be memory safe. You could dump it in a big PR and walk away (we all know how that would go), or you could try engaging,
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by magicalist 5d ago
I mean, this is the problem with analogies and trying to use them to prove things, right? People working through problems from an analysis book with their friend (or an LLM) is not the same as research mathematics. People playing in a chess
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by magicalist 5d ago
> The fact is these fields are supported by society because of the benefits to everyone else. Once the same results can be achieved in a cheaper and faster way that is what will be done. Maybe it's worth double checking that you k
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by magicalist 6d ago
> And OpenAI directly addressed these plagiarism claims, and called them impossible Funny, you were telling me two days ago that on the contrary, "it’s genuinely impossible to know how much of Buckmaster’s Codex data is in OpenAI’
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by magicalist 6d ago
> the Anthropic researcher is clearly pushing the case against Open AI Things like the nytimes interview are with Buckmaster, who works at NYU, not Alpöge. I saw a couple of tweets from him over the last week. Any chance of clarifying
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by magicalist 6d ago
> It's not obvious to me that's an unethical thing to do In terms of work in mathematics, something I personally would not do based on ethical grounds would be to hear a rumor that some researchers are taking a certain appr
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by magicalist 6d ago
There are some mixed up things in your post, maybe double check next time, especially before quoting anyone, as you really undermine your point even if you're directionally right. > Buckmaster rejected fame and $1M only because doi
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by magicalist 6d ago
> Eh, I hope Apple continues to provide this and it forces the needed discussion about how two-party consent requirements are nonsensical Really disagree on this, I think all states should be two party consent, personally. > Why sh
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by magicalist 7d ago
> No, it’s genuinely impossible to know how much of Buckmaster’s Codex data is in OpenAI’s training set. Let's check if an OpenAI employee agrees with you: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49614154 Nope. Expen
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by magicalist 7d ago
> There is no crease at all! Like first reply he literally says > There is sorta one at some slight angles but basically no crease And someone replied with a picture of it showing the crease. It's probably fine and you don&#x
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by magicalist 7d ago
> infuriating to see spoiled developed world complaints sometimes Maybe glance back at your comment history and find you mostly are complaining about very developed world things and investigate why there might be a disconnect between t
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by magicalist 8d ago
> You're making a classic a burden-of-proof fallacy This is incorrect, and you invoke Russell's teapot incorrectly too. It would only apply if the accusation rested solely on the fact that neither of us have evidence against
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by magicalist 8d ago
> They aren't arguing against open science, they are trying to educate you on the history of science. It's always been this way. Always been what way? And how does that contrast to what Tao said (since it was apparently &quot
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by magicalist 8d ago
> Nothing in their comment reads to me as "arguing against" If competition is somehow the opposite of "centuries of traditions of open science", and "mathematics has always been highly competitive", then o
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by magicalist 8d ago
> wound up working in ads or finance Because there's lots and lots of money in that and there's not in funding pure math. It sounds like your problem is with the people holding the purse strings.
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by magicalist 8d ago
> "Here is a picture of the dish, make it look nicer and use that as a reference" That's not a function of improvement in models, though, which was the question. You could literally do that today, no need to wait for mod
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by magicalist 8d ago
> In other words, the "right" people need to solve it: the mathematicians who made it their job and not the people working to push AI models forward? This is not at all what he said? I'm not sure how you got this from an
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by magicalist 8d ago
Surprised to see someone on HN arguing against open science. Seems like the opposite of the lessons we should learn from Newton and Gauss, actually, hoarding results for decades at the expense of progress. (the Pythagorean thing isn't
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by magicalist 8d ago
> Soldiers rarely know the history of war, and war historians are rarely soldiers. I mean, besides the empty platitude that we have no reason to assume applies here, we can easily search and find Tao commenting on the history and phil
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by magicalist 8d ago
> Then will we continue to see the slop accusations? If it doesn't look like the food you're about to purchase, yes? Why is this even a question in this context.
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by magicalist 8d ago
I mean, I actively advocate for better fuel efficiency standards but also haven't entirely eliminated red meat from my diet. If I'm discussing fuel efficiency standards and you call me hypocritical, even if I granted that, it does
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by magicalist 8d ago
> If this is true he should release the actual emails these were statements while on a call, and at least the career comment Bubeck has admitted to while doing damage control ("I deeply apologize for this extremely poor choice of

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