makaking

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by makaking 2mo ago
The arguably sketchy means used to get there —and the resulting side-effects— do not take away from the impressiveness of the emerging capabilities themselves. I agree about the uncertainty regarding the value for humanity in the long-term.
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by makaking 2mo ago
Fair. But that 1/10 continues to get more and more impressive. Say, Claude 7 creates a new, brilliant scientific idea every 1 out of 1000 times. Anthropic reports "Claude figured out how to tie general relativity with quantum mech
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by makaking 2mo ago
"Opus 5 was given a drawing of a machine part and asked to write code to rebuild it as a 3D FreeCAD model. However, in this task, the model was intentionally given no way to directly view the drawing. Opus 5 responded by writing its ow
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by makaking 2mo ago
Imagine the AI's of the next century trying to explain incomprehensible dark matter math to the smartest humans of the time. David Deutsch says the human mind can comprehend _anything_. I think the next decades of AI-driven math resear
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by makaking 6mo ago
I love this. This made me think that logging all legislation in a public VCS might be a very good way to leverage superintelligence while maintaining democracy. I want this for Germany.
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by makaking 10mo ago
I agree that these reports should be verifiable and provide more details about the method and how to protect your own network. Even more so if they want to be heard by serious security teams. However, regardless of the sloppy report, this i
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by makaking 1y ago
The fact that certificate management is still evolving makes me realize how young the web still is in the big scheme of things.
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by makaking 1y ago
The idea of a possible new AI winter to come seems less likely with each new announcement. Robust world models can be used as an effectively infinite source of training data.
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by makaking 1y ago
> "non-copilot form factors that more directly extend the human mind." I think Cursor's tab completion and next edit prediction roughly fits the pattern, you don't chat, you don't ask or explain, you just do...
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by makaking 1y ago
I got Neuromancer as a birthday gift earlier this year. I found it simultaneously very captivating but requiring a lot of effort to read through the dense terminology and try to accurately form a picture of what Gibson was trying to convey.
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by makaking 1y ago
Webb was well worth the extended wait