merizian

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by merizian 10mo ago
I disagree that legislation can't help. Fundamentally there's an education disconnect and unnecessary friction in setting up parental controls. Governments can better educate parents about the risks, and give them better tools to
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by merizian 1y ago
> The reason why I in particular am so interested in continual learning has pretty much zero to do with humans. Sensors and mechanical systems change their properties over time through wear and tear. To be clear, this isn’t what Dwarkesh
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by merizian 1y ago
The problem with the argument is that it assumes future AIs will solve problems like humans do. In this case, it’s that continuous learning is a big missing component. In practice, continual learning has not been an important component of i
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by merizian 1y ago
I prefer a more nuanced take. If I can’t reliably delegate away a task, then it’s usually not worth delegating. The time to review the code needs to be less than the time it takes to write it myself. This is true for people and AI. And ther
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by merizian 2y ago
Because of mup [0] and scaling laws, you can test ideas empirically on smaller models, with some confidence they will transfer to the larger model. [0] https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.03466
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by merizian 2y ago
This reminds me of LLM pretraining and how there are so many points at which the program could fail and so you need clever solutions to keep uptime high. And it's not possible to just fix the bugs--GPUs will often just crash (e.g. in g
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by merizian 2y ago
You can buy a commercial license for OpenPose for $25K/year https://cmu.flintbox.com/technologies/b820c21d-8443-4aa2-a49...
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by merizian 2y ago
Even if the out of place hold were used, would you then conclude it to be causal? I still wouldn't rule out coincidence. Many discoveries happen as a result of investigating spurious patterns. Also the author rules out psychology, but
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by merizian 2y ago
Another option that works for me: https://cordlessdog.com/stay/
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by merizian 3y ago
The fallacy being made in this argument is that computers need to perform tasks the same way as humans to achieve equal or better performance on them. While having better "system 2" abilities may improve performance, it's pla