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by mquander 4mo ago
The linked report seems almost useless -- it doesn't say anything about an error rate or a sample size, so it's a mystery whether 9 out of 20 systems “fabricated information and made suggestions to patients' treatment plans”
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by mquander 4mo ago
I haven't, but the parent said that this is what a company "should" do, not just what they do do.
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by mquander 4mo ago
> Of course the safest (first) option is the correct option from a liability standpoint, which is all a company should operate on since it's first responsibility is to protect the company for those that are still there. Isn't t
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by mquander 4mo ago
That rule is a rule that excludes many socially excluded nerds. So if there are more and more spaces like that, then the nerds that those spaces exclude, are probably going to go make new communities and attempt to keep out the people who j
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by mquander 5mo ago
It doesn't exclude people who attend high schools and colleges that have a computer lab.
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by mquander 5mo ago
Your comment is framed like "giving a student a personal AI datacenter to carry with them" is unrealistic, but in fact it is easy for anyone with access to $1000-$2000 worth of compute to download and operate exactly that for free
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by mquander 6mo ago
This comment would make more sense if it were before the new wave of prediction markets, which are high-profile gambling products clearly largely made and popularized by true believers who think they are making the world a better place.
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by mquander 7mo ago
I think it's slightly less ridiculous than it sounds, because governments have much more power over their own citizens. As an American I would dramatically prefer the Chinese government to spy on me than the American government, becaus
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by mquander 7mo ago
> I don’t know who operates this agent, and I’m not going to speculate about why they did what they did.
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by mquander 7mo ago
I don't really understand the criticism. The authors aren't claiming to have the strongest chess engine without search. They are just showing that they got a chess engine to a respectable level with their process, which is somewha
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by mquander 10mo ago
That's great, I'm going to use that one in the future.
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by mquander 10mo ago
I recommend Matthew Sadler's Game Changer and The Silicon Road To Chess Improvement .
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by mquander 11mo ago
Karpathy talking for 2 hours about how he uses LLMs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWvNQjAaOHw
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by mquander 11mo ago
I don't know if this matters to you, but Eliezer doesn't think LLMs will kill us. He thinks LLMs are a stepping stone to the ASI that will kill us.
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by mquander 11mo ago
This is fascinating, thanks so much for posting it!
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by mquander 11mo ago
Actually, the main reason I used Nebula was that they advertised a credible-to-me promise that you could download and permanently delete your data upon request. That was some years ago, so I don't know if I would trust them today. But
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by mquander 11mo ago
I was interested to read this because some time ago I had my genome sequenced by Nebula. If you look at the lawsuit you can see that what Nebula did was use off-the-shelf third-party analytics products on their website, including recording
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by mquander 1y ago
Content appears largely LLM-generated, which is weird for someone's personal blog.
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by mquander 1y ago
If kids could do math they would be able to divide the yearly American military aid to Israel ($18b last year) by the American population (340m), so they probably wouldn't conclude that fifty bucks per year per person was the main reas
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by mquander 1y ago
I guess this is probably what Lucifer said to God about why it was stupid to give humans free will.
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by mquander 1y ago
I sympathize with how annoying it must be to have other people messing up your work, but also, if your name is at the top of the page, and there's not really any other way for readers to know anyone in particular that is taking respons
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by mquander 1y ago
You said it yourself. That's really not an appropriate response to a specific criticism.
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by mquander 1y ago
It's very stylistically visible. For example, it's covered in `it's not just X -- it's Y" phrasings that are default LLM house style.
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by mquander 1y ago
When you rely on an LLM to write for you and then present a melange of your work and the LLM's work without attribution, it makes it impossible for others to usefully interpret what you published. Are you saying that e.g. securely atta
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by mquander 1y ago
Stallman is probably in the top 10 of all time in terms of people who facilitated alternatives to this. He invented the GPL and wrote and maintained a ton of tools for people running alternative software stacks to use. What more would you a
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by mquander 1y ago
You should not assume that "they've chosen one particular tiny model", or "it's a median across all models including the tiny one they use for all search queries" because those are totally made up assumptions t
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by mquander 1y ago
They accept Monero which would be my first thought.
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by mquander 1y ago
Maybe if you are tired of chasing AI hype you could start by not literally AI-generating big clickbait articles about AI for social media?
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by mquander 1y ago
I'm pretty much an AI layperson but my basic understanding of how LLMs usually run on my or your box is: 1. You load all the weights of the model into GPU VRAM, plus the context. 2. You construct a data structure called the "KV ca
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by mquander 1y ago
My "common sense" (IMHO) suggestions from the perspective of a parent of a 5yo (i.e. not in the "socializing with friends online" stage yet): - "Screen time" is not a natural category. You can watch TV, listen

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