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by pants2 4d ago
All it takes for the AI to grow legs is to acquire money (should be no problem for an ASI) and pay humans to do what it wants in the real world.
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by pants2 4d ago
Typically yes but given that OpenAI has published enormous official blog posts breaking down their crime, I would think the prosecutor's job is pretty easy.
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by pants2 4d ago
We don't know exactly what the limits of AI improvement on our current infrastructure are, though. If the human brain is 20W, and a datacenter is 1GW, then maybe that datacenter can be 50 million times smarter than a human. If that&#x2
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by pants2 4d ago
Diminishing returns is extremely hard for me to believe given how fast model releases are going. Six months ago we were on GPT-5.3, and Astra blows it out of the water in every regard. How many times have commentators claimed we're hit
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by pants2 13d ago
I might agree, GPT-4.5 was pretty close to peak conversationalist. Newer models are extremely cringe. 4.5 and o3 actually made me laugh on occasion. There might be a way of making Sol/Fable more human in its responses, but out of the b
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by pants2 16d ago
If I found the best human writer in the world, and had him write every article on the internet, wiping his memory between each one, his writing would start to get pretty noticeable and boring!
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by pants2 21d ago
I can't believe we're actually experiencing a real life "the AI escaped its simulation" scenario. This is straight out of science fiction. This headline would not be out of place at the beginning of Terminator, foretelli
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by pants2 22d ago
Just be rich. What's so hard about that?
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by pants2 26d ago
Seems like some of the most interesting objects are missing or have weird red/green artifacts, why is that?
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by pants2 26d ago
Wow, crazy fine -- they say only 126 drivers were affected. If true that's almost $8M per driver.
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by pants2 27d ago
From the title I assumed this would be about futures contracts for inference, similar to CME's new GPU compute futures. Instead "Futures" the the name of some weird political think-tank that's envisioning the collapse of
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by pants2 28d ago
Agreed, that's what I thought it meant when I used the phrase :)
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by pants2 29d ago
It's certainly not well defined today; memecoins, prediction markets, sports betting, and more are all toeing the line of gambling.
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by pants2 29d ago
This would require airlines underwriting the value of the meetings that you might miss and pricing their services accordingly. I imagine an airline would never sell a flight to CEOs on their way to board meetings, or actors on their way to
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by pants2 1mo ago
Yes, was going to say I use it exclusively for video and audio. The ability to give it a YouTube link through the API and ask questions about it is awesome
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by pants2 1mo ago
Sure, and OpenAI will be happy to let them self-host for a large fee. However I doubt that Pfizer will be developing their own frontier models for biological research.
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by pants2 1mo ago
I'd think an ethicist at Meta/OpenAI involves extremely challenging mental gymnastics
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by pants2 1mo ago
The frontier labs would rather charge a premium for the best capabilities. You joke but they will probably soon have a GPT-bio that they license to Pfizer and a GPT-quant that they license to Citadel, rather than keeping those valuable capa
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by pants2 1mo ago
You're right. Wh/day is a terrible unit!
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by pants2 1mo ago
A quick search suggests one hamster can produce around 0.5 Wh/day, so 100 hamsters should easily power your phone laptop with a constant 50W!
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by pants2 1mo ago
There's a super obvious tell, 5.5 instant loves emojis.
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by pants2 2mo ago
Yeah, something very cool is XOR can only improve randomness as long as there's no correlation between the sources. So Linux RNG XOR'd with this comment is even better than it's source!
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by pants2 2mo ago
Crypto people make fun of me for making up passwords in my head, but my brain RNG has never been exploited, nor has anyone successfully Sherlock'd my password.
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by pants2 2mo ago
You must be fun at parties
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by pants2 2mo ago
There's a staggering amount of new, basic software which often goes unmaintained quickly because no discipline was needed to build it. But I don't think we're seeing, for example, Adobe releasing new creative suite tools fast
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by pants2 2mo ago
After all this time it's still a pain point just to pay them for a Gemini API key.
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by pants2 2mo ago
Blockchain protocols are also faced with the most active, persistent, and well-funded state sponsored attackers of any industry, so naturally formal verification should be of great interest.
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by pants2 2mo ago
I think Grok is replacing composer now yeah? Fast mode is similar speed to composer.
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by pants2 2mo ago
Right - one would assume that if they're on the verge of an ASI that will consume the entire economy, advertising is only a distraction.
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by pants2 2mo ago
Perhaps with strategic striping on the ball they could also get angular velocity, could come up with some very cool stats. Or if you're really having fun, microchip every ball with an accelerometer / gyro

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