platinumrad

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by platinumrad 7d ago
Sure, it might take more than a single paragraph for that grating feeling to sink in, but none of the entries from the Un-Slop Fiction Prize[1] impressed me. [1] https://www.hyperstitionai.com/unslop
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by platinumrad 8d ago
> There's clearly no intelligence task that AIs can't do due to some magic fundamental constraint. Yes there is: write an English paragraph that doesn't make me want to claw my eyes out. LLMs are not better than human math
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by platinumrad 8d ago
They surpass the best human mathematicians in one specific way: they don't get tired or bored.
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by platinumrad 8d ago
Anthropic is a company full of basilisk believers.
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by platinumrad 8d ago
> At OpenAI, many have not deeply internalized the civilizational stakes. At Anthropic, the stakes are well-understood, but they are locked in a race to get there first - they believe no one else will act responsibly, so they must do it
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by platinumrad 8d ago
Are there consequences for lying in sworn testimony?
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by platinumrad 14d ago
Funny. Dario seems like the biggest snake in the industry to me and has leaned the hardest into doom marketing out of all of the influential leaders. With Altman (or Google), it's a transaction, and that's something I can live wit
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by platinumrad 16d ago
ICE manages to harass and detain plenty of citizens.
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by platinumrad 23d ago
Counterpoint: no it's not.
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by platinumrad 29d ago
I don't think the rando providers like Novita, Phala, AkashML, etc., which frequently provide discounts to compete for traffic, are VC-funded. They have to actually make money to stay afloat.
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by platinumrad 1mo ago
API are not subsidized. We know this is true from the existence of independent inference providers (a lot of which are crypto companies that would otherwise just be mining if inference weren't actually profitable).
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by platinumrad 1mo ago
I'm not a fan of Langley but this is just whinging about having the slightest of restrictions put on your toys.
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by platinumrad 1mo ago
These things aren't binary. There is a large middle ground, which is where Pangram sits today. It's good enough to be useful, but I absolutely would not be willing to fail a student on the basis of a Pangram positive. If you are i
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by platinumrad 1mo ago
You're upcharging 50-70 dollars to flash a firmware image?
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by platinumrad 1mo ago
If you take it as given that the watermark detector won't have "plausible false positives" then, sure, your argument becomes trivial. I'm not taking that as given.
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by platinumrad 1mo ago
You know that dlopen does not compare.
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by platinumrad 1mo ago
Reads like LinkedIn slop.
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by platinumrad 1mo ago
I think instruction following carries outsized weight in these evaluations.
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by platinumrad 1mo ago
LLMs aren't people.
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by platinumrad 1mo ago
We're speedrunning all of the worst parts of China, except privatized and we're not even going to get some nice trains or cheap housing out of it.
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by platinumrad 1mo ago
The question you're asking has nothing to do with who has the burden of proof when it comes to claims about Pangram, but I'll answer it anyway. Today, the best way is probably Pangram. Tomorrow, it might not be, especially if they
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by platinumrad 1mo ago
You can't make a blanket statement like this without knowing how the watermark is implemented.
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by platinumrad 1mo ago
Pangram is subjectively very useful and I personally subscribe, but the burden of proof is on them. The product is very much "trust me bro" and I fear that if they ever try to improve recall both their precision and reputation wil
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by platinumrad 1mo ago
Unfortunately for static type weenies like me (and you, presumably), types don't seem to matter at all, or Python and Javascript wouldn't be on top. There's no reason to believe that Ada's type system is so unique that i
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by platinumrad 1mo ago
Careful. If you admit to using models that weren't trained by OpenAI or Anthropic then you might hauled in front of Congress: https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3362616/us...
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by platinumrad 1mo ago
I have a lot of problems with Aschenbrenner and the "Rationalist" community as a whole, but this is not a factually correct characterization of Effective Altruism.
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by platinumrad 2mo ago
> and neither will it help with getting it installed on corporate networks This might not be something the author cares about. Compliance with corporate policies is certainly not something I've prioritized when giving away open sour
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by platinumrad 2mo ago
This is what https://dctransparency.com/ai-firms-pour-record-money-into-w... buys you.
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by platinumrad 2mo ago
The genius who brought us AI 2027.
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by platinumrad 2mo ago
Yes. For example, third-party inference providers serve DeepSeek V4 Flash just as cheaply as DeepSeek themselves, if not even more so. This is very strong evidence that the low price of the model is not subsidized.

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