programjames

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by programjames 2y ago
But the company si.inc (Standard Intelligence) was founded many months before ssi.inc (Safe Superintelligence), so they likely just didn't want their domain name to get taken.
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by programjames 2y ago
I'm not part of their team, but lived with them for a couple months. They've been working on it for ~5 months, and their background is 16-20 year olds who are too smart for university.
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by programjames 2y ago
I tried this with a friend last year (using 3-majority and a variety of other gates). We couldn't get backprop to work past one layer, probably because there isn't enough bit precision. The "train without backprop" issue
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by programjames 2y ago
Oof, I fell victim to Poe's law
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by programjames 2y ago
I think their point was they think the law should be based off of harms, not necessarily "morals" (since no one can seem to decide on those).
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by programjames 2y ago
There's a similar feature on AoPS: https://aops.com/texer
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by programjames 2y ago
America spends $15k per child for education. That is a ridiculous amount of funding. I think most teachers are of the opinion that the educational decline is due to NCLB, Common Core, and other top-down initiatives that give them less power
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by programjames 2y ago
> If we don't want insurance prices to be tied to customers' health condition, let's make a law against that. That's not how private insurance works. It's entire purpose is to manage risk against unforeseen iss
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by programjames 2y ago
Obviously health insurance costs may go up, or on a national scale one country could target a virus for it's enemy's population. Also, your rhetorical question is a red herring. It isn't about secrecy it's about priva
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by programjames 2y ago
They're probably applying more of an Übermensch mentality than a self-centered one.
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by programjames 2y ago
As a twin I've always been extra cautious about this kind of stuff. I don't think I have a right to give people my twin's biometric data. I even refrain from posting images of myself publicly---there are at most two pictures
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by programjames 2y ago
Yes, but most people aren't following me around with a plastic bag to grab that biometric data. And if someone were, I'd get pretty paranoid about what they're trying to do with it.
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by programjames 2y ago
> All the math and CS needed for AI can fit on a napkin, and had been known for 200+ years. This isn't really true. If you read a physics textbook from the early 1900s, they didn't really have multivariate calculus and linear a
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by programjames 2y ago
Meh, neuroscience.
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by programjames 2y ago
> Don't get me wrong, their work is probably prize worthy I would strongly disagree with you there. It's the exact same idea as the least squares approximation or conjugate gradient method: create an energy function from a quad
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by programjames 2y ago
This is embarrassing. I would say Hopfield networks aren't even very revolutionary in neuroscience, but they're so old I can't tell. In terms of AI... they've been irrelevant for thirty years. I guess you could argue a t
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by programjames 2y ago
I think that's because they're still using mean-squared error in their loss function.
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by programjames 2y ago
The ideas come from these papers: 1. [Liquid Time-Constant Networks (2020)]( https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.04439 ) This is essentially a neural ODE applied to leaky integrate-and-fire. 2. [Closed-form Continuous-time (2022)
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by programjames 2y ago
Ideally, you should only work at learning something if you don't know it. Repetition wastes a lot of time to get that guarantee, but it would be much more efficient to just recognize where you're weak and work at that. It's a
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by programjames 2y ago
Isn't it also possible that the best in their society just left to find other opportunities? The people who couldn't leave would be more prone to gambling, alcoholism, etc.
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by programjames 2y ago
This was a brief thing I heard from (who I think is) one of the founders of Oklo. It was something along the lines of the YC culture rewarding immediate growth over solving hard, technical problems.
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by programjames 2y ago
I've heard they didn't mesh well with the YC culture
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by programjames 2y ago
A convex function is open to the top, like this: \ / \ / \ / \/ If you connect any two points, it lies outside the curve. Which is basically the intuition for Jensen's inequality: if yo
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by programjames 2y ago
Hmm, never mind, that may have been other AI companies.
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by programjames 2y ago
Elon Musk (and several others) sued ClosedAI for this very reason. I agree with you that changing their name would hurt their company now, but I also want public sentiment to shift so not changing their name hurts even more.
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by programjames 2y ago
What about ClosedAI's ignoring of people's requests to not scrape their data?
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by programjames 2y ago
Far, far more than 1% of people care. Sure, they are open in one sense: for business. But in the tech world, "open" specifically means showing us how you got your final product. It means releasing source code rather than just bina
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by programjames 2y ago
I think the purpose is to shift public sentiment? I lot of people in the free software world are justifiably upset over ClosedAI's marketing tactics.
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by programjames 2y ago
I feel like with building computers, the hardest part was building the technology. When it comes to AI, the hardest part seems to be building the surrounding infrastructure: getting hardware to run it, data to train it on, and hardware to s
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by programjames 2y ago
But most of the AI startups are just razoring a thin slice off a huge market. They're making robo-receptionists for the doctor's office, or integrating LLMs into your IDE. Very few are building new markets from scratch, like pho

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