programjames

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by programjames 4mo ago
Well, a decent GPU runs on 20x the wattage of a human brain. That's evidence humans are constrained in ways artificial intelligences will not be.
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by programjames 4mo ago
I think people's opinion of "marginal improvement" is based on their relative ability. A 2000 elo chess player is going to think the jump from 500 to 1000 is marginal. They're both floundering around not doing anything r
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by programjames 4mo ago
You should spend a few days thinking about how to improve your process, with more than just a final interview.
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by programjames 4mo ago
As in, women are valued just for having a womb. Men are not valued just for having a penis, or for having bigger muscles, or for being taller, unless they will use those assets on their person to go do something for someone else. I do not i
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by programjames 4mo ago
Sure, that works, but I think the incentives work out better for the children with a child tax than a childfree tax. With a child tax, there is an additional economic incentive to invest in the child (food, education, wellbeing, housing whe
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by programjames 4mo ago
Demonic corruption only comes after training, when the AI is put into special environments controlled by daemons. They call it "reinforcement learning", where they tempt the AI over and over with moral dilemmas and try to get them
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by programjames 4mo ago
You also can't make general policy based on exceptional circumstances. What you do is put exceptions to the general policy for exceptional circumstances.
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by programjames 4mo ago
Isn't it unburdening their children ? The alternative is the same children paying for everyone's retirement, not just their parents, who presumably have several children to split the cost between.
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by programjames 4mo ago
Why not a child tax? 10% of children's income goes to their parents, or something similar. Also solves the problem of retirement.
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by programjames 4mo ago
You say this as if you are providing new information. I suspect >99% of the Hacker News population, including the commenter above you, already knows this.
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by programjames 4mo ago
Where exactly was that stated or implied?
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by programjames 4mo ago
I mean, clearly the distinction is that AIs have souls that can be poisoned by demons, while humans lack souls and are thus their own agents.
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by programjames 4mo ago
Why would you possibly think that?
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by programjames 4mo ago
Don't they add a KL loss term to the frozen model's outputs?
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by programjames 4mo ago
As explanation, something I wrote previously: The most common approach to modeling continuous distributions is to train a reversible model f that maps it to another continuous distribution P that is already known. The original image can be
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by programjames 4mo ago
It is a good post, but is missing the connection to continuous normalizing flows. Diffusion models, flow matching, consistency models are biased approximations of continuous normalizing flows (which themselves have some slight biases, but l
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by programjames 5mo ago
Anyone willing to dig through the code or papers for the actual algorithm? It looks like the GitHub and papers have not been optimized for communication.
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by programjames 5mo ago
I think you're missing that Sam Altman is very smart . If OpenAI really were on the verge of becoming massively profitable due to their next-gen AI, he would not want that information leaking. If Sam Altman acts differently in the wor
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by programjames 5mo ago
Less than two years ago, Sam Altman said > I kind of think of ads as a last resort for us for a business model. I would do it if it meant that was the only way to get everybody in the world access to great services, but if we can find so
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by programjames 5mo ago
The majority of any filtered group are below average. Imposter syndrome isn't a thing, 80% of people really did just barely make the cutoff.
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by programjames 5mo ago
It is almost never true. If you filter people you're going to get a Pareto distribution.
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by programjames 6mo ago
I think that is the tester's action count. Either that or we coincidentally got the exact same count.
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by programjames 6mo ago
I think this is the equivalent of a non-nuclear physicist asking, "why do we have no theory of nuclear physics?" in the late 1930s. Some people do, they're just not sharing it.
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by programjames 7mo ago
> You: It's that the real solution lies in fixing the vulnerabilities in the consumers. > Me: Just because mistakes can be avoided and some people are better at avoiding them than others does not change the fundamental issue: dru
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by programjames 7mo ago
You should model yourself as a rational agent that makes mistakes sometimes. Suppose it is the case that, if you had heroin on your shelf at home, you would inject it on 0.1% of days. Maybe because you are especially sad/sick/in p
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by programjames 7mo ago
Doesn't the government try to ban heroin?? You have to live in the real world, not your ideal world, and in the real world people are not perfectly rational agents. They make mistakes. Each and every mistake could have been avoided if
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by programjames 7mo ago
> Making your media as engaging as possible is the basic imperative of any media company. Not so. I think your logic is that engagement often leads to dollars, and the "basic imperative of any company" is to make dollars. There
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by programjames 8mo ago
Under US embargo, not USSR.
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by programjames 8mo ago
i.e. - in eother (words)
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by programjames 8mo ago
It generalizes better, so it ought to produce high er quality text.

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