shwaj

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by shwaj 10d ago
I think you’re conflating the direction of definition with the direction of evaluation. Compare the similarity of: AI(n) = improve(AI(n-1)) With: Fib(n) = Fib(n-1) + Fib(n-2) The latter is a classic example of recursion. So w
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by shwaj 10d ago
“Recursive” is a reasonable term because the generation N AIs will train the Generation N+1 AIs. The term “iterative” doesn’t reflect this nuance as well IMO.
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by shwaj 10d ago
The risks of open models are real. However, I’d feel better about ceding control of AI to the government if they didn’t seem so intent on building an apparatus for surveillance/control. Your “furry fanfic” is a somewhat pathetic scarec
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by shwaj 10d ago
Neuromancer came out in 1984, over 40 years ago, so that covers the broad concept. Or Neo in The Matrix: “Programs hacking programs… why?” For non-fiction you could look at Nick Bostrom’s Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies (2014
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by shwaj 12d ago
I was under the impression that Go also uses Elo, then I did a bit of cursory research and discovers that it varies. Two major federations are American Go Association (AGA) and European Go Federation (EGF). EGF uses an Elo-inspired update
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by shwaj 15d ago
It was a joke referencing the typo in the message they responded to.
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by shwaj 16d ago
I was housemates with a couple with a kid. The kid learned Scratch first, and made some surprisingly sophisticated apps in that semester (or two). By now he’s moved on to textual languages (not yet old enough for a career), but Scratch was
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by shwaj 22d ago
I don't know about the article about Apple News scams, but how is an article about Waymo publishing a model for self driving cars not about AI?
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by shwaj 23d ago
It's not plagarism, Ciechanowski didn't invent this presentation form. His presentations are examples of "active essays", a term coined by Alan Kay no later than 2006. (I don't know whether Alan invented the concep
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by shwaj 27d ago
Your tone implies that the same people who freak out about reasonable gov intervention, are also (hypocritically) okay with the shenanigans being discussed. Who are these straw men you refer to?
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by shwaj 1mo ago
You could be more charitable. They did say “or” which you omitted in your quote, and also “who knows”. There are possibilities too. In my view, the primary contribution of that comment was to clarify the time frame.
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by shwaj 2mo ago
I have to assume that was sarcasm.
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by shwaj 2mo ago
So highlight both then.
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by shwaj 2mo ago
It would still be the best model per dollar if the score was 2% lower instead of 0.1% lower. Would it be ok to still give it the highlight color then? How big of a lie is too big? Especially when no lie needed to be told at all: many inclu
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by shwaj 2mo ago
I didn’t grow up with that hobby. The point stands anyway. Cracking a binary circumvents authorization to provide full access to functionality the program already has. That’s very different from modifying the program to add new features.
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by shwaj 2mo ago
I like how they highlighted Opus 5 as the best for “Agentic Coding” even though the number is slightly lower than Fable. Close enough for marketing, I guess!
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by shwaj 2mo ago
Equating an open weight model to a closed source binary is ludicrous. An open weight model can be fine tuned, for example. How easy is it to modify a closed source binary for your purposes?
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by shwaj 2mo ago
They avoid the full basilisk treatment.
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by shwaj 2mo ago
Since we’re hair splitting: that’s not what bike shedding means. :-D
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by shwaj 2mo ago
“Striped office floors. Flickering lights. Walls covered in repetitive geometric patterns.” Not sentences. AI slop.
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by shwaj 2mo ago
Inference providers, sure, but wouldn't we expect customers to win also?
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by shwaj 3mo ago
Benn Jordan, you mean. Good video.
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by shwaj 3mo ago
> ML researcher or engineer The charitable reading is that they meant “ML researcher or ML engineer” with the latter meaning, I guess, an engineer who works on developing LLMs not just using them.
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by shwaj 3mo ago
I don’t think society is a monolith. Many of those who support your proverbial alimony are also against CEOs acting with impunity.
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by shwaj 3mo ago
It's becoming a reliable heuristic that when somebody says "... got it", they probably didn't get it.
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by shwaj 3mo ago
“Put it there in the back with the others”, lol.
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by shwaj 3mo ago
"Formerly banned books" would be more accurate. We no longer say that "cannabis is illegal in California"; that would be factually incorrect. Instead we say, "cannabis was formerly illegal". In standard usage
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by shwaj 4mo ago
I’ve heard about that “open secret” and I don’t understand. What’s the incentive for Anthropic to pump up the token usage on their top end plan? Is it to move Pro users up to Max? That’s the only plausible idea I can think of.
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by shwaj 4mo ago
Maybe I just don’t know how the business works. Many of the support calls that I make are for things or services that I’ve had for a while, not just purchased. So I expected that to be more of a trailing indicator rather than the first area
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by shwaj 4mo ago
I’m as skeptical of fiat currencies as the next guy, but denominating in Bitcoin is the ultimate cherry pick. The price of everything has crashed in the last 10 years when denominated in Bitcoin. If we measured GDP in Bitcoins, the statis

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