sifar

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by sifar 29d ago
We are going around in circles. When we are doing something, we won't be able to do a thousand other things we could be doing. Only the future can tell whether that turns out to be great or not, however, how we react to those experienc
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by sifar 29d ago
>> I'm sure you don't grow your own potatoes. That, is also a thought terminating cliche. Sure we want to choose what we spend time on, however, we don't know what experiences will meaningfully contribute to our lives.
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by sifar 1mo ago
I think it is both. The individual realities of living beings adds a layer on top of the actual physical universe. Our priors shape how we perceive the things around us.
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by sifar 1mo ago
If an observer cannot distinguish between an illusion and reality, it becomes their reality, not necessarily the reality or those of others who can. It becomes a problem when sufficient number of people suffer from this, or those in imp
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by sifar 2mo ago
They talk about developing and using TileLang which they ported to Huawei's 950 GPUs. And it makes sense, as these LLMs become more capable in coding abilities - people will use them to develop their own abstractions to work on differe
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by sifar 2mo ago
>> As you can understand, during V3 training, NVIDIA GPUs were still used, but the NVIDIA ecosystem was no longer employed. Ironic that these large LLMs are eroding Nividia's moat. In the next paragraph he talks about Nvidia digg
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by sifar 3mo ago
>> trying to balance autonomy with managing the exploitative nature of modern technology makes me anxious to have kids This is a legitimate concern and the anxiety is understandable. I think that would make you a much better parent th
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by sifar 3mo ago
May be for OO not yet for DA. Existential pressure drives better(fruitful) decisons and actions. AI has yet to incorporate that into training/inference.
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by sifar 4mo ago
8. The credit market tied to the data center buildout implodes. The contagion spreads similar to 2008. It is ironic that people got laid off due to capitol allocation for compute capacity and people will get laid off when there isn't m
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by sifar 4mo ago
The difference is in what other enabling technologies do you need to achieve it. Advanced technologies sit on a pyramid. One can build a bow and an arrow from sticks, string and rock. For reliable firearm we need chemistry and advanced meta
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by sifar 4mo ago
>> The danger is removing the review systems and pretending the output is expert-level just because it seems to be working correctly. This is what is happening. In the rush to adopt AI many are abandoning sane engineering principles&
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by sifar 4mo ago
The point is not that these cease to exist. The point is that their significance decreases greatly.
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Ask HN: What is an optimal game theoretic response to AI adoption?
2 points by sifar 4mo ago|3 comments
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by sifar 4mo ago
This is an interesting question that I haven't thought about, thanks. What we currently have is a simulacrum of thought - albeit a good one. Any technology is useful only in the sense that it helps us with solving the problems we are d
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by sifar 4mo ago
Yes, there is the general class of technologies (warfare, computing ...) and there are particular instances of those for a given time and space and evolve as the landscape changes. The technology of warfare evolved to better mechanisms, per
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by sifar 4mo ago
Swords, bows and arrows, castles were all here to stay. Technologies fade away when they are no longer useful, cost/benefit ratio is too high or something better comes along. It is question of when.
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by sifar 4mo ago
Can you please elaborate on the series ? I didn't get the reference.
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by sifar 4mo ago
>> No, space is an end run around dealing with bureaucracy and politics. It's space. There's basically nobody to tell you "no" up there. >> So they'll go to the place where they do not need to ask anyone
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by sifar 5mo ago
The problem here is that N different users will ask for N different variants of the same tool, so you'll end up with a tool which is similar but not quite. Is the tool updated to support new functionality, or a new tool is created and
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by sifar 5mo ago
You could flip it around. These companies wouldn't exist without California. The state had the conditions where these companies could germinate and thrive. Elsewhere they might, they might not. In an alternate reality Mr Brin could sti
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by sifar 5mo ago
When Duke Wellington was asked what was his most difficult battle, he mentioned the Battle of Assaye. He said he found the Maratha troops equal to the European military . His horse was killed under him and he was lucky to live through the b
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by sifar 5mo ago
I think at this point we can safely put the pelican test in the category of Goodhart's law.
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by sifar 5mo ago
This has overflow issues unlike xor.
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by sifar 5mo ago
The paradox is that the quality of AI output is directly proportional to your expertise and understanding, while the trust/belief/confidence in their effectiveness is inversely proportional. It will still pay to develop the core u
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by sifar 5mo ago
In general and for software in particular too :). For general see my response to ellg. Even though we were aware of the insecurity of the supply chain, 1) In practice we tend to ignore it except for mission critical cases. We still do. 2)
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by sifar 5mo ago
To clarify, I meant it from a lay person's perspective. I do realize that one can argue if the average person will have developed this awareness now. The difference this time, I feel, is that the genAI tools are widely available for no
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by sifar 5mo ago
Yes, that is my main takeaway to. Adn that is why all the talk about AI alignment/safety seem pointless to me.
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by sifar 5mo ago
I get amused that people don't realize that genAI is an existential threat to the internet and everything that has been built on it. 1) One can no longer trust things out on the web. 2) One no longer needs things out on the web. For 1)
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by sifar 5mo ago
Thou shall not make a machine in the likeness of man. Oh wait that is Dune :). I think what OP meant is Asimov's stories revolve around issues arising from loopholes or some interpretation of the three laws of robotics.
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by sifar 5mo ago
>> I'm not sure what level of delusion one has to run to look at human civilization and say "no, intelligence wasn't important for this". One has to only look at the current tech and political leaders.

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