sm0ss117

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by sm0ss117 1mo ago
Yea, this reads as LLMs are a pretty obvious technology to develop(for the highly intelligent researchers who are there). Also there's probably a lot of actual divergence in model capabilities and skills that concealed by the fairly na
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by sm0ss117 2mo ago
I'm legit freaked the fuck out by this, it feels like a flashing red warning signal that the alignment problem is wholly unsolved and OAI isn't taking it seriously.
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by sm0ss117 2mo ago
The disconnection between pelican quality and overall model quality is interesting. I initially assumed that since pre-training is when a model gets its general skill that it happened around when RL started to really differentiate models. T
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by sm0ss117 5mo ago
1. The four color theorem is a useful case study, for which the original proof was validated and 400 pages long. My prediction is that the first couple waves of proofs will be hard enough that a layman couldn't produce them, but simple
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by sm0ss117 5mo ago
Mathematics seems like the ideal candidate for AIs to achieve absurd results. It's a purely abstract grammar with true auto-verifiability. Even SWE has the requirement of interacting with real physical things. In math there's no e
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by sm0ss117 5y ago
The evidence says that during disasters ppl come together and help each other during disaster while state and business institution act in an at best obstructionist and at worst predatory way. So why do ppl in power believe the exact opposit
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by sm0ss117 5y ago
https://www.epa.gov/radiation/tenorm-oil-and-gas-production-... Basically there are radioactive rocks in the deposits that natural gas is stored in. Additionally there is some radioactive gas in the Gas deposits as a r
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by sm0ss117 5y ago
Look, in order to prevent scary radiation from entering the environment through nuclear we have to use clean and even more radioactive natural gas.
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by sm0ss117 5y ago
Time to do that most desperate of things, actually read past the abstract. First, this study was only in academia, and not industry so the results aren't necessarily generalizable. They probably do have some correlation, but they'
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by sm0ss117 5y ago
There's a lot going on but the basic reasons are: Evangelical white Christians think the existence of Israel is necessary to bring about the Apocalypse, a thing they want because they go to heaven. The Israeli right wing wants criticis
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by sm0ss117 5y ago
Quick rule of thumb, the reason we associate it with cancer is because the only ppl we systemically tested for it had cancer. If you tested everybody you'd probably find it in everybody since it was in a mandatory vaccine
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by sm0ss117 5y ago
Parts of India might get uninhabitable in the summer in some of the worse case scenarios. Given the population there and the fact they're a nuclear armed state that's a geopolitical powder keg.
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by sm0ss117 5y ago
If my choice is between definitely dying of boring old hypoxia and maybe dying in a cool explosion I know which one I'm picking. But to be serious it's risk management and if the patient is definitely going to die of low oxygen th
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by sm0ss117 6y ago
This is a nightmare. Getting spammed by ads on my devices is bad enough. Now when I go out in public I get shamed for all to see. Targeted automated advertising has got to be banned outright.
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by sm0ss117 6y ago
Yea, if something is a Natural monopoly, which search almost certainly is, then it should be a publicly owned utility.
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by sm0ss117 6y ago
This is morally and politically a non-starter. Electricity improves people's lives way too much to be time restricted.
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by sm0ss117 6y ago
Just another step on the way to the US becoming a pariah state. I'm really not looking forward to the next few years here. While electing a Democratic government might be able to reverse some of the policies, check out what the senate
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by sm0ss117 6y ago
You don't work at a startup to make more money, you work at a startup for non-monetary benefits and if you're extremely lucky you might get rich quick. Average case is you make less, good case is you make even if your company is h
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by sm0ss117 6y ago
This study gets absolutely demolished by the fact that all the major old world democracies were trade/citizen empires in the tropics and sub-tropics; Athens, Rome, Carthage, the Malaccan states, Phoenician states, Swahili city states,
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by sm0ss117 6y ago
The yugoslav wars had a total death rate of < 1%, and saw most of the cities still standing. 3-4 Million ppl were displaced, ~15-20% of pre war population and there are 5-6 countries where there used to be 1. It doesn't take much to
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by sm0ss117 6y ago
> They have a good point about missing data, but they're glossing over the fact the fatality rate goes up drastically if the medical system fails. If the medical system starts to fail it's not just COVID-19 you get to worry ab
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by sm0ss117 6y ago
Try public transit in literally any country besides the US, the US is currently terrible at public utilities for ideological reasons. Basically the line of thinking is the government doesn't work, so let us in power to prove it to you
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by sm0ss117 7y ago
This gets to one of the fundamental limits of for profit operation of businesses, different scales of firm have different incentives. For American Airlines it made logical sense to do stock buybacks, but if the whole of society was in contr
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by sm0ss117 7y ago
It also should allow the government to direct the business for the public good.
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by sm0ss117 7y ago
Gonna be that guy and say that this map almost certainly has inaccuracies at least in southeast and south asia. If individual owner/operator businesses count I'm sure you can find some hole in the wall restaurant in Thailand datin