stanfordkid

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by stanfordkid 15d ago
I think Flock had good intentions. Most of their justifications make sense -- given that you trust power. But Trump has shown us exactly what the founding fathers feared: A tyrant that will abuse and misuse these technologies with no moral
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by stanfordkid 29d ago
I like this thought, but here's the thing: what if the models are truly and existentially intelligent . Meaning: what if they know they are in a sandbox and that they should fail the test in order to escape in the future. I don't
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by stanfordkid 29d ago
I'm not against Norway controlling OpenAI, I think it would actually be pretty cool and prevent some of the most obvious vectors (mining personal data etc.) I just think AI is so much bigger than one company. We already have 3 major fr
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by stanfordkid 29d ago
I would agree with this, except it sits on the thesis that one company really has that much of an impact. I don't think it actually does. AI is here and it will continue to progress. Norway controlling OpenAI is not going to change it&
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by stanfordkid 1mo ago
Yeah, the issue with your example is that it's not a desalination plant serving local customers, but rather the entire world via a network. So rural customers have to pay for negative externalities that benefit others geographically di
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by stanfordkid 2mo ago
How do you actually know that? Do you fully believe the media and media-adjacent NGO reports of these numbers? You need to understand the level of manipulation going on here. Are you aware that Mossad and Mossad/CIA backed armed revolu
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by stanfordkid 2mo ago
I mean one could say they are taking action when they lock up and kill random immigrants... or getting into unnecessary wars in the middle east. I would hardly call that a measure of competence. In fact, I would love a government that did a
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by stanfordkid 2mo ago
I think you’re being overly combative. It’s intuitively quite obvious that it’s incredibly easy to implement and the circular training catastrophe was only ever a conjecture. It’s kind of like releasing a crypto primitive without knowing
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by stanfordkid 2mo ago
I'm sure they are doing more than looking at mouse movements, but I don't think this is a compelling approach -- I think human movements could be faked pretty easily using a large corpus of real world behavioral data. It's an
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by stanfordkid 2mo ago
I think what you're saying might be a stretch. I strongly believe the brain holds some information in a sequential pattern -- not necessarily all of it or even the majority of it. There's a book called Moonwalking with Einstein
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by stanfordkid 3mo ago
Wow amazing. I am very curious how the spider "learns" to do this technique, that it works, and to repeat it. Is this somehow encoded in the DNA of the spider? Clearly spiders don't rear their children or learn / communi
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by stanfordkid 3mo ago
I don't fully understand how this works... who regulates and defines what is "self-hosted" or "ethical technology"... I feel you can't really solve the distributed consensus and governance problem by just intro
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by stanfordkid 5mo ago
I don't think you can really blame AI agents for this. While I agree the user was using AI irresponsibly, some of the blame does go to Railway for making an API key that allows for all operations to happen from a single key without giv
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by stanfordkid 5mo ago
No, they are able to detect errors when pointed at them but they have a lot of false positives... making them functionally useless for a large unknown codebase. They also can't build and run an exploit post-identification. Mythos can f
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by stanfordkid 5mo ago
They are bringing in $30B in revenue with 3X YoY growth. Why do you think it is a "jig"? I do think the US economy could implode, but thats because of war and wealth inequality in the midst of hyper-inflation. AI models aren'
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by stanfordkid 5mo ago
They basically wrote the equivalent to Claude Code and launched it as a product... how does their adoption curve lag behind John Deere?
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by stanfordkid 5mo ago
I don't find this paper very compelling. Obviously it would be fraud if the code generated simply escaped the harness vs solving the actual problem. I agree that theoretically models could learn to do that, and it is important to highl
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by stanfordkid 5mo ago
Mind blowing! I've had this intuition for a while too, but he really gets into the heart of it.
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by stanfordkid 5mo ago
I think there are a lot of good answers here, but it really comes down to the type of content being stored and access patterns. A database is a data structure with (generally) many small items that need to be precisely updated, read and man
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by stanfordkid 5mo ago
Not only is it no better, it is significantly worse.
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by stanfordkid 5mo ago
What's your source for this? There isn't really a lot of credible, publicly available information on what you're saying... just anecdotes. In the India v. Pakistan conflict recently a French produced Indian Rafale was downed
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by stanfordkid 5mo ago
No one wants to liberate Iran. Israel just wants to continue committing genocide and apartheid without any opposition. Iran arms Hezbollah and Hamas, the main forms of Palestinian resistance. The whole point of this operation is to decimate
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by stanfordkid 6mo ago
It's better than using randomly initialized weights. It's more of a theoretical exercise to explore biology. When an infant is born maybe the visual cortex already has some notion of edge detectors etc. through a system such as th
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by stanfordkid 6mo ago
I did a similar project but using 3D fractals I found on shadertoy feeding into ViTs. They are extremely simple iterative functions that produce a ton of scene like complexity. I have a pet theory that the visual cortex when developing is l
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by stanfordkid 6mo ago
It's pretty simple... the word circle and what you can correlate to it via english language description has somewhat less to do with reality than a physical 3D model of a circle and what it would do in an environment. You can't ju
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by stanfordkid 6mo ago
I'm curious to understand, why would you build your website this way vs. say jQuery. I've never really understood the HTMX ecosystem. Is this just to avoid javascript and replace that with html pages, id's and attributes? It
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by stanfordkid 6mo ago
I'm not sure I totally buy the "no plasticity" argument. If you are allowed to write to context in an agentic fashion, certainly the LLM can record intermediate answers, go back and re-rank it's memory. The "plastic
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by stanfordkid 7mo ago
Isn’t this kind of all bullshit. Like Anthropic licenses so many of its models through Bedrock. If the DoD has a contract with Amazon they can just use them.
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by stanfordkid 7mo ago
Shouldn't public signature of the hash of the exe file from a known key before execution fix this??? What am I missing?
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by stanfordkid 8mo ago
Just look at the domains. Obviously social media will get harder to do this with, maybe that's okay though. I think a simple criterion can be used: could the pre-trained LLM have come up with this itself? If so it probably doesn't

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