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by ungovernableCat 4d ago
I'm too young to have known the assembly wizard world, but how is the job market for people of that skill-set and expertise? My assumption was that being closer to hardware tends to be more resistant to AI hype since they work in envir
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by ungovernableCat 5d ago
>What are some examples of technology that did make regular people's life better or help humanity? Washing machine, fridge, indoor plumbing, penicillin
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by ungovernableCat 5d ago
It's a bit more grim than that. It's accessible yes, but ultimately it's concentrated in a few AI labs and handed out at their grace. What happens when the race is won and then there's no need to compete anymore? What ha
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by ungovernableCat 5d ago
The author does say it's a potential threat to his career and income so clearly he would have something to worry about even if his identity was built on something else. I agree with you though, the foundation of your identity shouldn&#
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by ungovernableCat 5d ago
>you don't have anything to worry or be sad about Except you know, if you lose your occupation feeding the kids and paying for a roof over their head becomes a bit difficult.
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by ungovernableCat 5d ago
were the horses sad too?
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by ungovernableCat 6d ago
Oh of course, you’re not getting into positions of power by not playing by the party’s rules. And if you get notions that you can tell THEM what to do you’ll be swiftly dealt with. The company is doing well and providing great PR so the par
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by ungovernableCat 6d ago
Its CEO allegedly holds a 84% stake and he's the same guy who founded the hedge fund that funds it. Deep pockets + simple control = perfect culture to just hire talent and let them go wild without worrying about financial viability, as
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by ungovernableCat 7d ago
"Am I the only one who thinks this is astoundingly, gobsmackingly stupid?" You have the "privilege" (I assume) of not having any stake in the game. If you had billions sitting in your bank account, dependent on these thi
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by ungovernableCat 7d ago
I think it’s a valid question to ask if he quit the company for moral reasons. If you seriously think the frontier labs are dangerously playing with everyone’s lives (how many companies can even claim this civilisational scale) then why wou
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by ungovernableCat 9d ago
Elizabeth: my company will enable a full quick and cheap blood test from just a finger prick Amodei: AI will cure cancer Elizabeth wasn’t ambitious and visionary enough for the current era.
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by ungovernableCat 10d ago
The economic value in automating high skill and expensive labour that the most profitable corporations rely on is what attracts the most investment and effort. Once you lose your job you'll find plenty of time to do all those menial ta
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by ungovernableCat 13d ago
The life template kinda breaks down if you land in a modern era which makes me think it's probably equally as silly sounding to apply it to a hypothetical life from 10k years ago. But I guess it's inevitable when you try to paint
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by ungovernableCat 13d ago
Tommy isn't even the most serious contender for the ethno-nationalist politics (remigration and nativism) being pushed in the more fringe parties here in the UK. My read on DHH is that he's simply a sheltered 40 something rich guy
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by ungovernableCat 14d ago
Maybe the hedonic treadmill fits.
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by ungovernableCat 1mo ago
"Export controls on silicon have been successful for slowing the progress of foreign labs during this critical period, so it is the right strategic move to continue those." https://www.meta.com/thefutureisforeveryo
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by ungovernableCat 1mo ago
From Zuck's own words "we will resume releasing some open source models soon" Why did you pause releasing them in the first place? Why release only some? Pushes for export controls on China who have released open weights on m
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by ungovernableCat 1mo ago
Of course they could, in fact it'll probably be great prep if they read it and understand it instead of just memorising the answer. If they just memorise the answer any smart teacher can trip them up by just rephrasing things or develo
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by ungovernableCat 1mo ago
My guess is from the "cheapness" association. AI generated images and video are used a lot in scams, really cheap and bad marketing, waste of time clickb8 videos and stories etc. I can't speak for everyone but my brain associ
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by ungovernableCat 1mo ago
There is a lot of that with the population but I don't see it at the leadership level yet. The top politicians are all still desperate to go back to the good old days of euro-atlanticism (and all the cushy positions it gets their frien
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by ungovernableCat 1mo ago
Working culture at OpenAI and Anthropic is quite brutal. But hey, a lot of their employees are on 7+ figure compensations (when counting their paper worth) so it's certainly a motivating factor to work long hours.
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by ungovernableCat 1mo ago
PBH (if they exist) are microscopic in size. If they're real and qualify as a potential dark matter candidate they have passed our solar system many times with the only thing happening being undetectable gravitational tugs.
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by ungovernableCat 1mo ago
The best example of lesswrong rationality in practice is this infamous piece and the first reply to it. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/udFuYqqNdpdo5ym3f/genuine-qu...
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by ungovernableCat 1mo ago
>Because the goal of GA is to preserve individual human cognitive liberty and flourishing, the corporate structure should be designed with that in mind. >So far, the Anthropic corporate structure of a public benefit corporation with a
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by ungovernableCat 2mo ago
Yeah I understand that. I mean just the methods they use to acquire the training data has already had a shit ton of drama, there's no way the western labs are ever going to be public about the ingredients.
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by ungovernableCat 2mo ago
If we start with the same ingredients and independently make our stews they're likely still going to taste a bit different due to the non deterministic nature of the process. Isn't it similar with training LLMs at scale? Do you ge
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by ungovernableCat 2mo ago
My understanding was that there was a lot of non determinism in the training process because of many factors: how GPUs optimise floating point arithmetic, how the compute is distributed between the thousands of GPUs etc I'm not sure ho
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by ungovernableCat 2mo ago
Dead company, purchased completely via SpaceX stock. Hope it doesn't crash more before the cliff period ends.
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by ungovernableCat 2mo ago
The world's a big messy place. You could do something like idk make a whole big mess in a region where they get most of their fossil fuels from.
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by ungovernableCat 2mo ago
The EU is not a state or some federation. It's like a NAFTA+ It unfortunately doesn't have the risk averse VC system (or pragmatic state driven like China) ecosystem to support the scaling required. But if models will be commodit

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