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by zucker42 2y ago
Convergent instrumental goals[1] and the orthogonality thesis[2], among other reasons. [1] https://youtu.be/ZeecOKBus3Q?si=cYJUaxjIJPIbubRL [2] https://youtu.be/hEUO6pjwFOo?si=DXVosLh6YTsMkKOx
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by zucker42 2y ago
Ilya's talking about type 4.
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by zucker42 2y ago
If I had to bet money on it, researchers at top labs have already tried applying search to existing models. The idea to do so is pretty obvious. I don't think it's the one key insight to achieve AGI as the author claims.
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by zucker42 2y ago
The main thing I'd be worried about in the short term is models making accessible the information to synthesize a pandemic capable virus.
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by zucker42 2y ago
Exactly. If the board had the reasons in this article ready to go when they fired Altman, things may have gone much differently.
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by zucker42 2y ago
I agree that the board overestimated their own power, and underestimated the need to get their business partners on board with Altman's firing. However, I think calling Microsoft the board's boss implies that Microsoft has some so
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by zucker42 2y ago
Major investors aren't the board's boss in this case because OpenAI is a nonprofit. Microsoft is incentivized to act against the goals nonprofit's charter (and in fact they did in this case).
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by zucker42 2y ago
That was definitely part of it.
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by zucker42 3y ago
> "it's Nintendo's own fault for not releasing their games on PC and Android" I understand if you disagree with this argument (I don't know if I'd endorse it wholeheartedly), but I don't see how it is a
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by zucker42 3y ago
A more accurate rewording of Nintendo's statement (keeping their point of view): > A video emulator is piece of software that allows a user to run a video game on a platform different from that for which is was written. Many people
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by zucker42 3y ago
Hammers are used for theft, as well. Even if Nintendo's business would benefit from emulators not existing[1], it doesn't mean we should ban emulators (or create laws which allow multinationals to sue open source emulator projects
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by zucker42 3y ago
Two paragraphs into the legal complaint[1], Nintendo says such BS as: > A video game emulator is a piece of software that allows users to unlawfully play pirated video games that were published only for a specific console on a general-pu
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by zucker42 3y ago
The yearly odds of a "Bond villian" becoming U.S. president seem a lot higher than the risk of a catastrophic asteroid to me.
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by zucker42 3y ago
> Who is saying that? There is a quote in the top level comment of this thread that says that. > It’s untenable that there’s unsanctioned client software for a messaging platform for which privacy and security are a primary feature.
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by zucker42 3y ago
I think plenty of people (myself among them), have used Nouveau without issues.
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by zucker42 3y ago
I'd prefer to have the option to use my current Nvidia card with open source drivers, or to purchase a new one (I care more about good open source drivers now than I did when I bought my current card, in large part because of Wayland).
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by zucker42 3y ago
Automated software writing from a codebase and a requirement description, with the model asking clarifying questions where necessary, would be an immensely valuable application. We're quite far away from that, but GPT-4 is already rath
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by zucker42 3y ago
What is your definition of reasoning? In my mind, GPT-4 has some nascent reasoning abilities.
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by zucker42 3y ago
One thing we've learned over the past few days is that Toner had remarkably little control over OpenAI's actions. If a non-profit's board can't fire the CEO, they have no way to influence the organization.
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by zucker42 3y ago
Ilya and Adam switched because they lost, and their goal wasn't to nuke OpenAI, simply to remove Sam. Helen and Tasha had the votes to prevent Sam Altman from returning as CEO, but not the votes to prevent the employees from fleeing to
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by zucker42 3y ago
Do you have a source for either of these things? The only thing I heard about Saudi investors was related to the (presumably separate) chip startup.
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by zucker42 3y ago
Classic CEO worship. There's no reason to believe that he's more important than many of the other key figures in the company.
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by zucker42 3y ago
The "leader of the coup" has changed each day. First it was Ilya, then D'Angelo because of Poe, then Toner because he criticized her paper.
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by zucker42 3y ago
Who, it's worth mentioning, got a seat because Open Philanthropy donated $30 million to OpenAI early in its creation.
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by zucker42 3y ago
I think you're taking the intuition from a for-profit company and wrongly applying it to a non-profit company. When a board member criticizes a for-profit company, that's bad because the goal of the company is make a profit, and b
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by zucker42 3y ago
I don't think that the firing of Sam Altman was due to commercialization of GPT-3 and GPT-4, and I don't think there's been any reliable information that confirms that. There's been multiple statements that at least part
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by zucker42 3y ago
Many countries have immigration systems that are similarly bad the U.S.'s.
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by zucker42 3y ago
The main mistake the board made was tactical, not philosophical. From the outside, it's seems likely that Altman was running OpenAI so as to maximize the value of the for-profit entity, rather than achieve the non-profit's goals,
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by zucker42 3y ago
There's a lot of speculation that Sam Altman will return to OpenAI. There are publicly disgruntled employees and high level employees resigning. The executives of the company are reportedly meeting with the board about reinstating Sam
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by zucker42 3y ago
The board who fired Sam Altman is the board of OpenAI Inc., the nonprofit. Microsoft has no ownership stake in OpenAI Inc.

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