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Tell that to me when we get to llama 15

by gdiamos 2y ago

llamaimperative 2y ago
What?
- gdiamos 2y ago
  “But the big guys are struggling getting past 100KB, so ‘think of the small guys’ doesn’t make sense when the limit is 640KB.” How do people on a computer technology forum ignore the 10,000x improvement in computers over 30 years due to advances in computer technology? I could understand why politicians don’t get it. I should think that computer systems companies would be up in arms over SB 1047 in the same way they would be if the government was thinking of putting a cap on hard drives bigger than 1 TB. It puts a cap on flops. Isn’t the biggest company in the world in the business of selling flops?
  - llamaimperative 2y ago
    It would be crazy if the bill had a built-in mechanism to regularly reassess both the cost and FLOP thresholds… which it does. Inversely to your sarcastic “understanding” about politicians’ stupidity, I can’t understand how tech people seem incapable or unwilling to actually read the legislation they have such strong opinions about.
    - gdiamos 2y ago
      [flagged]
      - lucubratory 2y ago
        It's troubling that you are saying things about the bill which are false, and then speculating on the motives of someone just pointing out that what you are saying is false.
        gdiamos 2y ago
        why not tell us? Or point out what is actually false? You rebutted the points that the flop limit will not actually limit anyone by saying that gpt4 is out of reach of startups. Is OpenAI a startup? Is Anthropic? Is Grok? Is Perplexity? Is SSI? You ignored the counter points that advanced technology exponentially raises flop limits and changes costs. You said that the flop limit can be raised over time. So startups shouldn’t worry. You ignored the counter point that flop limits in export controls are explicitly designed to limit competition from other nations. Flop limits not being a real limit is a ridiculous argument. The intent of a flop limit is to limit, no matter how you sugar coat it.
        lucubratory 2y ago
        You have confused me with someone else.
        Dylan16807 2y ago
        What's false is the idea that the limit is going to be a burden on small companies, because you can ignore the flop limit if you're spending less than a hundred million dollars. (Big companies, in contrast, can use a percent of their budget for compliance.) Being able to ignore the flop limit makes basically everything else you've said irrelevant. But just to quickly go through: I don't want to argue about what a 'startup' is but they're not 'small guys'. Advanced tech can be compensated for, but also it doesn't change the fact that staying under $100 million keeps you excluded. Export controls have nothing to do with this discussion, and they involve a completely different kind of 'flop limit'.
      - llamaimperative 2y ago
        I’m a person who’s interested in arguments based on reality. Frankly I don’t have a solid opinion on the bill in any particular direction.
  - gdiamos 2y ago
    If your goal is to lift the limit, why put it in? We periodically raise flop limits in export control law. The intention is still to limit China and Iran. Would any computer industry accept a government mandated limit on perf? Should NVIDIA accept a limit on flops? Should Pure accept a limit on TBs? Should Samsung accept a limit on HBM bandwidth? Should Arista accept a limit on link bandwidth? I don’t think that there is enough awareness that scaling laws tie intelligence to these HW metrics. Enforcing a cap on intelligence is the same thing as a cap on these metrics. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural_scaling_law https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural_scaling_law Has this legislation really thought through the implications of capping technology metrics, especially in a state where most of the GDP is driven by these metrics? Clearly I’m biased because I am working on advancing these metrics. I’m doing it because I believe in the power of computing technology to improve the world (smartphones, self driving, automating data entry, biotech, scientific discovery, space, security, defense, etc, etc) as it has done historically. I also believe in the spirit of inventors and entrepreneurs to contribute and be rewarded for these advancements. I would like to understand the biases of the supporters of this bill beyond a power grab by early movers. Export control flop limits are designed to limit the access of technology to US allies. I think it would be informative if the group of people trying to limit access of AI technology to themselves was brought into the light. Who are they? Why do they think the people of the US and of CA should grant that power to them?
    - llamaimperative 2y ago
      Wait sorry, are you under the impression that regulated entities get to “accept” which regulations society imposes on them? Big if true! Your delusions and lack of nuance shown in this very thread are exactly why people want to regulate this field. If developers of nuclear technology were making similar arguments, I bet they’d have attracted even more aggressive regulatory attention. Justifiably, too, since people who speak this way can't possibly be trusted to de-risk their own behavior effectively.
      - kloop 2y ago
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  - throwaway290 2y ago
    Moore's law is dead though.

Tell that to me when we get to llama 15

llamaimperative 2y ago

What?

gdiamos 2y ago
“But the big guys are struggling getting past 100KB, so ‘think of the small guys’ doesn’t make sense when the limit is 640KB.” How do people on a computer technology forum ignore the 10,000x improvement in computers over 30 years due to advances in computer technology? I could understand why politicians don’t get it. I should think that computer systems companies would be up in arms over SB 1047 in the same way they would be if the government was thinking of putting a cap on hard drives bigger than 1 TB. It puts a cap on flops. Isn’t the biggest company in the world in the business of selling flops?
- llamaimperative 2y ago
  It would be crazy if the bill had a built-in mechanism to regularly reassess both the cost and FLOP thresholds… which it does. Inversely to your sarcastic “understanding” about politicians’ stupidity, I can’t understand how tech people seem incapable or unwilling to actually read the legislation they have such strong opinions about.
  - gdiamos 2y ago
    [flagged]
    - lucubratory 2y ago
      It's troubling that you are saying things about the bill which are false, and then speculating on the motives of someone just pointing out that what you are saying is false.
      - gdiamos 2y ago
        why not tell us? Or point out what is actually false? You rebutted the points that the flop limit will not actually limit anyone by saying that gpt4 is out of reach of startups. Is OpenAI a startup? Is Anthropic? Is Grok? Is Perplexity? Is SSI? You ignored the counter points that advanced technology exponentially raises flop limits and changes costs. You said that the flop limit can be raised over time. So startups shouldn’t worry. You ignored the counter point that flop limits in export controls are explicitly designed to limit competition from other nations. Flop limits not being a real limit is a ridiculous argument. The intent of a flop limit is to limit, no matter how you sugar coat it.
        lucubratory 2y ago
        You have confused me with someone else.
        Dylan16807 2y ago
        What's false is the idea that the limit is going to be a burden on small companies, because you can ignore the flop limit if you're spending less than a hundred million dollars. (Big companies, in contrast, can use a percent of their budget for compliance.) Being able to ignore the flop limit makes basically everything else you've said irrelevant. But just to quickly go through: I don't want to argue about what a 'startup' is but they're not 'small guys'. Advanced tech can be compensated for, but also it doesn't change the fact that staying under $100 million keeps you excluded. Export controls have nothing to do with this discussion, and they involve a completely different kind of 'flop limit'.
    - llamaimperative 2y ago
      I’m a person who’s interested in arguments based on reality. Frankly I don’t have a solid opinion on the bill in any particular direction.
- gdiamos 2y ago
  If your goal is to lift the limit, why put it in? We periodically raise flop limits in export control law. The intention is still to limit China and Iran. Would any computer industry accept a government mandated limit on perf? Should NVIDIA accept a limit on flops? Should Pure accept a limit on TBs? Should Samsung accept a limit on HBM bandwidth? Should Arista accept a limit on link bandwidth? I don’t think that there is enough awareness that scaling laws tie intelligence to these HW metrics. Enforcing a cap on intelligence is the same thing as a cap on these metrics. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural_scaling_law https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural_scaling_law Has this legislation really thought through the implications of capping technology metrics, especially in a state where most of the GDP is driven by these metrics? Clearly I’m biased because I am working on advancing these metrics. I’m doing it because I believe in the power of computing technology to improve the world (smartphones, self driving, automating data entry, biotech, scientific discovery, space, security, defense, etc, etc) as it has done historically. I also believe in the spirit of inventors and entrepreneurs to contribute and be rewarded for these advancements. I would like to understand the biases of the supporters of this bill beyond a power grab by early movers. Export control flop limits are designed to limit the access of technology to US allies. I think it would be informative if the group of people trying to limit access of AI technology to themselves was brought into the light. Who are they? Why do they think the people of the US and of CA should grant that power to them?
  - llamaimperative 2y ago
    Wait sorry, are you under the impression that regulated entities get to “accept” which regulations society imposes on them? Big if true! Your delusions and lack of nuance shown in this very thread are exactly why people want to regulate this field. If developers of nuclear technology were making similar arguments, I bet they’d have attracted even more aggressive regulatory attention. Justifiably, too, since people who speak this way can't possibly be trusted to de-risk their own behavior effectively.
    - kloop 2y ago
      [dead]
- throwaway290 2y ago
  Moore's law is dead though.