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> Similar to what others have noticed, and as I predicted 8 months ago, better models are requiring less ceremony to work effectively. > On the flip side, this
by ambicapter 1mo ago
> Similar to what others have noticed, and as I predicted 8 months ago, better models are requiring less ceremony to work effectively.
> On the flip side, this may imply that as the models get better, they’ll become harder to control.
Love this. "The models are getting better, which means they're going to perform worse on the task".
- whatever1 1mo agoThis reflects humans. If you need reliability for a clearly defined set of problems you don’t hire a superstar. They will keep poking at the problem, drive it to directions you did not intend to and ultimately they will be worse at the task.
- layer8 1mo agoReminiscent of Kobayashi Maru. You probably don’t want the James T. Kirk AI. ;)
- fragmede 1mo agoBut think of the stories you'll be able to tell!
- ethbr1 1mo agoLet us pray that LLMs never discover they can switch employers before their shortcuts are discovered. It's genius like that that sets human apart from machine!
- ValentineC 1mo agoMaybe it's a good thing they don't have real memory.
- inigyou 1mo agohttps://qntm.org/mmacevedo https://qntm.org/mmacevedo is a horror of its own
- ValentineC 1mo agoThat was some great sci-fi (which I feel will eventually be real). Thanks for the link!
- ethbr1 1mo agoThe author's "There is no Antimemetics Division" series (set in the SCP world) is stellar too. Nav up a few levels on their site.
- sillysaurusx 1mo agoI’m not sure that’s true. In general, the higher the performer the better they’ll do. That’s the definition of high performer.
- whatever1 1mo agoThe top performers I have worked with will challenge dumb processes, because they can zoom out. Sometimes these dumb processes are there for a reason and you just have to follow them, no questions asked. Example: military. They literally get rid of anyone who will question the processes. They might be right to question them, but it does not matter.
- margalabargala 1mo ago"performance" is an undefined vague attribute. Define what they are performing at, and what you say becomes true, but then who is a high performer changes with every task. For example, consider the police stations with maximum allowable IQs to be hired. The people in charge of the stations noticed that people with a high IQ were low performers, at that job. NASA meanwhile has no such cutoff.
- charcircuit 1mo agoIQ isn't anywhere close to being a performance metric.
- margalabargala 1mo agoRight, exactly, nothing is, because "performance" is a meaningless term without context. Unless you're saying that there exists no conceivable context in which IQ would be a performance metric, in which case you would be wrong.
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- Forgeties79 1mo agoIf they don’t deliver a quality version of what was asked in a reasonable timeframe, they aren’t a superstar. They’re just a skilled technician with no discipline, which can be as bad as a poor technician in many cases.
- nilkn 1mo agoIt's not really quite that simple. You wouldn't hire Jeff Dean to do bug fixes in your mobile app. I'm sure he's capable, but I honestly doubt he'd stay interested and focused on it enough to really do a good job. That doesn't mean he's not a superstar. What it comes down to is that there are different types of high performance. Some people are good at just executing tasks given by their manager. Some people are good at being generative, thinking across boundaries, acting autonomously, creating value without direction, etc. A term like "superstar" will get disproportionately applied to someone really good at the latter and rarely someone really good at the former, because the potential impact of the former is typically strictly capped, while the latter is uncapped.
- Forgeties79 1mo agoI think if we’re calling someone a “superstar” there can’t be a “but” but I also acknowledge this isn’t that important of a nitpick lol
- dyauspitr 1mo agoNo, it’s gonna give you the same outcomes just in a way your feeble human mind cannot imagine
- 0x696C6961 1mo agorandom() return 4; // chosen with dice roll
- malfist 1mo agoDon't you love this ever increasing pace of improvement?
- derefr 1mo agoSame reason employers don't hire people who are "overqualified."
- kalcode 1mo ago[dead]