AbrahamParangi

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by AbrahamParangi 11mo ago
If google bears no role in fixing the issues it finds and nobody else is being paid to do it either, it functionally is just providing free security vulnerability research for malicious actors because almost nobody can take over or switch o
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by AbrahamParangi 11mo ago
This is an artifact of RLHF and far better human facsimiles are trivial with uncensored / jailbroken models.
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by AbrahamParangi 11mo ago
This is comical because we used to have something called the turing test which we considered our test of human-level intelligence. We never talk about it now because we obviously blew past it years ago. There are some interesting ways in wh
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by AbrahamParangi 11mo ago
objectively vs comparatively
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by AbrahamParangi 11mo ago
A test doesn't need to be objectively meaningful or rigorous in any sense in order to still be useful for comparative ranking.
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by AbrahamParangi 11mo ago
Deletion of data is the most permanent thing most people will ever do. The burning of the library of Alexandria and the razing of Baghdad left a long, long shadow on history.
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by AbrahamParangi 1y ago
It is worth noting that Gary Marcus has been declaring the newfound futility of AI every couple months for the last 2-3 years or so. Meanwhile, the technology continues to progress. The level of psychological self-defense is unironically mo
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by AbrahamParangi 1y ago
This is just an argument against allowing the market to set wages, which you could make if you wanted to but it is not a strong one.
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by AbrahamParangi 1y ago
I use self-driving every single day in Boston and I haven’t needed to intervene in about 8 months. Most interventions are due to me wanting to go a different route. Based on the rate of progress alone I would expect functional vision-only
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by AbrahamParangi 1y ago
These are all great questions which people have answered and it’s the standard solution to the problem of misaligned incentives between the company receiving recurring revenue and the sales person receiving an upfront commission.
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by AbrahamParangi 1y ago
That’s not how it works, you structure the comp such that the sales person doesn’t get paid out in this case.
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by AbrahamParangi 1y ago
The first comment quite clearly started the incivility
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by AbrahamParangi 1y ago
You're not allowed to say that it's not reasoning without distinguishing what is reasoning. Absent a strict definition that the models fail and that some other reasoner passes, it is entirely philosophical.
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by AbrahamParangi 1y ago
This reads like the author is mad about imprecision in the discourse which is real but to be quite frank more rampant amongst detractors than promoters, who often have to deal with the flaws and limitations on a day to day basis. The conclu
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by AbrahamParangi 1y ago
Very impressive the top comment on this nonsense hit piece is someone vaguely implying extrajudicial ‘retribution’ is the appropriate solution to a problem which doesn’t actually exist.
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by AbrahamParangi 1y ago
The razor to use to determine whether something is actually evidenced based under uncertainty is whether you would follow the same policy if it was your own child. There are many things that are simply uncertain and “untrue until proven oth
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by AbrahamParangi 1y ago
You sue them and can find out in discovery.
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by AbrahamParangi 2y ago
I think this is actually not as obvious as it seems as equity is also power-law distributed. An executive founder may have 10-50x the equity of a founding junior employee, who themselves might have 10-20x the equity of a key early employee.
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by AbrahamParangi 2y ago
People hate the concept of Musk winning again, I guess.
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by AbrahamParangi 2y ago
It only needs to be good enough for lvl 5, then it's just regular automotive economics.
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by AbrahamParangi 2y ago
Frankly, I think Tesla is going to win this. The new self-driving is remarkably good. Based on this alone, I estimate (actual) level 5 self driving in 2-3 years. I'm convinced that the lidar sensors are essentially unnecessary and the
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by AbrahamParangi 2y ago
So since there weren’t enough people to take care of the cats they decided to just drive them extinct? That’s pretty wild.
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by AbrahamParangi 2y ago
Toyota’s costs don’t determine the prices Toyota can charge, and if the expected costs of adding a widget exceed the benefits you can be fairly sure they won’t add the widget.
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by AbrahamParangi 2y ago
Yes, quite straightforwardly. Works may be copyrighted, but all the ideas and stylistic choices which comprise that work generally may not. That the implications of this idea have the “wrong” winners and losers is a separate matter.
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by AbrahamParangi 2y ago
I hold myself to that standard but I also think that we should be tolerant of young children amongst us. We were all there once.
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by AbrahamParangi 2y ago
Is this an opinion you have as a parent or a non-parent?
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by AbrahamParangi 2y ago
It’s the only place that ever had it, if imperfectly. Everyone else pretends they have it, but it’s a joke. Everywhere else has these red lines they will simply pretend do not count as valid speech. - In China you can say anything you want!
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by AbrahamParangi 2y ago
You are unable to think precisely enough to have this conversation.
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by AbrahamParangi 2y ago
I appreciate this very reasoned response and I think we are on the same page. I am saying that I think people are in general quite unable to think or talk clearly about the truthfulness of statements where if they were true it would upend
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by AbrahamParangi 2y ago
Car insurance companies are already generally legally required to give notice in writing 30 days before cancelling your policy, even for material changes in risk. Let’s try to stick to the real world.

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