AlexCoventry

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by AlexCoventry 5mo ago
Isn't society #1 going to outcompeted #2?
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by AlexCoventry 5mo ago
It's excellent for R&D.
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by AlexCoventry 5mo ago
From other comments, it came down to when Musk could reasonably be judged as aware of the injury.
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by AlexCoventry 5mo ago
They jumped into a contract with Hegseth, after Hegseth made it abundantly clear through his negotiations with Anthropic that any counterparty of his would have to assist with domestic mass surveillance and unsupervised lethal autonomous we
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by AlexCoventry 5mo ago
> signs a deal with Elon! Expect grok to improve dramatically as Musk reverse-engineers the Anthropic services running on his hardware.
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by AlexCoventry 5mo ago
Have you tried to talk him out of it, and have you considered blowing the whistle on him? He could kill people!
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by AlexCoventry 5mo ago
It's potentially PR (it hit the front page of HN, and probably not organically) for Trump, Oracle or SAP, just from reading the first few paragraphs.
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by AlexCoventry 5mo ago
Sounds like bitterness and resignation, to me.
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by AlexCoventry 5mo ago
Right? It's exactly how we train AIs, after all. It's not like this is mysterious.
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by AlexCoventry 5mo ago
https://paulgraham.com/submarine.html
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by AlexCoventry 5mo ago
I've been using them for decades without issue, FWIW.
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by AlexCoventry 5mo ago
He describes in detail how curl is software-engineered to within an inch of its life. Do you really think most code is that highly polished?
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by AlexCoventry 5mo ago
You don't think AI is going to be able to understand things and apply their ability to formulate solutions better than you, in the near future?
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by AlexCoventry 5mo ago
Yeah, I have an allergic reaction to tiktok being mixed up in any serious intellectual pursuit. :-)
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by AlexCoventry 5mo ago
Bandwidth is the killer, in distributed LLM training.
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by AlexCoventry 5mo ago
You only need to train a range of small models in order to establish a plausible scaling law, IMO.
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by AlexCoventry 5mo ago
I don't think this is giving up. He's getting inside information on how Claude works, and a huge stream of Claude usage data. This will all inform future grok development, IMO.
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by AlexCoventry 5mo ago
So now Elon Musk gets to read all of our Claude conversations?? :-(
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by AlexCoventry 5mo ago
Yes, if this turns into a mass famine/deindustrialization, Americans are going to own it the way Germans owned the holocaust.
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by AlexCoventry 5mo ago
I think people are more concerned about the massive deindustrialization and famines which could result from the Strait of Hormuz being chaotically strangled, not the hit to their pocket books at the gas pump
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by AlexCoventry 5mo ago
That's very unfortunate. How did it have access to the production DB in the first place? I'm thinking twice about running Claude in an easily violated docker sandbox (weak restrictions because I want to use NVIDIA nsight with it.)
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by AlexCoventry 5mo ago
> For instance, why not just use eminent domain if they don't care about contracts and want whatever they want? They were threatening Anthropic with the Defense Production Act[1], which almost comes to the same thing as eminent doma
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by AlexCoventry 6mo ago
The Trump administration's handling of Anthropic showed that regardless of what the contract or the law says or means, they will severely penalize any vendor who refuses their demands. And OpenAI stepped right into that relationship im
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by AlexCoventry 6mo ago
You need to be more specific. OpenAI's commitment to assist the Trump administration with domestic mass surveillance seems to have been largely memory-holed.
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by AlexCoventry 6mo ago
Yeah, it's eerie, same with how everyone seems to have forgotten that OpenAI betrayed democracy by committing to work on unsupervised autonomous weapons and domestic mass surveillance.
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by AlexCoventry 6mo ago
Is it hitting intermediate milestones with solid pre-written and human-reviewed acceptance tests? If not, sounds like a very risky commitment.
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by AlexCoventry 6mo ago
I went to a conference and talked to all the vendors about their products.
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by AlexCoventry 6mo ago
According to the article, you can fix this by turning off Gemini Apps Activity in https://myactivity.google.com/product/gemini I already have this turned off. It's slow, but I use a browser extension to save my Ge
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by AlexCoventry 6mo ago
> In a subsequent round, it generally can't meaningfully introspect on its prior internal state It has the K/V cache, no?
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by AlexCoventry 6mo ago
https://paulgraham.com/submarine.html

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