MPSimmons

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by MPSimmons 3mo ago
oh wow, an entire seedy underbelly I was unaware of. Thanks, great reply. Appreciated!
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by MPSimmons 3mo ago
>through proxies and heavily discounted token resellers Could you explain a little more about how this works? Are you saying that the Chinese run or have backdoored something like OpenRouter?
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by MPSimmons 3mo ago
Unless you're executing these commands in a loop over a large number of items, or the item itself is gargantuan, it's almost always harmless. Personally, when I'm exploring, I build a command line iteratively. Cat the file to
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by MPSimmons 3mo ago
Yeah, a $100 AI music video is materially worse than not having a music video.
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by MPSimmons 3mo ago
Also goes the other way, where you use the decoy to give instructions to the AI...
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by MPSimmons 3mo ago
It would be nice if inference could somehow perform token generation using "contractions" of "fluffy" tokens, where combining those tokens doesn't decrease nuance but provides additional efficiency. That may already
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by MPSimmons 3mo ago
I don't know if it's fair to say that a tokenizer is being less efficient if it generates more tokens per text. I think it's more fair to say the tokenizer is more nuanced. The question is whether the additional nuance permit
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by MPSimmons 3mo ago
Oh yeah, well that may be. Once I got X working in Slack, I did boot into that, but then again, back then I didn't know how to recompile my kernel and the machine did this interesting loop where it would try a few different drivers unt
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by MPSimmons 3mo ago
Honestly not that far off from my 486 DX2/66 back in the day
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by MPSimmons 3mo ago
What are you using to replace etcd here? Where is state stored?
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by MPSimmons 3mo ago
It doesn't take away joy. It does cause me to be slapped in the face with the "full" feeling while I am in the middle of eating, which is like 15 minutes earlier than I used to get it. I don't overeat anymore because I w
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by MPSimmons 3mo ago
Oh hi, I'm a heart attack survivor who had GLP-1 prescribed by my cardiologist for its heart-protecting benefits. I told my cardiologist that I wasn't losing weight as fast as I thought I would, and he said, quote, "I don&#x2
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by MPSimmons 3mo ago
People automate things they don't value.
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by MPSimmons 3mo ago
>written in the spirit of sharing with humans. Not humans who are using AI tools?
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by MPSimmons 4mo ago
I learned this from watching House. I am certain that it's true, but I also kind of wonder how much backpressure there is against this kind of thing because the scanners are also insanely expensive to run per minute.
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by MPSimmons 4mo ago
>I suppose one solution would be to completely vet the training data such that nothing deemed "dangerous" exists in the data, which would be a huge effort. I can see how this is tempting, but I suspect it would yield a naive mo
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by MPSimmons 4mo ago
I think it's a side effect of the Transformer architecture. The worldview where all input is equally trusted, and there's no concept of "the other", makes it hard to build effective guardrails where some input is trusted
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by MPSimmons 4mo ago
I didn't say people claimed it was impossible, I claimed that they said SpaceX would never do it. And that's _still_ a pretty common claim.
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by MPSimmons 4mo ago
SpaceX's entire history is full of, "there's no way they'll ever do X", followed by them doing it. They definitely haven't hit all of their goals, but I don't think anything they want to do is impossible,
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by MPSimmons 4mo ago
It seemed obvious to me that this was bearing stiction and that manually rotating it during the start allowed the fan to spin on its own after that, but I could be wrong and maybe the fan was dead entirely?
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by MPSimmons 4mo ago
That's not necessarily true. Even spaceships in LEO will perform temperature-driven rolls so as to distribute heat and radiation. I have to assume that long-term ships like interplanetary transport will do the same.
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by MPSimmons 4mo ago
Professor Hubert Farnsworth: Dear Lord! That's over 150 atmospheres of pressure! Fry: How many atmospheres can the ship withstand? Professor Hubert Farnsworth: Well, it's a space ship, so I'd say anywhere between zero and one
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by MPSimmons 4mo ago
I've considered whether our current transformer-based AI could be conscious, as I understand it, which I deem to include some degree of self awareness combined with some degree of external awareness. I can see how theoretically somethi
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by MPSimmons 4mo ago
I knew it was going to be Patrick Boyle before I even clicked.
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by MPSimmons 4mo ago
Oh, I'm interested - do you have any docs with human responses to that?
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by MPSimmons 4mo ago
I worked at SpaceX at the time, and I cannot speak for the company, but I can tell you that approximately nobody inside SpaceX took the idea of a sniper seriously. There was a lot of internet talk about it, and it was one of hundreds of ave
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by MPSimmons 4mo ago
It was very likely the largest explosion in Florida spaceflight history. Considerably larger than when SpaceX blew up AMOS-6 in 2016, and that required a full rebuild of the pad infrastructure over 18 months.
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by MPSimmons 5mo ago
Intentionally malevolent is kind of their thing in this administration
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by MPSimmons 5mo ago
Consider for a moment the data requirements for the telemetry system that records those engine runs.
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by MPSimmons 5mo ago
"Since the beginning of time, man has yearned to destroy the sun."

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