MrScruff

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by MrScruff 2y ago
Video conferencing imposes a hurdle to communication that doesn't exist when people are working in the same physical space. One thing I've heard from some people who prefer working remotely is that it's easier for them to &#x
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by MrScruff 2y ago
So just to be clear, you’re saying there is no job where in person collaboration yields better results? And you don’t need to keep writing ‘it’s always about control’ over and over again, it doesn’t add any weight to your argument.
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by MrScruff 2y ago
I work in a creative industry that's entirely driven by close collaboration. It's really just much harder to do this kind of work remotely. I get that people have other priorities but it's really not as absolute as you say it
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by MrScruff 2y ago
I realise you're being sarcastic but the main argument for in-office work is increased levels of collaboration which only works if most people are coming in.
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by MrScruff 2y ago
I don't think claiming that pure scaling of LLMs isn't going to lead to AGI is a particularly hot take. Or that current LLMs don't provide a whole lot of economic value. Obviously, if you were running a research lab you'
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by MrScruff 2y ago
Nothing they're doing is bad, and sometimes we benefit when large companies interests align with our own. All the spiel about believing in open systems because of being prevented from making their best products by Apple is a bit much c
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by MrScruff 2y ago
I was talking about Q*/Strawberry which (from the leaked info) is more about self improvement via RL.
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by MrScruff 2y ago
> The only people who sincerely care about "extinction risk" are the weird cultists. In the real world there's essentially zero chance of LLMs/Current-GenAI scaling up into AGI, nevermind AGI that'd be an extinct
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by MrScruff 2y ago
Doesn't materialism imply that a perfectly accurate simulation of the universe would be identical to the universe we live in? If not, in what possible way could the two be distinguished?
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by MrScruff 2y ago
I take your point but living in a London flat I don't have the room for multiple high resolution displays. Nor are they very portable, I have a MBP rather than an iMac because mobility is important. I do think we're 4+ years until
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by MrScruff 2y ago
The value would come if it was something you would feel comfortable wearing all day. So it would need perfect pass through, be much much lighter and more comfortable. If they achieved that and can do multiple high resolution virtual display
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by MrScruff 2y ago
Clearly we don’t know when/if AGI would happen, but the expectations of many people working in the field is it will arrive in what qualifies as ‘near future’. It probably won’t result from just scaling LLMs, but then that’s why there’s
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by MrScruff 3y ago
In the UK nearly everyone is using Whatsapp (or Signal, Telegram, even FB Messenger - never iMessage) and it's completely fine.
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by MrScruff 3y ago
Alternatively, you could argue that the vast majority of released music is already unimaginative rubbish. Industrialising the creation of more of it will make releasing this type of material completely pointless, so perhaps there will be mo
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by MrScruff 3y ago
Are you talking about some as yet unseen research/technology? The aesthetic sample looks like something we could have seen on the SD subreddit for the last year.
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by MrScruff 3y ago
> The Barbie movie, which I just saw 2 weeks ago on my TV was clearly a better movie on I'm pretty sure every aspect, and you could tell it was in the first minute. This is wildly subjective, different people watch movies for very d
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by MrScruff 3y ago
I have to say, speaking as someone that is generally very happy to live in Apple's walled garden for my phone and couldn't really give a toss about Tim Sweeney's crusade, this most recent continuation of the Epic spat seems l
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by MrScruff 3y ago
I don’t know if they are or not, but I’m not sure how anyone could be so certain that they’re not that they find the mere idea cringeworthy. Unless you feel you have some specific perspective on it that’s escaped their army of researchers?
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by MrScruff 3y ago
What I don't understand is how we reasonably quantify the probability of sentient life evolving. Sure the universe is very big, but the probability could be very small. All the discussions I've seen make the assumption that there&
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by MrScruff 3y ago
I'm familiar with node based development environments in other domains (VFX) and when done well (eg. Houdini) they can be much more efficient than solving creative problems with Python or C++. So I expected to like Max, but in practice
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by MrScruff 3y ago
Agree with you there on both counts. Attempting to match physical instruments is a great learning exercise, but not usually that interesting creatively. However patches that live someone in the middle ground between naturalistic and synthet
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by MrScruff 3y ago
As far as I’m aware these do encode depth information and are not just stereoscopic movies. You will get parallax by moving your head.
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by MrScruff 3y ago
I think a lot of his defence here is "No-one could have known exactly what was going to happen and no-one knows what will happen next." This is obviously true - predicting the future is hard. It doesn't however explain giving
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by MrScruff 3y ago
How do you know the background/experience of the person you're responding to? And even if the person you're claiming has authority here were the worlds leading expert on generative AI, that wouldn't make them authorative
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by MrScruff 3y ago
If you find ComfyUI offputting you really wouldn't like the nodegraph based applications we use in VFX.
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by MrScruff 3y ago
Sure, I’m just arguing that limiting how often you can work in the office isn’t inherently a win for all employees.
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by MrScruff 3y ago
Yeah, you could see this outcome a mile away. While there are examples of in-house VFX software being commercialised (eg. most of the Foundry's offerings) it's generally not built to the same spec as commercial software. There are
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by MrScruff 3y ago
Unless like me and many other people I know, you prefer working in an office five days a week.
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by MrScruff 3y ago
I think it depends what is meant by fast take off. If we created AGIs that are superhuman in ML and architecture design you could see a significantly more rapid rate of progress in hardware and software at the same time. It might not be ove
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by MrScruff 3y ago
What does this mean? > You also informed the leadership team that allowing the company to be destroyed “would be consistent with the mission.” Is the board taking a doomer perspective and seeking to prevent the company developing unsafe

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