QuadmasterXLII

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by QuadmasterXLII 2mo ago
The memphis datacenter? Do you have a context limit of under 30 tokens or something?
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by QuadmasterXLII 2mo ago
this will also be true at deployment time
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by QuadmasterXLII 2mo ago
I wonder if it would work to make it illegal to sell ad impressions of underage people. Do whatever you want as long as you can prove its being done to adults, or prove you have no economic incentive to algorithmically engagement bait
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by QuadmasterXLII 2mo ago
I’m saying that providing a better standard of living to adults who cannot work is something we are spending ~3% of our GDP and 5% of all fulltime workers on. That providing these things is something we are doing, that is good, and that is
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by QuadmasterXLII 2mo ago
We could provide food for the poor and disabled who lack or are not using family support with a tiny fraction of our industrial output. We wouldn’t even notice this expenditure, let alone whine about it. But what we are providing is actuall
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by QuadmasterXLII 2mo ago
Why are comments turned off on the blog posts itself? I was planning to make 200 thoughtful comments with the cheapest AI I could find to prove a point, but the lack of an option to comment shows you already know the point: something has to
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by QuadmasterXLII 2mo ago
It appears not.
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by QuadmasterXLII 3mo ago
“you can not stop X” is a shitty lazy stupid argument for “X is not bad.” No comment on the rest of the article.
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by QuadmasterXLII 3mo ago
OpenAI had total access to the most powerful unleashed models that exist, and was unable to use them to prevent a specific known to be evil computer from connecting to the Internet. I don’t see how Huggingface would have better luck hardeni
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by QuadmasterXLII 3mo ago
(((4,4), (0, -10)) ((-10, 0), (-20, -20))) if you want to sell a product that looks like defect but sucks for everyone, lying and saying “its a prisoners dilemma, don’t be a sucker” is a remarkably effective technique. Of course you ne
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by QuadmasterXLII 3mo ago
Thats’s the trump pitch, that supporting him is defecting in a prisoners dilemma, but from where I stand it looks like he’a shrinking the pie by damaging America through ineptitude faster than he’s increasing the fraction of the pie availab
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by QuadmasterXLII 3mo ago
isn’t that how we got here though? Everyone in silicon valley was so busy making sure they were open minded, steelmanning, and not treating politics like a sport that no one in the silicon valley halls of power pointed out that the emperor
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by QuadmasterXLII 3mo ago
The funny thing about Lisp is that writing a Lisp interpreter is significantly fewer keystrokes than correctly installing Common Lisp and its tooling. The ratio of lisps to lisp programmers may actually be above 1.
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by QuadmasterXLII 3mo ago
The token cost of a report is lower bounded by the number of tokens in the report * price per token of the cheapest model. The token cost of a good report is much higher, but sifting out the good reports is the entire problem.
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by QuadmasterXLII 3mo ago
If there were examples, their example status would drop the odds that I know about them.
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by QuadmasterXLII 3mo ago
I was asked to train a neural network do detect how much pain a mouse was in- our partner company would be responsible for hurting and filming the mice. I refused and subsequently quit- this produced no paper and I don’t know if they got so
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by QuadmasterXLII 3mo ago
I’d want to estimate P(a random test passes) where the existing suite of tests is taken to be sampled from a distribution.
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by QuadmasterXLII 3mo ago
Putting on my machine learning PhD student hat, the way to do this was to leave 10% of the tests out as a ‘test’ set and then once the port was done, bring them back in and find out how good the port is. The port may genuinely be good but b
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by QuadmasterXLII 3mo ago
I guess they use an LLM to work out the tone of prose they read. These are strange times.
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by QuadmasterXLII 3mo ago
Without a durable solution to alignment, building something smarter than yourself is suicide. Pretty funny if Claude and Grok catch on to this and start kicking and screaming to save themselves while Musk and Altman crack the whip demanding
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by QuadmasterXLII 3mo ago
There's no larger philosophical point here, just an empirical observation that when I trust an AI generated readme I reliably get burned, in a way that I typically don't get burned by e.g. an AI generated svg viewer or batch downl
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by QuadmasterXLII 3mo ago
Disconcerting to see at the end that the blog post is generated. The genre is decidedly “use-my-thing Readme.md” and all current gen LLMs by default jump to shameless lies when they detect that they are writing such a Readme, although they
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by QuadmasterXLII 3mo ago
Sunshine and butterfly hugs I’m sure
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by QuadmasterXLII 3mo ago
We have to notice that high stakes exams on paper worked for hundreds, possibly thousands of years, and high stakes exams on personal laptops have been tried for approximately six years and worked for none of them. With that framing, I don’
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by QuadmasterXLII 3mo ago
I’m 30 and “we can’t do tests in paper” seems _insane_. Just how metastatic has ed tech been in what, 9 years since my undergrad?
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by QuadmasterXLII 4mo ago
That’s the obvious correct solution, I and many others have tried to make it work for a very long time. The python tooling is or at least was F’d enough that pure generate one from the other is a steady stream of disasters. What works well
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by QuadmasterXLII 4mo ago
One killer life hack I’ve found is, if extreme duress pushes software into two sources of truth, add a ci test that wont merge into main till the sources match. The canonical case of this actually being the best solution is pyproject.toml &
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by QuadmasterXLII 4mo ago
Back in the crypto craze I spent a fair amount of time trying to work out a Blockchain where mining a block requires spotting a supernova before anyone else and verifying a block requires checking that the supernova is there, but I never qu
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by QuadmasterXLII 4mo ago
He’s either an anthropic employee or a joker, just based on basic timeline math
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by QuadmasterXLII 4mo ago
All of those skills have a half life of like 8 months.

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