SilverBirch

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by SilverBirch 7mo ago
I'm always a little surprised at how these Tech CEOs are willing to go on TV and just spout nonsense. Firstly, 40% of college educated white women voted for Trump at the last election. Secondly, isn't the entire theory of Trump&
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by SilverBirch 7mo ago
Whilst this is interesting I find the topic bought up on odd lots is more interesting. The idea was this: Once you've built a model, if you can sell tokens for a profit, this is a great business - just sell more tokens. But you can&#x2
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by SilverBirch 7mo ago
What you are talking about isn't inference cost. Yes, fundamentally what matters is all the work that goes into the models, including R&D, training, and inference. But we talk about inference separately for a reason: largely infere
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by SilverBirch 7mo ago
There's two points here. The first is that a strategy of monetizing models to fund the goal of reaching AI is indistinguishable from just running a business selling LLM model access, you don't actually need to be trying to reach A
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by SilverBirch 8mo ago
I think the big take away here isn't about misalignment or jail breaking. The entire way this bot behaved is consistent with it just being run by some asshole from Twitter. And we need to understand it doesn't matter how careful
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by SilverBirch 8mo ago
I think you're missing the point. That phrase isn't giving a direct instruction to the chatbot to make sure it doesn't get elected to congress and subsequently pass laws prohibiting speech. That phrase is meant to tell it &q
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by SilverBirch 8mo ago
Ah I see, so the misaligned agent was unsurprisingly directed by a misaligned human. Good grief, the guy doesn't seem to realise that starting your soul.md by telling your AI bot that it's a very important God might be a bad idea.
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by SilverBirch 8mo ago
That can't/won't happen. Musk's wealth is primarily in SpaceX now and he has a much higher ownership stake in SpaceX than Tesla. As well as that, Tesla is public so he can't just do napkin math and decide to merge
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by SilverBirch 8mo ago
They already have a partnership with Geely to make their peeople carrier type thing and Hyundai for Ioniqs. I think what they're really saying here is they're standardizing on this so they could theoretically in future put it in a
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by SilverBirch 8mo ago
I've seen a tonne of noise around this, and the question I keep coming back to is this: How much of this stuff is driven by honest to god autonomous AI agents, and how much of it is really either (a) human beings roleplaying or (b) h
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by SilverBirch 8mo ago
According to the CBP they seize about 50,000 lbs of drugs at the border each month which is about 22 tonnes of drugs, and that's what gets seized, not the amount that makes it through. So Drones today probably don't carry enough w
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by SilverBirch 8mo ago
To be honest, this is the inevitable downstream result of the dysfunction in US government. If you can't get your policy positions legislated and instead use executive power to regulate through things like the EPA you have to assume
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by SilverBirch 8mo ago
Yes, but look at the counter side of it, Apple were hitched to Intel's wagon for CPUs and their laptop line got slowly demolished until Apple had to take over the task themselves (admittedly with expertise they'd largely already d
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by SilverBirch 8mo ago
It's also just very basic police work. We're investigating this company, we think they've committed a crime. Ok, why do you think that. Well they've very publicly and obviously committed a crime. Ok, are you going to pro
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by SilverBirch 8mo ago
I'm sorry I really don't understand this. I have a computer. I put it in a warehouse. You have a computer, you shoot it into space. What problem have you solved? Is this all an effort to utilize more efficient solar panels? Are so
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by SilverBirch 8mo ago
I suspect Tesla claims they do the deep learning on sensor data from their entire fleet of cars sold, not just the robotaxis.
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by SilverBirch 8mo ago
No, my argument is you shouldn't draw a statistical conclusion with this data. That's all. I'm kind of pushing in the direction you were pointing in the second part - it's not enough data to make statistical inferences.
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by SilverBirch 8mo ago
A lot of people are getting very irate over this, but I think this is more or less fine. Everyone in these companies know perfectly well they're just part of the Elon Musk extended universe. He hasn't behaved like they're s
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by SilverBirch 8mo ago
I mean... this article is just Gobbledegook. Gold went up because of political instability, a deal was announced and gold went down because of political stability. Oh sorry no it "executed a deterministic fallback". No one is impr
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by SilverBirch 8mo ago
We saw this before with Twitter/X - network effects are crazy, and so even if 30% of your users jump to another platform, that network effect is still going be grinding down that other platform, and in reality it's probably 0.003%
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by SilverBirch 8mo ago
To be honest I think the true story here is: > the fleet has traveled approximately 500,000 miles Let's say they average 10mph, and say they operate 10 hours a day, that's 5,000 car-days of travel, or to put it another way abou
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by SilverBirch 8mo ago
I'm saying we have absolutely no concrete statistical data, and in the press we have many cases where law enforcement has been deliberately negligent in order to deport people who were here legally. We can actually see them deliberatel
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by SilverBirch 8mo ago
It's right there in the article, there are specific federal laws authorizing them to make specific information available - for example, they can make any record kept about the identity or location of aliens available. Right, that'
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by SilverBirch 8mo ago
Are they effective? Do you have data on the number of people they've correctly identified vs false-positives. In fact, do you have any evidence they're even trying to limit false positives? The reason they are able to very effic
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by SilverBirch 8mo ago
If I'm reading this correctly, they're just straight up violating the law. They're sharing information with ICE under an obligation to share information of aliens, but they're actually sharing everyone's informati
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by SilverBirch 8mo ago
And to add to that, it's not a neutral environment. If there's 1% of scenarios that are incorrect, people will figure out they haven't been billed for something, figure out why, and then tell their friends. Before you know it
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by SilverBirch 8mo ago
It's pretty common for crypto wallets that have been linked to illegal activity get blacklisted. So by sending a bit of crypto to the guy that figured out who he is, if/when the government investigate and freeze accounts the guy w
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by SilverBirch 8mo ago
Yeah that's not going to work for long. You can draw a line in 2023, and say "Every paper before this isn't AI". But in the future, you're going to have AI generated papers citing other AI slop papers that slipped t
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by SilverBirch 8mo ago
I find it interesting, in the last couple of years Apple started to push towards higher RAM minimums in their phones - largely associated with the roll out of Apple Intelligence. But now it's looking a lot like Apple Intelligence will
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by SilverBirch 8mo ago
A CDN, a static HTML5 player and a very good lawyer for when the DOJ comes knocking, like they did with Hannah Natanson, Jacob Frey and Tim Walz. You'd do that I guess, right, if you saw something happening you thought was bad - you&#x

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