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by Sol- 1y ago
Do the major AI companies actually honor robots.txt? Even if some of their publicly known crawlers might do it, surely they have surreptitious campaigns where they do some hidden crawling, just like how they illegally pirate books, images a
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by Sol- 1y ago
Even though the situations they placed the model in were relatively contrived, they didn't seem super unrealistic. Considering these were extreme cases meant to provoke the model's misbehavior, the setup actually seems even less c
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by Sol- 1y ago
The article doesn't reflect kindly on the visions articulated by the AI company, so why would they have an incentive to release it if they weren't serious about alignment research?
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by Sol- 1y ago
I think money and the promise of resources will convince enough qualified people to join Meta, but I guess it doesn't help their recruiting efforts that Zuck seems to have the most dystopian and anti-human AGI vision of all the company
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by Sol- 1y ago
I guess the fear is that normal and innocent sounding goals that you might later give it in real world use might elicit behavior like that even without it being so explicitly prompted. This is a demonstration that is has the sufficient capa
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by Sol- 1y ago
Comes with a free US government backdoor to all of the foreign citizens' data and AI usage. Though of course this is already the status quo for all US companies abroad, so you have to give props to OpenAI for spelling it out explicitly
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by Sol- 1y ago
Maybe a naive question, because presumably more money is always better, but I do wonder what the endgame with this Wealth Fund is. Obviously a country is not like an individual, so it's not like the whole country of Norway can "re
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by Sol- 1y ago
Interesting that using tools to zoom around the image is useful for the model. I was kind of assuming that these models were beyond such things and could attend to all aspects image simultaneously anyway, but perhaps their input is still li
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by Sol- 2y ago
I think to nurture developing industries, it can be fine, but at some point you have to expose them to competition if you want to exceed what the domestic market can do.
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by Sol- 2y ago
Interesting that GPT 4.5 seems significantly better than 4o. I dimly remember the feedback being that it wasn't such a big leap in performance, though of course the usual problem solving benchmarks might not correlate with what was ask
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by Sol- 2y ago
Maybe I don't feel the AI FOMO strongly enough and obviously these performance comparisons can be interesting in their own right to keep track of AI progress, but ultimately it feels as long as you have a pro subscription of one of the
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by Sol- 2y ago
I find it interesting because the DeepSeek stuff, while very cool, doesn't seem invalidate that more compute wouldn't translate to even _higher_ capabilities? It's amazing what they did with a limited budget, but instead of t
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by Sol- 2y ago
Is that not consistent with how Microsoft always introduced its "features"? Especially all the crap that came since Windows 10/11. First you could still create a local account after there was backlash against cloud-everything
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by Sol- 2y ago
Is the "youth mental health crisis" confirmed? I remember reading there was a bit of back and forth in that topic. Some unhappiness was also concentrated among young progressive girls etc. It fits nicely with the pessimistic vibes
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by Sol- 2y ago
Where does all the brine go currently? The countries most dependent on desalination currently at least seem to have plenty of desert space available to dump it, but I do wonder if it might reach volumes that are difficult to manage once des
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by Sol- 2y ago
I fondly remember the times where Glassholes were rightfully mocked. Now it's cool to drive around in your Tesla wearing an Apple Vision. It really seems to have become very normalized.
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by Sol- 3y ago
Reading testimonials from people who seemingly enjoy Bluesky, it sounds like the main perk is its exclusiveness and feeling like the good old days when Twitter was just for hardcore social media nerds? Is that that a recipe for success and
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by Sol- 3y ago
As someone who very much feels the same way about his writing, that's a good endorsement of the podcast. Will give it a listen, thanks!
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by Sol- 3y ago
I wondered the same. Seems very difficult for a person with low self-confidence to act on these recommendations.
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by Sol- 3y ago
People (in any relevant number) don't run their own e-mail servers, they don't join Mastodon and they also don't use Linux. All prior knowledge about how these things have worked out historically should bias us very heavily a
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by Sol- 3y ago
Seems like there will always be latency, because it's not possible to easily stream over languages that have different structure. You need to wait a bit before you can start faithfully translating the meaning. They also mention it in o
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by Sol- 3y ago
Thanks for the links, very interesting. Wonder how a "self-play" equivalent would look like for LLMs, since they have no easy criterion to evaluate how well they are doing like in Go (as mentioned in the videos).
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by Sol- 3y ago
No idea if the concerns are realistic, but dismissing them because they are fantastical surely is a fallacy, no? We currently almost have scifi-level AI we can talk to on our smartphones, which would have been fantastical only a few years a
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by Sol- 3y ago
Most professional artists will be unemployed and hobbyist artists using AI seems to be kind of against the point of creating art for the art of creation. But for one-click self-expression, AI tools will certainly come in handy.
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by Sol- 3y ago
Offering self-hosted servers would probably just degrade the security guarantees of Signal if people misconfigure them. Doesn't seem to be worthwhile for the Signal foundation to run into this risk of undermining their own reputation f
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by Sol- 3y ago
I don't see how the headline is supported by the article's actual content. Seems like it should read "to boost engagement and user retention, social networks turn to AI gimmicks". I couldn't make out where the AI pa
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by Sol- 3y ago
Is increasing birth rates just an unsolvable problem somehow? I think the importance of at least stabilizing the population is widely recognised, so I don't think it's the case that politicians are asleep at the wheel or something
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by Sol- 3y ago
Isn't it in the US's interest to some degree to have a stable China rather than desperate and poor? Currently the course seems to be escalation on the economic side, with ever stricter sanctions and so on. Not to say that China do
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by Sol- 3y ago
Perhaps the etiquette and formulaic interactions are important for the friendliness and perceived orderliness of the country? So I wonder how much of the good stuff that people like about Japan you can have without the (from a western persp
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by Sol- 3y ago
Needing to think about instances and having to create legends of features they support already dooms widespread adoption, but I suppose this can be fine. Small communities and spaces can be a benefit, though they'll be heavily filter-b

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