TeMPOraL

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by TeMPOraL 6mo ago
Huh. My definition - or rather, explanation - has always been, "The model is just a big bag of floats you multiply with some numbers to get some numbers out, plus a regular program that runs a loop which, at minimum, turns inputs (text
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by TeMPOraL 6mo ago
> Ever since Mitchell Hashimoto mentioned the harness in February What. The idea is as old as anyone can remember, and wrt. LLMs, it was known to be important since at least as early as ChatGPT being first released.
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by TeMPOraL 6mo ago
You could if someone made one, presumably. OS is just a program, after all - and 20th century hardware couldn't stop you from completely rewriting the software on it. The problem today is that modern computers are designed to prevent
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by TeMPOraL 6mo ago
Circle of life isn't going far enough, though (and is usually used as a mystical device anyway). If you want to go to the furthest defensible extreme[0], then all of life is just one long, violent, ever-expanding chemical chain reactio
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by TeMPOraL 6mo ago
> I would argue nothing about American Labor Day has anything to do with labor at all. Honestly we should just rename it “Summer’s End” because there is literally no theme. Isn't that true of most holidays pretty much anywhere in
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by TeMPOraL 6mo ago
Yes, as long as there are humans reviewing and quality-gating the outputs at every stage. Otherwise, it's just a very long exoprosthetic digestive tract.
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by TeMPOraL 6mo ago
Admiral Ackbar has entered the chat. Making something has a well-defined end. Packaging something for distribution is an easy way to walk yourself into a long-term commitment.
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by TeMPOraL 6mo ago
> Given these are the two properties purportedly measured, I imagine you'd get the same results regardless of tastiness and age of the coffee or beans. Right, but another way of putting it, it might provide useful signal if you ho
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by TeMPOraL 6mo ago
Technically, everything is electrochemical.
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by TeMPOraL 6mo ago
> Although surely you would need to make the steam from steamed steam for optimal results? Well, it's a complex question. I'd suggest to start from plotting your favorite coffee hardware brands and barista youtubers/tikt
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by TeMPOraL 6mo ago
Other than things other comments already mention, let's not forget that Microsoft Word auto-corrects "--" to em-dash, and so does (apparently - haven't checked myself) Outlook, Apple Pages, Notes and Mail. There's p
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by TeMPOraL 6mo ago
It's not in the top 10, but it's of the more well-known and widely recommended book in the software industry. I'd put it in the same bucket as "Clean Code" and maybe even "Domain Driven Design"; they'
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by TeMPOraL 6mo ago
But they didn't have technology yet to do it properly , so it was trivial for people to sever the tie and install alternative OSes - trivial enough that it was also easy to teach others how to do it. Now, the tech to make that tie nea
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by TeMPOraL 6mo ago
> Have the model generate keywords from the query, then inject guidance from matching advertisers into the context window This already exists and is called... "skills".
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by TeMPOraL 6mo ago
Instagram isn't a software product, though, except in the trivial sense. It's a portal to the actual service people care about, which is the social network. AI can't do anything about it now, because access to the Instagram s
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by TeMPOraL 6mo ago
> And in the background of this something ominous: Companies can't just pivot back to higher quality after they've destroyed all their inhouse knowledge. (...) They can't move back upmarket after that's done. The kn
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by TeMPOraL 6mo ago
In the specific case discussed in the article and comments, I'm advocating for another interpretation: 4a. "If a process is unlikely to be needed any time soon, shutting it down and then paying cold-start costs if and when it&#x27
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by TeMPOraL 6mo ago
Yes. Again, this will eventually happen to every one, some way . Of course nations always want to prevent this; it's part of the job of the government. But there's always long tail of very low probability, very destructive threat
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by TeMPOraL 6mo ago
> And if you happen to land on their "bad" list (which eventually everyone will), you're locked out of life completely. No banking, no traveling, no communication with anyone, no buying food, nothing. Not really. Governm
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by TeMPOraL 6mo ago
The article makes no sense, and stars with a very wrong perspective on things. This kind of forgetting is normal . It's how things work when time and resources are finite. The only problem here is the belief that you can keep capacity
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by TeMPOraL 6mo ago
That was a factor with electricity early on as it was first put to use. The flip side of the infamous "does it make the beer taste better?" adage/nonsense is that, per the story, back then you had breweries build their own
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by TeMPOraL 6mo ago
> This is what happens when entire industries go all in on "Move fast and break things." Imagine what they said about software applying to everything else in the world. That's what's coming. This is literally how re
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by TeMPOraL 6mo ago
If security was the prime concern, there would be no chickens and no coop and no farm - people would still be living in caves. After all, outside is dangerous, and Grug Chief said, smart ass grugs with their smart ass ideas like fire or agr
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by TeMPOraL 6mo ago
It could easily become this fast or even faster, if we would just stop worrying so much about "playing god" and focus instead on getting good at this job. We don't have much time for this either, as AI is on the trajectory to
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by TeMPOraL 6mo ago
> If a frontier provider pivoted as you describe it would certainly change the landscape but they wouldn't be unassailable without developing some sort of secret sauce that gave them an extremely large advantage over everyone else.
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by TeMPOraL 6mo ago
Right. But even that is shaped directly or indirectly by environment you live in. The way you scratch your own itch looks differently depending on what itch you have. Plus, humans are social animals, we live in groups and constantly judge e
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by TeMPOraL 6mo ago
Yup. That doesn't really take a full-blown AGI on the path to ASI on the path to godhood - it'll take a bit better and more reliable LLM with a decent harness. That's why I've been saying that the entire software industr
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by TeMPOraL 6mo ago
Humans ultimately judge their output by comparison and competition. When we get to the point an AI is capable of participating on the market directly, it'll no longer make sense to proxy judgement through humans anymore.
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by TeMPOraL 6mo ago
> Imagine such an AI exists. What good is AI that is so good that you cannot sell API access because it would help others to build equivalently powerful AI and compete with you? At this point, if you can no longer safely drip-feed indu
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by TeMPOraL 6mo ago
> My impression has always been it's more important the build the correct thing (what the customer needs/wants) rather than more stuff faster. The process of learning what the customer needs/wants is a heavily iterative

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