TerrifiedMouse

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by TerrifiedMouse 3y ago
So disinformation sites will be effectively free from competition on Facebook Canada … this will end well.
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by TerrifiedMouse 3y ago
Maybe it depends on at what speed you are going. Crumple zones exist in cars because it’s better that the car absorbs (and deforms in the process) the kinetic energy of a crash than you the passenger inside.
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by TerrifiedMouse 3y ago
What people hated about Microsoft’s acquisition was that it will deprive its competitors IPs they used to have access to - eventually. Sony’s acquisitions are less “egregious” as the companies they acquire usually generated few to no (valua
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by TerrifiedMouse 3y ago
> How many competitors died on the vine because Figma was able to offer a free tier subsidised with low interest rate VC money? Is it any different from wealthy established multinationals offering a free tier subsidized by steady profits
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by TerrifiedMouse 3y ago
FU money or not, Twitter has bills and interest (nearly a billion a year the last I heard) to pay. High spending advertisers redrawing from Twitter hurts. Several hundred million dollars is still several hundred million dollars even if you
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by TerrifiedMouse 3y ago
> My gut instinct is the amount of applications that do a lot of processing but only on a small amount of data are in the minority. The opposite seems a lot more common. I doubt that. The easily way to find out is to disable the L3 cache
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by TerrifiedMouse 3y ago
> Good if you're NVidia, bad if you're OpenAI Not necessarily good for Nvidia. If the new algorithm is branch heavy, don’t parallelize well, … etc. and operate better on CPUs rather than GPUs, it will be Intel, AMD, and ARM tha
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by TerrifiedMouse 3y ago
Frankly, we may be barking up the wrong tree with LLMs. Sure they deliver novel and very marketable results, hence the insane funding, but I can’t help but feel it’s really just a parlor trick and there is a yet undiscovered algorithm that
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by TerrifiedMouse 3y ago
Next time put the “Summary by ChatGPT” at the top so we can decide for ourselves if we want to waste our time reading it. Also this is such a low effort post … feeding text into an algorithm and pasting the results.
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by TerrifiedMouse 3y ago
> It is sad to me that so many young people are voluntarily choosing not to have children. I think many people feel they are incapable of taking care of offspring. Better not to bring into this world children you cannot care properly for
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by TerrifiedMouse 3y ago
> What is instinct physically? Does it matter? As long as it conceptually exist that’s all that matters. LLMs don’t seek any goal. It’s advanced autocomplete. You can’t give it a bunch of facts and a goal then expect it to figure out how
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by TerrifiedMouse 3y ago
> If a NN is trained to do something, it can be equally considered as "wanting" to do that thing within the autonomy it is afforded, as much as any human. Human wants are driven by instinct though - i.e. our preferences; if you
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by TerrifiedMouse 3y ago
> feels a bit more quiet than it used to for me. The site as a whole feels a bit less active - i.e. not as active as it used to be.
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by TerrifiedMouse 3y ago
> Nowadays if you share or reproduce anything controversial, is as if you are endorsing such content. LLM's outputs are user generated content for what is worth it, both from inferece and from training. That line of thinking that th
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by TerrifiedMouse 3y ago
> They have been designed and trained to solve natural language processing tasks They aren’t really designed to do anything actually. LLMs are models of human languages - it’s literally in the name, Large Language Model . https:/
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by TerrifiedMouse 3y ago
> AGI is a potential successor species Only if we let it be. Oh who am I kidding. Someone either out of blind idealism, pure hubris, unfettered greed, or some combination of the aforementioned will probably go as far as technology allows
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by TerrifiedMouse 3y ago
> very least show clear signs of creativity Do you know how that “creativity” is achieved? It’s done with a random number generator. Instead of having the LLM pick the absolute most likely next token, they have it select from a set of mo
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by TerrifiedMouse 3y ago
This is going to sound like heresy but I never understood what is the big deal with Ghibli’s films. They have good production values … and that’s about it really. I never really connect with the stories - they aren’t bad stories but they ne
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by TerrifiedMouse 3y ago
> but thinking it's an existential risk is still premature Even ignoring what the technology can do, it feels me with dread that we basically have IMHO some of the worst possible people leading the charge - people who are greedy, sl
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by TerrifiedMouse 3y ago
To quote Reddit user jstadig, > The thing that most worries me about technology is not the technology itself but the greed of those who run it. Someone slimy with limitless ambition like Altman seems to be the worst person to be in charg
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by TerrifiedMouse 3y ago
Nah. Microsoft still exist and is thriving. Altman is the new Bill Gates except he is better at retaining ~~cul~~ employees. Many at HN love him for those qualities.
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by TerrifiedMouse 3y ago
Frankly I think they can allow this without hurting their business. I mean “allowing other stores” was the default before online stores - i.e. vast majority of games used to be sold by retailers that aren’t Sony. How does Sony/Nintendo
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by TerrifiedMouse 3y ago
I think it yo-yos because eventually they cut the cost of hardware over its life cycle. On average I think consoles are sold at break even.
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by TerrifiedMouse 3y ago
For example, and I'm not saying such flaws exist, GPT4 output is bias in some way, encourages radicalization (see Twitter's, YouTube's, and Facebook's news feed algorithm), create self-esteem issues in children (see Inst
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by TerrifiedMouse 3y ago
The OpenAI of the past, that dabbled in random AI stuff (remember their DotA 2 bot?), is gone. OpenAI is now just a vehicle to commercialize their LLM - and everything is subservient to that goal. Discover a major flaw in GPT4? You shut you
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by TerrifiedMouse 3y ago
Frankly, I would go so far as to say he is the wrong man for the job of running the for-profit arm of a nonprofit. He seems to be a guy who wants to be the next Zuckerberg. He wants fame and power, and would step on anyone and anything that
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by TerrifiedMouse 3y ago
If they lack money they could always scale back operations. Also running the for-profit arm the way Altman did isn’t the only way. A more reasonable CEO would do what he/she can to make money without running afoul of the charter. Yes,
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by TerrifiedMouse 3y ago
The for-profit arm was always meant to be subservient to the non-profit arm - the latter practically owns the former. The important thing for the non-profit arm is the mission, its own existence is secondary.
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by TerrifiedMouse 3y ago
> What this really shows us is that this "for-profit wrapper around a non-profit" shenanigans was doomed to fail in the first place. I disagree. The for-profit arm was always meant to be subservient to the non-profit arm - the
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by TerrifiedMouse 3y ago
This is something you don’t get. What happens to the for-profit arm of OpenAI is not her problem, her loyalty lies with the non-profit arm’s charter (and not even the organization itself). She is doing her job to uphold the mission of the o

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