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by achierius 2mo ago
And yet they solved it. You don't think mathematicians have been trying to brute force a counterexample for decades now? Only with AI did it actually work. Even the researchers that got scooped were using AI to drive the work -- not a
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by achierius 2mo ago
Just like with John Kiriakou, the only man ever convicted in connection with the torture program? He went to prison for two years despite only ever leaking information about illegal programs, lost his wife, lost all his money; is that the m
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by achierius 2mo ago
Slapped down by Jensen Huang? Do you think he's some kind of neutral arbiter? Certainly he's not on your side.
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by achierius 2mo ago
This is a weak argument. Almost everyone who's talking about catastrophic risk is also worried about mundane risks. Arguing "well how could they kill everyone ?" serves nobody but Altman and Amodei.
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by achierius 2mo ago
> despite the absurd fantasies of LLM fans Absurd fantasies like solving a Millennium Prize Problem? How is this not prima facie absurd? And if that's come to pass, why should we believe your bar for anything else?
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by achierius 2mo ago
Do you seriously think that's that people mean when they quote that?
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by achierius 2mo ago
Interesting! I admit the AI-written text is rough to read, it could have used a pass or two from an actual human. E.g. "Publishing it unresolved rather than tuning until it matches." -- thanks for not lying, I guess? Fun: > In
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by achierius 2mo ago
Not 100% surprised that this wasn't picked up as a security issue; denial-of-service is bad, but ultimately doesn't give you a direct path to stealing secrets / hijacking identity / etc. It is pretty egregious though, I
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by achierius 2mo ago
But Tailwind is still being used? It's just being used by AI now.
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by achierius 2mo ago
If you don't need to 'understand' to do this, then maybe what you call 'understanding' is less important than you think. When people in the real world reach for a tool, what they care about is whether or not it&#x27
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by achierius 2mo ago
You're probably correct. FWIW most people with math degrees haven't gone on to do math research regardless, so in that regard this isn't a big change.
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by achierius 2mo ago
There is a land war in Europe for the first time in generations. The only reason you can say that big things aren't happening is because you're lucky enough to live where they're happening.
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by achierius 2mo ago
But ultimately this is just an engineering problem, no? Yes, if you just hack steering into a model it's going to hurt performance, because doing so takes the model out of the regime it was trained for and validated in. But if that ste
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by achierius 2mo ago
> We have AGI and the intelligence abundance is going to be amazing for everyone in the future. Why? These 'geniuses in a datacenter' aren't good, they aren't 'aligned', they don't work for you. They&#x
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by achierius 2mo ago
I mean it's definitely an outrage, but I find it hard to believe that you went from "yay OpenAI" to "literally destroy the company" over... accusations of academic misconduct?
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by achierius 2mo ago
Have you read the actual statement https://cims.nyu.edu/~tristanb/statement.pdf ? > I should say here why I interpreted their statement the way I did, the in- terpretation I will discuss below. The route to the Clay
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by achierius 2mo ago
While I'm generally pretty negative on claims that the labs are 'scamming' the public with misrepresentations of model capabilities, it's hard to see how this wouldn't qualify. - the OpenAI researchers claimed that
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by achierius 2mo ago
Would you change your mind on this if they became profitable? What would convince you that the labs are real threats worth organizing against? Or are you just dedicated to boosting AI until your dying day?
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by achierius 2mo ago
Have you read a single paper in ai safety?
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by achierius 2mo ago
Unfortunately I can't comment much on Apple's situation since I work there :) Regardless what I mean to convey is that ARM would prefer such deviations to be rare, and especially for them to not be visible from userspace. Deviatio
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by achierius 2mo ago
(Total guess) this feels like an attempt at restricting what parts of the hardware pipeline need to know what; if prefetches need to key off of both the device bit and the nx bit, then both of those need to be piped into the frontend, where
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by achierius 2mo ago
FWIW if you look at WebKit/JavaScriptCore, the trend has been towards less-frequent code modification, e.g. inline caches are mostly no longer repatched inline. Whole-function reoptimization is still worth the overhead of sys_icache_in
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by achierius 2mo ago
> while ARM does provide a reference implementation of the architecture, vendors are free to customize it at will, or even roll their own implementations A nitpick, but this is only true for some vendors, depending on their license, and
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by achierius 2mo ago
Is that just the MiniBrowser?! I have to say I can't imagine daily driving that if so. Why WebKit over a Chromium-based (and more featureful) browser?
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by achierius 2mo ago
Is there anything that could convince you that actually-bad things are actually-happening? How can you possibly think that these people are somehow working for OpenAI? Is it impossible for you to imagine that there exist people who actually
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by achierius 2mo ago
I put that poorly: read as 110% and 200%
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by achierius 2mo ago
No, they're not getting close. Top performing Wasm runtimes (like those in V8 and JSC) are generally between 10% (for pure math workloads) and 2x (conservatively, for ef allocation heavy ones) the speed of equivalent native implementat
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by achierius 2mo ago
> - environmental like emissions and water usage Those are two very different things, and the former should be a serious concern. If AI does indeed become a double-digit percentage of electricity usage as the AI labs themselves predict,
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by achierius 3mo ago
No, not necessarily. Sometimes visas are rejected. Unless you're talking about giving everyone who gets a visa a green card?
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by achierius 3mo ago
AI account?

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