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by andy99 5d ago
It’s often struck me how many “leaders” basically jump to step 6, and come up with an urgent set of superficial actions without even clarifying what they’re trying to do. There’s probably some value in “bias for action” as you might call it
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by andy99 7d ago
I have, LLMs are less fragile, that’s why I like them. The ability to generalize isn’t just about being general purpose, it’s super robust, and so assuming the budget is there (I agree they are inefficient) end up performing better on many
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by andy99 8d ago
> If it wasn't a problem, the government wouldn't have to do it. This is certainly very different from my experience with what governments think they have to do.
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by andy99 9d ago
Yeah, I don’t understand why people have a problem with this. I think it should basically always be true between peer nations that there is free movement and trade.
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by andy99 10d ago
I just read the first part and if I understand he thinks we shouldn’t be allowed to train LLMs to act like they are conscious because then people will think they are and give them rights? Seems more an education problem than a problem needi
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by andy99 12d ago
Openrouter lets you pick your provider and see their policy re retention and training. You can pick US providers e.g. digitalocean that don’t retain or train on your data. Openrouter is also now owned by stripe, so I don’t see any reason wh
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by andy99 12d ago
I’m not super familiar with the options, but isn’t there O-1 for anyone who’s world class commanding a million dollar salary? The impression I have (mostly from online discussion) is that H-1B is basically only for (comparatively) low skill
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by andy99 12d ago
The public discourse was very different then. Misinformation, bias, etc. Those in power were much more concerned about an LLM saying something unapproved.
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by andy99 12d ago
See also the 2023 call to “ pause for at least 6 months the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4.” https://futureoflife.org/open-letter/pause-giant-ai-experime... Signed by Benjio, Musk, Woz, etc
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by andy99 12d ago
So I first read this comment and thought is looked like AI and thought I’d give the benefit of the doubt. Then I saw this where there is no doubt: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49687774 I thought, I wonder if it’s th
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by andy99 14d ago
How much of the “danger” is from better models vs the harness? Isn’t the current risk due to how AI is configured, like giving it a full set of tools and internet access and a goal to hack stuff? If we think we need laws or gate keeping, wh
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by andy99 14d ago
Wouldn’t it most likely mean their progress is slowing and they want to make it appear as a deliberate decision for the good of humanity instead of admitting growth follows a logistic curve in advance of their IPOs?
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by andy99 14d ago
Is there any indication stretching leads to improved health outcomes like resistance training does per the article? Everything I’ve seen indicates it’s a “nice to have” if one has unlimited time but if you’ve only got an hour a day or whate
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by andy99 14d ago
I work out at home with dumbells, the one thing I miss vs a gym is some way to do lat pull downs. I can’t do a chin up and don’t feel like I’ve got a good way to work up to it. I also don’t work legs super seriously, I have 2x75lb dumbells
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by andy99 15d ago
Erlich Bachman: Jian-Yang, what're you doing? This is Palo Alto. People are lunatics about smoking here. We don't enjoy all the freedoms that you have in China. Anyway, when the talk of age verification first came out, I m
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by andy99 15d ago
When I saw the 192GB I first thought they might have beat Framework to market with a Gorgon Halo machine with unified RAM that Framework has teased. This is just a GPU workstation.
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by andy99 16d ago
Funny how they include nvidia, micron, and AMD revenue as “AI revenue” and that it represents that majority of industry revenue but presumably a big chunk of everyone else’s spend. Almost might as well include electric utility revenue as AI
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by andy99 17d ago
Interesting, thanks. Looks like also guilty of assuming the first place I saw it was the definitive source.
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Go F Yourself Sama(twitter.com)
4 points by andy99 17d ago|2 comments
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by andy99 17d ago
Found it really funny to see this attributed to a Slashdot meme
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by andy99 18d ago
Is there a specific concern you have, and what kind of performance penalty is it worth to you on say coding tasks? Conceptually, sure I understand, but in practice it currently seems like it amounts to just using a worse model without getti
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by andy99 18d ago
Agree benchmarks don’t tell the whole story. A better and easier evaluation of capability is whether anyone is using it for anything. Does Mistral have material market share for any application, including anything that would fall under item
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by andy99 18d ago
What’s the point of having “sovereign” weights that are worse than publicly available ones? Wouldn’t Europe be better off just keeping up-to-date on the Chinese releases? In the event of some schism requiring sovereign capability, or even i
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K2 Horizon(mbzuai.ac.ae)
3 points by andy99 19d ago|0 comments
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by andy99 20d ago
This misunderstands what it means to be better at writing. Root cause here is that writing is how humans communicate ideas. An LLM written thing isn’t doing that, it’s something equivalent to copy/pasting a Wikipedia article. Even if t
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by andy99 20d ago
So many people seem completely blind to LLM writing, they are fine sharing it on social media or at work. I think it’s people who are “not details people” and are used to judging something without reading it based on superficial cues which
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AI Slop(papers.ssrn.com)
15 points by andy99 20d ago|3 comments
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by andy99 23d ago
It’s funny, it’s obviously understandable why someone would vibe code a placeholder website, we’ve all probably done it. But I’m realizing a basic unstyled html thing with minimal copy is probably a better signal at this point for startups,
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by andy99 23d ago
“We’re looking for athletes” I’ve been a cleaner, and watched other people clean. I had a theory that if you paid $100k (or whatever good salary) you would probably get more value than paying 5 people 20k. I think there’s lots of value in p
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by andy99 23d ago
Do you have data on the tokens or $ cost of this?

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