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by antics 2y ago
I’m happy to continue this conversation, but I think we’re not on the same page about what I am saying, which makes it hard to say how to proceed. To your specific point here, I’m not sure what this has to do with the discussion.
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by antics 2y ago
Oh I think we have very good empirical reasons to believe that’s not true. If this was indeed common knowledge, DEI as a movement would not be mired with the issues it has, specifically relating to performative activism and focus. If that’s
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by antics 2y ago
The qualitative description here is pretty interesting, but so is the quantitative one here[1]. 1,600 ft tall, 220 mph top speed, inflicting 10 Gs for roughly 60 seconds, which induces cerebral hypoxia in the brain, causing death. Seems lik
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by antics 2y ago
Thank you for the response, I am very glad to hear that came through. I think these discussions tend to be fundamentally pessimistic towards the future and I really don't think they need to be. We control our destiny, and we can make i
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by antics 2y ago
To be clear I am not arguing for or against working with a bunch of people from totally different backgrounds, demographics, etc . I am arguing that, because we can't do everything we should decide what really matters to us, commit
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by antics 2y ago
I totally get it. A lot of our wounds are still open, too. I'm not here to tell people how to feel, I'm just advocating for deciding what is actually important to you and focusing all your attention on it until it is resolved. I
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by antics 2y ago
Well, just one data point for you (YMMV), but in "DEI" contexts I've been a part of, class diversity did actually come up somewhat regularly. I would not say corp diversity efforts I saw were all that successful in staffing t
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by antics 2y ago
Unfortunately, our reservation is in central Oregon, which is less desirable. Even if we were not forced out of the ancestral homeland (what is now called the Columbia River Gorge), I'm not sure that would have been better. Although pr
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by antics 2y ago
In our area, it is mostly resorts and casinos. Economic development gives everyone in the area jobs and opportunities. This has changed the picture from "Indians begging the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) and local government for resou
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by antics 2y ago
Great questions. The kids mostly speak English as first language, and the schools are in English. With the exception of one huge twist, the schools have many educational difficulties you'll find in rural America generally—it's har
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by antics 2y ago
I am Wasq'u (a tribe in the PNW), I am connected to my tribe, and I am one of a handful of remaining speakers of the language. I am really tired of being caught in the maw of people fighting about my identity, what I am owed, and to so
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by antics 2y ago
Yes, for better or for worse, I think the ethos of Go is pretty much "a mulligan on C". Every C project re-implements a bespoke hash table, struggles with Unicode strings, spends a lot of time on memory management, gets tripped u
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by antics 2y ago
One big flaw in Go-style `defer` is that error handling and scoping are an afterthought, and it's disappointing to see this is not improved upon in this proposal (at least as I understand the proposal). I do think this matters in pract
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by antics 2y ago
Ok, well, I guess we're not going to get a proper retrospective for any of the OpenAI stuff for awhile. That's too bad. In the spirit of the post I wish Sam had written, I'll say one thing I learned from watching the show: if
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by antics 2y ago
Since no one seems to be pushing back I'll add my 2¢ here as a former compilers engineer. Calling conventions are just like any other style guide. Yes, any particular coding style is stupid, but it's still useful to have one that
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by antics 2y ago
There is truth to what you say. But I sense what I wrote came off more negative than I intended, and I am not sure it makes any of our lives (our lives or his) better to be hard on the author. Self actualization is legitimately extremely di
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by antics 2y ago
You are catching a lot of flak for this, but there is one thing you are right about. If you make tens of millions of dollars, and can't figure out what to do with those resources, you shouldn't be calling your coworkers NPCs. You&
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by antics 2y ago
Just to emphasize this point: Walmart was to the IT revolution what Amazon is to the Internet revolution. They were among the first in the sector to move beyond paper and industrialize IT for operations, which allowed them to scale way fast
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by antics 2y ago
I think the title should be changed, Coda acquired Grammarly. No?
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by antics 2y ago
Ian I am willing to continue if you are getting something out of it, but you don't seem to want to answer the question I have and the questions you have seem (to me) like they are trivially answerable from what I've written in t
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by antics 2y ago
It is the consensus. I can’t think of a single good researcher I know who doesn’t think this. The last holdout might have been Sutskever, and at NeurIPS he said pretaining as we know it is ending because we ran out of data and synthetics ca
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by antics 2y ago
I think the consensus is that the general purpose transformer-based pertaining models like gpt4 are roughly as good as they’ll be. o1 seems like it will be slightly better in general. So I think it’s fair to say the capability is not there,
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by antics 2y ago
Do you agree or disagree that the authors should advertise their paper with what they know to be true, which (because the paper does not support it, at all) does not include describing the model as purposefully misleading interlocutor
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by antics 2y ago
Perhaps I am alone in this, but when speaking scientifically, I think it's important to separate out clearly what we think we know and what we do not. Not just to avoid misconceptions amongst ourselves but also to avoid misleading la
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by antics 2y ago
High-order thought can mean a bunch of things more generally, in this case I meant it to refer to thinking about thinking because "faking" alignment is (I assert) not scary without that. The reason why is: the core of the paper su
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by antics 2y ago
Hmm. Maybe! I think the authors actually do have a specific idea of what they mean by "alignment", my issue is that I think saying the model "fakes" alignment is well beyond any reasonable interpretation of the facts, an
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by antics 2y ago
I actually wrote my response partially to help prevent a discussion about whether machines "really" "think" or not. Regardless of whether they do I think it is reasonable to complain that (1) in humans, language arises f
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by antics 2y ago
I actually agree with all of this. My issue was with the term faking . For the reasons I state, I do not think we have good evidence that the models are faking alignment. EDIT: Although with that said I will separately confess my dislike
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by antics 2y ago
The main consequence to the models is that whatever they want to learn about the real world has to be learned, indirectly, through an objective function that primarily models things that are mostly irrelevant, like English syntax. This is
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by antics 2y ago
On the contrary, it is clear to me they definitely ARE modeling the world, either directly or indirectly. I think basically everyone knows this, that is not the problem, to me. What I'm asking is whether we really have enough evidenc

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