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by api 2mo ago
All technologies are a double edged sword like this, simultaneously strengthening and weakening. https://newlearningonline.com/literacies/chapter-1/socrates-... Humans are tool makers and this is what happens when
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by api 2mo ago
“Distillation” is just indirectly pirating the largely pirated training data used to train the original model. “You stole my warez!”
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by api 2mo ago
All vaccines are training data for the immune system, which is a learning machine whose operation is a little bit like a genetic algorithm. It generates and sieves variation using a vocabulary of pre-encoded building blocks to fit the targe
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by api 2mo ago
That was a stupid question IMO and he was hepped up on goofballs. I saw that interview and I know what a tweaker looks like. The electric company creates the most value. Why don’t they own stock in everything? Why didn’t PC makers take stoc
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by api 2mo ago
Here’s what I’ve seen: it can make skilled people more productive by acting like a “mech suit for your brain.” For unskilled people, it creates a false sense of productivity, but if the user of the tech does not understand what they are doi
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by api 2mo ago
I want whatever Karp is on when he does those interviews or writes that shit. Seems like fun.
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by api 2mo ago
… this week, until it’s obsolete.
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by api 2mo ago
Meanwhile all they accomplish is to slow down US tech and hand it to China.
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by api 2mo ago
And how would you stop people from fine tuning or ablating open models? Regulate GPUs? Ban general purpose computers?
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by api 2mo ago
The truth is that most people don’t go to school out of a desire to learn. At least not mostly. They do it out of a desire to earn a living, to be able to get decent jobs. If getting the degree is just a certificate to allow you to get jobs
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by api 2mo ago
It’s far less shitty than the social media industry (except where it overlaps) but that’s IMO. Still kind of shitty. But if you really hate it use open models hosted commodity.
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by api 2mo ago
Sometimes I’m not sure who is more unhinged: the total AI kool aid drinkers who think this will make us all into immortal demigods (or take over the world as it goes “foom”), or the AI doomers and haters who exaggerate everything potentiall
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by api 2mo ago
People would have at least somewhat less of a problem with this if they also put up an archive of PDFs of all these rare books if they are out of copyright. But that would help competitors with training data, which I assume is why they don’
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by api 2mo ago
No an entire nation state plus likely EU or US cooperation could certainly not reverse engineer some Soviet Cold War era electronics. Lol.
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by api 2mo ago
The singularity is near.
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by api 2mo ago
I expect China to eventually develop or sidestep EUV lithography. When that happens it’s over. It will also crash the price of chips globally. These high prices are kind of artificially buoyed by the fact that China can’t obtain ASML machin
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by api 2mo ago
As with many conflicts this one goes back a long way. Ukraine gave up its nukes to Russia in exchange for a non aggression pact that the invasion broke. Also bad for the world. The lesson, as with Iran and Iraq, is: you’d better have nukes
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by api 2mo ago
I’d also say that we do not know for certain that no dinosaurs, such as raptors perhaps, were intelligent enough for language and culture. At that age we can be pretty sure they did not have industry but they could have been like tribal hun
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by api 2mo ago
This is a good thought experiment to show how time is as vast as space. 400 million years ago is as distant as the stars. The Earth was a different planet then, in a sense. It’s also yet another Fermi paradox answer. Even if our civilizatio
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by api 2mo ago
Steel man counter-argument: health care is weird and different and special in lots of ways. The people who need it most are often the least profitable to treat and the least able to pay for it. That's because being sick negatively impa
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by api 2mo ago
That's what I meant. It's over-regulated and sclerotic, criticisms often levied at socialized medicine, but is also unequal, expensive, and excludes many people. So it's like everything that sucks about socialized medicine wi
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by api 2mo ago
I once heard Hollywood described as a network of law firms that happens to make movies. It's the most litigious industry on Earth, or one of them. They don't just sue you and I. They sue each other constantly, battling over royalt
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by api 2mo ago
US healthcare is very strange in that on one hand it pinches pennies and is incentivized to not fund treatment, but on the other hand there seems to be some kind of internal incentivize to spend liberally and do everything. The whole system
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by api 2mo ago
We have socialism for the rich, so why not for the poor? Edit: wanted to make this a little less low-effort so here's how I see us having socialism for the rich: Taxpayer-funded research being transferred directly to private companies,
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by api 2mo ago
“Pajama Nazis vs Basement Bolsheviks.” Forget where I saw that one but it’s Reddit now.
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by api 2mo ago
I'd say rationalism and technofeudalism/neoreaction are adjacent more than directly linked. They seemed to develop in parallel around the same time and involved regulars on some of the same boards.
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... and they're at least releasing the results.
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by api 2mo ago
This is part of why I can't feel bad for them. The training data is mostly pirated. Whining about Chinese labs training off American frontier models is "waaah you pirated my pirated stuff!" The tech itself is amazing and fasc
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by api 2mo ago
The biggest exception is cloud. Big cloud carries an insane markup (bandwidth is like 10000X!) and everyone runs on it. The strategy there is false openness where deployment complexity is the real proprietary moat. Sure Linux, Docker, Kuber
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by api 2mo ago
Doesn’t matter for training or most AI use cases. We are talking tens of ms latency here. I’m gonna guess availability of employees may matter more.

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