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by apsec112 12d ago
The sources that this article cites have aged very badly and the author doesn't seem to have noticed this "But, just as happened with nanotech, the wind appears to be going out of the sales of “AI.” Some researchers suggest that w
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by apsec112 12d ago
All of the main characters here (Dario, Sam Altman, Demis Hassabis, Elon Musk) have been saying this for over ten years now, since before OpenAI or Anthropic even existed
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We must pace the frontier(darioamodei.com)
746 points by apsec112 14d ago|1045 comments
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by apsec112 15d ago
Intentionally doing this kind of hack would be a serious felony. I don't think it's plausible that the leaders of a major business would: - commit serious felonies - in order to deliberately trigger an investigation against thems
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by apsec112 25d ago
Here's the paper describing the technique: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08025-4
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by apsec112 27d ago
I don't think "he did a big 180 on some of his views at age 22" is very persuasive criticism of someone who is 46 (whatever he might be wrong about)
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Slap ROM Patcher(nyuu.page)
27 points by apsec112 2mo ago|22 comments
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by apsec112 2mo ago
This article seems to mix together two different points: 1) LLM's written CoT might not always be faithful to the model's real reasoning process (true and important) 2) The "stochastic parrot" hypothesis, which the artic
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Why I Left Google DeepMind(turntrout.com)
390 points by apsec112 2mo ago|170 comments
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The Economics of Recursive Self-Improvement [pdf](elasticity.institute)
149 points by apsec112 3mo ago|97 comments
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by apsec112 3mo ago
This is a 2024 survey, so it predates Claude Code and is mostly measuring GPT-4o: https://bfi.uchicago.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/BFI_WP_2...
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by apsec112 4mo ago
LLMs recently solved a major, famous open mathematical problem in combinatorial geometry: https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/1tj534d/openais_inter...
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by apsec112 8mo ago
Median American pay for full-time workers was ~$62,000 USD in Q4 2024 (BLS), which is around $85,000 CAD. The median Canadian salary is very definitely not $85,000 CAD.
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by apsec112 8mo ago
It's not like Americans are all buying X so they can't afford to buy Y - there isn't really a major category of consumption where the US median is below the OECD median. If the US had a higher savings rate, then people could
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by apsec112 8mo ago
The median American is, materially, much richer than the median person pretty much anywhere else. The US is a bad place, by rich-country standards, to be in the bottom 10%. But in terms of consumer wealth - how large your house is, how many
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Deciding to Win: A Common Sense Renewal of the Democratic Party(decidingtowin.org)
13 points by apsec112 10mo ago|13 comments
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A turn lane in Rhododendron(greentape.pub)
39 points by apsec112 11mo ago|19 comments
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Rejected announces from libtorrent clients proxying through SOCKS(catgirl.online)
83 points by apsec112 1y ago|31 comments
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by apsec112 1y ago
A ten year old Honda Fit is like $12K, pretty fuel efficient, and probably reliable and low-maintenance (I owned one until recently). People aren't buying $50,000 new Ford F-150s because they just need a working car to go to work and t
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The great medieval water myth (2013)(leslefts.blogspot.com)
74 points by apsec112 1y ago|51 comments
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by apsec112 1y ago
The first example I saw (think the order might be randomized?) was an EU ban on plastic straws, which is silly. Straws are a negligible fraction of plastic waste, and have no good substitute ("compostable" plastic straws are also
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Lab-grown sperm and eggs just a few years away(theguardian.com)
4 points by apsec112 1y ago|1 comments
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by apsec112 1y ago
Obamacare was passed via regular order (60 Senate votes), not reconciliation. There was a follow-up package to tweak it that passed via reconciliation in 2010, but the original bill was regular order. It's the only (very brief) window
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by apsec112 1y ago
"Despite Democrats holding thin majorities in both chambers during a period of intense political polarization, the 117th Congress (2021-2023) oversaw the passage of numerous significant bills, including the Inflation Reduction Act, Ame
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So you wanna build an aging company(librariesforthefuture.bio)
69 points by apsec112 1y ago|85 comments
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by apsec112 1y ago
This ignores batching - token generation is much more efficient in batch - and I strongly suspect is itself written by AI, given the heavy use of bullets
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by apsec112 1y ago
You can't choose arbitrary bits of mantissa, because what types are allowed is defined by the underlying hardware and instruction set (PTX for Nvidia). People have done some exploration of which layers can be quantized more vs. which n
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Abundance Network(abundancenetwork.com)
2 points by apsec112 1y ago|0 comments
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Arkansas Bill Targets "Gender Non-Conforming" Haircuts for Kids(newsweek.com)
11 points by apsec112 1y ago|2 comments
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The Democrats Are in Denial About 2024(nytimes.com)
13 points by apsec112 1y ago|34 comments

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