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by atleastoptimal 2mo ago
There is a persistent bias, in general and online, against any claim that one's job prospects, social status, overall life satisfaction is dependent on the way people treat you specifically due to your physical appearance. I think this
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by atleastoptimal 2mo ago
It seems like everything will follow this pattern: 1. AI is dismissed because an expert in a particular field finds an outdated model's outputs sub-par 2. New model, released or unreleased, makes a major stride in that field 3. Expert
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by atleastoptimal 2mo ago
Software slop has existed for as long as software has existed. AI is now a better coder than the median. By the end of next year it'll be better than the best human coders.
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by atleastoptimal 2mo ago
This is true, but likely happening in talk therapy too with overly sycyphantic therapists
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by atleastoptimal 2mo ago
I think there's one weirdly simple reason DeepMind isn't doing as well as OpenAI and Anthropic. I may be wrong on this. OpenAI and Anthropic went from tiny startups to huge companies. As a consequence the stock options/RSU&#x
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by atleastoptimal 2mo ago
It's also labor costs. It's far cheaper to get a crew, rent out space, etc in Eastern Europe, the US South, even the midwest, which is what led to films being made there. Government/tax incentives too of course.
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by atleastoptimal 2mo ago
This works better for math because math is self-verifiable. Once you have a proof it needs no outside evidence. Expertise is needed to evaluate model outputs where it can't verify itself, or at the very least one's expertise can h
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by atleastoptimal 2mo ago
Obviously not, have you seen the 10 mathematical advances OpenAI found with Astra? https://openai.com/index/ten-advances-in-mathematics/
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by atleastoptimal 2mo ago
This seems inevitable for most industries in the US (car/general manufacturing) 1. City/region becomes a boom-town based on a new high profit-margin industry 2. As that region becomes more wealthy, labor increases in price, thus t
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by atleastoptimal 2mo ago
Do you also test for contamination/adulterants/heavy metals?
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by atleastoptimal 2mo ago
Going from 0 to 3000 weekly added users is an amazing accomplishment and you should always remember that you are capable of producing something people love using. The problem is that the real world massively compounds on small advantages. Y
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by atleastoptimal 2mo ago
80% of the GDP over the next two decades will be siphoning money out of baby boomers (medical care, retirement homes, luxury cruises) before their children see a cent of it. Coupled with AI taking everyone's job, the end result is neo-
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by atleastoptimal 2mo ago
I really want to know what people specifically mean when they allude to some "higher" level of cognition that humans have above LLM's when it comes to useful outputs. I don't mean the nature of consciousness or internal
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by atleastoptimal 2mo ago
> Location Though the team has spent many years scaling remote-first companies and is currently remote, we are hiring specifically in Los Angeles, London, and New York, with an expectation for a flexible in-office schedule as we build ou
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by atleastoptimal 3mo ago
So many otherwise smart engineers, overrepresented on HN, have this weird mental block where they fail to take AI progress seriously. I think it's a fear that their status-defining skill could be commodified, so they adopt a mental fra
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by atleastoptimal 3mo ago
This is true, which is why the ideal things to do now are actions which increase your moat, or return on model improvement in the future (for example, accumulating data which future better models could more effectively capitalize on)
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by atleastoptimal 3mo ago
Closed-source models have to deal with the current frontier being heavily regulated. Fable, at its old level, was "too good" to be released and they had to add an additional safety layer to sanitize the outputs. Lowering the quali
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by atleastoptimal 3mo ago
It matters because everyone imagines the inevitable "closing of the gap" between closed and open source, but the rate at which open source catches up with closed source seems to depend on being able to train on and distill the out
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by atleastoptimal 3mo ago
The VC money is only contingent on the strategy eventually bearing fruit. I do imagine going open source -> closed source could work for some model companies who get enterprise/ecosystem buy-in but the probability of ROI is lower.
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by atleastoptimal 3mo ago
AI models cost tens of millions to train. Offering them for free won’t justify the upfront costs. The Chinese model of model training/open sourcing only makes sense in the context of the overall strategy of undercutting American fronti
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by atleastoptimal 3mo ago
You went through 5 million tokens in an hour? You would be significantly benefitted by using fable as an orchestrator for other models
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by atleastoptimal 3mo ago
I wonder what percentage of the US GDP is "Fooling old people"
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by atleastoptimal 3mo ago
No matter how bad the climate crisis gets, those who have the power to change it (heads of state/capital) will never abandon their lifestyles which expend 1000x more energy and fossil fuels than the average person. Pushing for voluntar
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by atleastoptimal 3mo ago
Do people actually believe that the revenue for these companies is "fake"? Do they think financial analysts don't have anything but revenue to look at to determine the substance of their growth?
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by atleastoptimal 3mo ago
So much of neurodegeneration has turned out to be the effects of latent viruses in the body. HSV-1 is correlated with developing dementia along with many respiratory viruses.
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by atleastoptimal 3mo ago
Playing whack-a-mole with AI tests like this will never work, specifically because there is nothing AI has been proven to do better at than specific tasks with verifiable correctness
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by atleastoptimal 3mo ago
Hilarious that the article is framed as a humanities vs sciences thing even though the caliber of philosophers who can get these jobs at labs are the top 0.1% in their field, and wouldn't have trouble finding a job elsewhere, whereas y
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by atleastoptimal 3mo ago
If you exercise your resting heart rate will be lower, so athletic people have fewer total heart beats. However I'm not sure number of heart beats is a relevant metric to cardiovascular wear and tear.
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by atleastoptimal 3mo ago
A claim that LLM's can in a theoretical sense be 100% accurate all the time is not the same as the claim that scaling models with more compute/params will reduce hallucination. The former is a far stronger claim and I agree with t
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by atleastoptimal 3mo ago
I think the use of the word "hallucination" with respect to AI confidently making errors has led a lot of people astray, including the author. He claims that his company has "solved" hallucination by creating a verifiabl

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