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by avaer 3mo ago
I'm impressed. It feels like a faster Fable (probably due to the more efficient token usage). It performs roughly the same job, just with 4x less steps (gamedev). Remains to be seen how the "shorter prompts" advice translates
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by avaer 3mo ago
The thing that rubs me the wrong way about WP (and one of the core issues in this controversy) is "taxation without representation". Wikipedia is perfectly happy to promote the grand narrative that they are the thankless sacred ke
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by avaer 3mo ago
If the data and code is all there, why not release the 5B weights?
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by avaer 3mo ago
Seems like an application of Goodhart's law; measuring worth by degree or grades stopped measuring learning or ability. This was a lot harder to cheat before AI, but now the floodgates are open and grades and degrees earned post-AI are
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by avaer 3mo ago
"The cars have all have cameras checking for bad behavior, why shouldn't your phone and laptop?" said the esteemed lawmaker. "Oh course there will be exceptions for politicians and authorized individuals, for national se
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by avaer 3mo ago
Why would that comparison be bad if it's accurate? Also, "sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic". Both can be made good and evil.
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by avaer 3mo ago
Those are not compelling arguments. If the best we've got for convincing people to learn to code is that it's like math notation (the most hated part of math for the uninitiated), or pretty like a violin (useless for a new grad),
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by avaer 3mo ago
It really depends on what a word is... If a WORD is 16-32 bits, you could pack in quite a lot. If a word is a Unicode word, that's even more bytes. Or you could do this in German and go nuts.
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by avaer 3mo ago
I don't know, compute is compute. Arguably making complex software with LLMs isn't all that different from training a model to do a thing. You're throwing a lot of compute at the problem and hoping for a stochastic solution.
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by avaer 3mo ago
I wonder if this is going to come to the West too. It's not like the harms or problems are any different, only the flow of money and power and willingness to enforce is different. Considering that gaming is the world's biggest ent
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by avaer 3mo ago
It should be pretty obvious any frontier AI company worth its salt will steal any and all data it can, by whatever means necessary. They've all been doing it so far. It's a tragedy of the commons. I wouldn't even limit it to
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by avaer 3mo ago
If you architect your protocol cleanly, you should be able to run the simulation client side too without much effort (certainly the web platform has everything you'd need). This is how modern game engines do it, it goes back to the Qua
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by avaer 3mo ago
Does everything need a "session"? Is it possible to have fully static games/exports?
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by avaer 3mo ago
Maybe you think gaming/media companies are greedy and should make less money. But if you want the industry to continue in the current state, keep in mind the price of games needs to be adjusted: price *= (total game sales / av
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by avaer 3mo ago
There's also a long list of government (or subpeonable) entities on your certificate trust list. Without which TLS is not gonna work. The article is arguing that in practice you could just send your "encrypted" communications
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by avaer 3mo ago
This kind of stuff doesn't pass my sniff test: if this product truly does what it claims, and generates largely autonomous value... why would they give that value to the customer? Why wouldn't they keep this under lock and key, ma
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by avaer 3mo ago
A funny piece, but what if all of the following are true: - AI *is* how real research is done - Incentives are such that this is how researchers must work - Academia institution does not have a structure to accept this reality Ac
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by avaer 4mo ago
The blast radius is far worse than any "malware" Google could protect you from. TFA is playing it up, but it is arguable that this is a real virus, except the shady hackers are Google.
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by avaer 4mo ago
They aren't competing with Steam. The console market is a closed cabal where console makers sell the machine at a loss and make up for it with locked down software where publishers pay a significant proportion of the sales to the conso
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by avaer 4mo ago
Totally valid. If someone thinks they're building better open source with their AI, let them fork; their AI can maintain downstream. If it's really better, people will join the fork. Good luck. In all likelihood anyone attempting
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by avaer 4mo ago
I shudder to think what the definition of "malicious activity" is that they will be reporting to the government. Speech has been severely chilled the last couple of years. It's nice that the restriction is going to get lifted
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by avaer 4mo ago
It's like someone saying their project repo has 10-20GB of source. (btw game server network data is usually trivially and insanely compressible, far more than text)
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by avaer 4mo ago
> Not AI enslaving humanity. Humanity enslaving AI. As well as the rest of humanity. There is precedent that this kind of thing tends to be rejected when it boils over, but it's usually not pretty. Which is why tech CEOs are often p
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by avaer 4mo ago
As a programmer I definitely get annoyed when I see code and I don't understand what it does. But I also definitely don't understand the problem if I can't get the computer to understand it, with tests. In some sense I always
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by avaer 4mo ago
I wonder if the Founding Fathers knew about AI, they would include it in the 2nd? The spirit is to provide effective tools for the people to resist federal military tyranny, and Mythos seems like it would be a good tool to defend against th
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by avaer 4mo ago
I did not bring in Godwin, but I guess he's here now :D. I'm more trying to invoke GRRM. This is a Game of Thrones: billionaire CEO's complain about each other to the government to get their competitors blocked/tripped u
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by avaer 4mo ago
There's a famous poem called "First They Came" about how slippery this slope can be in a heated political climate. I don't believe for a second this ends with "foreigners", this is about setting up infrastructu
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by avaer 4mo ago
This isn't going to save you unless you're ok being a criminal. There is nothing stopping the government from making open source versions of these models equally controlled. And given how willy-nilly they are operating I see no re
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by avaer 4mo ago
They'll just make it a crime to run the models unless they authorize you (classifying it as a munition, like they tried to do with encryption), and if your power bill is suspicious you'll find yourself in jail. Any company providi
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by avaer 4mo ago
I get that. It works as long as nobody calls out the emperor for having no clothes. It's similar to fractional banking, you gamble that people won't want their deposits all at once and pray for you're big enough for bailouts

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