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by awongh 1y ago
Were so many people saying that when Meg Whitman left eBay? Are people saying that about Mira Murati? -I haven't heard anything to suggest she gets no credit for ChatGPT (the product/technical execution, not the model)
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by awongh 1y ago
Not just prompting, it also could be we haven't done the right kind of RLHF for these kinds of outputs?
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by awongh 1y ago
The reason the LLMs are of any use to anyone right now (and real people are using them for real things right now- see the millions of ChatGPT users) is because the qualitative difference between text created by a real human using a guessing
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by awongh 1y ago
By volume how much of human speech / writing is pattern matching and how much of it is truly original cognition that would pass your bar of creativity? It is probably 90% rote pattern matching. I don't think LLMs are AGI, but in m
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by awongh 1y ago
She was qualified. Are you saying that her previous experience shouldn't have counted as a positive attribute for being hired?
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by awongh 1y ago
Where is all the hate for SSI?
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by awongh 1y ago
You mean, "I have no revenue and no business model but I was the CTO of one of the most important technical companies of this generation, we put out one of the fastest growing SaaS products of all time in a completely new technical ca
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by awongh 1y ago
Are there any real proposals that deal with this issue for a vehicle that would carry humans and go fast? Something that's not "energy shields". Edit to add: we basically understand the physics of accelerating something to a
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by awongh 1y ago
They could still add it later, maybe once the solid state ones become more affordable?
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by awongh 1y ago
I would go so far as to say that it's dangerous to drive what the speed limit is supposed to be, if everyone else is driving 15-30 miles an hour faster than you. Which also highlights one of the inherent flaws with laws and rules like
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by awongh 1y ago
I think it's pretentious too, but I also think it's a useful distinction in the sense that the category aspires to deeper and broader ideas than a lot of fiction- Harry Potter, Hyperion, Dennis Taylor, We Are Legion, Twilight. Not
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by awongh 1y ago
There's nothing more effective than a piece of fiction at transmitting the subtle complete world-view ideas of an author directly into your brain. I mean that in the sense that non-fiction is still very much fictionally presenting a wo
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The $1,999 Liberty Phone Is Made in America. Its Creator Explains How(wsj.com)
12 points by awongh 1y ago|8 comments
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They say that for WWI that it was one of the aspects that kept it "more civilized" (whatever that means in the context of war).
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by awongh 1y ago
I don't know that much. But I have heard about how in terms of daily outlook a lot of Iranians aren't very religious. Esp. compared to other countries in the region.
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It would be reaaalllly stupid for the USA to invade Iran. Hopefully Iran is the one that blinks for the reasons above.
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That was 40 years ago though. So no one fighting on the ground in that war would be fighting on the ground in a war that starts today.
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by awongh 1y ago
It feels deeply cynical and jaded to me to say, well, just let Iran fund armies and encourage ethnic cleansing, as long as they don't do this one specific thing that is more important to Americans. As long as the horrors you create onl
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by awongh 1y ago
If you're in Iran it makes sense that you would want that if you feel that Israel is a threat. (But it doesn't make it a good idea). I meant that demographically, if your populace isn't as poor, battle hardened and religious
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by awongh 1y ago
It can be both things that: - it's disgusting that the USA is always like, oops, my bad, we messed up when we helped you kill all those people, we were doing our best (sometimes in the case of Iraq going back and forth three times!) -
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by awongh 1y ago
afaik Iran is a very very different case demographically from Iraq and Afghanistan- in terms of being bigger, more modern and secular. It seems like those are dynamics that make it harder to go to war/stay in war.
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by awongh 1y ago
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/jlqXOwYfpdQ
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by awongh 1y ago
This is the kind of politics that's hard to say which position is the more optimistic or jaded. Or both at once.
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by awongh 1y ago
There are some ridiculous pro-palestine/anti-israel takes out there that says that the politics of the region are more stable when Iran has nuclear weapons.
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by awongh 1y ago
One of the problems is that we became the defenders of Israel. And it's a situation we created when we created a religious extremist government in Iran.
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by awongh 1y ago
Let's be clear Iran is the bad guy. But so was Saddam Hussein and he didn't have the weapons they said he did. On Fox News they'll tell you nuclear war is imminent but they say that because they want to bomb, not because it&#
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by awongh 1y ago
For sure part of it is goading them into looking like the bad guys. Otoh, ballistic missiles eventually become a western europe/NATO security issue. Not exactly sure how close Iran would be to that, but that is an element of the situat
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But that makes it sound as if Iran was just peacefully chilling out. Which is technically true, but it doesn't actually reflect reality.
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by awongh 1y ago
Part of the reason it was cancelled was because Iran was still funding a bunch of proxy armies and still developing non-nuclear ballistic missiles?
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This hasn't been a rule since WWII?

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