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by bbor 2y ago
https://users.manchester.edu/Facstaff/SSNaragon/Online/100-F... https://intelligence.org/files/IEM.pdf Welcome to the anxiety party, it sucks in here. As someone who's been working
902.
by bbor 2y ago
Well put! I would disagree on two fundamental points, tho: 1. If you honestly think that millions/billions of people are at serious risk of avoidable harm that everyone else is ignoring, "calm down" can be a hard dictum to fo
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by bbor 2y ago
Yeah, that's my number one question, too. Sure, he happened to be appointed the manager of the team who cracked intuitive algorithms through deep learning, but what does he know about superintelligence? IMO that's a completely sep
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by bbor 2y ago
...why? I know this is the default opinion, but it's always seemed misplaced to me, even more so in 2024. QT is run by a for-profit company ($QTCOM, TIL!) selling commercial licenses, Electron is maintained by OpenJS, who has it MIT-li
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by bbor 2y ago
Cute, love the idea! Would perhaps cut the examples to be substrings to avoid long comments that mention the issue in passing once, but that’s a personal preference. Either way, actually seeing the graph on mobile is wonky, and IMO the exam
906.
by bbor 2y ago
Wise, it seems! Surprising to see no one think that maybe their recent OS upgrade would be at fault. Hindsight is 20/20 I guess, and at least they were nice about pushing the subject; This is what happens. I'm sorry you can&#x
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by bbor 2y ago
Good guess! This has always seemed like a tricky edge-case-ridden feature, so I’m not super surprised it eventually broke. I mean, this is the kind of thing that should be covered by automated tests, but who knows what’s going on internally
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by bbor 2y ago
Ok fair: they're things that right now are best understood using the term Field. I don't understand what kind of answer you're hoping for that would be better than this -- what kind of answer to "what is a particle&quo
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by bbor 2y ago
Cool, thanks for sharing! Didn't see this. A) Guarantee the Colab team is bummed about them overloading the term, but the Colab team is probably bummed all the time so nbd. B) It's kinda funny to see them still sticking the typica
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by bbor 2y ago
I thought Firefox OS was bad enough on its own -- turns out they drew a whole new emoji set for it, too! Why, god, why. Here's to hoping the guy suing them for discrimination for being knocked out of running for the CEO position at the
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by bbor 2y ago
It’s everything! Idk, I don’t think the universe owes us an answer there. What is a human? Well, it’s a human. You can think of all sorts of mental tools for understanding humans (eg “species”), but ultimately they just are .
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by bbor 2y ago
I mean, it’s the same as trademark disputes; legal standards will slowly be cobbled together from statutes, regulations, and random judges setting precedent. “Confusion in the marketplace” seems like a potentially relevant term — accidental
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by bbor 2y ago
Yeah but I don’t think being either party in a precedent-setting litigation is fun or easy. You’d have to find some sort of political non-profit (ACLU?) to foot the bill as you go from appeal to appeal, all the while enduring negative media
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by bbor 2y ago
I think it's far more engrained and fundamental than can be captured in a simple poll. I can at least vouch first hand that it's a common sentiment in Spanish literature from the area and at least some people on the ground. I mean
915.
by bbor 2y ago
lol. It's the former. Specifically, I was hedging my words, because I was too lazy to Kagi "Brazil wiki" and wasn't entirely sure that they suffered at the hands of the US. To be fair to little ol' me, I doubt the w
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by bbor 2y ago
It’s kind of a QA tactic in a sense It's not kind of a QA tactic, this is literally the definition of QA. Specifically, this post is about ad-hoc functional testing. Kinda funny how this kind of testing used to dominate, but
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by bbor 2y ago
I’m not a physicist, but as an arrogant philosopher of science: isn’t it just field excitation? Like, every particle looks like a circle bouncing around a 2D piece of paper, but if you look reeaaaaally closely it’s just a localized 3D spike
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by bbor 2y ago
The line between whimsy and intellectual negligence seems blurry, in this case… how many people have been tricked by bad-faith gurus using this? Thanks for sharing, TIL and it’s fascinating.
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by bbor 2y ago
lol, I know they’re just doing their job, but “in a surprising move” is funny commentary for this. Elon never had a plan at all other than vaguely rile people up — Brazil is a huge market, and despite his “go fuck yourselves” rhetoric, he’s
920.
by bbor 2y ago
A) …why? What makes this interesting to physicists? I understand this as “if stars weren’t stars but instead rigid spheres, and if they were in an impossibly-impervious giant sphere, then weird stuff happens”. And…? B) “since stars rather r
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by bbor 2y ago
Interesting! If I said you were bad at your job and an ugly, inattentive partner, would your primary reaction be one of hurt or just one of calculating self-preservation? I would personally feel very emotional if I heard those things from s
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by bbor 2y ago
Seems interesting! But I’m referencing the complete lack of mention (Afaict) of unions, syndicates, and socialism more broadly. Capitalism is diametrically opposed to workers rights, by definition — the most rights you can hope for are the
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by bbor 2y ago
Damn, I can’t access any of the articles about this. Anyone know more than Wikipedia mentions about what exactly a “co-living community” is, if it doesn’t involve socialism? Is it just goofy marketing for luxury apartments, or do they at le
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by bbor 2y ago
Fascinating, thanks for sharing. Hilarious to see a capitalist report on “advancing worker voices” and “ensuring worker equality” without a hint of awareness. Gee, I wonder what mechanisms might be useful for this…
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by bbor 2y ago
Thanks for taking the time, that makes sense. This is not the first time I've misunderstood something by having opinions about what it should be doing in my opinion, haha. I absolutely agree with your last point, too.
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by bbor 2y ago
WOW, that is by far the most author-packed paper I’ve ever seen outside of astronomy. I guess they’re trying to brute force their way into being seminal? Ngl I’m a fan. Talk about collaboration, there’s a small army behind this document. Se
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by bbor 2y ago
Thanks for the corrections! I’m very much not an expert on LLM usage in the real world. But I’m a bit confused: does go through a pretraining phase using the redpajama dataset, and then an SFT phase with a different objective Isn’t t
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by bbor 2y ago
Not sure how this is any more "memory-based" than regular RAG, but it seems interesting. I can't remember where I read this joke, but as a self-proclaimed Cognitive Engineer I think about it every day: "An AI sta
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by bbor 2y ago
In the past, this might have been called an "expert system". Heh, it comes full circle... After ~50 years of Expert Systems winter, we're training our new AGIs to become more specialized! This is a memorable lesson
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by bbor 2y ago
LOVE this. If anyone knows similar blogs that run through engineering decisions in real time, please share! Way more useful than a polished long post built for SEO and hackernews domination. Substantively, I don’t have much to say other tha

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