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by bbor 1mo ago
Ok I have some existing comments I'd love to quote[3] on this sad, sad day for the world, but in the meantime: yes, you are 100% correct that this is small compared to their money printer, and yes, this is "all advertising around
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by bbor 1mo ago
Woah, YC divested completely?! Thank you for the correction, I associate them so closely in this Sam Altman world in which we live in that I completely forgot. If they're still invested its through intermediaries -- Tencent and Blackro
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by bbor 1mo ago
Absolutely. Actually truly taking aboard the belief that your 401K is now 100% up in the air, much less your career, much less your childrens' whole lives... it's tough. I was lucky enough to be thrust through this in 2023 by DALL
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by bbor 1mo ago
I love the pro-union sentiment, but I don't think we need to treat "programmers" so monolothically, and we definitely should act like its too late. Now is the perfect moment to unionize!
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by bbor 1mo ago
Not using world-changing technology because some people are using it harmfully is wild. Expanding it to people just making art (/entertainment...) that you don't like is just confusing. Obviously I relate to the anxiety that made
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by bbor 1mo ago
Kind of hijacking, ... I'm glad you did! Of all the procrastination techniques I have mastered, engaging smart people on HN about artificial cognition is probably one of the more useful ;) Apologies in advance for the diatribe(
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by bbor 1mo ago
I think you deserve a rule bending or two every once in a while, as a fine HN citizen in good standing. They're not even linked prominently, so the fact that they even exist for a site that doesn't justify moderation actions feels
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by bbor 1mo ago
Their stance on APIs truly baffle me. Ok, I get it, you don't want people using an app without ads. And you, for some reason, think that trying to wall off the public commons from scientists and sell them snippets piecemeal is going to
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by bbor 1mo ago
The fact that the top comment is joking about how this juggernaut of a game is some unknown nobody is part of the problem
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by bbor 1mo ago
First: this is really great technical writing, especially when you get into the rebuttals. Firm & clear without polemics -- props, and thanks for open-sourcing! That said; I don't have the time, energy, or anywhere near the experti
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by bbor 1mo ago
There’s a lot to discuss here, but I think the point most likely to hit home is one based in a) expertise and b) the nature of frontier labs. Specifically: Would you know what a system that was capable of recursive self improvement would lo
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by bbor 1mo ago
I don’t question your portrayal of the worst possible outcomes — certainly victory over senescence could send us down all sorts of dysfunctional local minima. But I encourage you to try to intentionally invest in thinking through some nice
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by bbor 1mo ago
Interesting! I’m far from an expert and should get back to my desk, but I’m curious if any experts know: has this cross-pollinated with WikiFunction yet? I know this isn’t a WMF site, but the two seem applicable to each other, in theory? Wi
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by bbor 1mo ago
I said as much on the subreddit, but I’ll repeat it here for emphasis: the idea that OpenAI and Anthropic are to blame for a housing crisis in a city of hundreds of thousands because of their hundreds of researchers is absurd, even for an o
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by bbor 1mo ago
Great start, awesome idea! Definitely need all the Xenos maps from all the various codexes (Lexicanum usually clarifies which codex has the most recent map for each, IME). The crown jewel, ofc, is to see the Tyranid fleets hitting the galax
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by bbor 1mo ago
I don’t see any reason this highly chaotic system is most likely to settle in a spot that we happen to enjoy/see as a compromise of some sort. The point is that we now have superintelligence; either it helps us conquer death, or it pos
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by bbor 1mo ago
Well it’s just the one breakthrough that we needed — specifically, it was solving the frame problems. Now the dam has burst and we’re in for ‘turbulence’.
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by bbor 1mo ago
If we survive, that is.
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by bbor 1mo ago
They’re buying a brand, some employees, and some momentum — not any of their software. HF probably does have propriety goodies to make it all run efficiently, but certainly not a billion dollars worth, much less 13!
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by bbor 1mo ago
The idea of Anthropic allowing a contractor to squeeze such a tiny cost center at such a massive PR cost right before their IPO is just an objective blunder, IMHO. They should've replied to that email with a quick "No, you will
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by bbor 1mo ago
AFAIU, that's basically impossible with a typical transformer architecture. The "recursive" transforms mentioned above are indeed a little closer, but still. You could just always start a new inference after the last one fini
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by bbor 1mo ago
Good engineering means optimizing the things you care about, at the cost of things you don't. In this case, secrecy doesn't matter kinda inherently. It's like criticizing Reddit for not handling SSNs well; the intended design
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by bbor 1mo ago
Every Headlong agent has a name and at Laude we named our shared agent Audel. We’ve spent the last few weeks interacting with Audel over Slack, Telegram, and a mobile app. Many team members talk with Audel, and each of those conversati
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by bbor 1mo ago
Yes, which is exactly and entirely the point of the whole paper. Somehow missed still -- despite how important AI has become, shockingly few people actually read the short, layperson-accessible paper that started the whole field. I kinda ha
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by bbor 2mo ago
This was fascinating right up until the confident use of an AI detector extension of some kind, as if that was a valid investigation of the matter. Sadly, my view on the AI literacy of people who gleefully use 'slop' stays steady.
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by bbor 2mo ago
Our world is literally about to burst at its seams, and no one believes it. People are very concerned that AI is using water or might be a hoax — meanwhile, we’ve been hoisted into a brand new BCI paradigm seemingly overnight. Ditto for bip
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by bbor 2mo ago
Well I'll be damned if that isn't one of the best sites I've ever seen, with a great ethos. And in Lisp ! Inspiring stuff. Godspeed, Lucius :)
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by bbor 2mo ago
The dichotomy between reason and emotion is a cultural construct, and neither grounded in neuroscience nor in logic. This is a nice, thoughtful piece, but the final point oversteps while chasing a noble heuristic, I think. To touch
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by bbor 2mo ago
Almost all of this is stuff I have indeed "frankenstein[ed]" for myself, so consider this comment a +1 on market fit, there! That also gives me a reason to pause, tho; the pitch in general is as solid as it can be on a site with m
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by bbor 2mo ago
Yes, and intentionally so. That’s a zoology question, which is a subset of biology — looking it up would require reading and synthesizing literature from biology journals. I know it’s goofy but it’s also kinda genius, IMHO. Both from techni

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