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by beering 2mo ago
I think parent’s point is that every false conjecture can cost a lot of time to be spent on futile affirmative proofs. So if we “clean up” a bunch of false conjectures, then more effort can be spent on interesting proofs of the others. (Pro
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by beering 2mo ago
You really do not want to live in a world where people around you are as dumb as hell. You don’t want your car mechanic, your restaurant chef, your local traffic engineer to be dumb as hell because that only makes your life worse. Closer to
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by beering 2mo ago
With such high standards, most HN commenters also do not have intelligence nor creativity. I don’t think we can set the bar that high.
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by beering 2mo ago
What makes you think the sim shows the public worse than they actually are?
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by beering 3mo ago
Your names are not good because “Fast” is not a descriptor of model size and overlaps with fast/ultrafast inference. And “Plus” collides with the ChatGPT subscription plan. Point being, naming is hard.
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by beering 3mo ago
That is the PE playbook - buy ok company, revamp things to make it more efficient and profitable. The main difference seems to be whether the owners sell the revamped company or not.
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by beering 3mo ago
because every non-programmer hears “codex” and thinks that it’s for coding only - seems like a large hurdle to adoption. claude has been successful with cowork branding which makes sense.
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by beering 3mo ago
About half of the study participants were non-vegetarian, IIUC. I wonder if they found any correlation after slicing by vegetarianism?
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by beering 3mo ago
TFA doesn’t actually state where the bit about shockwave therapy came from and it wasn’t the main point of the article. The concern was about being given useless therapies. The homeopathic analgesic is concerning, at least to me. I.e. nothi
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by beering 3mo ago
The point of Terra is to be cheaper than the best model while being pretty good. Of course it’s inferior in intelligence.
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by beering 3mo ago
yeah but it’s trivial to just try it out and compare.
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by beering 3mo ago
Soon the bottleneck will be how fast your laptop can grep for a string.
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by beering 3mo ago
I think regular users will still have the old speed, so should be easy to tell whether it is more thinkier than 5.5.
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by beering 3mo ago
Agreed, 1000tok/s just fills up the context window (which is big by 2004 standards) super fast. But seems like 5.3-spark was just a taste of what’s to come.
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by beering 3mo ago
Would you rather have the AI companies answer those questions, or your elected government? Fwiw, the AI companies have been saying a lot about these questions should be answered. Whether you want their answers is another story.
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by beering 3mo ago
A lot of words in this post and yet the author doesn’t ever define the word “consciousness”. The closest they get is mentioning their past work on information systems. Folks, how can we debate whether LLMs are conscious if no two people can
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by beering 4mo ago
What does AI girlfriend have to do with consciousness? It’s easily possible to be conscious and fake being in love with me. Source: life
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by beering 4mo ago
I agree. For many people, LLMs are the first time that computers do what they tell them to. Not what some big tech PM has decided is or isn’t possible. At the same time, OP is in the right to reject contributions they don’t want. Nobody pro
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by beering 4mo ago
Right now there are Anthropic engineers deployed in the NSA to help them use their cyber models. The NSA is part of the department of war.
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by beering 4mo ago
As usual, there’s no factual basis for the claims other than “I made it up” and author doesn’t seem to have technical experience with ML experience. A lot of weasel words doing all the heavy lifting here.
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by beering 4mo ago
It’s never not been “loot box style”. None of your past hired security audits were guaranteed to catch all issues?
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by beering 4mo ago
Because by definition, sapience is something only humans have. Ergo, parrots are not sapient. More meta, all of the threads on this page are just people playing games with definitions. Eg, “qualia is something I have as a human but machines
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by beering 4mo ago
The set of tokens is learned, more or less. So I don’t get what point you’re trying to make here. There’s not a human manually deciding what tokens make up the token dictionary.
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by beering 4mo ago
Photographers have already delegated their art to pushing buttons on a machine. They are the most receptive to AI tools, but not representative of artists in general.
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by beering 4mo ago
FTFA: > I supported Polymarket for years because I believed they represented crypto values. > > In fact, their platform is simply another bucketshop where if you bet too much, you're going to get cleaned. Please, tell me more
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by beering 4mo ago
Then, what are they even fighting about?
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by beering 4mo ago
See also, video games, dungeons and dragons, etc.
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by beering 4mo ago
At the end of the article, the main guy says he wants tech companies to report your conversations to the authorities if bad content is detected. That’s their goal, apparently
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by beering 4mo ago
I don’t think the families are eager for the HN peanut gallery to pick apart what their loved ones said.
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by beering 4mo ago
The boring shit is still about eliminating labor that would have had to be done without computers. Automation is a core value of computing, back to automated switchboards and census tabulation.

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