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by bertil 3y ago
This whole field is aggressively trying to become a messianic religion: a savior is coming; people aren’t clear if that’s good or bad, but it will be the end of the world; you will be judged around whether you prepare for their arrival; sac
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by bertil 3y ago
Given the (very vague and confusing) revelations from Reuters about Q*, is seems this is not over.
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by bertil 3y ago
All those are private options for tourists and natural clients for Cadela; they explicitly want to go after the Commuter ferries 80, 82, 83, 89 [0] Each of those lines has a dozen boats to guarantee frequent service. Including the private o
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by bertil 3y ago
It's funny that they mention, “Our mission is to build a public transport system that is as easy and as convenient as on land,” because Stokcholm’s public transport system does include (in Summer) similar boats that are, for passengers
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by bertil 3y ago
Possibly—but if that’s a concern, you can also get some from the North Atlantic.
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by bertil 3y ago
Northvolt’s original factory in Skellefteå is near (well, ‘Arctic near’: 460 km along an existing rail line) Kiruna, one of the largest Iron mines in the world, so that’s one of the two material supply safe. Industrial Sodium is made with e
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by bertil 3y ago
If they can; abundant is the next best thing. Any country without an expeditionary military force (about 187 of them) likes the resources they have. Ab abundant is great unless you have a known military adversary with extra-territorial ambi
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by bertil 3y ago
Then, the solution would be to separate the research arm from a product-driven organization that handles making money.
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by bertil 3y ago
There are multiple, publicly visible steps before firing the guy.
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by bertil 3y ago
It's a broad field. Also, the two are tied: those underpaid, overworked Filipinas? Surprisingly reactionaries.
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by bertil 3y ago
That sounds more likely than anything else I've heard about this. Doesn’t really matter if it’s true: it’s painfully true to form.
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by bertil 3y ago
Nothing is better than the senior management emergency meeting in Margin Call.
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by bertil 3y ago
You want someone who can play through haunting decision and difficult meetings. Benedict Cumberbatch or Ciran Murphy would be a better pic.
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by bertil 3y ago
That would explain why Sam wants the whole board gone and not one or two members, while he was very fast to welcome Ilya back.
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by bertil 3y ago
Board positions are not full-time jobs, at least not usually.
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by bertil 3y ago
Someone mentioned the plight of people with conditional work visas. I'm not sure how they could handle that.
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by bertil 3y ago
Oh that's definitely common. I've seen it many times and it's ugly. I don't think this is what Ilya is trying to do. His tweet is clearly about preserving the organization because he sees the structure itself as helpful,
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by bertil 3y ago
I would consider those models "published." The models I had in mind are the first attempts at training GPT5, possibly the model trained without mention of consciousness and the rest of the safety work. There is also all the questi
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by bertil 3y ago
No small employer wants a disgruntled employee who was forced out of a better deal. Satya Nadella has proven reasonable throughout the weekend. I would expect he asked for a seat on the board if there's a reshuffle, or at least someone
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by bertil 3y ago
That is a spectacular power move: extending 700 job offers, many of which would be close to $1 million per year compensation.
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by bertil 3y ago
Some idealists, a few new people, some people on holiday or who don't check their email regularly.
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by bertil 3y ago
Ilya probably has an open-ended standing offer from every big tech company.
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by bertil 3y ago
Ilya is hard to replace, and no one thinks of him as a political animal. He's a researcher first and foremost. I don't think he needs anything more than being contrite for a single decision made during a heated meeting. Sam Altman
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by bertil 3y ago
I got the impression that the most valuable models were not published. Would Microsoft have access to those too according to their contract?
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by bertil 3y ago
He is explaining the situation using the length of bars. He doesn't recommend using both at the same time.
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by bertil 3y ago
My experience of academic research is that there's a lot of energy spent on laboratory politics.
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by bertil 3y ago
I'm assuming the original comment meant that the grifters would not be extended a new offer after their colleagues learned that they were not as good as their CV said at open AI.
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by bertil 3y ago
I probably should retract all those, but I want to argue that the board claiming "not candid" was (as of what we know now) entirely off.
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by bertil 3y ago
Not CEOs: founders. Some founders don’t do much, and some are violently toxic (Lord knows I worked for many), but it’s rarely how they gather big financing rounds. At least, the terrible ones I know rarely did. CEOs… I’ve seen people coast
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by bertil 3y ago
I think the research ambition is worthwhile, but it has raised pressing questions about financing. If shepherding responsible AGI can be done without a $10B budget in H100, sure… but it seems that scale matters. Having some people in the co

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