bossyTeacher

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by bossyTeacher 5d ago
Without knowing the physical book equivalents, these numbers mean very little.
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by bossyTeacher 6d ago
This is a variant of: if [tool] isn't giving you good results, then it's your fault. For some values of [tool], this is right. Question, is it true for this particular value?
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by bossyTeacher 7d ago
> They might argue we do not support everything they say. This was literally Mullvad's response to one of their CEO being the main founder of a party with some peculiar views.
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by bossyTeacher 7d ago
> we just don't have the money! You don't have ANY money? Plenty of students would do a great job for a little money and a professional reference. Now you just helped the workforce, helped the local economy and cost you little.
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by bossyTeacher 7d ago
Then, you use this: https://duckduckgo.com/ Actually, use it now.
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by bossyTeacher 7d ago
> None of their decisions make any sense, Of course, it does. Google is no longer afraid to spit on open source. People happy to use Chromium features better remember this. You are renting everything and your landlord will soon come dema
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by bossyTeacher 9d ago
TLDR: be rich and young.
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by bossyTeacher 9d ago
No one is stopping you from typing code in your favourite editor.
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by bossyTeacher 9d ago
What was the talk about?
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by bossyTeacher 10d ago
Didn't he get kicked out of the company he founded? Deep Mind does not have a CEO anymore
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by bossyTeacher 10d ago
> They are simply looking to steer AI policy discussions. It's basically an in-house think tank. For a guy who spent his life imagining and realising dreams in video games and cognitive abilities in artificial neural networks, it ha
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by bossyTeacher 13d ago
> They are talking about slowing down the public facing AI development. I assume there already existed advanced models frontier labs only made available for national security. We just weren't told. I am guessing the announcement is
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by bossyTeacher 13d ago
Maybe. Anyway, let us not forget that both of these actions are unethical.
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by bossyTeacher 14d ago
> they can definitely ship and run to thousands of real customers Each of those customers, who also have access to LLMs and can therefore bypass his LLM built service by making their own LLM built service. Cameras in phones didn't t
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by bossyTeacher 14d ago
Can't help but feel that this related to the common observation that frontier model advancements have noticeably slowed down compared to the previous years. That this is a regulatory way to give themselves more time to manouvre themsel
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by bossyTeacher 14d ago
Is this the end of the 2022-2023 LLM race? A truce of sorts? Makes you wonder whether non-Western parties will agree with this.
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by bossyTeacher 14d ago
That is why you wash your food before eating it same as you do with legumes and rice (that likely also have had pesticide on them).
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by bossyTeacher 15d ago
"Making the world a better place." the Silicon Valley mantra that every dev out there and in here drank like a drug. People like Graham arguably have played a part in the transformation mentioned in the article. And many of us her
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by bossyTeacher 16d ago
Trust and OpenAI never go together in the same sentence. The answer is always no.
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by bossyTeacher 16d ago
Did you look him up?
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by bossyTeacher 16d ago
No. The whole issue is that the seller needs to maintain an online service to allow you access to the movies. This online service costs money so over time is likely not worth the cost. This plus the online service provider undergoing change
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by bossyTeacher 17d ago
I meant to say that most researchers have engaged in the unethical actions that Meta has. It's not that Meta is making it harder to report them but the fact that reporting them does not meaningfully disincentivise Meta from carrying on
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by bossyTeacher 17d ago
> so is every security researcher in the world if they want to be Most security researchers lack Meta's history: - Testing emotional manipulation features on thousands of users non-consensually - Adding spyware on underage users -
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by bossyTeacher 18d ago
> WhatsApp is end-to-end encrypted, - Meta data of your messages is not encrypted so meta can make a graph of who you talk to and when - backups are not encrypted by default so plaintext of your private chats can be obtained - even if yo
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by bossyTeacher 18d ago
>inferior Way to reduce a multi dimensional concept into a single scalar value. Care to explain what exactly make it inferior? Try using more than one word if you can.
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by bossyTeacher 19d ago
"it already completely outperforms humans in many cases in many areas" and "is prone to draw obviously wrong conclusions from thin air." seem contradictory imo. If the performance is not reliable, how can you confidentl
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by bossyTeacher 19d ago
'AGI' here defined as whatever Altman wants 'AGI' to be. This has always been the problem with terms such as "AGI" and "AI". They don't mean anything in particular. Depending on how you twist it,
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by bossyTeacher 19d ago
HN users are at the same time the brightest and the most clueless. Why on earth do you think they will agree to something that they will perceive as damaging to them in the present or in a possible future?
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by bossyTeacher 20d ago
> how is an AI going to affect anything in the real world? In 2026? Money. By paying enough, any human will do your bidding. And besides this, there are a lot of critical systems connected to the internet. Control over those gives you le
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by bossyTeacher 20d ago
> The western theory stuff you describe has almost no relevance at all when considered non-western musical cultures. Say it louder for those at the back. People keep forgetting that western theory was unable to explain why the blues (the

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