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by buu700 1y ago
That was essentially my takeaway. The problem isn't when AI was used. It's when readers can accurately deduce that AI was used. When someone uses AI skillfully, you'll never know unless they tell you.
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by buu700 1y ago
I can definitely see the case for that. Ultimately, we're going to need vocabulary for all of the following: * >=GPT-3.5-level intelligence * AI that replaces an ordinary human for knowledge work * AI that replaces an ordinary human
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by buu700 1y ago
Exactly. If it's substantially the writer's own thoughts and/or words, who cares if they collaborated with an LLM, or autocomplete, or a spelling/grammar-checker, or a friend, or a coworker, or someone from Fiverr? This
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by buu700 1y ago
I'd be interested in seeing the results if so. Like someone with $500k to burn just handing it to an AI and telling it to found a startup, including incorporation, vibe coding and deploying a product, publishing a website, bringing on
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by buu700 1y ago
As far as I can tell, passing the Turing test has never been the majority-consensus definition of AGI. It seems to me that the Turing test has fundamentally always been about proving a negative: if something fails the Turing test, it's
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by buu700 1y ago
That's fair. I suppose it gets at the heart of the question of what the specific threshold for AGI should be. Is it matching or exceeding all cognitive capabilities of any given human, an average 100-IQ adult, a severely learning-disab
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by buu700 1y ago
Pretty much. Capabilities we now consider mundane were science fiction just three years ago, as far as anyone not employed by OpenAI was concerned. We already had a definition of AGI. We hit it. Are you sure about that? Which definition a
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by buu700 1y ago
I see the point the author is making, but AI doesn't need to be AGI or malicious to cause mass destruction. A poorly implemented deployment of AI in the right circumstances with too much access and insufficient guardrails could theoret
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by buu700 1y ago
I think it could be a pretty reasonable system. The idea is that universal guaranteed stipends would become the ultimate backstop: almost a UBI, but targeted at those with actual need for it while requiring something of social benefit in re
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by buu700 1y ago
Personally, if I were going to publish something like this as a leader of a major AI company today, I would actually try very hard to put together a good faith proposal that I genuinely believed to be in the best interests of the public. I
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by buu700 1y ago
I think you could make an analogy to the difference between ASICs and general-purpose CPUs. ASICs are great, but CPUs have flexibility and massive economies of scale. Similarly, a specialized machine might be more efficient than a humanoid
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by buu700 1y ago
Reminds me of an old friend Oleshargegilolodeleroi* from Kenya who was renamed to "Siloma Kerore" on his US visa. *: Not 100% sure I'm spelling that correctly. Grok suggests that Oleshargegilgilololdeleroi may be more plausib
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by buu700 1y ago
Also worth noting that Hyundai acquired Boston Dynamics in 2021, which I would expect to have been motivated by some sort of plan for productization and mass production.
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by buu700 1y ago
I love programming, but it turns out I love building useful stuff even more than I love programming. Agentic coding helped me fall in love with development all over again. If a team of junior engineers suddenly showed up at my door and offe
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by buu700 1y ago
I've seen things like that, but I haven't heard of any provider with a bidding mechanic for allocation of spare compute (like the EC2 spot market). I could imagine scenarios where someone wants a relatively prompt response but is
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by buu700 1y ago
Could AI providers follow the same strategy? Just throw any spare inference capacity at something to make sure the GPUs are running 24/7, whether that's model training, crypto mining, protein folding, a "spot market" f
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by buu700 1y ago
Funny enough, I did a little bit of ChatGPT-assisted research into a loosely similar scenario not too long ago. LPT: if you happen to know in advance that you'll be in Renaissance Florence, make sure to pack as many synthetic diamonds
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by buu700 1y ago
It's interesting how that went from a cool magic trick demonstration to a profound lesson on human nature and manipulation tactics.
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by buu700 1y ago
I think you probably can't go too wrong just searching for 600D aramid + the name of your phone and picking one from a seller with good reviews, but the specific one I have is this: https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3
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by buu700 1y ago
I go caseless just because of sheer amount of bulk cases add, even the "thin" ones. That's why I use an aramid fiber case from AliExpress. It's paper-thin, but has saved my phone from more drops than can remember. I us
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by buu700 1y ago
lol, well thanks for the spoilers. /s
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by buu700 1y ago
I haven't watched The Wire yet, but I'm assuming ending the War on Drugs wasn't something they tried. It's funny how granting organized crime a monopoly over highly popular goods results in organized crime becoming perva
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by buu700 1y ago
I understand where this "exponential backoff" idea is coming from as much as anyone. Chat Control would have been an effective continent-wide ban on my own startup, Cyph, and it's been dismaying to watch the consistent backgr
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by buu700 1y ago
Agreed, I believe its success can potentially be replicated to some degree, but not its particular formula. I left a few thoughts on that in a follow-up comment below, but fundamentally my thinking is that comprehensive well-designed integr
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by buu700 1y ago
I mean, at this point you're just lying, and I'm not really sure why. You're continuing to claim that I believe something that I not only never claimed to believe, but have repeatedly informed you I do not believe. Is there a
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by buu700 1y ago
That's a good point. Personally, I'm not in favor of unfettered personal device access in schools. Back in my day, you used school computers on the (filtered) school network and cellphones remained off and out of sight during scho
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by buu700 1y ago
No, I didn't proceed to say anything of the sort. You're attacking a straw man. Even if you choose to believe there's some interpretation of my original phrasing that could mean what you're suggesting, I've now clar
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by buu700 1y ago
I'm not really sure what your problem is, but okay. My experience is a counterexample to the claim that American public education is bad. Maybe some public schools are bad, but not all. I chose to share a positive anecdote to balance o
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by buu700 1y ago
No, I'm not saying that. I already addressed my high school's ranking, so I'm not sure what point you think you're making by harping on that. My point is that US public education isn't universally bad, not that it&#
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by buu700 1y ago
To expand on that a bit, based on my observations, I'd suggest the following conclusions: 1. Any reform effort needs to ensure that early education isn't overlooked. Elementary schools need capacity, processes, and expertise to ap

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