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by dTal 2mo ago
Over the weekend I learned that the new Odyssey film fails a blind watching test; a friend-of-a-friend is sightless, and reports that the entire second half of the film is unintelligible due its lack of dialogue, in favor of a wall of undif
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by dTal 2mo ago
But how will we ensure human CEOs are properly aligned? We can't fine tune them, inspect their internals, or repeatedly assess their behavior in isolated containers. ...can we?
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by dTal 2mo ago
Serious question - looking around, do you really think "everything is going basically fine"?
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by dTal 2mo ago
It's warranted. Oh boy, is it ever warranted. If anything, we suffer from a catastrophic skepticism deficit. Memes (the original kind) exist in a fast paced hypercompetitive environment now. Every single piece of information is deliver
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by dTal 2mo ago
Do you really believe that everyone in society is precisely equally likely to reproduce? No inheritable traits liable to move the needle one way or another?
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by dTal 3mo ago
I think we have to consider the origin of it as a concept, which predates the United States entirely and is quite a lot more damning. From the same Wikipedia page you linked: "The first copyright privilege in England bears date 1518 an
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by dTal 3mo ago
It literally predates the United States Constitution by hundreds of years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_copyright Also, I'd be careful at taking the reasoning of political documents at face value. Many
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by dTal 3mo ago
Was it really "designed to incentivize" anything? Or was it introduced to protect a powerful, influential business model? Looking at how laws are passed now, I know which explanation I find more congruent.
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by dTal 3mo ago
Why's that? "Just trust me bro" is the security model of all closed source, proprietary software. OMG, the program with secret source code is doing shady stuff? I'm shocked - shocked! Hard to get worked up over "3
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by dTal 3mo ago
At 20x the parameter count I should hope GLM beats Gemma! But is it 20x better? Expertise is demonstrated, not by making big models, but by making small ones. Bigger isn't better if you can't run it at all.
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by dTal 3mo ago
Looks more like standard decision-washing finger pointing to me. "AI did it" is both hypey and also conveniently distracts from an uglier reality: >Palantir Technologies [built] Maven into a targeting infrastructure that pulls
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by dTal 3mo ago
In terms of open models, Gemma 4 beats the pants off everything else to the point that paying for APIs becomes hard to justify. Qwen has the meme-share for coding, but it feels much less well rounded. I have no doubt that Google have both t
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by dTal 3mo ago
...did it really, though?
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by dTal 3mo ago
Thank you for using the phrase "stochastic parrot". I only request that you use it at the beginning of your long comments, rather than the end. It saves time.
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by dTal 3mo ago
That's kind of terrifying. It's extremely obvious. Overwrought "punchy" style and riddled with not-x-but-x chatgpt-isms (all the LLMs have that now): "We don't just "laugh" anymore. We collapse, or in
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by dTal 3mo ago
Heh, your flip remark leads to an interesting observation: I think the most obvious signature of "abstract intelligence" is suboptimality. An alien would look at an agricultural grid and wonder, what possible natural process would
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by dTal 3mo ago
Even on that scale, major roads and agricultural grids are clearly visible. The mark of abstract intelligence is unmistakeable.
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by dTal 3mo ago
What a weird straw pile to die one. No one is saying "four beers and you're guaranteed an accident". They're saying "drive drunk and you are a piece of shit, don't do it ever ever ever". There's no ro
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by dTal 3mo ago
It's disappointing that the reaction to a clear case of a compiler bug is just to give up.
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by dTal 3mo ago
People are most certainly not less educated than in the 1800s. Meanings do indeed shift, especially when terms become euphemisms for other less savory terms. "Moderation" sounds much nicer than "censorship", and you may
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by dTal 3mo ago
That doesn't pass the sniff test, or chimpanzees would be smarter than humans.
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by dTal 3mo ago
>in case they start to ban open source AI development Is that likely, do you think?
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by dTal 3mo ago
It feels more like a BMX bike to me. The quality of what I get out seems to be a direct function of what I put in. The threshold of what I can achieve is raised slightly, the speed with which I can achieve it is raised quite a lot - but it&
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by dTal 3mo ago
1) You can't use a GoPro like everyone else? 2) You can't use Bluetooth earbuds like everyone else? 3) I'm sure your infant child will appreciate their representation in Meta's training data.
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by dTal 3mo ago
They predict the "most likely" token given the context . That's a huge caveat. Just putting "this is excellent code" in the context makes a vanilla LLM do better. Doesn't that make you pause for a moment befor
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by dTal 3mo ago
You appear to be arguing that we shouldn't care that Apple provides a consistently bad experience and locks their users into it, because web developers can level the field by degrading everyone else's experience too. There's
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by dTal 3mo ago
>you can't really criticise an AI lab for doing AI instead of straight up giving money to security researchers Sure I can, if they - or you - pretend "the entire point" is about useful security work rather than expensive l
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by dTal 3mo ago
> I am sure Facebook did not begin as a project designed to steal people’s time. It began as a cool app that people genuinely loved. Zuckerberg: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard Zuckerberg: Just ask Zuckerber
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by dTal 3mo ago
I'm curious how he rationalizes the thriving market for nicotine patches.
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by dTal 3mo ago
1. No. It was always awful for an unacceptable number of people. It's just your turn to feel the pinch. I suspect you'd get a different answer if you asked someone from China. 2. We have to look forwards, not backwards. Yesterday

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