davesque

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by davesque 2mo ago
Can we please make it so that AI CEOs are smart enough not to optimize everything according to the focus group that is their shareholders? Seems like we could solve the enshittification problem with this if we play our cards right.
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by davesque 2mo ago
Unless humanity can figure out a way to make a binding international agreement to pace development, it doesn't seem practical to expect US frontier labs to do it.
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by davesque 2mo ago
Regarding automatic formalization of proofs using AI, how do we know the formalization doesn't contain errors?
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by davesque 2mo ago
Isn't it also a simple idea that a model designed to recall relevant information from its training data, which is also known to have been trained on data from user transcripts, would, in fact, reproduce directly relevant work by leadin
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by davesque 2mo ago
Honestly this whole thing is so fucking weird. I feel like there's an argument that absolutely no one involved in the final crossing of the finish line to the proof actually did any work (other than just intelligently directing an LLM
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by davesque 2mo ago
And then he wanted New Mexico to be New America. Capitulation is not just about what they're asking for now, but also what they'll be emboldened to ask for in the future.
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by davesque 2mo ago
Corruption in the US Census Bureau? No fuckin' way!
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by davesque 2mo ago
The article doesn't address what I think are the main complaints about H-1B: that it is mostly used to cut costs and hire people who have very little freedom to switch jobs. That and all the trickery with ghost jobs meant to only give
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by davesque 3mo ago
In a way, it's nice that Trump is giving such a good, practical demonstration of why being a bully never works out the way you think it will. A good education for those who need it. Just sucks that we all have to pay for it out of pock
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by davesque 3mo ago
The voting public is not the same as the general public.
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by davesque 3mo ago
Who's clapping?? I think the man should be in jail. A minimum of half the country has always hated this guy's guts.
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by davesque 3mo ago
That's not saying much. The real distribution is probably heavily skewed by risk factors such as poverty, age, drug abuse, etc.
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by davesque 3mo ago
I actually don't feel like Tao's recently published conversation is the best example of this idea. As intelligent as Dr. Tao is, and surely more so than me, I got the feeling that he wasn't running up against failure states
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by davesque 4mo ago
Everything he does benefits his adversaries because they're all playing him like a fiddle because he's basically the dumbest person alive.
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by davesque 4mo ago
I disagree. In fact, I think the field of dev ops gives a clean analogy with mathematical proofs. My point was that my work often requires that I figure out a consistent way to prove to myself what the condition of a system is by asking t
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by davesque 4mo ago
Exactly. I really wish people wouldn't use this. If this becomes popular, anthropic will just modify their cache policy to be much less fair. It's not like they have infinite cache.
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by davesque 4mo ago
Without any more context, "keep going" seems to be doing a lot of work. The user is placing a lot of faith in the LLM to not make subtle logic mistakes and to take good approaches to each problem. In my experience, even frontier
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by davesque 4mo ago
Not sure I follow. I can't imagine humanity has evolved much since 1974.
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by davesque 5mo ago
We're not talking about ambulances though?
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by davesque 5mo ago
What if taking longer leads to a better result? Doesn't faster imply less thought?
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by davesque 5mo ago
Care to explain?
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by davesque 5mo ago
Also known as, the tu quoque fallacy. Just because politicians in both parties have been doing this for decades doesn't mean that this administration is not especially hypocritical for doing it after whinging so much about free sp
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by davesque 5mo ago
I'm finding it extremely hard not to have a cynical perspective on all of this. There's an idea that I've been mapping onto this whole this, which could be called something like effective knowledge . Regular old knowledge
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by davesque 5mo ago
Kind of highlights how ridiculous their notion of safety is in this case. By this measure, I guess making the model "safe" means making it play dumb and intentionally ignore security bugs that it notices in the code? And what will
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by davesque 5mo ago
And the US gov could pull the rug out from under our business at any time? That's confidence inspiring?
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by davesque 5mo ago
I like to think that the long arc of history bends towards greater access to knowledge and intelligence. I mean, isn't that what we all want? To be collectively less ignorant and more aware of how the world works? But I guess that&#
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by davesque 5mo ago
And they probably don't enforce those restrictions within their own company would be my guess.
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by davesque 5mo ago
Honestly, this is a larger portion than I would have expected.
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by davesque 6mo ago
I'm not sure what the mechanism is, but I've definitely had Claude refuse to work on sessions that were touched by other models. Some kind of integrity check failure. Resetting the session back to the point before I used the other
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by davesque 6mo ago
It feels telling that it reads like university course guidelines.

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