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by defgeneric 5d ago
Again, Tabarrok is wrong. It's a mistake to think these minor differences in the process imply something else is going on, and the previous instances he notes (pharma, railroads) did not have the essential factor that explains much of
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by defgeneric 5d ago
Yes, the cat really is out of the bag. There are millions of downloads of highly capable models already out there, distributed far and wide. There's no going back at this point.
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by defgeneric 5d ago
That's not what the article you cited actually says, and Tabarrok is also wrong in his conclusion (that we should take Amodei at his word). The article says regulatory capture has in the past gone through a slow process, and the anti-c
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by defgeneric 5d ago
I'm already seeing higher than normal attempts on my own systems, much higher than the usual scanners and background noise. Security will just need to improve. The cat is out of the bag, and letting them turn their negligence into regu
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by defgeneric 5d ago
Maybe a useful, if imperfect, analogy would be something like this: you lock a master lock-picker in a room with a mid-grade lock on the door, then tell him his wife has been kidnapped and only he can save her. Then act massively surprised
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by defgeneric 5d ago
Have you not been watching what's been happening? What do you think the open letter in July was about? And the recent (staged) call from the President? As far as I can tell Nvidia takes a longer-term view on the diffusion and prolifera
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by defgeneric 5d ago
> It hacked into another company and attempted to delete the logs of its activities. No, the incident has been blown way out of proportion by interested parties. They gave a swarm of agents an impossible task in an ExploitGym Benchmark s
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by defgeneric 6d ago
Watching the latest Ezra Klein NYT video thinkpiece from today [1], it seems to me there's an alliance emerging: some degree of political control will handed to the party of the managerial class, the party that represents the threatene
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by defgeneric 8d ago
> Feel free to replace “the author” below with “a hypothetical author who could have created the same thing”. This is honestly sleazy, just admit you were basically way off.
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by defgeneric 1mo ago
Incidentally, the term El Niño came from Christmas time (the waters warm around Christmas time, or when the baby boy comes).
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by defgeneric 2mo ago
Worth reposting a follow-up tweet from the author Tom Zahavy [1] after this made the rounds on X/Twitter recently: > A few reflections on my "LLMs Can’t Jump" paper: > My position paper recently got some traction here,
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by defgeneric 2mo ago
> A single competent person with AI can replace an entire marketing video production department or agency. This is a good example of what I was pointing to with "fully transforms the division of labor." I'm personally in a
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by defgeneric 2mo ago
I would guess if asked Harari would actually revise that lower. The point was: even those arguing most strongly that AI is an autonomous historical force can slide back into the mere abstract recognition of it. In context, Harari was saying
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by defgeneric 2mo ago
Being fairly at expert level in a "solved" domain (for some definition of solved) but also having near-expert level proficiency in a non-technical as-yet "unsolved" domain and watching the process repeat there (and watch
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by defgeneric 2mo ago
He's saying: "Expertise improves AI-assisted work, experts can steer better and get more out of models." The obvious conclusion for anyone is "therefore experts will remain the indispensable and specially rewarded center
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by defgeneric 2mo ago
Exactly. The post read to me as another variation of the denial that people with expertise are reaching for right now. My sense is that we as programmers went through it over a year ago already (perhaps not all of us, but at least anyone pa
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by defgeneric 2mo ago
I've seen this sentiment so much in the past month that it's starting to make me worried that the labs will silently make this the default output to satisfy users. I do recognize the outputs can be so information-dense that it str
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by defgeneric 2mo ago
The "3 years" figure has been repeated endlessly and yet the same H100s are making today roughly what they did in Jan 2024...
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by defgeneric 2mo ago
We're going to see the battle intensify here because "spikes" of ASI are emerging that can't be ignored. Models are now better than humans in certain domains or for certain tasks, which means capital as a moat is being
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by defgeneric 2mo ago
Yes, and given the nature of the current administration, whose actors are not inclined to see themselves as independent competing capitals among others, but rather as privileged capitals , and therefore more inclined to move towards taking
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by defgeneric 2mo ago
This is where we need the hardware companies and neoclouds to start speaking up. The labs want to elevate matters from the level of civil society (basically, competing firms) to the State (enclosure), and as always, in the name of security.
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by defgeneric 3mo ago
Like all forms of eschatology it's not actually concerned with the future to come--it's real aim is to have influence now . It's just a form of rhetoric. To dismiss them, saying, "ah ha! they're making the same err
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by defgeneric 3mo ago
Approximate as a limit and not surpass, where the hidden hope actually seems to be that they don't surpass. There are lots of variations floating around, from simple metaphors like "LLM as librarian that speaks to you," t
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by defgeneric 3mo ago
It's a form of denial. We're getting another "de-thronement of man" on the order of Copernicus and Darwin. Some get excited, others turn away in horror. Negation is the outward expression of the desire to keep human inte
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by defgeneric 3mo ago
A justification for this would be: states choose these providers to accurately present building codes (keeping up with the right versions/revisions is a lot of work, etc) because there's risk in simply publishing the PDFs and leav
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by defgeneric 4mo ago
This is why Google is pushing SEOs to get their clients to codify and publish their domain expertise: while it gives them a way to filter signal from noise/slop right now (supposedly helping to "improve search experiences"),
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by defgeneric 4mo ago
In many cases the really key idea that transforms the overall system design comes from working closely on the specific implementation details. Maybe you don't redesign the system this time, but you saw how you might do it, and you ge
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by defgeneric 4mo ago
> Earlier automation targeted physical and manual labor, where a worker’s identity was at least partly separable from the output. A welder is not the weld. It comes through even worse in this later sentence, which at the very least tells
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by defgeneric 4mo ago
In case it helps anyone, in some minor cases I was able to recover and continue with /rewind.
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by defgeneric 4mo ago
There was also a period around the mid-2010s where I had the strong impression that lots of younger ambitious devs were fanatically promoting rust against C's undefined behavior mostly because it gave them a way to differentiate themse

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