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by dwallin 3y ago
Yeah, I think this is insightful and is common across many disciplines. When starting out you do as much as you can, which is often very little, things are underdeveloped. You just don't have the tools and techniques to properly solve
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by dwallin 3y ago
It's worth noting that oftentimes a complex abstraction layer can be a sign that they were building upon an under-engineered base. A corollary to Hanlon's Razor could be: "Never attribute to over-engineering that which is ade
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by dwallin 3y ago
I very much agree with this. Over-engineering and under-engineering are poorly named as they are not on opposite ends of the spectrum. They are actually both badly-engineered and actually both lead to many of the same issues (which I believ
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by dwallin 3y ago
This is a cool approach to improving the speed of training and rendering but seems to come with some limitations when it comes to representing reflections. It reminds me of some of the experiments and approaches used for the custom renderin
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by dwallin 3y ago
You are mixing ownership with control. Ownership is a legal construct and therefore only exists within a given political-economic system. Control is a result of natural laws related to the application of force. Governments control their so
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by dwallin 3y ago
Because much of investor behavior is (arguably rationally) not driven by business fundamentals, but how they assume other investors will act. This can lead to counterintuitive and self-fulfilling group think behavior where the metrics might
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by dwallin 3y ago
I think you have this backwards, Capitalism loves scarcity. Scarcity is what allows for supply and demand curves and profit-making opportunities, even better if you can control the scarcity. Capitalist entities are constantly attempting to
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by dwallin 3y ago
It’s hard to say until more details are forthcoming but this reeks of a cartel.
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by dwallin 3y ago
I never argued that copyright should be abolished, I was responding to a comment that essentially said that anyone who was opposed to copyright is doing so at the behest of large corporations at the expense of individuals, which is a really
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by dwallin 3y ago
Copyright does very little for individuals. Most benefits from the copyright system are accrued to large corporations.
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by dwallin 3y ago
Very few governments in the world have an absolute monopoly on violence. Most countries allow some private ownership of weapons, have self defense laws and/or have private security companies. Many countries also allow private mercenary
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by dwallin 3y ago
The use of race in elite college admissions was never about increasing the diversity of lived experiences, it was about being able to maintain a university filled with people from high-status backgrounds while outwardly appearing to be repr
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by dwallin 3y ago
Much better links for this: https://www.nasa.gov/chapea https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEa88ZZWAEQ
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by dwallin 3y ago
This is a consequence of the industrial revolution and the invention of factories, which is relatively short in the span of humanities existence. Before that laborers would almost certainly work where they lived or very close nearby.
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by dwallin 3y ago
An iphone and a laptop are both just 2d screens with input, the difference is one of just screen size and primary form of input. The Vision pro is an entirely different category of device. Both the form and nature of the display and control
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by dwallin 3y ago
It's valid in this case because apple is trying to make the case that this device is supposed to be the future of computing. It's telling that you can't actually develop for the platform within the platform itself. If you are
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by dwallin 3y ago
Yeah, it's definitely not a guarantee but there are already viable paths out of the mess. I just wanted to push back against the notion that it's somehow inevitable or a forgone conclusion that it will happen. Personally, I'm
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by dwallin 3y ago
One thing that isn't captured by this article's analogy, and that is a flaw in the study: new LLMs can train on the results of multiple different models, not just their direct predecessor. If you had the same image processed by a
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by dwallin 3y ago
"there is no one else right now who would buy it." You are missing a qualifier: "at the current market price." If you prevent or disincentivize PE from buying these types of businesses, the price would drop to the level
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by dwallin 3y ago
That article is decidedly not about considering whether you would act differently. What the authors is doing is pointing out is that assuming you would act different is unhelpful. It is far more helpful and interesting to look at a situatio
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by dwallin 3y ago
I would say that if we experienced that, we would likely experience societal collapse far before the singularity became a problem. At which point the singularity could be just as likely to save humanity as it would be to doom it.
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by dwallin 3y ago
If that’s your concern than lets direct these government resources into research to improve our shared knowledge about them. If humans only ever did things we fully understood, we would have never left the caves. Complete understanding is i
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by dwallin 3y ago
The theories all inevitably rely on assumptions that are essentially the equivalence of spherical cows in a frictionless universe. All evidence is that costs for intelligence likely scale superlinearly. Each increase in intelligence capabil
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by dwallin 3y ago
Any laws should be legislating the downstream effects of AI, not the models themselves. Otherwise we will quickly get to a place where we have a handful of government-sanctioned and white-washed “safe” models responsible for deleterious eff
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by dwallin 3y ago
I don't think this is a fair response. Throwing a conditional means-tested $1000 to a drowning man wouldn't save them either. You are grouping in different policies and treating them as if you have to accept a package deal or noth
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by dwallin 3y ago
That’s an arbitrary line to make though. The human brain starts with a general architecture that has been gone through billions and trillions of generations of evolutionary training, before being fine tuned in a single individual over decad
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by dwallin 3y ago
So far I've gotten to level 7. I'm enjoying it but the constant throttling is a pain. Assuming they don't have enough keys to add more, my suggestion for the builders would be to at least prioritize requests by the level you
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by dwallin 3y ago
If you think something fishy is going on I recommend reporting them to the SEC and possible qualify for a nice reward if they actually are violating the law: https://www.sec.gov/whistleblower
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by dwallin 3y ago
These models don't have a frame of reference to ground themselves in reality with, so they don't really have a base "truth". Everything is equally valid if it is likely. A human in a hallucinogenic state could hallucinat
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by dwallin 3y ago
Two ways in which it is useful over existing techniques: - It is guaranteed to match your schema - It is much lighter weight

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