evrydayhustling

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by evrydayhustling 3y ago
Those advances -- musket to Gatling gun, calculator to CPU -- are great examples of what our laws and customs must adapt to continuously. In those cases, we could draw on analogy on things that were already possible for organizations - a ma
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by evrydayhustling 3y ago
> most of the problems of regulating AIs apply to regulating corporations, which can be thought of as AIs with slow internal data transfer Or to regulating humans, who are like AIs with squishy bodies but still manage to build and manipu
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by evrydayhustling 3y ago
I agree that this is extremely valuable, but it's worth flagging that it's harder to reason about the impacts of class imbalance for generative models than e.g. classifiers. For example, should we think about genre imbalance per
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by evrydayhustling 3y ago
I think "useful but late" is a tiny minority of the research that might come across your feed. The more common category is "advertising formatted as research". There are many traditional money managers that would like t
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by evrydayhustling 3y ago
So the take here is: - I like how it feels to own a hammer, so everything should be like that. (I guess people shouldn't be able to rent hammers, or anything else?) - You can't prevent the government from using what you build, so
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by evrydayhustling 3y ago
Asking builders to ONLY use maximally permissive licenses is equivalent to telling people never to release anything they're not ok with being used in every possible way. On a practical level this would massively chill research, as mos
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by evrydayhustling 3y ago
For HN purposes, should remove the clickbait "oh my God". Headline speaks for itself!
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by evrydayhustling 3y ago
I was particularly puzzled by the 2x2. High productivity is a no brainer, but why should we necessarily seek high displacement as its own goal? Low displacement would increase employment and GDP, is that not flourishing? And what's w
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by evrydayhustling 3y ago
Love this, tried it for ya. Check out the chat example [1]. For small changes, I'd rather read the diff. But occasionally, like item (10), it displays an understanding of the content and the summary is pretty useful. With guided pro
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by evrydayhustling 3y ago
Whenever I see these gut biome results, I can't help thinking that there are so many common causes that can explain both biome and diagnosis/behavior: region, ethnography, socioeconomic class, etc. Has anyone gone deep enough int
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by evrydayhustling 3y ago
I like the analogy but I think there is an important difference: the issue settled in a boxing or MMA match starts and ends in the ring, but the issues covered in debate are social policies that depend on external truths and impact particip
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by evrydayhustling 3y ago
My first reaction reading this article was that this is indeed disturbing, but so was the format of debate I was exposed to in (turn of millennia) high school. The format basically embodies an idea that every opinion is equally valid, and
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by evrydayhustling 3y ago
True, but he followed the cardinal rule of successful traders everywhere: gamble with other peoples' money. The life insurance front sounds like a lot more work than either the algorithm or the ticket buying logistics! I wonder how mu
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by evrydayhustling 3y ago
> More hypothetically, I would also expect that a world in which people spend a lot of time with screens strapped to their head, consuming an infinite stream of entertainment provided by generative AI, is not going to produce higher GDP.
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by evrydayhustling 3y ago
The missing productivity paradox is something that should interest everyone in tech! Like any macroeconomic observation, there is plenty of uncertainty in both the measurements (GDP ain't perfect) and the context (2 financial crises a
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by evrydayhustling 3y ago
There's a lot of preamble, but this part is pretty clear: >The core of the case and our position is that Google abuses its control over the ad server monopoly to make it increasingly difficult for rival exchanges to run competitive
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by evrydayhustling 3y ago
Some things I'd love to see: - a difference metric between this coverage and the actual map (and country breakdown of same) - a weighted version ([1]) with weights chosen to optimize the above distance metric. The latter is in itself i
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by evrydayhustling 3y ago
> Anyone upvoting this comment should take a long look at the names on this letter and realize that many are not conflicted. The concern is that the most informed names, and those spearheading the publicity around these letters, are the
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by evrydayhustling 3y ago
Since you are here, want to say this is one of the most useful posts I've seen about pragmatic development on top of LLMs! And agreed re: development effort - compared to other hype cycles of AI, it's important for folks to unders
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by evrydayhustling 3y ago
The main thing LLMs can do is make products accessible/useful to a wider range of users - either by parsing their intents or by translating outputs to their needs. This might result in a sort of transformation that engineers and power
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by evrydayhustling 3y ago
One approach: try to prove it doesn't have a solution. Would solving the problem entail things that obviously aren't true? Or does it entail things that probably aren't true, forcing you to dig farther about situations wh
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by evrydayhustling 3y ago
The Vicuna headline was def an overreach, although the main text admits pretty readily that their performance test (asking ChatGPT to evaluate quality) is not rigorous [1]. I'm sure that has set a lot of people pontificating about AGI
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by evrydayhustling 3y ago
That essay works in a context of specific datasets and tasks, which are referenced in the surrounding sentences and paragraphs. They are saying that for a particular "emergent" capability you might reach with a giant LLM, you mig
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by evrydayhustling 3y ago
This is a very weird type of paper. They take a specific approach, then make arguments about a broad class of approaches that are under constant development. The finding that distilled LLMs must be more specialized than the giant LLMs tha
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by evrydayhustling 3y ago
Then substitute "printing press" for "nukes" and we have mapped out the spectrum. Now where does AI lay? Today? Speculatively?
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by evrydayhustling 3y ago
Bengio is a certified and maximally informed genius, so my thoughts obviously deserve far more salt than his. But... The thrust of this argument is that centralized authority -- perhaps uniquely centralized, as Bengio proposes an agreement
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by evrydayhustling 3y ago
This title is clickbait. A direct title would be: "iOS photo permissions expose audio to applications".
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by evrydayhustling 4y ago
This. Should be a browser plugin for maximum deployment impact.
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by evrydayhustling 4y ago
I agree that LLMs are transformative and it would be silly to have a confident opinion about how they will influence the SE career path. However, here are some less fatalistic takes: (1) In my software career, there has been nonstop innova
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by evrydayhustling 4y ago
I'm surprised by your impression that there are people "currently in the driving seat of how, when and where this tech gets used". I think we are in the grip of a wonderful, highly creative dis-order. The most comparable mom

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