falcor84

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by falcor84 1mo ago
I'm not an artist and might be entirely wrong, but my understanding is that for 99% of artists, over 99% of their revenue is from concerts tickets, merch and other physical products, rather than digital/broadcast plays, so changin
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by falcor84 1mo ago
> it is impossible to describe the universe and compress it into few terabytes Why? I'm not an expert, but from my understanding, there say species that function well in their ecological niches with significantly smaller cognitive c
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by falcor84 1mo ago
If we're doing book recommendations, I quite recommend the essays in https://academic.oup.com/mit-press-scholarship-online/book/1... and particularly the philosophical discussion there of whether "robot
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by falcor84 1mo ago
That's not obvious at all, particularly given the myriad movies trying to scare us about the dangers of robots taking over that.
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by falcor84 1mo ago
Thinking about the primitive command verbs that they mention: > The MHS driver uses a simple set of primitives—commands like “read” (for example, “get temperature”) or “write” (for example, “set temperature”)—that any hardware device can
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by falcor84 1mo ago
Direct Link to the open letter: https://openai.com/collective-cyberdefense
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by falcor84 1mo ago
To the best of my knowledge, that isn't true anymore, and nowadays you'd only get hired to do RLHF if you have particular skills beyond what can be achieved by just running other models against it.
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by falcor84 1mo ago
What exactly are you questioning?
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by falcor84 1mo ago
For what it's worth, LLMs don't really suffer from incontinence, so at least that part is pretty much a solved problem.
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by falcor84 1mo ago
Not everyone in the world has $20/month of disposable income, nor does everyone have the disposable time to learn how to make it hugely useful to them. Also, these are just the numbers for OpenAI. A lot of others are ok with e.g. &quot
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by falcor84 1mo ago
> why aren't people buying? They have "more than 50 million consumer subscribers" and "More than 9 million paying business users" [0]. That's for example more subscribers than for Adobe Creative Cloud. [0]
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by falcor84 2mo ago
What do you mean? I don't see how Amazon would go out of business if they show the best match for the thing you just searched for higher than the ads.
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by falcor84 2mo ago
>"The best" is not a static product. If Amazon had no way for vendors to showcase their product ... Would you want to live in a world in which you CAN'T bump your placement? Agreed about it not being static, but I don&#x27
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by falcor84 2mo ago
http://archive.today/2e7Gx There's no paywall, but I couldn't see the content with all more popups.
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by falcor84 2mo ago
There's a clear and significant difference between content that a company created itself, and the data they collected from their customers.
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by falcor84 2mo ago
Well, they weren't quite wrong - it is an order of magnitude easier to reverse engineer an xml-based format than a binary one, especially now with LLMs.
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by falcor84 2mo ago
Enzymes haven't introduced any fundamentally new capabilities. Any reaction they catalyze could just happen on its own.
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by falcor84 2mo ago
Wait, why are you not worried?
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by falcor84 2mo ago
I wouldn't be surprised if it is in some places, but nevertheless I wonder - is there a good reason for that? I don't think any lawmaker actually wants tax calculations to have the potential of not halting, right? ... right?
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by falcor84 2mo ago
It was really hard for me to parse that headline. I'd instead suggest: Hacker claims exfiltrating data on 680,000 French taxpayers.
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by falcor84 2mo ago
I don't accept that argument. As I see it, laws should be structured as data rather than code, using a clean non-Turing-Complete DSL for any embedded logic and calculations. Maybe there would still be occasional situations when new sof
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by falcor84 2mo ago
Interesting, so based on this, do you think that Socrates would have been more ok with learning from an AI that can speak back to defend its claims (assuming we address the sycophantic tendencies) than with learning from "frozen"
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by falcor84 2mo ago
>Every time the AI solves a problem that I would not have been able to efficiently solve alone, it has replaced an interaction that previously would have happened with a mentor/supervisor/code reviewer. I suppose that Socrates
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by falcor84 2mo ago
> Built for agents that don't stop with reliable tool-calling, persistent state across restarts, and self-managed memory across hours-long sessions. That "don't stop with reliable tool-calling" part took me a while to
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by falcor84 2mo ago
You're off by a factor of 10: 14k/150 is ~93 residents per pub.
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by falcor84 2mo ago
It's a sequence of thin lines, between using Chrome out of the box, to using something like Brave, to using a highly customized Zen Browser, to having ChatGPT look up a particular page for you, to using a small BeautifulSoup/scrap
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by falcor84 2mo ago
Well agreed, but it's not new, the web has been actively made user hostile by every website owner and their "273 partners".
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by falcor84 2mo ago
>Results: Overall, 22% of L4 crash involvements were deemed police-reportable or maybe police-reportable, and two thirds of these occurred in driverless operation. L4 vehicles were unlikely to be the striking vehicle or primary contribut
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by falcor84 2mo ago
Sorry, I'm confused. My formulation "experts on a topic underestimate how much they know about it compared to the average person" and your "topic experts overestimate how much the average person knows about it" seem
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by falcor84 2mo ago
There's also the idea on the other side of the coin - whereby experts on a topic underestimate how much they know about it compared to the average person. And of course there's a relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/250

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