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841.
by ftxbro 3y ago
they can make it back and more by pivot to AI like all us other bros
842.
by ftxbro 3y ago
> I feel like the singularity will be achieved by ultra-rich It will trickle down though right like a rising tide lifts all boats
843.
by ftxbro 3y ago
> "I don't understand how these exes are leading these conversations, as they are responsible creating these products with potential harms in the first place." Imagine a caveman figured out how to make fire. Their tribe se
844.
by ftxbro 3y ago
articles on rotation like this could go on some faq-like list somewhere instead of frontpage maybe the list could be a tab at the top
845.
by ftxbro 3y ago
We've never had architectures that scale so effectively, unlocking new cognitive capabilities by just increasing parameters/exaflops/datasets without writing a lot more code or changing the architecture. Ilya Sutskever mentio
846.
by ftxbro 3y ago
I wonder if people were trolling it after their announcement that they were firing their human workers.
847.
by ftxbro 3y ago
> "AI models generate significantly higher-quality argumentative essays than the users of an essay-writing online forum frequented by German high-school students across all criteria in our scoring rubric."
848.
by ftxbro 3y ago
For the lower bound there is a dark horse factor that has spooked Geoffrey Hinton. He thinks that biological brains aren't able to do backpropagation effectively through multiple layers, and so differentiable programming frameworks are
849.
by ftxbro 3y ago
What does this mean for the AI race? For example what if a newish company (newer than Google/Facebook/Microsoft/etc.) like Anthropic, Scale, Perplexity, or Stability is able to scrape together $5B USD funding and spend their
850.
by ftxbro 3y ago
I can't find how much it will cost or how much power it will use. I mean it will be a lot and maybe only Google and Microsoft and Facebook can afford it but I still want to know.
851.
by ftxbro 3y ago
> malloc("HTTP")
852.
by ftxbro 3y ago
imagine a beowulf cluster of them
853.
by ftxbro 3y ago
Figure 4 in https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.08774 is not hype.
854.
by ftxbro 3y ago
maybe they are trolling and their long game is to sue openai
855.
by ftxbro 3y ago
yes i am in the 'fixit culture' not in the 'poverty culture' looks sideways
856.
by ftxbro 3y ago
I almost wonder if it could be something like one who deliberately slips on a grocery store floor to do some legal shenanigans. Like I'm sure there are some people who if they saw some spilled milk on a store floor they would be like &
857.
by ftxbro 3y ago
that can be 'journalist mode'
858.
by ftxbro 3y ago
interesting he says his original angle was an absurd fiction like 'what if nerds were also punks' and he is amazed and scared that people are actually doing it, it kind of reminds me of the torment nexus tweet
859.
by ftxbro 3y ago
> "Lawyer: ChatGPT said the cases were real"
860.
by ftxbro 3y ago
welcome to hacker news you are going to love this new kind of stories we got here with less hacking and more stream of consciousness blogspams and upvote and comment bots
861.
by ftxbro 3y ago
still waiting for substack to put its paywall so we won't have to be subjected to this
862.
by ftxbro 3y ago
Universities as an institution got some S-tier marketing. Imagine any other market where there is a news story written about how literally everyone in your school was accepted to have the opportunity to pay tens or hundreds of thousands of
863.
by ftxbro 3y ago
I have a conspiracy theory about this. Probably it sounds crazy but hear me out. My conspiracy theory is that in the bigger picture this is a symptom of corporate or AI or whatever other non-human agency taking over the economy, with specif
864.
by ftxbro 3y ago
that seems like the kind of thing that should be only civil penalty not criminal oh no someone will watch tv of a footballer without permission of the regulatory monopolists EDIT: but maybe its different in UK i don't know, i don'
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by ftxbro 3y ago
> the vast majority of the physics world disagrees with her on the material points Maybe it's true I don't know > so her allegations of bad faith and stupidity are themselves incredibly bad faith behavior. Even if the first
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by ftxbro 3y ago
> "You may or may not like this style, I personally like it, but for particle physics it borders on hate. I mean, her arguments have merit, that's why I posted that but it is true that it makes me a bit uncomfortable." My
867.
by ftxbro 3y ago
There is an important difference between AI risk and climate risk. The climate risk is indifferent to humans. This isn't ideal. But AI risk might deliberately try to bypass or thwart or adversarially remove human agency, which would be
868.
by ftxbro 3y ago
Try not to let these corporations know that we squishy humans need food, water, clothing, shelter, and medical care or otherwise we will each literally die forever. If they learn it then they will drive up the prices because of our inelasti
869.
by ftxbro 3y ago
I mean just because two people disagree doesn't mean that there is a misunderstanding. They might have opposing interests. Like one person wants to eat the last cookie on the plate and so does the other person so they disagree. It&#x27
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by ftxbro 3y ago
Their take is that non-AI companies like shoe makers are adding AI mentions to their marketing, so that means that AI is an incremental hype not such an important change.

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