gr_norm

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by gr_norm 4mo ago
Yeah, they showed their true colors there. This, compounded with the fact that they're the only frontier lab with no open models, tells you all you need to know. Tired of the insanely patronizing (+ conveniently and overwhelmingly self
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by gr_norm 4mo ago
Intentionally and silently sabotaging work done with Claude whenever Anthropic decides it is appropriate is unacceptable behavior, and comically tone deaf given the state of open models. Why on earth would I ever pay for a malicious product
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by gr_norm 5mo ago
> People usually become billionaires via having “super-powers,” i.e., very unusual abilities, at least within some context. There are certainly sometimes unusual abilities in a positive sense, but the common case likely falls closer to h
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by gr_norm 5mo ago
Mind linking the experiment? Sounds interesting.
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by gr_norm 1y ago
You're of course correct, but it's a complex issue. See my other comment for details.
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by gr_norm 1y ago
I did. I believe this sort of stuff to be, at least morally, a violation of the 4A. It's no secret that the anti-Israel protests have gotten an inordinate amount of attention from the law relative to any harm caused, and overstepping b
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by gr_norm 1y ago
No? I would defend the first example too, which is why I specified the idea rather than the letter (the 1A). Is it so rare to see someone who genuinely cares about this stuff, not just for those who agree with me? That I think they&#x27
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by gr_norm 1y ago
Yeah. It's not cool to be principled anymore, I guess...
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by gr_norm 1y ago
I've noticed many right-leaning tech types give quite a lot of lip service to free speech when it's about someone getting banned from a mailing list for being an asshole, and not so much when it's the government quashing prot
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by gr_norm 1y ago
Yes, this has little to nothing to do with borrow checking or memory/concurrency safety in the sense of Rust. Uncharitably, the author appears not to have a solid technical grasp of what they're writing about, and I'm not sur
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Bcachefs: On Pending Changes(patreon.com)
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by gr_norm 1y ago
I'm not a China defender, but sidelining the concerns and needs of its citizens isn't why China is able to do things like high speed rail or build high density infrastructure in general. Lots there view having their property taken
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by gr_norm 1y ago
I like Gnome. I prefer my desktop to be designed around one unifying philosophy instead of a hodgepodge of customizations which don't work well together. The Gnome team has done pretty well at avoiding the classic Linux issues with the
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by gr_norm 1y ago
He wants to reach as large an audience as possible, and being perfectly principled isn't the way to go. Self-hosted platforms are great if you want to preach to the choir.
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by gr_norm 1y ago
> I'm not interested in what "PL (programming language) people" have to say about it. They dislike all generic/parametric polymorphism implementations except their pet language that no one uses. That's strange. I
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by gr_norm 1y ago
An overview of what? It's entertaining to me when I come away understanding something more than I did before. I expected a high level explanation of the papers, or the faintest intuition behind the phenomenon your comment talked about.
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by gr_norm 1y ago
Wow, my first ever video on AI! I'm rather disappointed. That was devoid of meaningful content save for the two minutes where they went over the Anthropic blog post on how LLMs (don't) do addition. Importantly, they didn't re
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by gr_norm 1y ago
That's fair, I respect that view. :)
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by gr_norm 1y ago
Indeed, my view is heavily American-centric. And the trends of the past-- which you're right about-- may not apply to the future given increasing wealth inequality, the cost-of-living crisis, and the climate crisis (for which undoubted
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by gr_norm 1y ago
Certainly, you may choose to conduct yourself like this. I won't stop you! And other people who might've otherwise seen your point will be turned away from it. I prefer to have constructive conversations with people I view as equa
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by gr_norm 1y ago
Do point out where that was said, and I will be happy to correct it! It's important to have nuanced opinions and discussions about things.
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by gr_norm 1y ago
"Effective Altruism", something I find myself aligned with but not to the extremes taken by others.
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by gr_norm 1y ago
The EA community is generally incapable of self-awareness. The academic-but-totally-misinformed tone is comparable to reading LLM output. I've stopped trying to correct them, it's too much work on my part and not enough on theirs.
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by gr_norm 1y ago
An absolutely terrible and tone-deaf way to phrase that thought, but the fact of the matter is that most of the world (you and I included, in all likelihood) will not get access to this sort of thing in our lifetimes. Not because modern med
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by gr_norm 1y ago
I'm guessing they relied on an LLM response. That was my thought, and having tried it they indeed generate lots of garbage for this topic. I got a ChatGPT A/B test for this and both options were incorrect (one obviously and the ot
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by gr_norm 1y ago
https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=73 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_colleges_and_univers... Doesn't seem to be true? The LLM response claims 47.5 billion but I have no ide
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by gr_norm 1y ago
You do understand that state of things is metastable, right? If the productivity gains truly are as claimed, then they will become the _expectation_, and you'll be back to working the same amount. Probably more, because management won&
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by gr_norm 1y ago
I wouldn't say they are angry about it, just disappointed that there's another mass media misinformation source to add to the pile. It's much harder to debunk poor quality material than it is to generate it, and I suspect man
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by gr_norm 1y ago
I have repeatedly heard from people who work in physics research that she's optimized her content for maximum rage/anger/emotional response rather than accuracy, particularly as of late. The tidbits of truth and warranted ske
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by gr_norm 2y ago
It doesn't have a confidence interval. We can only dream...

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