ianm218

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Increasingly AI's are trained using reinforcement learning [1] so these are not really human tasks but things like trying to prove theorems, play games, solve code problems and getting feedback from compilers and similar. A lot of the
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Your website seemed fine to me I didn't try every link though
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What do you do with all those accounts?
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Reinforcement learning has become a huge portion of compute used during training runs [1] and synthetic data is letting us get lots more mileage out of the existing data. Additionally, there is lots of new, high quality data being created a
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That linked fortune article talks about how the Sierra Club is leading the charge on trying to stop those data centers. You know the same group that has opposes nuclear energy [1], largely opposes hydro power, opposes housing being built in
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The big Meta data center in Louisiana is paying $30 million property taxes to a county that is collects $22 million a year in taxes. It pays tons of money to the utility for power. Utilities should just build more generation to serve demand
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Why do you see data centers as "energy parasites"? They are basically the best customers of the grid possible - consistent high usage. This is an opportunity for the US to pursue energy abundance and grow the economy. The only iss
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Most people don't care at all about their privacy. Apps like Venmo by default will share basically who you are spending time with and what your doing, Strava basically exposes where you live and your sleep/ workout schedule by def
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I think before he thought OpenAI was going to make him a trillionaire he was more honest about X Risk and job displacement since he didn't have the incentive to lie. Most early AI thinkers saw AI as more dangerous than nukes. > We f
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Isn't it bad now that Sam Altman and the others are backpedaling on this and going "jobs are going to still exist you just can't imagine them!" because the PR problem was getting so big? [1] Like don't we want peopl
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In this situation company B is clearly making the world less dystopian then. But anyway - the parent comment is upset about YC investing in a defense company that isn’t doing offensive systems because they find the idea that dystopian weapo
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I mean killer drones are absolutely dystopian but they already exist. This critique is like the common Bay Area tactic of pretending homeless don't exist because they are inconvenient. There is tons of offensive capability companies YC
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9 mothers appears to do defense from drones which seems completely ethical. What is dystopian about that?
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Verification is generally a much lower bar than solution generation. I don’t think it’s likely sorting out the right from wrong will end up being this huge PhD level effort.
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It depends if your market has room to grow. If it’s saturated it’s just about COGS.
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I definitely want more, higher quality software, maybe even 10X more. Even simple things like a personal assistant that can help manage my social life better don't really exist yet, nevermind that I want a medical team doing research o
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This feels like a bit of a reach. It's not really clear that adding face scanning as a blocker for chat makes anyone more likely to fall for scams. These hypotethical god tier engineers should just make scam prevention software in addi
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Well there's a world simulation model and then the driving model. You can imagine improving i.e. a specialized math model (problem in, theorem out) with a normal LLM that knows lots of problems and theorems generally.
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Ah thanks for clarifying it seemed like that was assumed knowledge in this thread.
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What do you mean?
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If someone working on early computer networks thought they could scale up world wide and that soon everyone people would be launching trillion dollar companies on the internet you would have called that delusion right? He doesn't need
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What do you mean we were "supposed to have AGI last summer"? People obviously have really strong opinions on AI and the hype around investments into these companies but it feels like this is giving people a pass on really low qual
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Why not throw almost all zoning regulations out besides some designations for what areas can be used for industrial uses? The status quo of zoning basically just stops people from living and working where they want to.
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In most cases the government should get out of the way for any development of private property. If they need to pay for increased usage of utilities but 90% of restrictions on private development are insane on the US Coasts.
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This is probably not this companies vision but it does seem interesting if companies sell "dumb" machines and then consumers can BYO electronics. Like an agricultural version of comma.ai. Not sure how much appetite there is for th
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With chip development you need scale in order to get to the edge. It makes sense to finance demand so you can get to scale it's not like it's a ponzi scheme. Anthropic gets access to limited compute resources and Amazon gets deman
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Japan and the US are huge - we’re taking about metros here. The situation in NYC is much worse.
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Europe and USA are both huge places so it depends what you mean. If you compare major east coast cities - Boston, DC, and NYC to European metros like Paris/ Madrid/ Lisbon the biggest tax on the citizens is the same in that it’s i
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https://hashrateindex.com/blog/nvidia-vera-rubin-nvl72-specs... Honestly some of this info is quite hard to parse. I think the efficiency is ~35X on the system level but 10X on the hardware level. I think this is due t
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This is hard to say definitively. The new Nvidia Vera Rubin chips are 35-50x more efficient on a FLOPS/ megawatt basis. TPU/ ASICS/ AMD chips are making similar less dramatic strides. So a service ran at a loss now could be h

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