int_19h

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by int_19h 7d ago
You get a lot more inference on OpenAI plans dollar for dollar even before accounting for the regular resets that they do.
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by int_19h 7d ago
You can embed much bigger models into web apps with wasm and WebGL or WebGPU. I have a web app running a 0.6B embedding model client-side.
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by int_19h 7d ago
Catholics literally believe that Pope is infallible when he speaks on matters of faith ex cathedra. If that's not a cult then what is? Or how about Mormons? Are they a cult or not? If not, were they a cult at some point, and when exact
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by int_19h 7d ago
The sad thing is that I would actually trust a chatbot more. Not because they are that good, but because the bar for good governance is that low, especially of late.
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by int_19h 7d ago
LINQ was very intentionally designed to use SQL terminology for this because at the time (to remind, this was 2007), your typical C# or VB developer had no clue whatsoever about functional programming and the usual terminology there, while
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by int_19h 8d ago
> Doesn't even need to be a different model - just make sure it has a different context. I find that the number of issues discovered is noticeably higher if you do use different models though. I'm doing some very finicky things
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by int_19h 8d ago
> I'm surprised there's no actual commie coming out and claiming the end of capitalism is near. (except maybe me in my personal socials, only larping as a hobby) I'm a (libertarian, free-market) socialist, so not quite com
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by int_19h 8d ago
The question, of course, is why should it inevitably lead to that kind of world, rather than The Culture? Or, to give a more realistic and likely example, something like the Colligatarch from Alan Dean Foster's "The I Inside"
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by int_19h 8d ago
Models have been trained on synthetic inputs for over a year now. Collapse only happens in very specific circumstances, it's not a limit in practice.
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by int_19h 8d ago
No, we should advance to a post-scarcity world where everyone can do research, teach, and promote the wonders of creativity because no-one has to work for a living. I don't expect Sam Altman and his ilk to deliver such a world to us, b
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by int_19h 8d ago
Mostly the fact that the ultra-rich always inevitably give in to greed over caution, reach too far, and trigger a revolt. And in this case it can go as far as "y'all can starve, we don't need you anymore". Which is perfe
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by int_19h 8d ago
I don't think anyone is doing that? The value of entertainment is obviously not zero from the perspective of life quality. The point is that we should be honest about what is done for the sake of output, and what is done for the sake o
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by int_19h 8d ago
There's an obvious bias in focusing on retirees though. I mean, the whole notion of retirement exists for a reason. But also, in all honesty, if we can feed and shelter everyone on the planet with only a small proportion of the populat
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by int_19h 8d ago
> Are you proposing that humanity should rely on AI to determine the fields of study that should be perused and those that should be defunded? We already have examples of politicians relying on chatbots to understand problems. I wouldn&#
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by int_19h 9d ago
If we all die because of AI, it will be because of the uses that people like Elon Musk and Peter Thiel and Palmer Luckey put it to, not because of a robot uprising.
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by int_19h 9d ago
These people are more like creationists, in that they assume that their intended conclusion is true, and then argue backwards from that.
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by int_19h 9d ago
If anything, what we saw in those transcripts is the opposite of "weird alien intelligences" in many way, because of how human it all is. The only thing there that's weird from a human perspective is that all this effort wa
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by int_19h 9d ago
He is, though. It's just that this particular cult has been around for so long that it's "traditional", kinda like tobacco and alcohol were not counted as "narcotics" in most jurisdictions.
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by int_19h 9d ago
One example that I had personally run into is when the person was offended when they were referred to as "them" because being gender neutral is, apparently, "erasure" (I didn't get a chance to ask what they think ab
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by int_19h 9d ago
"Enemy of the people" is also not inherently illegitimate - I mean, the people can surely have enemies, right? But words and phrases like that have a history of actual use and the resulting connotations.
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by int_19h 9d ago
There's no good ending to this, and you're probably correct that we're likely heading that way anyway, but the only rational choice at this point is to resist as much as possible - best case, it buys us time for some way out
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by int_19h 9d ago
The thing about most US protests is that they are almost entirely performative by now. Marching with a sign simply doesn't do anything. Actual serious protests would involve stuff like massive strikes, for example, and other disruption
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by int_19h 9d ago
The government employee at least earns their salary by actual labor. Whereas anyone on the "top N richest" list is a parasite on all the people who produce wealth.
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by int_19h 10d ago
Renting tokens is exactly what I had in mind, and I don't see how it has the same issues. Sure, if you go for absolute bottom of the barrel than you can expect "changes in model quality", but in general that is not so, and yo
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by int_19h 10d ago
Wince and shrug is a politely expressed ridicule, yes. And yes, common norms are a social phenomenon (and that is exactly what the "collective preference" of society is). And yes they do change. However they are not completely ran
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by int_19h 10d ago
Different cultures of course have different norms. There were even hunter-gatherer societies that practiced extreme forms of pacifism - Moriori would be one example (and their eventual fate shows why this isn't more common). In general
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by int_19h 10d ago
It is the norm for pre-industrial societies.
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by int_19h 10d ago
Selection works on the level of the genes. Dying without procreating can still be advantageous if doing so means that enough of your relatives survive, for example. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kin_selection
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by int_19h 11d ago
There's a converse effect too, though - because conservatives tend to attack modernist and postmodernist art, liberals tend to defend even things that are too ridiculous to be seriously defended. It's not "fascism" to wi
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by int_19h 11d ago
Stalin was notoriously conservative in most things. I mean, the guy banned abortions, criminalized homosexuality, and re-instituted paid high school.

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