int_19h

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by int_19h 3mo ago
> Law is effectively a weak gentleman’s agreement we tolerate Not all of us do. To be honest, the older I am, the less sense many laws make to me, and the more I'm willing to help people break them.
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by int_19h 3mo ago
It's not respect unless it goes both ways.
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by int_19h 3mo ago
Yes. A mixture of experts is a single model that activates different routes though the same weights, with the route possibly changing literally on every token. It's not experts as in a bunch of standalone models that are good at specif
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by int_19h 3mo ago
By this definition most of our culture isn't art because it's made not to "communicate some emotional experience" but to induce one in order to make money. 90% of pop music is like that, for example. And LLMs can do th
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by int_19h 3mo ago
I would argue that LLMs are still magic, because, unlike the rest of this list, we still don't actually know how exactly they do what they do. We know how to build and train them, and we have general ideas about why e.g. attention is
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by int_19h 3mo ago
MoE is just activating fewer weights per token than the whole model. It will continue to make sense for as long as compute is more expensive than memory (at scale).
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by int_19h 3mo ago
Is it? To me, the notion that a superintelligence (by which I'm assuming you mean the more sensible "something smarter than us", not "literally a godlike entity") automatically means that sky is going to fall is sil
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by int_19h 3mo ago
We're supposedly getting Mac Studio with 1.5Tb RAM in 2 years. That would be enough to run an Opus-level model. Of course, it will also probably cost somewhere around $50k... But if local AI really does become pervasive, maybe it'
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by int_19h 3mo ago
I'd say that's more indicative of what kind of things people in your bubble generally work on. I vibe-coded a semantic parser for Lojban. A friend of mine is using it to work on dev tooling. Another friend, a mathematician, has re
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by int_19h 3mo ago
Elon saying that it is "Opus level" doesn't actually make it so.
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by int_19h 3mo ago
The good thing is that the competition in the field is very cutthroat with so many contenders, so if there are gains to be made they will be made, and then broadly adopted by others.
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by int_19h 3mo ago
Higher subscription brackets are likely worse for them. I recall seeing someone calculate that a fully maxed out highest subscription bracket is something like $15K in tokens? And people paying $100 or $200 are much more likely to max it ou
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by int_19h 3mo ago
They didn't ban people from using Claude, though. They banned them from their flat-fee subscription and required that you pay per token. It's still questionable but I don't think it's in the same ballpark as what you des
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by int_19h 3mo ago
> That is just wrong. In many places it literally results in a brain drain. Your position literally hurts already poor countries just because you want to see less white faces in the streets. Countries are not entitled to keep their citiz
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by int_19h 3mo ago
Ultimately it doesn't matter what the constitution says if a large enough supermajority is unhappy about it. Constitutions by themselves are pieces of paper, they only work when society as a whole chooses to treat them as more than t
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by int_19h 3mo ago
Service providers like say Apple and Google can push an update to your phone which will intercept all that data after it has been decrypted.
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by int_19h 3mo ago
Any hierarchical system of governance ends up with sociopaths on top. It's just the nature of hierarchy and bureaucracy that is necessary for it.
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by int_19h 3mo ago
Your sons and daughters will still be wide eyed zombies, it's just that now your government will decide what mush to turn their brains into.
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by int_19h 3mo ago
"The right of equal suffrage among the States is another exceptionable part of the Confederation. Every idea of proportion and every rule of fair representation conspire to condemn a principle, which gives to Rhode Island an equal weig
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by int_19h 3mo ago
Have you seen Wickard v. Filburn?
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by int_19h 3mo ago
Germany is one prominent example for obvious historical reasons. But https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entrenched_clause are not all that uncommon in general.
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by int_19h 3mo ago
Fable is great as a "manager" model (writing specs, opening issues, doing PRs, verifying fixes) while Codex cranks out the code. Especially if you tell it to roleplay as an Eastern European software engineer and "tell it like
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by int_19h 3mo ago
You don't have to choose between Elm and TypeScript though, there are so many other options now - Haskell, F#, Rust, OCaml, just to name a few.
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by int_19h 3mo ago
These days, though, why not just use Haskell itself? Upstream ghc cancompile to wasm for several major releases now and there are several actively developed web frameworks, some of them very Elm-inspired, e.g. https://haskell-mis
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by int_19h 3mo ago
It doesn't matter how good a language is in theory if people using it for practical purposes end up having to abandon it.
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by int_19h 3mo ago
Fable is also very expensive, unfortunately. It will be interesting to see how cheap they can make it long term.
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by int_19h 3mo ago
It was true every time though. The capacity of frontier models to tackle complicated issues has improved immensely. I still remember the first time I saw a model do a non-trivial issue end to end, and that was less than two years ago. Now t
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by int_19h 3mo ago
If you just keep throwing feature requests at an LLM, then yes, this happens. However it can self-correct if you specifically give it engineering debt / code cleanup as a task. And Fable in particular is very good at this exact thing.
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by int_19h 3mo ago
With DS4 it would have a lot more bugs, too.
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by int_19h 3mo ago
And they are welcome to crowdfund for them. But they need to be explicit about what exactly the money is funding.

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