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by jefftk 2mo ago
Of course! I do think we'd lose a lot of great writing if it went amateur-only. But my parent seemed to be saying the incentive would entirely disappear, so I wanted to give my perspective.
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by jefftk 2mo ago
Yes, that would be fine. I write primarily communicate ideas, not for credit or fame. Empirically, however, LLMs don't strip out the author: the big models know a lot about what I've written even with search disabled. Ex: https
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by jefftk 2mo ago
> If the only visitors to websites are now LLM training bots then what incentive is there to publish anything new? I write because I have ideas I want to share, and whether that happens with LLMs as an intermediary isn't important
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by jefftk 2mo ago
> “We will resume releasing some open source models soon”??? That’s basically the most ambiguous non commitment ever. I mean, they released another one today: https://research.meta.ai/blog/introducing-muse-glimmer-
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by jefftk 2mo ago
Yes, lots in the $200-$300 range: https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=remarkable+2
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by jefftk 2mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harberger_Tax
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by jefftk 2mo ago
I think it's a combination of (a) we've already been talking about this incident a lot across multiple threads and it's not immediately obvious that there's new information here and (b) HN is a primarily reading-based co
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by jefftk 2mo ago
I think they're trolling us. Their post-mortem is a very AI-sounding (and Pangram-triggering) claim that they're not using AI: This post reads off as AI slop. You said it, I see it. I’m sincerely sorry for publishing something t
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by jefftk 2mo ago
That is super impressive, thanks for sharing! Really interesting to see the layout and technique.
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by jefftk 2mo ago
You can do it the same way human does: recall a fact from memory, and then search to identify a citation. The citation isn't "here's why I think this" but instead "here's where you can verify this".
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by jefftk 2mo ago
>they didn't know any better I started writing up a blog post about this and did some more reading, and this isn't right. They actually did know that the strain they'd obtained was the vaccine strain, and it was the kno
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by jefftk 2mo ago
This is an important question, but because of the danger of trying to do it for real it's not one SecureBio has taken or is likely to take on. Instead we and others in the field have generally tried to work through proxies: is there s
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by jefftk 2mo ago
> > they used a non-pathogenic strain of anthrax > No, check https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matsumoto_sarin_attack That's a different attack. I'm talking about their 1993 anthrax attack: https:&
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by jefftk 2mo ago
I don't think the Aum case points the way you're describing: they used a non-pathogenic strain of anthrax because they didn't know any better. That's a knowledge failure. But even then, the debate isn't about wheth
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by jefftk 2mo ago
That doesn't sound like it describes SecureBio to me? (Disclosure: I work at SecureBio, but not on the biological evals side.)
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by jefftk 2mo ago
Thanks! Posted: https://www.jefftk.com/p/organ-pedals-for-drumming If you do end up making a technique demonstration video I'd love to see it!
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by jefftk 2mo ago
So cool! The YouTube short is helpful, though it's still a bit hard to see your full technique. If at some point you recorded another video focused on the feet I'd really enjoy being able to get a better sense of how your techniqu
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by jefftk 2mo ago
Are you saying your bar for being impressed by an LLM is something equivalent to the initial invention of writing?
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by jefftk 2mo ago
[author] This is fantastic! Do you have more videos of your foot-drumming? Or could you say more about how you do it? Are the pedals velocity-sensitive? This is my setup: https://www.jefftk.com/p/making-a-pedalboard
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by jefftk 2mo ago
I thought we were talking about Opus 5, the model Fable now falls back to?
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by jefftk 3mo ago
Where is 10% coming from? If you're focused on something far away shouldn't the fraction be <<1%?
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by jefftk 3mo ago
> I think you way over estimate how hard the knowledge bit is in a biological weapon ... if you just want to kill indiscriminately That's a surprising claim: usually when I make this argument skeptics say that the knowledge barrie
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by jefftk 3mo ago
> Don't buy the idea that the only thing that's standing in the way of people making bioweapons is the censoring of LLMs. It's not a matter of a one thing standing in the way of people making bioweapons: there's a l
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by jefftk 3mo ago
Only infinitesimally more (most of what that chart is showing is that the growing degree days come earlier in the year), and it also gets colder and has a shorter growing season. I'd expect most plants to like this less.
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by jefftk 3mo ago
I'm not sure the line defining what you would consider AI is actually all that bright. Sharpening? Content-aware fill? Seam carving? Style transfer? How would you define AI to draw the line where you want?
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by jefftk 3mo ago
> model capabilities across the board have only meaningfully improved in places where the labs are focusing their training efforts That doesn't seem right. I use these models as research assistants when writing lots of random blo
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by jefftk 3mo ago
> release the models as open weights with a license (I.e no commercial use) due the high risk they present For some kinds of risk (ex: walking people through on how to make infectious bioweapons) an open-weights approach would increase
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by jefftk 3mo ago
They're scraping to automatically update the wallpaper on their desktop. That's not something a website can do, even with fantastic UX.
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by jefftk 3mo ago
Clocks used to be able to use the 60Hz cycle to track time, and grid providers would run slightly slow or fast ("time error correction") to get back into sync. A leap second would just be part of this. I believe in the US this er
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by jefftk 3mo ago
A Verizon tech called me yesterday and told me that they were not going to take Gizmohub down until they'd resolved these issues. They also walked me through getting set up, including getting me the 2FA code that was not coming through

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