jonas21

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by jonas21 9d ago
I feel like many of Anthropic's issues are due to Dario being too earnest and open. It seems both refreshing (that a CEO has thought deeply about and is willing to talk publicly about the dangers of their product) and depressing (that
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by jonas21 10d ago
That's also true in the summer when you don't want that heat dissipated in your house.
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by jonas21 12d ago
I'm not sure this is the come-uppance you've been waiting for. Oracle still has a larger market cap than at any point in history except the last ~2 years.
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by jonas21 12d ago
It's the classic case of a cartel conspiring to limit competition. Here's Matt Levine's explanation [1]: > 1. Anthropic, OpenAI, and perhaps a couple of other frontier labs are the dominant providers of frontier AI model
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by jonas21 13d ago
It would require government permission. The top labs would be agreeing not to compete on model advancements for a period of time, which seems like a pretty clear violation of antitrust law.
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by jonas21 13d ago
Career path: software engineer -> prompt engineer -> positive affirmation engineer
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by jonas21 14d ago
The entire essay is about stopping development until it can be made more safe, with specific ideas on how to do that. The fact that he would suggest this despite preparing for an IPO is an even stronger signal that it's in good faith -
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by jonas21 15d ago
More likely, this is being done to comply with SB 1119 (Adam's Law) [1,2] and similar legislation. These create extra steps that a service has to go through before releasing a new model that minors can interact with and exposes them to
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by jonas21 17d ago
> Waymo says it has 170 million miles and I found 2 fatal accidents it was involved in (fault doesn't matter as fault is not included in the other stat either) I suppose you can claim fault doesn't matter. But if you read the
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by jonas21 17d ago
> No modern LLM can "reason" - otherwise you could give it a task like "make me money", it would ask you all the questions it needs about information that it doesn't know about and needs to know to make you mone
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by jonas21 18d ago
> could trace whether that data was used The point of de-identifying data is to ensure you can't trace who it came from. It would be a serious privacy violation if they could.
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by jonas21 22d ago
Or it could simply mean that they're operating at the limit of the capacity they were able to purchase and do not have headroom to handle load spikes. From what I understand, that's the situation Anthropic is in. And since Anthrop
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by jonas21 23d ago
Sign a contract? The only thing preventing a model from doing that is a lack of legal personhood -- which seems completely orthogonal to intelligence.
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by jonas21 24d ago
The database entry was updated to "Lake America" on August 27: https://edits.nationalmap.gov/apps/gaz-domestic/public/searc... GNIS renders their own static map tiles, so it may take a while for the
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by jonas21 26d ago
The article we're discussing is about how extensions that didn't upgrade to Manifest v3, including uBlock Origin, are now being removed from the Chrome web store. uBlock Origin didn't migrate to v3 because they use the webReq
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by jonas21 26d ago
The webRequest extension API -- the one that uBlock Origin uses and was removed in Manifest v3 -- was not added until 2012. All of the things that made Chrome great for the web in 2010 are still there. It's strange how we can kind of m
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by jonas21 27d ago
> I reckon powertools is the wrong comparison, my grandfather was a cabinetmaker(born in the 1930's) and he never shied away from using a powertool & any contractors/tradesman largely raves about their favourite brand of p
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by jonas21 29d ago
How so?
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by jonas21 29d ago
Well, I guess it's good that corporations have free speech protections under the First Amendment. I often see it argued here that they shouldn't.
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by jonas21 1mo ago
Luckily for us, OpenAI's prompt wasn't "make as many paper clips as possible."
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by jonas21 1mo ago
You can also just turn off your watch history completely and use the subscriptions page as your starting point. I did that for a while, but turned it back on when I realized that the algorithm was actually quite good at surfacing content th
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by jonas21 1mo ago
You must never read the contracts you enter into. Nearly every contract limits the liability of the service provider to the amount you paid them. Short of proving fraud or negligence, you're not going to get more than that.
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by jonas21 1mo ago
You could just as easily ask yourself how can a middle man for people finding web pages be worth so much, but here we are, and Google is worth something like $4 trillion, mostly on the back of search. As it turns out, it's very valuabl
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by jonas21 1mo ago
They reported a $47B run rate in May. This article claims $4.7B revenue in Q1 and $11.5 B in Q2. It all aligns with a very high growth rate. Here's one set of numbers that fits (though I would guess the actual growth was spikier than
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by jonas21 1mo ago
It's not just checking user thumbs up/down. As your quote says, they also did a controlled study with people rating the results. What else would you want them to do? The whole point is that it needs to introduce a detectable stati
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by jonas21 1mo ago
I know people who believe the end state is a Star Trek-style post-scarcity world. This is not the same thing as communism. You can still have private ownership, differing levels of wealth, entrepreneurship, and competition. It's just t
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by jonas21 1mo ago
Or alfalfa, which uses ~6 trillion liters per year in California alone. Essentially none of it is eaten by humans, and a large fraction gets exported to China and Japan to feed livestock there.
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by jonas21 2mo ago
I love that the comments on some of the posts (like this one) are written by hand too! https://handwritten.danieljanus.pl/2022-10-01-hyperlinks-in-...
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by jonas21 2mo ago
No, it cost 1M tokens, or about $10 EDIT: The parent comment originally claimed they spent $1M on the demo -- they seem to have edited it after I replied.
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by jonas21 2mo ago
I don't think he's claiming it's been exhausted. It's just that things have progressed to a point where people are arguing over the finer points of which pelican looks better -- which is often a matter of taste, and an i

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