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by ke88y 3y ago
Brazil is not an authoritarian state.
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by ke88y 3y ago
These models can definitely be used to intentionally store and recall content that is copyrighted in a way that's not subject to fair use. (eg: trivially, I can very easily train a large model that has a small subnetwork which encodes
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by ke88y 3y ago
I never really understood central bank currencies... it always felt like the government jumping on a hype train. The fact that the primary criticism against central bank currencies comes almost unanimously from people who consider straight
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IME it's more that the advisor doesn't trust the student to make it through the annual layoffs (quals culling), and only wants to invest in people who they know will be around long-term. At least in the poor (and honestly mostly u
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by ke88y 3y ago
Are those different things? At departments where quals have high failure rates, it's really more of an annual layoff than anything else. In many programs, the department aims to admit far more people than will pass the quals. They need
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by ke88y 3y ago
This also depends on the field. I think this is good advice in fields where grad students are primarily there to help with grant-funded research. In those fields, the course and prelim requirements are reasonable because professors need war
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by ke88y 3y ago
This entire category falls into my "numerical siulations at national labs" category of "don't care". If you wanted to use a bioweapon to kill a bunch of people, you would ignore the DeepCE paper and use weapons that
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Humans were not invented in 2017, nor were words or pictures. The question of whether you can compel violence with words and pictures isn't a question about LLMs, and it is a question for which history is instructive. The myopia of cla
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by ke88y 3y ago
> It’s as if the inequality of income and wealth is mirrored in a general inequality of status, where only a few people and institutions matter and everyone else is left to watch the glitterati from the cheap seats. The author almost
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by ke88y 3y ago
Yeah. It's probably mostly just geoguesser/not-geoguesser :) Unfortunately, that sucks even more from a UX design perspective, since it means even if you absolutely nail the instructions you need to know all of the surrounding con
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by ke88y 3y ago
That's extremely impressive. I've spent a ton of time within >100 of that first bridge and was still off by a ton. Did you use external resources? If not, how did you know with such precision (honestly central PA is as good a g
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by ke88y 3y ago
That seems to correspond to the "is or isn't it feed forward" debate going on here, so I guess I see where the confusion comes from (both for him and in terms of calling LLMs FF/not FF)
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And better than the actual WarGames sequel.
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These are things you can just look up. The LLM contributes nothing that the internet didn't already provide. Or even textbooks before that. What I mean is actually new capabilities, which weren't available to non-state actors with
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by ke88y 3y ago
I think RAND was used here in the proverbial sense, not the literal sense. They generally do good work, stay away from hype while remaining relevant/timely, and focus on boring but real problems. Sort of that good spot in-between an IE
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Nope. All it takes is a sci-fi essayist. /s
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"Nothing to see in this inconsequential corner of the world I'm busy monetizing with who knows what side-effects; you really ought to worry about the Killer AI Robots instead!" Again, I think ego is probably a better explanat
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by ke88y 3y ago
> Presumably the experts who feel differently about AI x-risk have similar disregard for your opinion. That you aren't persuaded by experts who disagree doesn't show anything. Of course. I was merely explaining the reason wh
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by ke88y 3y ago
You can make up your own scoring system based upon the first two distances, with a high penalty (negative points) for needing the 4th guess.
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I don't think atheism is essential, but perhaps instead the belief that a person's worth comes from their work/output. Religion certainly provides a way "out" of that conundrum for people who lose meaning in their w
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True,—This! Beneath the rule of men entirely great The pen is mightier than the sword. Behold The arch-enchanters wand!— itself a nothing!— But taking sorcery from the master-hand To paralyse the Cæsars—and to str
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by ke88y 3y ago
Yeah, working on these systems and seeing how brittle they are and how they're actually built is sobering. I guess from the outside it looks like a few geniuses geniusing with unbounded upside, but from the inside it looks like a hard
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by ke88y 3y ago
TBH, I don't find LeCun particularly convincing. I think he's correct but not persuasive, if that makes sense. Debunking AI x-risk is a weird thing to spend time on. There's really no up-side, and there aren't a bunch of
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by ke88y 3y ago
Note: I really don't like that my comment is the top comment this story. I think this phenomenon wrt x-risk is real and interesting and worth discussing, but I wish I'd picked a different story to share the thought. (This just hap
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by ke88y 3y ago
Yeah, that's correct. Stupid mistake on my part; was writing that comment in a hurry. Not sure why you're grayed out tbh. Thanks for the corrective. > or has a shockingly cavalier attitude Meh. Median response time was 40 sec
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by ke88y 3y ago
I think AI definitely will follow a similar path as social media tech. I don't think that will lead to the extinction of humanity via the development of super human intelligence.
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> Nassim is arguing that RISK is a separate discipline, separate from the domain where risk applies. That a person building AI is not the correct choice for estimating AI risk. I think this is often fair. It's actually one of my p
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by ke88y 3y ago
> It seems pretty obvious that one would likely not criticize something that your are actively profiting from. This doesn't track, since the people criticizing are benefiting even more from the same products/companies.
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> Presumably the scientists and engineers behind the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25 didn't think it would kill people. Therac-25 is an excellent example, but of EXACTLY the opposite point. On the co
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by ke88y 3y ago
> real risk exists, to some degree or other Risk of extinction? Or of bad outcomes? I think everyone understands there are near-certain risks of bad outcomes. That's already happening all around us. Totally uncontroversial. My pos

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