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by ks2048 4mo ago
I don't associate Hinton will Effective Altruism. He did switch to focus on warning of the dangers of AI, but that was after he already was established as the father (or one of them) of deep learning.
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by ks2048 4mo ago
> Nobody even knows about Frank Rosenblatt. Very Trump-like statement - "Not many people know this, but ...". Yes, I lot of people know this. Any class that even says a little about the history of NNs will talk about Rosenblatt
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by ks2048 4mo ago
How many in that list of things is the US also doing?
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by ks2048 4mo ago
paraphrase> what's left for us? ... taste. If human "taste" changes our cursor for no reason, maybe we should just go with the AI's "taste"? Sorry for the snark - nothing wrong with the essay - I just prefer
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by ks2048 4mo ago
So what does this fork do? No more WEB? No more Pascal? Does it produce exact results as XeTeX?
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by ks2048 4mo ago
“information wants to be free” - doesn’t seem correct. More like it’s easier to spread info than to hide it.
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by ks2048 4mo ago
Unless they (gasp!) write some statement they don’t believe or don’t follow through with.
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by ks2048 4mo ago
So, hinting only takes place at low resolutions, I believe. How often is it used, eg viewing “typical” PDFs on “typical” screens?
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by ks2048 4mo ago
A completely “free” market is likely incoherent, but under normal terms - probably degrading since the 1970s. And very predictable if wealth can buy you power to change the system.
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by ks2048 4mo ago
It would be if it was rationally tied to the strength of the model. More likely, it’s simply the government deciding who can compete.
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by ks2048 4mo ago
It appears to affect only the companies that Trump decides it should affect.
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by ks2048 4mo ago
Trump must have run his extensive test suite and carefully weighted the dangers vs the legal implications.
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by ks2048 4mo ago
Wait until it is illegal to download or use Chinese models (only half-joking).
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by ks2048 5mo ago
It would be ironic if irrational anti-data center actions was the one thing that prevented an irrational AI bubble. (I’m thinking of a bubble in building/funding/economics, not in abilities).
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by ks2048 5mo ago
Interestingly, both FL and TX had the same vote for Trump in 2024: 56.1%
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by ks2048 5mo ago
That brag seems tame compared to saying there is a decent change they'll end the human race.
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by ks2048 5mo ago
Within the past year, yt-dlp has ceased to work reliably, it seems Google is cracking down.
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by ks2048 5mo ago
Maximizing improbability means spouting gibberish 24/7 and flopping around uncontrollably. Very unpredictable. More seriously, I don't see how "improbable" is what you should maximize. If you come from a certain backgrou
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by ks2048 5mo ago
This is nice. Please tell you agent to make the site "light" or give an option for light/dark.
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by ks2048 5mo ago
Timothy Gowers' tweet about this: "If you are a mathematician, then you may want to make sure you are sitting down before reading futher.". woah.
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by ks2048 5mo ago
Since "supercharged science" is as ill-defined as AGI, ASI, etc., people will be able to debate it endlessly for no reason.
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by ks2048 5mo ago
Schmidt will get over it. In the coming unrest/wars, he will profit nicely from all his investments in weapons and surveillance.
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by ks2048 5mo ago
> the clearest signal of their irrelevance NYT had $2.82B in revenue in 2025.
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by ks2048 5mo ago
"moving data around" is what millions of people of do all day, every day.
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by ks2048 6mo ago
We will know when aliens are here when a new Polymarket account bets $10M on "aliens about to be discovered".
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by ks2048 6mo ago
> This is so cool. "cool" is not the word that comes to mind looking at this image.
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by ks2048 6mo ago
Positive actions cited in the article: "independent courts, an anti-monopoly agency to ensure fair competition, and strong regulation to keep troubled banks from choking off credit" While many in US say "liberal economics&quo
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by ks2048 6mo ago
I usually don't look at the details of the cookies, but this one is insane. "Necessary cookies help make a website usable by enabling basic functions like page navigation and access to secure areas of the website. The website cann
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by ks2048 6mo ago
If this is correct, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church_by_country There's only 717,500 Catholics in Russia. Although, careful with this table - it says there's 660,439 in Saudi Arabia - which must
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by ks2048 6mo ago
They have 10 languages linked from their home page ( https://www.vatican.va/content/vatican/en.html ). Latin and Chinese are the only two that don't have the home page same design. Maybe they've laid-off s

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