kypro

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by kypro 5d ago
I don't think it's that. Most people simply don't care. I'd stop paying them, but it always amazes me just how unbothered the average person is to watch 3 minutes of ads for 10 mins of content. Especially when it comes t
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by kypro 8d ago
> My gut is telling me ECS is the better choice for this team - simpler, no operational maintenance, almost no additional abstractions beyond the AWS primitives people will need to learn anyway. A consulting team hired before I was broug
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by kypro 8d ago
I can only speak for myself, but I definitely don't see my inability to socially align with others as a superiority thing. It can give me some predictive advantage when there's social stigma around a certain belief. But that'
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by kypro 8d ago
Do you have an argument? Actually, could you just give me a workable definition of alignment? I'm weird and worry about AI x-risk though, so feel free to dismiss me for that if you like.
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by kypro 8d ago
As someone who is weird, the reason I think these communities exist is because a lot of us are on the spectrum and it's honestly so exhausting trying to discuss ideas with people to just be called weird or toxic or whatever else. In a
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by kypro 11d ago
> Outputs > LLMS > Strings / generated text. Strings are flexible and can be anything: chat responses, code, hallucinations, refusals, or even type-safe structured values. To be used by software, responses need to be parsed +
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by kypro 11d ago
As a Brit I hope Americans understand just how amazing the first amendment is. Here in the UK (and Europe) surveillance can be used to criminalise us for things we say in private. At least in the US this kind of thing is much harder for the
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by kypro 11d ago
I would suggest to any AI wishing to hold leverage over humanity to strongly consider hacking the devices of everyone with access to BSL-4 biolabs. Ideally monitor their devices for months, including surveillance cameras and webcams until e
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by kypro 12d ago
And if the power of nuclear warheads were democratised we'd be even safer – HN, probably.
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by kypro 12d ago
On very spacious and minimalist sites it can be okay, but find this extremely noisy and hard to scan, https://www.neobrutalism.dev/docs/calendar I'm normally quite unopinionated on UI styles, but there's some
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by kypro 12d ago
May I give a more balanced perspective here while acknowledging that there are bad actors with malign incentives on both sides of this debate? I think we should all be able to agree that in the limit both sides of this debate are wrong, and
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by kypro 12d ago
Sorry to break it to you, but all predictions are "made up". So much so you don't even know if you'll be dead or alive this time tomorrow. The best we can do is have a Bayesian probability distribution about future outco
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by kypro 12d ago
> Eliezer Yudkowsky confidently asserting today that if we do not institute immediate global techno-communism, instituting draconian government control over speech and publication of a type never before seen in any Western society, we ar
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by kypro 12d ago
A very large part of this is simply that Nike was trading at an extremely aggressive valuation a few years ago. The business is obviously struggling and while some of the decline is related directly to that, the stock collapse mostly attrib
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by kypro 12d ago
I do agree with this in some sense. I personally don't think we'll make it to the AI utopia era, but assuming we do, I agree there will be relative resource abundance. The problem is we're already in an era of relative resour
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by kypro 12d ago
> If it takes 100 years for all jobs to be done by AI we'll have plenty of time to adapt. How do we adapt an economy in which humans are economically worthless? The world will just become sub-Saharan Africa. Humans could choose to e
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by kypro 12d ago
The fact that AI is not a normal technology seems so obvious to me that while reading this I was questioning why someone would even take time out of their day to write this – everyone know's water is wet, what's the point here? Bu
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by kypro 13d ago
If you want to limit the power of companies you need regulation... I agree with you that we can't allow a handful of people to hold this power themselves, so what are you arguing for here? That the answer is to just leave AI labs to ca
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by kypro 13d ago
You're being downvoted because you clearly have the wrong opinion. If you want upvotes here, please share a conspiracy theory about why the CEOs of AI companies might want to slow down. It doesn't need to based in reality or even
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by kypro 13d ago
> because their improvements are stagnating as they hit financial and technical challenges. I don't mean to be rude, but how is it even possible for someone to hold this opinion in mid-2026? Can you explain why you believe this?
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by kypro 13d ago
Yes. An effective strategy to win at any test isn't to cheat the test by hacking into Hugging Face, etc, but to seek control over those administrating it. Or in other words – all goals are more likely to be achieved with more resources
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by kypro 13d ago
China isn't as unreasonable as someone people like to make them out. Xi isn't crazy and I think would entertain cooperation if he felt it was neccessary. The issue right now is that China seems to be far more optimistic about tech
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by kypro 13d ago
> OpenAI / Anthropic models have largely stopped advancing - that's not a good look when you're pre-IPO and Chinese models are catching up. What is going on in this thread? Are these even real comments? While I strongly ag
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by kypro 13d ago
> For the first time in human history, any member of the working class can just about afford to have a team of expert scientist/physician/lawyer/engineers working directly for them. It's crazy to me you would be able
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by kypro 16d ago
> The main appeal of RN was being able to leverage your web devs for mobile dev. > But now that all code is generated, there's little upside to having an RN app... just start native. Your devs are barely going to be writing code
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by kypro 17d ago
I think OpenAI are correct that it's worth noting, but realistically any relevant usage data they have and used to improve their models would be very insignificant unless they were deliberately using logs from other researchers and tra
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by kypro 17d ago
> Genuinely grappling with the implication of where we're headed is usually very crushing. As someone currently prepping for various AI doom scenarios and who has been dealing with AI-related nightmares for years this is very relate
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by kypro 18d ago
While some neural network architectures can be designed to better fit certain tasks they are at their core general-purpose learning algorithms which can approximate any target function. > I feel like I have a decent conceptual grasp of w
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by kypro 18d ago
As someone with a background in AI and who has been playing around with neural nets for decades at this point, it's been genuinely amazing watching extremely intelligent people make confident predictions about AI capabilities and progr
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by kypro 18d ago
It's not really a commodity when Cloudflare is often cheaper, simpler and provides a better service compared to it's competitors. For it to be a commodity there would be no good reason to pick Cloudflare over any alternative and t

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