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by kypro 2mo ago
The point is to test capabilities prior to connecting them to the internet.
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by kypro 2mo ago
Can I suggest we don't waste time with these reports? We all know nothing will be learned from any of this so we might as well just continue building at pace and running AI in the wild until something goes really wrong. I also get the
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by kypro 2mo ago
I've removed the "nuke the data centers" line now. It's was an expression of my sentiment, not a policy position I'd support. I wrongly assumed that was obvious, but some people are making bad-faith assumptions abou
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by kypro 2mo ago
> Advocating for nuclear war as a means of 'harm reduction' should be causing you serious cognitive dissonance. If you're referring to the "nuke the data centers" line in my bio, that's tongue in cheek. It&#
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by kypro 2mo ago
Did you read the article? AI is a math & computer science problem. If AI can do advanced maths and computer science research, then it can begin to suggest useful algorithmic optimisations. Right now I'm sure the vast majority of th
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by kypro 2mo ago
Not satire, but as you can see one is engaging in good faith and everyone is either engaging in character attacks or low-effort counters. It's fine, and I'm very used to this, but if you want to have a dialogue I'd be very ha
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by kypro 2mo ago
> You should put down the AI and do some self-reflection on how you came to hold these views. I've been in the field for almost 2 decades, and actively thinking about AI risk for over 15 years. I've always held the controversia
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by kypro 2mo ago
Might as well try, no? Or do you think it's better we just risk it? I mean it's not like the West has any hard or soft power to encourage cooperation.
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by kypro 2mo ago
I want to iterate the most important thing about this is that it's yet more evidence of AI's accelerating competency in solving math and comp sci problems, and suggests we're now getting close to the point where you could thr
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by kypro 2mo ago
They've been hiring mathematicians to verify this stuff themselves. They're obviously not just throwing it out there without any human review.
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by kypro 2mo ago
AI is beginning to do PHD-level math. If we're nearing the point where you can spin up 1,000 agents to look for ways improve existing models, then automatically run experiments to validate those ideas, we're more or less at RSI. A
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by kypro 2mo ago
I don't know. I suspect you live in the US so it might be easier there, but here in the UK I feel very unusual in my desire for privacy and freedom. I have tried to convince people here that it's weird that the government, busines
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by kypro 2mo ago
The thing that scares me is the thought that most people do notice but simply don't care.
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by kypro 2mo ago
In my experience AI doesn't create the same abstractions as a human developer and you see this very quickly on a complex code base if you let the AI run wild. Humans, and especially good developers, naturally create really good mental
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by kypro 2mo ago
Can someone from the US explain why this is being upvoted, isn't this normal? In the UK if you're in an Airport officers can question you without requiring reasonable suspicion and you must answer their questions and give them acc
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by kypro 2mo ago
If it helps tune your probability weightings at all, almost every aspect of the field of AI is exponential and this has been true for decades. 20 years ago computers basically couldn't do voice or image recognition at all. 10 years ago
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by kypro 2mo ago
I've noticed the same thing. The trend I've noticed is that AI struggles to think outside the box when making optimisations, which exactly what's needed when you've made all of the practical DB and logic optimisations to
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by kypro 2mo ago
> but since it's my spare time project I can care about the code and quality. I suppose it's yet to be seen, but I'm seeing a lot of spaghetti code being dump into the codebase I'm working on at the moment by other d
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by kypro 2mo ago
Not sure what you're defining as an "older programer", but I've been coding for 20 years at this point and have been an AI doomer since around 2010, and hardcore AI doomer since 2015-2016ish... I often wonder why I am so
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by kypro 2mo ago
Model collapse theory was complete nonsense pushed in the early days of LLMs by people who had no idea what they were talking about and thought that LLMs were literally just stochastic parrots that were simply outputting the median token in
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by kypro 2mo ago
Is Ask HN basically just an ad board for our personal projects / companies now? What's the question? What are you asking us?
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by kypro 2mo ago
Something I've been trying push more recently is that AI will not stop at tech or its current level of capabilities. The world is changing very fast now, and that pace of change will only accelerate. You'll see many existential ri
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by kypro 2mo ago
Oh man, I would have loved to have known about those mailing lists... I was so young at the time and had no idea where to find info on anything. I was in school so no one I knew knew how to code. All I really had access to was some cracked
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by kypro 2mo ago
> All sufficiently capable models, open and closed, should go through mandatory safety testing. I mean you're assuming this is even possible. I don't really care what the US admin does. If someone releases a powerful open sourc
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by kypro 3mo ago
This period latest until the mid 00s. I remember trying to learn Java in the early 00s and it was really hard and I needed a textbook. No blogs, no SO, no autocomplete, crappy IDEs, no AI, etc... I miss that difficult focused learning. The
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by kypro 3mo ago
ARC-AGI-3 launched a few months ago which would suggest that prior models likely had no knowledge of ARC-AGI-3 or training on similar challenges. I could be wrong, but given the large outsized jump solely in the ARC-AGI-3 score, it would su
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by kypro 3mo ago
I think that's a strange way to look at it. The brain also has different regions with different functions, and part of what makes us humans intelligent is that we can use tools like pen and paper to keep notes and help us solve problem
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by kypro 3mo ago
> It will never be economically viable to replace kitchen staff with AI Can you expand? Specifically what is it about humans that AI and robotics could not replace?
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by kypro 3mo ago
While everyone is building more, I've found the amount of software I build now has dropped off a cliff. I haven't produced this little code since I was a young teen 25 something years ago. I used to love building software which re
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by kypro 3mo ago
I'll add to this... The "funky" websites of the past were mostly a result of tech immaturity and a lack of profit motive. Businesses have been able to easily install templates like this for at least a decade. They don't

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