losteric

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by losteric 3y ago
What is a "token price"? ... What even is a "token"? I want to buy compute to execute XYZ functions at Tk TPS - how do I predict the monthly operating cost? (in dollars, obviously)
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by losteric 3y ago
Who's buying those F-150s and how amenable are they to EVs? It's not enough to just look at what's most popular if the underlying demographics are more resistant to EVs on an ideological basis.
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by losteric 3y ago
The media often puts out negative stories around the launch of bad products. Remember Juicero?
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by losteric 3y ago
There are good challenges and bad challenges 800V charging? Great hard problem, strategic advantages Stainless Steel body? Bad hard problem. No advantage in inventing expensive new precise manufacturing techniques, specifically to use a mor
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by losteric 3y ago
Silence is part of the Air's appeal, as well as the shape which wouldn't allow for an internal fan
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by losteric 3y ago
Who is "we"? Selling to whom? Why stop?
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by losteric 3y ago
/s* presumably
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by losteric 3y ago
What about nursing? That seems to be the flip side where there isn't the protection of the cartel around doctors, so wages get driven to the floor and we see scarcity due to cost of living and mismanagement.
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by losteric 3y ago
Has Ilya left OpenAI? Not to my knowledge. This is more like a guy apologizing for the holes and actively trying to fix the ship. Which is absolutely worth something, even if no holes would still be better.
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by losteric 3y ago
How do we tell whether a human is safe? Incrementally granted trust with ongoing oversight is probably the best bet. Anyway, the first mailicious AGI would probably act like a toddler script-kiddie not some superhuman social engineering mas
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by losteric 3y ago
outside speculators extrapolating from second-hand rumors and Twitter vibes aren't making coherent sense? Shocking. Perhaps it's as simple as insufficient oversight and moderation of the GPT store. Or perhaps there's too much
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by losteric 3y ago
Let's wait for more details on what actually went down. It's entirely possible Sam was exploring sales or new commercial ventures behind the board's back, or pressuring the business to side-step the oversight and safety mecha
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by losteric 3y ago
Constantly scanning != Constantly recording and storing in perpetuity.
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by losteric 3y ago
Serverless has it's faults, but spaghetti code spread across 100 repos is definitely a "user error"...
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by losteric 3y ago
Yeah, like all the old American companies went through that process... Ford and GE come to mind. It's a good way to externalize some risks like labor and capital investment, and ramp faster by delegating some optimizations to natural c
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by losteric 3y ago
For-profit companies do philanthropy all the time. There is no requirement to divert money to shareholders (further, Google's not paying any dividends right now)
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by losteric 3y ago
30% of internet content, not data center usage. Serving content is relatively light on compute.
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by losteric 3y ago
I know some human drives do that without Waze. It is a faster and legal route, why wouldn't the algorithm send you down that path?
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by losteric 3y ago
There is a need to decouple "Effective Altruism (TM)" the culty organization, from the underlying ideas of effective altruism. Personally, I'd describe the core as donate regularly, and donate with your brain not your heart -
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by losteric 3y ago
Median incomes might be a better figure. Per-capita is skewed by outliers. Look at the US: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:US_GDP_per_capita_vs_me... - huge disparity between mostly flat income versus rapidly grow
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by losteric 3y ago
> If you're selling a $2M house, you're willing to pay more for someone to get you a good price. That sounds very last-century... kinda like selling antiques to a pawn shop or consignment store that would take of finding a buye
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by losteric 3y ago
Real estate is the primary thing that makes cost of living so high, and that's primarily a city problem. California state actually passed laws that require increasing housing supply: https://www.kqed.org/news/11965
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by losteric 3y ago
RTO requires living near an absurdly unsustainably expensive tech hub and/or intolerably long commutes (ie working hours).
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by losteric 3y ago
Newspapers are competing with social media's rumor mill. There is intense pressure for speed to capture attention (and ad revenue). Sometimes inaccuracy make it through fast editorial reviews. This isn't the first or last error, a
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by losteric 3y ago
Betteridge's law of headlines - the answer is "no" Pretraines LVMs can do many things, they are a powerful tool in our toolbox. But they are limited to the tasks they were pretrained on, and may come with subpar accuracy at s
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by losteric 3y ago
> An ugly problem with an attention economy is that you are rewarded for seeming useful and interesting, but once the attention has been given, there is no incentive to actually deliver > To be fair, most web users are happy with the
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by losteric 3y ago
The inference runtime software is open, the weights are an opaque binary. Publishing the training data, hyperparameters, process, etc - that would make the whole thing "open source".
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by losteric 3y ago
It's called political compromise, you might remember there are two parties in the system.
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by losteric 3y ago
I would agree wrt Copilot. GPT4 through the Chat app is a different story, I find it incredibly useful for branching in to new skills or rubber-ducking complex problems.
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by losteric 3y ago
The residual model is very interesting for tech... It's complicated by software refractors over time (kinda leading to compensation questions similar to those around genAI)

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