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by nearbuy 1y ago
For what it's worth, I've been trying Opus 4.1 in VS Code through GitHub Copilot and it's been really bad. Maybe worse than Sonnet and GPT 4.1. I'm not sure why it was doing so poorly. In one instance, I asked it to opti
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by nearbuy 1y ago
It's not the case. Effective altruists give to dozens of different causes, such as malaria prevention, environmentalism, animal welfare, and (perhaps most controversially) extinction risk. It can't tell you which root values to ca
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by nearbuy 1y ago
When you go deeper into physics, mass and energy don't seem real either, in that, like entropy, they're emergent properties of a system rather than fixed, localized things. I always thought of the energy of a system (kinetic + pot
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by nearbuy 1y ago
Sigh. They aren't studying bias in data. They were studying bias in AI. The data used was 850,000 chest x-rays from 6 publically available datasets. They aren't studying whether this dataset differs from the general public or has
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by nearbuy 1y ago
It's possible humans could learn to do this, but I'm skeptical they could do it this well. According to the article, humans experts couldn't tell race from the chest X-rays and the researchers couldn't figure out how the
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You're being snide about the Harvard/MIT researchers being idiots doing useless research because they don't realize radiologists can just look at the patients face, but that's obviously not what happened. They were tryin
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by nearbuy 1y ago
One Harvard study trained an AI that could reliably determine someone's race from a chest X-ray. AIs can be trained to see things we can't. The difficulty is likely in making a good training dataset of labeled images with patholog
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by nearbuy 1y ago
So you you're saying you knew the two types of polio were eradicated but inexplicably assumed the parent comment must have meant the vaccine-derived poliovirus was eradicated. Or you think these are the same virus because you saw &quot
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by nearbuy 1y ago
You're conflating cVDPV with WPV. Despite both having a "type 2", they are not the same virus. Calling a few hundred reported cases a year globally "very, very common" is... a stretch. You have better odds of gettin
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Polio type 2 and 3 were eradicated and overall we went from 400k cases of paralytic polio per year down to less than 1% of that.
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Aren't we already passed 1/1000th of the performance we would classify as superintelligence? There isn't an official precise definition of superintelligence, but it's usually vaguely defined as smarter than humans. Twice
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AGI just refers roughly to the intelligence it would take to replace most if not all white collar workers. There is no precise definition, but it's not meaningless.
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> I think the chance they're going to create a "superintelligence" is extremely small. I'd say the chance that we never create a superintelligence is extremely small. You either have to believe that for some reason th
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by nearbuy 1y ago
Sample size of one, but I just tried it and it worked for me on 2.5 pro. I just ended my prompt with "Do not include any comments whatsoever."
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by nearbuy 1y ago
What does it say when you ask it to?
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by nearbuy 1y ago
I suppose if both you and the recipient have cloud backups disabled, then Apple can no longer view your messages. But outside of that scenario, is there any advantage to iMessage using e2ee instead of just regular TLS? Edit: Apparently it&#
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by nearbuy 1y ago
So you suspect their cheap models have few customers because people prefer to run open source models on their own computers, and their high-end models have either very thin margins over the inference cost or few customers because the costs
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by nearbuy 1y ago
This is all true. Competition reduces a company's profits. OpenAI reducing their costs isn't what hurts them. They're better off with lower costs. Their competitors getting lower cost models is what hurts them. Absolutely som
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by nearbuy 1y ago
Isn't your post anti-intellectual, since you're denigrating someone without justification just for referencing the work of a professor you disagree with?
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by nearbuy 1y ago
It's research on whether malicious actors could use LLMs to persuade people. If you restrict the tricks it can use, what is the research telling you? How nice, honest people might persuade Redditors by secretly using LLMs? How maliciou
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by nearbuy 1y ago
It counters the claim that "inference is too damn expensive". You can argue that cheap inference is actually bad for OpenAI because it makes it easier to run models on commodity hardware, but then you're arguing against your
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by nearbuy 1y ago
I think that's convoluted logic trying to show that a business lowering its costs is actually bad for the business. You can make this assumptions about any business. It's not a good assumption. If a car company discovered a way to
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by nearbuy 1y ago
It seems like every 6 months they come out with a new model that's as good as the previous generation but with a fraction of the inference cost. Inference cost for a given level of quality has been dropping fast. E.g. GPT-4.1 nano outp
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by nearbuy 1y ago
o3 got this one right when I tried it, but o4-mini and GPT-4.5 did not. o3's response: Because the surgeon is the patient’s parent. Here’s one way it lines up: 1. The patient (“the cousin”) is the surgeon’s son. 2. The man who died i
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by nearbuy 2y ago
> You're using limited and anecdotal task based metrics as some sort of evidence. And you presented no evidence at all. Not every comment I make is going to contain a full lit review. > Both of you are able to drive a car, yet we
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by nearbuy 2y ago
Human intelligence is jagged. You're raising the AGI bar to a point where most people wouldn't qualify as having general intelligence. My partner and I work in different fields. AI has advanced to the point where there are very fe
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by nearbuy 2y ago
You should be. Otherwise, you're showing Adobe and other companies that ethical training is pointless, and isn't economically sensible after all.
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No one here claimed the AI models made something truly new. The commenter flessner asserted it couldn't, despite having no way to demonstrate it. They are passing off faith as fact. Assuming someone did want to show AI models can make
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by nearbuy 2y ago
This isn't what it says in the thread. It's saying Nike and retailers need to maintain their markup rate on their unit cost. > And if Footlocker purchases Nike shoes for $75, then they retail them for $150. Everyone needs to fi
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by nearbuy 2y ago
How would it work? Say an American multinational like Microsoft provides some SaaS. They have a division in Europe where their developers help make their products. They have offices, customer support, servers, etc. in Europe. Do they pay a

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