nkohari

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by nkohari 1y ago
> Elon has political power over regulation now Does he still? I wouldn't be so sure.
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by nkohari 1y ago
> The US should start a refugee program for UK citizens who understand what freedom actually means and want to live in a free country again. I ask this in all seriousness: have you been paying attention to what's happening recently
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by nkohari 1y ago
To the extent it "knows" (using that word loosely) about the persona, it's deriving that information from its system prompt. The model itself has no awareness. The sooner we stop anthropomorphizing AI models, the better. It&#
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by nkohari 1y ago
Again, there's no real measure for consciousness, so it's difficult to say. If you ask me, frontier models meet the definition of intelligence, but not the definition of self-awareness, so they aren't sentient regardless of w
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by nkohari 1y ago
That topic (ship's computer vs. Data) is actually discussed at length in-universe during The Measure of a Man . [0] The court posits that the three requirements for sentient life are intelligence, self-awareness, and consciousness. Da
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by nkohari 1y ago
There's a difference between discovery (asking an MCP server what capabilities it has) and use (actually using a tool on the MCP server). I think the comment you're replying to is talking about discovery rather than use; that is,
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by nkohari 1y ago
The website you linked encourages waiting until 8th grade (ie. about 14 years old), not 8 years old.
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by nkohari 2y ago
Ardent AI | Founding Engineer | REMOTE | Full time | $160-200K, 0.5-2.0% equity Ardent [0] is a well-funded, early-stage startup founded by an ex-Stripe engineer and three-time founder. We're building a platform which helps users blend
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by nkohari 2y ago
This assumes that Osama bin Laden has poor enough opsec that he's using (eg.) Discord without a proxy. State actors have much more sophisticated techniques available. (It's still an interesting vector, though! But it's true t
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by nkohari 2y ago
It's true that the solution is more complicated than "just eat fewer calories", but it's also true that some people just need their baseline to be reset. I'm perfectly capable of maintaining my weight at ~160 lbs, b
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by nkohari 2y ago
> Sounds worrying to me as it means this is essentially a lifetime drug. As soon as you stop taking it, your appetite returns and so does your old weight. I see this said all the time about GLP-1 agonists, and it's a mischaracteriza
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by nkohari 2y ago
> We do know that the benefits stop as soon as you stop taking it. You'll start gaining back weight. It's more accurate to say that if you're depending on the appetite suppression to eat a sustainable amount of calories, y
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by nkohari 2y ago
By "reached into his own pocket," you mean he leveraged engineering resources from Twitter, and then once it became clear that Grok wasn't a competitive model, raised $6,000,000,000 in capital from VCs and sovereign wealth fu
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by nkohari 2y ago
Stripe does use Bazel. It just didn't exist before Stripe built some of its own internal systems, but it's gradually replacing ~everything from a build standpoint. The one thing to know about Bazel is that it's both incredibl
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by nkohari 2y ago
I spent 4.5 years at Stripe, and left in March. The biggest difference not mentioned is the article is that code is no longer kept on developer machines. The sync process described in the article was well-designed, but also was a fairly con
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by nkohari 2y ago
My advice would be not to do that. Set firm boundaries when you discuss the role and then enforce them. No employee will ever care as deeply about a company as its founder, and good founders understand that.
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by nkohari 2y ago
> So basically I get to do all the work for like 1/50th of what the founder has? Who raised the money that the company is using to pay salaries? When investors put money into a seed company, they're largely betting on the found
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by nkohari 2y ago
> Have you been an employee in a startup? Because in my experience it has a lot of the downs of the founder, but none of the ups. Have you been a founder? If not, I'm not sure you fully realize what goes into the job. Everyone wants
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by nkohari 2y ago
I worked at Stripe for 4.5 years, and the mission is actually a different mindset than simply becoming a prosperous payments company. For example, Stripe Atlas exists because it grows the GDP of the internet, not because it makes the compan
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by nkohari 3y ago
The Apple ecosystem is part of what you're buying with an iPhone. As a consumer, I really like that I can buy a MacBook, an iPhone, and AirPods, and have them all work seamlessly together because they were designed to do so. I'm e
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by nkohari 3y ago
A stock market correction, sure. The market ebbs and flows, though. What happened in 2008 was a catastrophe that caused a multiyear worldwide recession. It's called the Global Financial Crisis for a reason.
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by nkohari 3y ago
I think most people (including many working in AI!) would agree that AI is currently at the peak of the hype cycle and there will be a bloodletting at some point. But I don't really understand how AI being hyped, and NVIDIA's stoc
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by nkohari 3y ago
Just because you disagree with someone doesn't mean they don't know what they're talking about.
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by nkohari 3y ago
I have no personal opinion on the code, but it was a high school project. Relax.
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by nkohari 3y ago
> All of the AI companies are exactly the same: try and generate an image of a woman and a bathing suit with DALL-E and you will inevitably fail. I think this is largely driven by the concern that the model could be used to (whether inte
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by nkohari 3y ago
I was following the conversation. You seemed to be implying that social media restriction was unnecessary. If you weren't, then I think you were being a bit pedantic, because I don't think the person you were replying to was lite
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by nkohari 3y ago
Just because one thing is worse than the other doesn't mean the less-bad thing is suddenly good.
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by nkohari 3y ago
It's more complicated than that, though. If they did in fact use pirated content to train their models, that's almost certainly illegal. It's still not well understood whether they used illegal sources or not, and that should
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by nkohari 3y ago
As I understand it, it's a question of insurance. Either way, it's very common in larger companies to either reissue or physically destroy machines after an employee leaves.
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by nkohari 3y ago
Your definition of theft doesn't necessarily match the legal definition. It still remains to be seen whether training foundation models is fair use or not, and it's disingenuous to suggest otherwise.

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