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by orangecat 7d ago
That's an excellent way of putting it. It's like an enthusiastic student who points out all the really smart stuff it did so that the teacher will be impressed and give it a gold star...which is basically what its RL environments
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by orangecat 7d ago
The broken window fallacy is the idea that it's good when your window gets broken because you have to pay someone to fix it and it increases their income. If that were true, then it would be bad if you could easily repair windows witho
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by orangecat 7d ago
they realize that meant a real human artist probably didn't get paid to make it so society is worse off This is a form of the broken window fallacy. Society is not worse off when production requires less labor, any more than it'
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by orangecat 10d ago
The parent agrees with the American Civil Liberties Union: https://www.aclu.org/cases/citizens-united-v-federal-electio...
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by orangecat 10d ago
the practical reality of the ruling (without further nuance) has been fairly catastrophic for democracy How so? If the answer is "Trump" I certainly won't disagree on the catastrophic part, but he didn't get elected be
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by orangecat 10d ago
Then I would imagine anyone else could have found it. Right, including Sony. AI finding security flaws is very good in general, but one downside is that it will become easier to make "secure" devices that are hostile toward thei
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by orangecat 10d ago
Citizens United was 100% correct. No, the government should not be able to throw you in prison because you used money to publish a book criticizing the government.
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by orangecat 11d ago
Yeah, that's fair. I didn't have an exact UI planned so I gave it flexibility, and it made reasonable choices that only needed a bit of tweaking to be quite usable.
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by orangecat 11d ago
I had pretty good success with a language learning app. Initial prompt below, about an hour to get it working very close to how I imagined, then extended to Japanese, French, and audio generation. ====================================== Hi!
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by orangecat 13d ago
The fact they were desperate enough for a PR win they stole the research I guess people are just going to keep spreading misinformation about this, along the same lines as "Anthropic's C compiler fails on hello world". Ther
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by orangecat 13d ago
It's an obnoxious form of discourse when someone says X and the response is "obviously you're lying and you really mean Y, which is terrible". By all accounts Dario sincerely believes that AI has the potential to substan
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by orangecat 13d ago
Perhaps you should volunteer your services so that the project for which you paid $0 can have release notes more to your liking.
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by orangecat 13d ago
You're reducing programming to its utility in producing exchange value in the captitalist political economy. Well, yes? If you want to write code that isn't useful to anyone and just gives you warm fuzzies, go for it. I've
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by orangecat 13d ago
There's nothing to learn about being an engineering manager. You tell your developers to write code, go on vacation, and come back to a completed product.
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by orangecat 14d ago
Cars qualitatively opened up something that humans could never do before. Not really, we explored almost the entire world on foot and horseback. Cars and trains "just" make it easier. A million lines of LLM slop? As they say,
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by orangecat 16d ago
My understanding is that the Euler solution was in fact a significant achievement, but it's well short of Navier-Stokes (Euler doesn't include viscosity). It's not clear whether Buckmaster and Alpöge's approach would hav
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by orangecat 16d ago
OpenAI has said that their models were definitely not trained on any of Buckmaster's sessions after July 3rd (from https://archive.ph/75WcF ); likely they found that's when he switched the "allow training&quot
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by orangecat 16d ago
Why are people here jumping so quickly to conclusions? I think a lot of it is the continuing denial that AI can do anything useful. It can't possibly be that OpenAI's better-than-Astra model is very strong at math; the only way
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by orangecat 17d ago
This is great. I've been trying to get Linux on my M4 Pro mini with moderate success (NVMe and all cores working, but display and wifi only via USB adapters), and recently it's been a slow process trying to get the hypervisor runn
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by orangecat 18d ago
Which is not "theft" according to current legal precedent, and also common sense.
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by orangecat 18d ago
What is that supposed to prove? OpenAI is almost always going to be training new models.
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by orangecat 18d ago
If writing up the paper would involve using OpenAI's unreleased model, neither OpenAI nor Anthropic would be happy about Alpöge having that access.
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by orangecat 18d ago
In that it isn't able to genuinely solve problems Yes, in retrospect I should have been suspicious of that drone hovering outside my window when I was writing down the counterexample to the Jacobian conjecture. This is just not a rea
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by orangecat 19d ago
But when the "this new model is totally better" claims keep turning out to be false Current models are in fact much better than the top models from a year ago. I have no idea how anyone could claim otherwise without a huge amoun
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by orangecat 19d ago
How else could the LLM even begin to do what it did otherwise. Are we really still having the "LLMs can only regurgitate what was in their training data" argument? Where did the counterexample to the Jacobian conjecture come fro
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by orangecat 20d ago
Good. If https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/in-defense-of-the-amyloid-h... is correct, the reason existing anti-amyloid drugs don't work well is amyloid leads to tau which leads to neurodegeneration, so by the time
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by orangecat 22d ago
Public schools generally don't receive enough funding to provide the bare-minimum. This is commonly repeated and basically false. Inflation-adjusted funding per student continues to increase: https://nces.ed.gov/progr
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by orangecat 23d ago
It was banned by the federal government Not exactly. The law was weird, and that's why it was overturned. It didn't make sports betting illegal federally, instead it prevented states from "authorizing" it, which the pe
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by orangecat 23d ago
As a practical matter when someone gambles away their life savings we aren't going to let them starve in the streets, we're going to give them public assistance. Despite my libertarian leanings I have to acknowledge that sports be
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by orangecat 23d ago
Ok, and how does banning short-term trading make the world more fair?

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