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by p-e-w 10mo ago
Apparently human chess grandmasters also need “oversight” from airplanes, because without those, essentially none of them would show up at elite tournaments.
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by p-e-w 10mo ago
Pretty sure the consumer GPU market mostly exists because of games, which has nothing to do with China or AI.
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by p-e-w 10mo ago
The diffusion process is usually compute-bound, while transformer inference is memory-bound. Apple Silicon is comparable in memory bandwidth to mid-range GPUs, but it’s light years behind on compute.
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by p-e-w 11mo ago
The world dismantled landlines, phone booths, mail order catalogues, fax machines, tens of millions of storefronts, government offices, and entire industries in favor of the Internet. So at this point no, the world can most definitely not “
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by p-e-w 11mo ago
This is 100% the fault of a society that has continuously pushed to expand the meaning of “disability” (and many other words) until it no longer resembles anything that a reasonable person would associate with the term, while aggressively s
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by p-e-w 11mo ago
Because the whole framing of US vs China as open vs closed was never correct to begin with.
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by p-e-w 11mo ago
All of those happened in underdeveloped, weak countries with decades of violent infighting preceding those events. If something similar were attempted in any Western country, the people involved would be murdered and things would be back to
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by p-e-w 11mo ago
7 million people protested against Donald Trump on October 18th, one of the largest protests in human history. It meant Jack Shit. If they had brought arms, they would have been gunned down by people with more powerful arms, and it would st
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by p-e-w 11mo ago
Please describe a concrete action by private individuals that would lead to this incident being properly investigated.
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by p-e-w 11mo ago
It doesn’t really matter whether it’s a botnet or a coordinated campaign by police officers. The fact that police is interfering with the political process is somewhere between a breakdown of the rule of law, and an attempted coup. Voting i
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by p-e-w 11mo ago
Demonstrating how it’s possible to do something is a public good. This really isn’t complicated unless you’re being deliberately obtuse.
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by p-e-w 11mo ago
> Many open source projects are done without any good for the public Such as? By definition, open source projects are provided to the public, for free. That’s obviously a good for the public. Note that in order for something to be a publ
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by p-e-w 11mo ago
Every time I read about smart glasses I wonder the same thing. Obviously the technology isn’t perfect, but it seems that even a basic pair of smart glasses with primitive image processing could be life-changing for a completely blind person
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by p-e-w 11mo ago
It’s true that architectures change, but they are built from common components. The most important of those is matrix multiplication, using a relatively small set of floating point data types. A device that accelerates those operations is,
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by p-e-w 11mo ago
The difference is that states don’t benefit from using nuclear weapons, only from having them. But they definitely benefit from using AI.
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by p-e-w 11mo ago
When US companies were still the only game in town. Given that AI progress is now driven by international competition across mutually hostile jurisdictions, there is absolutely no chance of putting the genie back into the bottle anymore.
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by p-e-w 11mo ago
It’s a very helpful tool for establishing opaque power structures, because it allows those with real power to pretend that they are simply following some legalese document instead of doing as they please. The fact that this behavior, whic
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by p-e-w 11mo ago
Pull requests are not optional on GitHub. Users have been begging for more than a decade for an option to disable pull request for a repository, and GitHub continues to ignore them.
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by p-e-w 11mo ago
It has always surprised me that this is the lesson so many people see in that photo. The lesson I see is that absolutely nothing humans do ( including “wasteful fighting” and “over-consumption”) matters at all. We could colonize the solar
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by p-e-w 11mo ago
This wasn’t foresight. As the comment you responded to stated, the Voyager probes were built to explore the outer planets, nothing less and nothing more. The fact that they are still working is essentially a fortunate coincidence, helped by
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by p-e-w 11mo ago
Where do you get the idea from that your assessment of something as “toxic” (whatever that means exactly) gives you the right to stop others from doing it? Have you considered what would happen if others did the same thing to you?
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by p-e-w 11mo ago
Thousands of new regulations promulgated every year, many of them deeply invasive into aspects of life that were previously considered the prerogative of individuals or families to decide (in this case, what children are and aren’t allowed
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by p-e-w 11mo ago
The problem is that in order to do optimization, you need a classifier that can distinguish the two types of responses (like refusal/compliance). In case of refusals, that's relatively easy to do using trigger words like "dis
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by p-e-w 11mo ago
The alignment has certainly become stronger though. Llama 3.1 is trivial to decensor with abliteration and Heretic's optimizer will rapidly converge to parameters that completely stomp out refusals, while for gpt-oss and Qwen3, most pa
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by p-e-w 11mo ago
Please let me know if you encounter any problems with the 120b! I'm really interested in how well it will work. When presented with the Pareto front at the end, I recommend choosing a configuration with a KL divergence below 1, even if
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by p-e-w 11mo ago
FWIW, I already used Heretic to decensor gpt-oss-20b [1], and it works just fine. Note that the number of refusals listed on the model card is actually an overestimate because refusal trigger words occur in the CoT, even though the model do
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by p-e-w 2y ago
Rust is pretty well-established now, being used in production by companies like Amazon. Safety is most certainly not its "only selling point". And the underlying mechanisms have been evaluated in detail by many researchers, both
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by p-e-w 2y ago
That's such a weird disclaimer, considering that an overwhelming majority of mission-critical software is written entirely in "unsafe" code (that is, C/C++). "Please be cautious about using Linux/macOS/W
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by p-e-w 2y ago
Bluesky is federated, not decentralized.
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by p-e-w 2y ago
Are you suggesting such incidents were commonplace in the Soviet Union, to the extent that a person could expect to just stumble upon multiple of them in a few years? That would certainly surprise me.

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