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by paxys 1mo ago
No, because it has never meant a specific thing that everyone agreed on.
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by paxys 1mo ago
The model said it was perfectly aligned.
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by paxys 1mo ago
Every frontier release nowadays is "we've launched*" * for a special group of customers that you're not in. Keep waiting peasant.
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by paxys 1mo ago
Why is this flagged ?
65.
by paxys 1mo ago
Shows the weirdness of online journalism. News outlets were briefed about an upcoming event and pre-wrote and scheduled articles. When the time came they were all triggered. Except...the event didn't actually happen.
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by paxys 1mo ago
That's how every AI launch goes. 5.6 was the same, as as Mythos etc.
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by paxys 1mo ago
Boring answer – all these services are individually down a lot, and the downtimes were bound to sync up. Similar to the pendulum synchronization effect.
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by paxys 1mo ago
Especially considering memory/gpu/compute are scarce so these services are likely running with very little buffer.
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by paxys 1mo ago
Willing to bet it's because they can't handle the surge of traffic they are getting from ChatGPT/Claude users.
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by paxys 1mo ago
They're going to deadlock their own productivity as well
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by paxys 1mo ago
I know they're not all hosted on AWS, so Cloudflare?
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by paxys 1mo ago
Models have all kinds of garbage from all corners of the internet in their training data. The key is alignment. You feed it bad data but also teach it right from wrong.
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by paxys 1mo ago
Can’t imagine the stress of the researcher who had to run exploitbench again knowing what happened last time around.
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by paxys 1mo ago
I personally find that Scratch has very limited utility because kids can start to code in a "real" programming language pretty early on, by like 11 or 12. Would it make a difference in outcome had they started even earlier? I doub
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by paxys 2mo ago
Why does anyone need to "do it"? Who did God?
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by paxys 2mo ago
The "battle" for Pluto is an interesting case study in indoctrination. A few generations of children grew up being taught a specific fact, saw it in textbooks, learned mnemonics about it, had memorable cartoon characters named aft
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by paxys 2mo ago
Trusting Lenovo as an auth provider is certainly a decision.. Handling SSO related security-holes in SaaS apps has made up a major chunk of my career at this point. The most common one – app adds SAML-based login and treats the returned ema
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by paxys 2mo ago
Half the job of a map maker is to figure out correct borders in disputed areas while keeping both sides happy. In the internet age they can do that by simply showing a different map in each country.
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by paxys 2mo ago
Has writing ever been a safe job, even before AI?
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by paxys 2mo ago
Local setups aren't going to make sense purely from a cost perspective, and definitely not when you are buying Apple hardware. AI subscriptions are too highly subsidized right now.
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by paxys 2mo ago
I really hope with Ternus taking the helm Apple starts to remember that it has products outside of iPhone.
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by paxys 2mo ago
ChatGPT Work = Codex rebranded for non-coders, with the option to run it in a cloud VM.
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by paxys 2mo ago
Opium
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by paxys 2mo ago
> I don’t use social media You are using social media right now.
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by paxys 2mo ago
"You are not allowed to use our services to develop a competing product" is a standard clause in pretty much every contract of this nature. There's nothing antitrust about it. Companies are allowed to say no to bad deals.
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by paxys 2mo ago
Musk was forced to admit under oath during his OpenAI lawsuit that xAI distilled GPT models to train Grok. No reason to believe he won't use Cursor data for the same thing, if it isn't happening already.
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by paxys 2mo ago
They already publish gpt-oss which is several generations better than gpt-3
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by paxys 2mo ago
Sure, and what are you going to do about it? The current government is above laws.
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by paxys 2mo ago
The concept behind it isn't going away. There are plenty of companies that hire people in bulk to do manual data labeling, transcription, RLHF, moderation and lots more. It's just that they are now catering to large AI companies,
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by paxys 2mo ago
The impact on academics and research has already been felt over the last decade. US used to be the default destination for academics and skilled workers from China ever since the cultural revolution. They engrained themselves in the country

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