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by piker 2mo ago
Maybe the prospect of seeing tiny people? Stops me!
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by piker 2mo ago
Once you get over a certain threshold karma you can downvote and flag. I've done it.
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by piker 2mo ago
Bro, if you're using skills in Zoom you deserve to be pwned.
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by piker 2mo ago
PE is the final form of capitalism, but this seems true with widely-held public companies as well with some notable exceptions like Apple.
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by piker 2mo ago
It is useful to indicate you can run the weights on your own hardware. That’s categorically different from most other commercial offerings. It’s as if your adobe example ignores the reality that would exist had photoshop been invented in 20
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by piker 2mo ago
Tritium, the legal IDE in pure Rust: https://tritium.legal We're working on our WASM API this month, as AI-native startup law firms are looking to use it on their web platforms: https://tritium.legal/wasm
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by piker 2mo ago
I’m not a heavy user, but use them routinely to do dumb translations and refactors etc. For my money the models are mostly indistinguishable at achieving long term objectives. Every time a new one drops I’m a part of a number of communities
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by piker 2mo ago
So an agent was somehow able to manipulate internal OpenAI infrastructure, albeit perhaps temporarily. It makes me wonder if OpenAI infrastructure is so littered with verbose AI slop that no one could even notice at this point.
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by piker 2mo ago
I see that now. I've been confused about that to this point, I guess. I understood this to be a specific infosec exercise. [Edit: eh, a bit of both. They were doing RL on a hacking exercise. It hacked the harness which was plugged into
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by piker 2mo ago
Why do these super agents need package managers anyway? Can’t they basically instantiate most OSS projects from scratch anyway? Spin up a sub agent to write me an OS interface in C. Done
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by piker 2mo ago
Only one of those cards was printed in the last 4 years (and it was planned 3 years ago). The shift is somewhat more recent than that. If they had printed a Ninja Turtles set for MTG in 1997, that would have been the end of the game and mos
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by piker 2mo ago
It's sad watching Magic: the Gathering shift away from nerds towards mainstream profits. I wasn't a fan of Marvel growing up, but I wonder if there is a similar sense of loss. MTG started with a metaphor of wizards casting spells
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by piker 3mo ago
I’ve deleted it but no it’s not awful anymore than saying “we survived WWII, we can survive this.” The point was that change happens but humans find a way forward.
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by piker 3mo ago
I don’t feel the existential dread of mathematicians is correct. It seems to me in fact these results are bringing math mainstream. I now personally look forward to the interpretations and discussions of the significance of such results by
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by piker 3mo ago
White text still works! There are many approaches today. Check out https://tritium.legal/blog/noroboto where we tricked frontier algorithms into reading different Unicode values from those presented by the fonts in the
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by piker 3mo ago
Nassim Taleb has a note about this idea in one of his books. Essentially just pointing out how unimportant most news headlines are a few years out.
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by piker 3mo ago
The article is paywalled, but isn’t he Canadian? Who cares what he thinks.
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by piker 3mo ago
> Not all software needs to be commercial to be useful, even if it's just for a learning experience. I have learned a lot from those experiments, even if they're not polished. This is fine so long as the author is learning some
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by piker 3mo ago
> "As far as I can tell they..." This phrase I think highlights the fundamental issue for a lot of folks that would otherwise consider adopting a project like this written by humans.
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by piker 3mo ago
Okay, but then that does not square with calling a GPT implementation out-of-distribution, let alone "extremely" so.
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by piker 3mo ago
How is a GPT implementation “extremely out of distribution” but “planet scale infra” isn’t? That’s got me totally confused about your point that I was taking seriously.
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by piker 3mo ago
It doesn't seem Ukraine's end goal is for Russians to be happy about it.
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by piker 3mo ago
Hard to see them though if you’re not in the weeds and your agents are stacking abstraction on abstraction to pass tests.
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by piker 3mo ago
"The pursuit of excellence does not need justification." https://x.com/mitchellh/status/2074225453217505494
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by piker 3mo ago
I don't trust him or Dario frankly, but I don't run a Fortune 500 company. They obviously do.
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by piker 3mo ago
> Why are they charging 1000x more for the exact same business? The implication they want to avoid, I'm suggesting, is because the CCP isn't plugged into and funding those entities' activities at a loss. Or they're ly
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by piker 3mo ago
In that case is there not some open harness that demand can coalesce around?
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by piker 3mo ago
For fear that the data they're entrusted with will be copied or that there is some nefarious reason like state sponsorship that makes the activity economical?
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by piker 3mo ago
The baker is not asking you to trust them with your entire knowledge base in exchange for an apple pie.
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by piker 3mo ago
I do agree with the UX idea of familiarity, but copying the exact salutations, etc. just seems egregious. Why not let the model speak for itself and contribute to an open harness?

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