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by pksebben 4y ago
same. Probably hugged to death.
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by pksebben 4y ago
Even if it doesn't initially, the fact that it's being released so permissively is massive - stable diffusion was made far more powerful by being hackable at all levels and I can't imagine we won't see the same here. I i
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by pksebben 4y ago
The growth is here. Whether the models become openly accessible is immaterial to that fact - closing them up and burying them in regulation won't do anything to slow the progress down; it will just slow progress down for the likes of
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by pksebben 4y ago
I think we'll reach architectural changes that make this moot before we reach hardware for it. The way we train these models is constantly in flux, and we just need someone to crack continuous learning so we can pass models around and
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by pksebben 4y ago
We are aligned. I just wonder when we'll get to a stage where we can start producing value faster than the landlord types can charge rent on it. I think this tech might actually represent an opportunity to break out of the systemic qu
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by pksebben 4y ago
This is kind of my point - there isn't any slowing or stopping progress on this. We have effectively two paths - development behind walled gardens and closed doors, which will accelerate the wealth gap to war- and poverty- inducing le
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by pksebben 4y ago
If we really want to curb the potential for harm from these models, open them up. Share the checkpoints and the code to train them. Democratize the development of new systems. The infosec world figured this out ages ago. Yes, it's p
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by pksebben 4y ago
Glad to see more progress on open(ish) source versions. There's so much more these things could do unfettered by corporate motivations.
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by pksebben 4y ago
Minor correction for your correction: "Toe the line" most likely has it's roots in military tradition [1]. To toe the line is to stand at the line for inspection - it's still used that way today (I had to do it myself i
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by pksebben 4y ago
Slow your roll. You have no idea who I am or what I stand for - and I'd bet we're more aligned than you think. I'm of the opinion that both parties have been captured by criminals, so even if you fall on partisan lines, we a
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by pksebben 4y ago
I've lived through two. I was working as a roofer through one and a bartender in the next, and honest, didn't notice much of a difference other than middle class folks freaking out about their mortgages and wall street screaming
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by pksebben 4y ago
Oh, for sure. I will be the last person on earth to come to the defense of an institution like this - I think that frequently, it's our social structures that are pathological before it's specific individuals. People, on balance,
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by pksebben 4y ago
Caveat: no archive link and I'm not about to start paying the new Yorker to tell me how the world works, so might be missing context. Hibino, I'm gonna guess, is Japanese. The jokes don't seem like their punching down at Jose
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by pksebben 4y ago
I have this (totally unprofessional and mostly unverified) theory about liquidity in general: that it's a conduit and amplifier for many things, but chief amongst them is exploitation. Highly liquid markets mean that value of one kind
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by pksebben 4y ago
> On March 3, 2023, a denizen of the now-defunct cybercrime community BreachForums ... That's pretty recent for being "now-defunct". What happened?
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by pksebben 4y ago
D'oh. You're totally right; I was having a different conversation apparently.
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by pksebben 4y ago
man, that's a good talk. I've got some decompilecting to do in a few places. I loled at the beginning, when he talks about (in 2011) how "all I see on hacker News is people talking about how great and awesome all this new stu
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by pksebben 4y ago
right, but what do you do once I've taken my AI generated image, run it through illustrator's image trace, and performed just enough automated manipulation, then copied it through a format or two? Writing a method to scrub this
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by pksebben 4y ago
none of those are bad ideas, really. it's not like there aren't plenty of "journalists" who are doing just that, and for them, I'd prefer the capability to turn down the temperature on the output.
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by pksebben 4y ago
I think perhaps there's a subtlety in that quote - "philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds". Maybe part of the meaning, is that I'm the course of doing what scientists do, phi
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by pksebben 4y ago
Unbounded growth is a fundamental evil. Our system of corporate organization has been creating troll accounts for a lot longer than the Internet has been around (they just call it marketing, but a pig by any other name...). Nationalism is a
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by pksebben 4y ago
not out of those woods yet, unfortunately
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by pksebben 4y ago
That's kinda what it looks like we'll be able to make these models do, though. The tech is young still. All those erroneous hallucinations and patent lying (which are admittedly very present in the current crop) may well be mana
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by pksebben 4y ago
"perfectly good" in this case reads a little like "fragile". We over optimize when things are good and then wonder what happened when there's a pothole. of course people are fickle and of course rates are going to c
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by pksebben 4y ago
my problem with this, and I think others share it, is that nothing came out of the situation to fix the conditions that made it happen. The best we got was the Volcker rule (RIP). and even that wasn't nearly enough. If you're &quo
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by pksebben 4y ago
Exciting to see work on an nn that would be capable of continuous learning by design. The possibilities seem endless - models that can be passed around and built up in a variety of contexts, not to mention the ability to train incrementall
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Geoff Hinton Explains the Forward-Forward Algorithm [video](youtube.com)
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by pksebben 4y ago
what you did there, I see it.
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by pksebben 4y ago
whether or not it's generating cash at the moment is probably a secondary concern for Microsoft, behind having the code to train on.
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by pksebben 4y ago
Not exactly what I meant; there is a nonzero chance that an AGI given authority over humanity would run it better. Granted, a flipped coin would run it better but that's kinda the size of it.

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