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by qgin 1y ago
If Apple has an opening for an AI-first device, its AirPods with their own Apple Watch style SIP and data connection + replacing Siri with a real multimodal model.
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by qgin 1y ago
If we’re talking about the singularity robot takeover fast takeoff, maybe that’s true. But Sam and others have said they see AGI is an uneven process that may not have a clear finish line. The intelligence is spiky and some parts will be su
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by qgin 1y ago
For small models, yes. But for the kind of massive multimodal models getting trained these days, the concept of "a pattern on an object" will exist. It doesn't need to have seen a tiger sofa before. But tiger + sofa + pattern
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by qgin 1y ago
People get tripped up by thinking "there is a subset of what I do that only humans can do and so that means AI will not eliminate my profession entirely and my job is safe". Let's assume for now that it's true that AI ca
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by qgin 1y ago
To own the libs, to stick it to the “experts”. It’s sad, but that’s the whole thing.
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by qgin 1y ago
Same. I did like 5 text searches in the article to see if I had missed it somehow
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by qgin 1y ago
Emergent capabilities have been one of the wildest developments in software. For most traditional programmers you learn quickly and with great pain that the computer only does what you explicitly program it to do, no more, no less, and unin
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by qgin 1y ago
At least in the parliamentary system, you are voting for an abstract notion of how things should be run, a worldview, or a list of policies. In the American system, the cult of personality rules above all. The vast majority of Americans dis
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by qgin 1y ago
They wanted to sell “self driving ready” packages 10 years ago, when LiDAR actually was expensive. So at the time, they had to make big deal about LiDAR being unnecessary.
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by qgin 1y ago
Given what’s likely to happen with with AI and robotics over the next 10 years, all this debate about bringing back manufacturing jobs is pretty silly
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by qgin 1y ago
You can do a brain CT to detect a stroke in about 5 minutes. An MRI takes 30-60 minutes. Both useful but in emergency medicine you need the speed.
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by qgin 1y ago
If they were concerned with spending, they’d just cut the spending. They’re making the spending conditional on Harvard following their ideological instructions.
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by qgin 1y ago
As someone who worked public-facing jobs for a long time, I can assure you that millennials are not any more clueless than previous generations. They have more self-awareness about what they don’t know and are more willing to joke about it
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by qgin 1y ago
Not something you would do if there was any chance of a larger deal near term
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by qgin 2y ago
Any therapy that can show safety and efficacy —- not even a lot of efficacy —- gets approved. To the extent that we don’t have everything being cured by stem cells, it’s because stem cells as they are currently used are not very effective o
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by qgin 2y ago
Where you planning to go? Hypothetically, if the US economy collapses, the whole world is coming down with them.
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by qgin 2y ago
I probably have a higher P(doom) than most, but I also feel that it’s important to remember that we don’t even have close to enough information to predict what’s going to happen with any level of certainty. The scenarios I can imagine are n
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by qgin 2y ago
This is the first time I haven’t hated scroll hijacking. That was actually really smooth.
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by qgin 2y ago
This is Hacker News magic, I love it
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by qgin 2y ago
This is good to know, but we should note that humans choose also.
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by qgin 2y ago
Hypothetically, what would happen if you did a cloud backup and wiped your phone before going through customs, then restored the phone on the other side?
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by qgin 2y ago
Commercial Drivers License
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by qgin 2y ago
In NYC, it’s $500 / month per person for a Bronze plan with a $6000 deductible.
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by qgin 2y ago
I don't know how much potential this has to solve propaganda / bad faith arguments because you can just say "that logic program is biased" and handwave the entire thing away. But you could imagine a role for this in arbi
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by qgin 2y ago
The United States government is now officially betting against the United States Dollar.
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by qgin 2y ago
Can you sketch out a bit more how this could work?
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by qgin 2y ago
Try 4.5 There’s a real point I’m trying to make here about emergent LLM capabilities.
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by qgin 2y ago
To be fair, you can continue that conversation with your SO and they will remember your previous discussion.
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by qgin 2y ago
At some point we have to consider the possibility that these aren’t just cuts to the budget, but an intentional plan to visit each government department and giving it a stab wound to let it bleed out and die over the course of the next year
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by qgin 2y ago
They know what they want to cut and are counting on finding enough seuface-level-bad-sounding sound bites to justify what they were already going to do.

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