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by qgin 2y ago
4.5 is a very big deal and it boggles my mind to hear people say otherwise. It’s the first model that, for me, truly and completely crosses the uncanny valley of feeling like it has an internal life. It feels more present than the majority
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by qgin 2y ago
I would love to know what lobbyist created this bill and who they were lobbying on behalf of. There's literally no way this was a creation of a senator or representative pulled out of their own thoughts about a hypothetical future. Som
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by qgin 2y ago
I have yet to hear a legitimate case for why a government should hold a bitcoin reserve aside from Number Go Up. Usually that it will make the number go up and btc holders tend to like that.
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by qgin 2y ago
Poossibly, but reports seem to indicate that 4.5 is much more nuanced and thoughtful in its language use. It's not just being shorter and casual as a style, there is a higher amount of "conceptual resolution" within the words
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by qgin 2y ago
They see higher education as a cultural enemy, promoting anti-conservative ideas. They want universities to exist in the most minimal form, teaching workers of the future, but scrambling to survive and not able to exert much cultural influe
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by qgin 2y ago
Some paraphrasing on my part, but what he does say is at odds with fast takeoff AGI. He describes AI as a tool that gradually changes human work at a speed that humans adapt to over time.
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by qgin 2y ago
I think this is where the AGI employee succeeds where other automation doesn’t. The AGI employee doesn’t require the organization to change. It’s an agent that functions like a regular employee in the same exact system with all of its ineff
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by qgin 2y ago
I think you don’t have widespread adoption until AI takes the form of a plug-and-play “remote employee”. You click a button on Microsoft Teams and hire “Bob” who joins your team org, gets an account like any other employee, interacts over e
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by qgin 2y ago
A few things from the Dwarkesh interview with Satya: * He sees data center leases getting cheaper in near future due to everyone building * He’s investing big in AI, but in every year there needs to be a rough balance between capacity and n
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by qgin 2y ago
Not sure why people took my mentioning that stat as some kind of criticism. Here in Pittsburgh it’s a point of pride that Pitt has such a long running positive track record in medical research. I posted it to note how big of a deal NIH fund
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by qgin 2y ago
University of Pittsburgh has consistently been one of the top 10 recipients of NIH funding for at least 25 years
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by qgin 2y ago
Number 3 can’t be overstated. Healthcare costs for the exact same care are 2x-3x what they are in Europe. Global health insurance plans usually come in two flavors: 1. Global coverage 2. Global coverage excluding United States (for half the
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by qgin 2y ago
I think the premise is the potential for a sufficiently advanced AI to invent ways to create destructive weapons with easily available materials.
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by qgin 2y ago
There's no reason to expect models won't be able to handle this even better than humans.
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by qgin 2y ago
I think this is the key change. We’re already beholden to a “machine” (the economy) that none of us completely understand or control or created explicitly. It has its own goals and tendencies that emerged from the complexity. What AI and ro
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by qgin 2y ago
The premise is that this ultimately replaces all intellectual and physical labor for the rest of time. It’s possible it becomes commoditized as soon as it exists, but in terms of investment dollars it’s either worth as much as you can spend
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by qgin 2y ago
It's an incredibly jerk line to start the article with and completely untrue. I'm not saying that I've never heard an REM song in a store, but the idea that REM is somehow the soundtrack of capitalism seems entirely made up.
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by qgin 2y ago
Audits for everyone
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by qgin 2y ago
There are online services that will pretty much rubber stamp your prescription for the test. AgelessRx and Function Health are two.
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by qgin 2y ago
NHS is evaluating it now in a trial. https://www.nhs-galleri.org
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by qgin 2y ago
Not sure why it makes sense to redo the same work 50 times
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by qgin 2y ago
Never underestimate HN's capacity to be cynical about literally everything
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by qgin 2y ago
I'd bet the majority people reading Hacker News are the "them" by most measures.
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by qgin 2y ago
At least presently, it trades mire correlated to all risk assets rather than a safety asset like gold.
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by qgin 2y ago
Everyone knows you're only supposed to use Pareto 20% of the time
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by qgin 2y ago
You don’t need advisory panels if you don’t want advice
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by qgin 2y ago
How involved is the government at all? I’m still having a hard time seeing how Trump or anyone in the government is involved except to do the announcement. These are private companies coming together to do a deal.
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by qgin 2y ago
I don’t know if the bubble framing is particularly helpful. Every new technology and medium (AI has features of both) goes through a period where people try to unsuccessfully apply it to old paradigms before discovering the new ones that ma
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by qgin 2y ago
There is a point where insurance changes from a thing that spreads risk to simply a pre-payment plan for a likely occurrence.
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by qgin 2y ago
> It’s not just a right-wing thing — the politics of climate change is grounded in the idea that the climate of the past is the best one. This seems like an extremely wild take on climate change.

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