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by qlte 28d ago
Uh I'm pretty sure the "singularity" always presupposed a lot of previously unthinkable technologies becoming part of daily life, and was not ever limited to just computer stuff or math problems. "Moving the goalposts&qu
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by qlte 28d ago
Pure mathematics, almost by definition, doesn't typically argue the field is always or even often "useful" (for some other purpose or application). But, as mathematicians learn and push forward, occasionally something like el
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by qlte 28d ago
As an author on the final proof once ready for publication, turning the brewing conflict into "willing" collaborators. Thus solving the potential taint like we are now seeing surrounding their announcement if it became public. But
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by qlte 28d ago
A hundred pages of impenetrable brute forced Lean would advance the field much less than something elegant and human understandable, perhaps relying on some new clever spark of innovation that might inspire new areas of research. Particular
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by qlte 28d ago
They train on chat logs unless opted out. This really isn't a conspiratorial claim requiring humans to decide to steal IP if true. His prior work predating OpenAI's interest in the problem was ingested over the last year as he mad
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by qlte 29d ago
Their point is measuring gravity's influence on a single particle is not necessarily evidence of the existence of the graviton.
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by qlte 29d ago
Perplexity Launcher is free and takes <2 minutes to install on the Shield or other Google TV devices and has zero ads. Being able to sideload apps that will never be allowed on the Apple TV is a major benefit for anything piracy adjacent
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by qlte 29d ago
To the extent that the 3rd party inference resellers are a viable market because of Chinese/certain US AI labs (current) willingness to absorb substantial compute/R&D/data harvesting costs while releasing weights on permi
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by qlte 29d ago
Does the pay off calculation include the frequent interior cleaning any rental car will need to be kept in service 24/7? Both normal wear and tear and spills, vomit, blood, etc that users are motivated by fees to pretend they didn&#x27
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by qlte 29d ago
I suspect you mean benzos or Z-drugs not SSRIs based on context.
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by qlte 1mo ago
If you paint with such a broad brush that watching anything on a screen is equally bad, that's a backdoor way to justify scrolling through TikTok ragebait videos since "it's all poison anyway". Edutainment is a spectrum,
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by qlte 1mo ago
The comment you're replying to is refuting the parent's statement that all default Reddit subs are "left wing".
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by qlte 1mo ago
> Even with the Greenland annexation threats there are Democrats who think it wouldn't be a bad idea, but you should not say it out loud. If you were talking about like, Iraq in 2003 you'd be correct to point out that
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by qlte 1mo ago
Well said. When I realize I've been reading LLM filler and leave the page it's the same reaction I would have pre-2021 thinking I found a good source for something and realizing I'm actually reading blogspam. The difference b
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by qlte 1mo ago
> You're making the erroneous assumption that the person posting the article was a mouthbreathing spammer Yes, that's the risk of using an LLM to "clean up" your writing. It's human nature to think you&#x
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by qlte 1mo ago
> cant't stand how right he is That's.... convenient. No need to interrogate the stated reasons why someone you admire is not universally and uncritically beloved. I'll just ignore the reasons they themselves repea
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by qlte 1mo ago
Kinda funny how the "more interesting things" after LLMs example are mostly fiddling with Claude Code itself. Reminds me of when someone says they ship 60k lines of code every day now and when asked for an example, it's a lab
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by qlte 1mo ago
Sure it's noise but it does serve a valuable purpose so I don't waste my limited time reading an article on the front page if I see a consensus from dozens of AI complaints in the comments. Dang at one point mentioned HN was plann
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by qlte 1mo ago
Which you can also easily do with uBlock Origin Lite in Chrome/Chromium.
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by qlte 1mo ago
This is the sort of pseudo-scientific reasoning by analogy that leads Elizier Yudkowsky to argue we should be terrified that an unfriendly ASI could rapidly develop "diamondide" nanobot viruses, because it will be super-intelligen
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by qlte 1mo ago
Yes, it's actually based on an economic model seemingly developed with a detailed understanding of modern farming practices and historical effects of timeline disruptions on yields. It may be approximate but isn't just some random
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by qlte 1mo ago
According to this firm selling them, this model has <15ft error, usually 3-4 ft. Given the permissible area is entirely up to what the judge orders, it seems eminently plausible that someone confined to their apartment could be placed ou
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by qlte 1mo ago
Your heuristic is flawed. The pool of defendants with pending charges who were granted pre-trial home detention are going to be disproportionately non-violent, first-time offenders compared to those denied bail or with prohibitively large a
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by qlte 1mo ago
And, any time you mentioned getting a bit better at hitting a ball after practicing over your weekend, a bunch of people carrying printouts of generic exponential graphs jumped out to call you a Luddite who should sell his gear ASAP while i
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by qlte 1mo ago
> This feels a lot more like computing in the 90s after taking an odd 25 year detour of an obsession with the tools themselves instead of what the tools can actually do. This sounds more like the opposite of what you're sayi
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by qlte 1mo ago
I am pretty sure the average human would not have done this (among other slightly less absurd examples in the article requiring employees to fix it's mistakes): Andon Labs added: “During the first week of operations, Mona purchas
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by qlte 1mo ago
Well are you looking for a subscription or pay-as-you-go API usage? Subscription? -> Google One plan (http://one.google.com/) API? -> AI Studio (https://aistudio.google.com/) It's not reall
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by qlte 1mo ago
Happened with Dow-Dupont! A three-way split, even (from a two-way merger). Took roughly two years and was the shareholders' plan from the start. By most accounts it went very smoothly. [1] https://www.investors.dupont.com&
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METR Researcher Thomas Kwa Hired by OpenAI(lesswrong.com)
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by qlte 1mo ago
The creator of the well known METR time horizon graph was recently poached by OpenAI [1], there exists intellectual/social/financial overlap between the SV AI Labs and METR, and METR needs to maintain good relations with the labs

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