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by qnleigh 3mo ago
I would really love to see examples of creatives using modern AI/LLMs to make quality art, and it feels like this should be happening, but I can't think of any examples yet. Maybe there's so much low-effort slop that the good
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by qnleigh 3mo ago
I would also think that self-replicating probes would work more like living things. He seems to be imagining that we make probes like modern machines, and then find ways to let them build themselves. But nature found much easier solutions.
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by qnleigh 3mo ago
Why on earth wouldn't you need to look at the P value? You give good arguments for the soundness is the methodology, but you still need to look at the results and their statistical significance. Their P value is 0.02, which is good but
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by qnleigh 3mo ago
> he was described as the most corrupt official in Chinese history... Heshen is remembered as one of the richest men in history... His total property was... reputed to be equivalent to the imperial revenue of the Qing government for 12 y
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by qnleigh 4mo ago
I think the concept of "AGI-complete" was interesting but had been falsified. LLMs have jagged intelligence, meaning that they are good at some things while being counterintuitively bad at other things that seem much easier. Espec
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by qnleigh 4mo ago
Totally agree. I'm a scientist, and like most scientists I have some specialized skills that most of my colleages don't. AI has empowered them to learn and build things that they might have otherwise needed me for. But there have
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by qnleigh 4mo ago
Last I heard, Cerebras chips were entire wafers and would be extremely expensive. How could OpenAI possibly have enough of these to serve a popular model at scale?
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by qnleigh 4mo ago
I used to think this was the explanation, but I was told by a particle physicist that this is actually not correct. Unfortunately I don't remember the correct argument (and I'm not sure I understood fully it in the first place)
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by qnleigh 4mo ago
I haven't read any of these papers, but given the environmental impact of LLMs in 2026, it seems like Timnit Gebru has been thoroughly vindicated...
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by qnleigh 4mo ago
The estimate that AI companies need to replace 27% of jobs to service their debt is interesting. But at least Anthropic and Meta seem to have their eyes on replacing software engineers. There are ~1.6M software engineers on the US [0], earn
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by qnleigh 4mo ago
> Atlas would need to learn new factory tasks in a day or two and reach 99.9% reliability before it could be truly useful on the floor Progress in robotics has been impressive, but is there any evidence that we are approaching this point
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by qnleigh 4mo ago
Yeah it's sort of alarming when you think about hooking up models to take action in the real world and telling them it's just a game. Several scifi stories have it as a plot twist that humans think they are playing a game but are
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by qnleigh 4mo ago
That is incredible. 2.5 hours underwater, 1.5 hours of CPR. They were instructed not to start rewarming him until he could be given more comprehensive treatment at a hospital. They list 'death' as a differential diagnosis... He di
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by qnleigh 4mo ago
What is the origin of this trick? It seems like the kind of thing that might have been discovered in academia but overlooked for years.
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by qnleigh 4mo ago
Naive question: will it not be possible for ad blockers to upgrade to ManifestV3? Is there something about it that makes ad blocking much harder. What does Manifest actually do?
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by qnleigh 4mo ago
All this proves is that economic interdependence doesn't completely prevent war. Who knows how much more violent the 20th century would have been without it.
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by qnleigh 4mo ago
Ironically this take is also a pretty black-and-white, cynical take. There are far worse places on the internet in this respect than Hacker News.
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by qnleigh 4mo ago
I know Google's track record prior to the DOW contact is far from perfect, but is it really so hard to understand why it crossed a line for a lot of people? Why are we acting like ad tracking/targeting and developing autonomous le
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by qnleigh 4mo ago
Economic interdependence is also a big factor. If you depend on someone selling you things or buying them from you, you have a lot more to lose by invading them.
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by qnleigh 4mo ago
Is a success story line this still possible with coding assistants, or do they basically pull up the ladder that this guy climbed? I don't have enough insight into the job market right now to know.
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by qnleigh 4mo ago
How much did the original apps cost you? That's gonna be direct job replacement for those people.
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by qnleigh 5mo ago
They've been coming faster and faster for me. First I was blown away by GPT2, specifically the fake news article about talking unicorns. Just stringing together a few sentences while maintaining logical coherence was very impressive at
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by qnleigh 5mo ago
They also quote a follow up study that sounds more compelling: > The 2026 multicenter placebo-controlled trial extending this work enrolled 240 participants with early Alzheimer’s... The intervention group showed slower decline on standa
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AI Dark Output: The Visible Cost of Invisible Output(newsletter.semianalysis.com)
3 points by qnleigh 5mo ago|1 comments
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by qnleigh 5mo ago
> During the 1980s and 90s, macroeconomic data could not detect the contribution of the emerging computer revolution. Famously, Robert Solow quipped “You can see the computer age everywhere, but in the productivity statistics.” > Cons
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by qnleigh 5mo ago
I think a verbal password works just fine here. But it has to be something that you are 100% positive the other person wouldn't forget, otherwise it's not effective. Also sending this article to family members so they're awar
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by qnleigh 5mo ago
> Behavioral testing showed that treated models performed significantly better on memory and recognition tasks. "Treated models" - it sounds like they're trying really hard to hide the fact that this was all in mice. From
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Ask HN: Are we in the 'Goldilocks era' of AI capabilities?
1 points by qnleigh 5mo ago|0 comments
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by qnleigh 5mo ago
Can you describe what the reaction to these results has been like in your department? Obviously many people are excited, but what else? How do grad students feel about this? Are any professors getting worried about becoming obsolete?
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by qnleigh 5mo ago
> it'd be more fun to win a game if you were on the field than if you were benched This is a good analogy for AI work displacement. Probably would resonate with some of the college students who boo'ed Eric Schmidt.

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