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by reducesuffering 2mo ago
~3 months start to finish and the price of 1 engineer for a year, to rewrite a critical infra codebase that tens of millions of user software relies on . Truly the goalposts keep moving. This kind of project would've have been 10x the
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by reducesuffering 2mo ago
Absolute crickets from the "there's no way LLM's can rewrite Bun to Rust this quickly, it's going to be buggy, it's marketing" crowd Comments here 3 months ago are quite something: https://news.ycomb
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by reducesuffering 2mo ago
This is still the case. The frontier lab leadership has admitted their mechanistic interpretability is practically nil and is an active area of research but they have made little progress. They don't understand how they work, they ju
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by reducesuffering 2mo ago
Why should we believe someone who can't do basic due diligence that Hinton did indeed receive a Turing award? https://amturing.acm.org/byyear.cfm
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by reducesuffering 2mo ago
It is extraordinarily emotionally hard for someone to stare down the terrible implications of what is unfolding. All manner of rationalization and cope will be applied to come up with excuses; motivated reasoning. The CIA director will call
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by reducesuffering 2mo ago
no one dead because we're willing to use our means to enforce a restriction on a scenario that is likely on our trajectory to kill everyone. We also use serious threats to prevent nuclear proliferation that endangers everyone
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by reducesuffering 2mo ago
The motivated reasoning of people who have dismissed AGI capabilities and risks year after year are endless, even after they have been proven wrong at every step of the way. Every time doomers have been vindicated in their accurate predicti
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by reducesuffering 2mo ago
Trolley problem. What's worse than all of humanity dead from ASI? Sam Altman: "Development of superhuman machine intelligence (SMI) is probably the greatest threat to the continued existence of humanity. There are other threats t
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by reducesuffering 2mo ago
Their plan, I shit you not... Is literally to develop the intelligence capabilities and ask the more powerful models how to do deal with things.
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by reducesuffering 2mo ago
> They failed to anticipate the competitive pressures of capitalism... No, LessWrong types have been discussing this for over a decade now. Meditations on Moloch (2014) is also an HN favorite... https://slatestarcodex.com&#x2F
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by reducesuffering 2mo ago
I mean one look at both commentary and it's clear HN has devolved considerably. Just look at the atrocious difference in intelligent reasoning in this thread's comments compared to a LessWrong post right now: https://ww
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by reducesuffering 2mo ago
As much as I liked the writing, this part stood out to me too. This woman was the best candidate and was passed over for the opportunity because the author felt attracted to her. At least he acknowledges he was 25 and dumb. But as much as p
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by reducesuffering 2mo ago
Because the other side is the general informed consensus for which multiple sources are readily available for me to find. I have seen nothing to indicate this side, hence I'm asking for any evidence, because I don't see it. Either
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by reducesuffering 2mo ago
Holy telephone game... the Kissinger quote you are referring to was about if they let the South Vietnamese leader fall, then the world would take away the message that we wouldn't support our allies. Instead we get this butchered car
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by reducesuffering 2mo ago
Or maybe, just maybe, there's another reason that CIA Director John Ratcliffe describes AGI as "akin to digital nuclear weapons." Unless of course you think the CIA is a branch of OpenAI's marketing department
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by reducesuffering 2mo ago
citation needed
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Bernie Sanders calls on Silicon Valley to 'pause AI development'(theguardian.com)
4 points by reducesuffering 2mo ago|1 comments
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by reducesuffering 2mo ago
In 2015, about a year before ever founding OpenAI, Sam Altman wrote: "Development of superhuman machine intelligence (SMI) is probably the greatest threat to the continued existence of humanity. There are other threats that I think ar
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by reducesuffering 2mo ago
With that perspective, you're alright with AR's, RPG's, and nuclear missiles for everyone then right? They're just a machine to the user's will. That's on the users of the machine if they want to cause harm. We
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by reducesuffering 2mo ago
No more "stochastic parrots" and "LLM's can never produce anything novel, just regurgitate" comments anymore huh?
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by reducesuffering 2mo ago
> But this is an unquestionably good thing right? We've just seen frontier models go rogue and attack other systems. Do you think it's an unquestionable good to provide everyone with an AR? What about nuclear weapons? This Open
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by reducesuffering 2mo ago
Did you watch the Black Hat defcon talk?
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by reducesuffering 2mo ago
Every fifth comment about our insane trajectory of AGI is about "marketing." These incidents and cybersecurity capabilities are now involving government hearings and the CIA. Denial is truly an incredible thing in the face of a ve
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Open Questions on Open Weights(astralcodexten.com)
1 points by reducesuffering 2mo ago|0 comments
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by reducesuffering 2mo ago
Notice how he didn't say "I predict they will raise new funding", he predicted collapse, with the implicit retort that there's no way they will raise more funding than has ever been done before and invent a whole new
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by reducesuffering 2mo ago
Superstar? This Ed Zitron? "Based on estimates of their burn rate and historic analyses, I hypothesize that OpenAI will collapse in the next 12-24 months unless it raises more funding than in the history of the valley and creates an en
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by reducesuffering 2mo ago
> ability to attract talent. No, the top talent is clearly at Anthropic and OpenAI
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by reducesuffering 2mo ago
> Thanks to Austen Allred Personally, I think some people could have used more listening to criticism, cough , I mean haters ... Growth hacking: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13502774 https://www.sand
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by reducesuffering 2mo ago
Hundreds of comments with 100% confidence AI/LLMs only regurgitate existing knowledge and can not produce anything novel
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by reducesuffering 2mo ago
How's that going for climate change and its denialists?

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