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by scarmig 1mo ago
California's biggest problems are mostly along the lines of "too many people want to live here." I have plenty of complaints about California governance, many of them conservative coded. But if California is a failed state,
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by scarmig 1mo ago
So, what you're asking for is an example of someone extracting value out of something that is fundamentally irreducible random noise?
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by scarmig 1mo ago
There are plenty of artifacts that, if not impossible for humans to understand, then at least no human has ever completely understood. To start with, the universe as a whole. Despite that, we are able to choose legible pieces of it to model
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by scarmig 1mo ago
Take something like (1+x*y)^3*z+y^2*(1+x*y)*(4+3*x*y);y+3*x*(1+x*y)^2*z+3*x*y^2*(4+3*x*y);2*x-3*x^2*y-x^3*z|0,0,-1/4|1,-3/2,13/2 If a thousand monkeys typed at a character per second, on a keyboard with the 23 relevant
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by scarmig 2mo ago
> Because one day Ed will be right Bold prediction.
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Award Winning AI Literature(jamesyu.org)
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by scarmig 2mo ago
Whatever the morality involved, it's an unstable norm. There can be good actors who use AI and disclose, and good actors who don't use AI and don't disclose. There are bad actors, however, who will use AI and not disclose. Th
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by scarmig 2mo ago
Imagine you've got to evacuate a hundred thousand people. That extra day is incredibly valuable.
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by scarmig 2mo ago
"The fire fighting department really just hired an arsonist so they could market their fire fighting abilities!"
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by scarmig 2mo ago
You can dig through every single paper and find some citation that was missed. No one cares that much unless the result is important, and then you get bitter recriminations saying that it was stolen or plagiarized. Tale as old as time. See
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by scarmig 2mo ago
Sounds like something an AI would say.
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by scarmig 2mo ago
The issue isn't just that cheaters are going to cheat. It's that the project will provide a positive and mostly trustworthy provenance exactly during the period of time when no one cares about or trusts it. However, as knowledge o
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by scarmig 2mo ago
Everything has limits, of course. But if you've not yet seen a deceleration, it's reasonable to expect that at the least you're in the middle of the sigmoid, not the top.
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by scarmig 2mo ago
It's worth reading Marcus' first line, for the naysayers and flaggers on this post: > Astra, a new model that OpenAI is testing internally, is amazing. No denying that.
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by scarmig 2mo ago
From a random article I grabbed of his ( https://www.wheresyoured.at/subprimeai/ ): "it isn't clear whether generative AI actually provides much business value at all" "cannot seem to find a product t
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by scarmig 2mo ago
> On that current AI is a bit lacking as they don't have very good sensors whereas human brains are pretty wired up for touch, smell, sight, sound and the like. For sight and sound, the sensory input layer for AIs is much, much rich
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by scarmig 2mo ago
I think the critical factor that makes sci-fi hard isn't known physics, exactly, but early on establishing a known set of rules and letting them play out as they will. The narrative has to respect and adjust to those rules, not vice ve
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by scarmig 2mo ago
Embodiment doesn't exist, even in regular humans. We do not have direct access to reality; we have sensory inputs that are much lower bandwidth than one might expect but correlate with external events, and our brain uses them to form r
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by scarmig 2mo ago
Things that are vaguely GAN-shaped might play some role in post training. Though no one would call them GANs or identify them as the key underlying technology.
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by scarmig 2mo ago
The beernet conjecture: all conjectures have both messy, ugly proofs, as well as a elegant clean proof lurking behind the scenes.
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by scarmig 2mo ago
I know multiple Physics PhDs who are living rich, happy lives. Though, mostly by abandoning the field and moving to Anthropic.
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by scarmig 2mo ago
The claim I was responding to was that alfalfa using 1000x the water of Google data centers was okay because alfalfa is needed for life. My response was not "data centers are needed for life" but "alfalfa is not needed for li
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by scarmig 2mo ago
Although delicious, alfalfa is not required for life. A lot of it goes to Saudi Arabia, who use it for horses and cattle, as the Saudis banned it domestically for being wasteful for water usage.
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by scarmig 2mo ago
The AI paperclip case, however, is coming on extraordinarily strong.
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by scarmig 2mo ago
> I'm surprised there are comments here that aren't impressed about what was accomplished here. The phrase to describe it is anti-AI psychosis. Which isn't about providing thoughtful critiques of AI, which are good and we
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by scarmig 2mo ago
I like the math vs physics toggle.
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by scarmig 2mo ago
A throwaway line that consists of baseless speculation that makes no sense is a Reddit-tier take, yes.
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by scarmig 2mo ago
The entire "OpenAI and HuggingFace manufactured a hack in a conspiracy to make AI look powerful to get more funding" is a stupid, Reddit-tier take.
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by scarmig 2mo ago
If you're Demis, at least, you sleep fine because you were personally an early investor in Anthropic.
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by scarmig 2mo ago
> In May, a House of Lords report said England faced a 5bn litre a day shortfall for public water supplies by 2055. > Water UK estimated that datacentres in England use 6.6m litres of drinking water every day. > England’s current w

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