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by sdwr 8mo ago
I think the idea is that nobody will be using CC in 5 years. If anthropic loses, nobody will use it. If anthropic wins, still nobody will use it! The value is in the model solving problems, and CC is just the hacky vessel for that, not the
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by sdwr 8mo ago
> pretty easy to do what the Google AI does I thought Gemini just started providing citations in the last few months. Are you saying they should have beaten Google to the punch on this? As part of the $500,000 budget?
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by sdwr 8mo ago
Text comes in, text goes out, but there's a lot of complexity in the middle. It's not a "world model", but there's definitely modeling of the world going on inside.
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by sdwr 8mo ago
Depends on how many epicycles you add!
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by sdwr 8mo ago
I remember a lot of pop sci being centered around "elegance", looking for simple models that are broadly predictive. Newton, Galileo, Einstein, Darwin. Feels like people are leaning the other way now, and seeing reality as messy,
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by sdwr 9mo ago
The whole trick is having your cake and eating it too. The LessWrong style exploits the gap between the strength of the claims ("this is a big deal that explains something fundamental about the world") and the evidence/founda
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by sdwr 9mo ago
That could explain the "churn" when it gets stuck. Do you think it needs to maintain an internal state over time to keep track of longer threads, or are written notes enough to bridge the gap?
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by sdwr 9mo ago
The question is whether the system can be responsible for the process. Big picture, AI doing 90% of the task isn't much better than it doing 50%, because a person still needs to take responsibility for it actually getting done. If Clau
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by sdwr 9mo ago
Looks like they are relying on Claude for it, which is interesting. I bet social scientists are going to love this approach
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by sdwr 9mo ago
Gemini accusing other models of hallucinating is wild
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by sdwr 9mo ago
Yeah, it's bad enough for capable users, but it's a nightmare for old people and the unaware. The online space is full of scams, and there's no real safe haven.
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by sdwr 9mo ago
Great article! It does a good job of outlining the mechanics and implications of LLM prediction. It gets lost in the sauce in the alignment section though, where it suggests the Anthropic paper is about LLMs "pretending" to be fut
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by sdwr 9mo ago
Selling the most cars will eventually translate into making the best cars, with the compounding experience and network effects.
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by sdwr 9mo ago
I think it's more about social stratification than bodies of knowledge. The knowledge is treated as a class signifier, especially by the protanogist. In the bit with the friend, the new training he didn't have was practically usef
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by sdwr 9mo ago
As far as I know, it was trained in because people preferred it in A/B testing
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by sdwr 9mo ago
I don't think it's accurate to describe LLMs as pattern matching. Prediction is the mechanism they use to ingest and output information, and they end up with a (relatively) deep model of the world under the hood.
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by sdwr 9mo ago
The commitment to reducing friction is really incredible. Are they implying that any developer could recreate the system with AI from the description?
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by sdwr 9mo ago
It's a classic problem when someone reaches the edge of their competence, but still cares about success. They don't see anything they can do differently, and the focus becomes how other people are (apparently) screwing up.
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by sdwr 9mo ago
I think self-cataloging is fundamentally masturbatory. On its face, there's nothing wrong with keeping notes or searchable records. But letting the record become the goal - organizing, re-organizing, polishing, theorizing - feels wrong
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by sdwr 9mo ago
AI development is a money pit, AI use is profitable. Average ChatGPT subscribers are using way less than $20 of electricity and GPU time per month.
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by sdwr 9mo ago
Isolated populations "drift" genetically, which is how species form in the first place. Discriminating against people based on those differences sucks, sure, but it's still the ground truth.
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by sdwr 9mo ago
It was a low-budget restating of the message: - examples of real food - "coming together", as in being focused on - zooming away, as in being spread and disseminated widely It contrasts with the slick, professional look of the res
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by sdwr 9mo ago
Wittgenstein obliterates any hope of formalizing language, yeah. I think modeling language usefully looks a lot more like psychoanalysis than first order logic.
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by sdwr 9mo ago
I think the idea is that a wargame is more like D&D, and less like the Olympics. It requires cooperation to keep the illusion intact, so there's a limit to how "sweaty" you can be trying to win. After a certain point, you
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by sdwr 9mo ago
It's technology propaganda. The protagonist is initially skeptical, but learns to accept the wonders of tech as her life is magically transformed by it.
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by sdwr 9mo ago
Clearly not true. In 2020, the SEC fined Andeavor for buying back its own stock while negotiating a potential merger. The duty is to affected shareholders and the integrity of the market, not the company. Don't know how you got this fr
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by sdwr 9mo ago
AI has a lot lower bar to clear to upend the tech industry compared to the global economy. Not being in on AI is an existential risk for these companies.
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by sdwr 9mo ago
So art is just a status signifier? "This is hard to make so I must be really special"?
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by sdwr 9mo ago
This guy is a great historian. He keeps gunning for the fundamental question - "What was it like to live then?", and backs it up with rigorous foundations.
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by sdwr 10mo ago
It's true, they're unbeatable as consumer products now, especially after Intel dropped the ball so hard

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