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by sifar 6mo ago
Thou shall not make a machine in the likeness of man. Oh wait that is Dune :). I think what OP meant is Asimov's stories revolve around issues arising from loopholes or some interpretation of the three laws of robotics.
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by sifar 6mo ago
>> I'm not sure what level of delusion one has to run to look at human civilization and say "no, intelligence wasn't important for this". One has to only look at the current tech and political leaders.
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by sifar 6mo ago
would opus 4.6 be relevant in 2035 ?
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by sifar 6mo ago
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by sifar 6mo ago
Upton Sinclair[1] has something relevant for Amodei. Funnily enough, the same thing can be used against those who criticize his view on AI. I wonder if there is a word for this. [1] https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/11
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by sifar 6mo ago
I felt it more being naive idealism in the beginning coupled with the thrill of achieving things before the realization. Yet certain things stand out like her trip to Myanmar. Why to subject oneself through that in that condition. The titl
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by sifar 6mo ago
>> I trust they understand the market and SpaceX's current value It is more likely that the parties involved know that they can create/manipulate conditions to make it a success.
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by sifar 6mo ago
>> The whole history of computing has been about creating higher abstractions to make it easier to build software These abstractions are understandable and predictable. There is no mental model for the current LLMs(in entirety, even
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by sifar 6mo ago
It's called fables.
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by sifar 7mo ago
Yes, the US seems to be fighting the last war - both strategically and tactically.
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by sifar 7mo ago
Flip it around. Can intelligence exist without self preservation ?
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by sifar 7mo ago
Right. Technology is more distributed, empowering for the individual, however the power that wields it is stuck in a more feudalistic mindset and so we get this weird state where technological advancements seem more dystopian.
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by sifar 7mo ago
I look at it from the other side. Life, and by extension human civilization,is a local entropy minimization mechanism.
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by sifar 7mo ago
No, not bombadil. I'll donate mine too. :)
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by sifar 7mo ago
Do you ? It takes a some introspection. People can be in denial despite the feedback from reality.
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by sifar 7mo ago
Yeah, the latency numbers provide a ceiling for your algorithm. The actual performance depends on the implementation, code generation, runtime hazards, small dependencies one may have overlooked etc.
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by sifar 7mo ago
The corruption of LoTR is the saddest part here.
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by sifar 7mo ago
It is not a binary choice. This is the greatest illusion people in power manage to create, there are only two choices - pro or anti.
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by sifar 7mo ago
Ironic that for someone so steeped in tech, his views on technology seem to be simplistic.
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by sifar 7mo ago
You are building a system that has a shaky mental model and which may or may not adhere to the *.md files.
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by sifar 7mo ago
What is your position? Genuinely asking as someone who is similarly trying to cope and doesn't want to travel down the road being trampled on. Primarily because it doesn't make me better, it doesn't benefit me as an individua
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by sifar 7mo ago
The point is worrying about results creates anxiety that takes away your focus from doing the job which results is lower performance -> subpar results - it is a recursive spiral. Also results are not "wholly" under our control.
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by sifar 8mo ago
> AI in particular doesn't have a high requirement at the consumer side Effective use of these AI tools need high critical thinking skills which are in short supply.
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by sifar 8mo ago
There is a distinct possibility that the credit expansion for the datacenter buildout will turn the AI bubble into a 2008 like situation. That would be painful.
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by sifar 8mo ago
>> rather than something more like the difference between programming GPUs and CPUs. Again, I get your point, but you are really trivializing HW design here and I don't want anyone starting or migrating from SW to get a wrong imp
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by sifar 8mo ago
>> Stuff runs in parallel. You occasionally have to know about really hardware things like timing and metastability. But the venn diagram of hardware/software design skills is pretty much two identical circles. I don't know
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by sifar 8mo ago
And what happens when these different objectives conflict or diverge ? Will it be able to figure out the appropriate trade-offs, live with the results and go meta to rethink the approach or simply delude itself ? We would definitely lose th
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by sifar 8mo ago
Gell-Mann Amnesia strikes again. It feels strange - almost as if Asimov hated Orwell. So many personal attacks. And I say this as fan of Foundation/Robot series. Despite quoting below from Fromm's afterword, how does Asimov miss i
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by sifar 8mo ago
Multiplication can be sub-quadratic using Karatsuba's algorithm.
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by sifar 8mo ago
Same here, looking for an excuse to use it. It takes some time to get oriented. The BSV fronted makes it easier though. Have been dabbling in it as a hobby on the side. While there have been tape-outs by universities, I think the learning c

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