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by somesortofthing 22d ago
It's very funny that despite the initial shock of how much models trained on next-token-prediction(plus instruct-tuning and some light RLHF) alone were capable of despite no built-in objective, every advance since has made them look mo
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by somesortofthing 23d ago
I doubt we'll ever get a non-toothless pacing agreement but am nevertheless optimistic on global pacing as a phenomenon. If one side or the other thinks that their opponent is about to achieve the strategic upper hand permanently(or if
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by somesortofthing 1mo ago
You can write human-comprehensible regulations(and the AI will helpfully beat whatever it's building into the shape of those regulations, probably against the spirit of them, in ways you can't detect) and you can have humans go th
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by somesortofthing 1mo ago
What happens when the thing they have to be responsible for takes multiple lifetimes to understand on even the most basic level, let alone know deeply enough to feel comfortable taking responsibility for it?
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by somesortofthing 2mo ago
Microservices can trample on each other just as easily as monolith internals can. If anything, the friction of reconciling changes in a monolith is useful signal that conflicting changes happened, and it takes slow and flaky e2e tests to re
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by somesortofthing 2mo ago
Opus 4.7+ and 5 being annoying and incoherent reads like a portent of things to come: Anthropic is clearly all-in on building persistent end-to-end agents that act autonomously and direct agent swarms. As such, they feel less of a need to s
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by somesortofthing 2mo ago
Anything generally useful/novel probably does end up in some kind of central catalogue(or maybe just the weights). After a while though, you're tall enough yourself that the giant's shoulders don't make much of a differe
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by somesortofthing 2mo ago
I doubt many pure mathematicians would be okay with totally subordinating all exploratory mathematical investigation to specific practical problems, and the field would look very different both in terms of how it's organized and what o
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by somesortofthing 2mo ago
I don't see a reason this dynamic couldn't continue with zero dedicated effort toward "pure math" as such. Fundamentally, the function of math in practical application is producing deterministic(or stochastic, but obviou
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by somesortofthing 2mo ago
Taken on its premises at least, I think this piece inadvertently fails to make a case for why "pure mathematics" should persist as a field of human or machine activity. A real-world system with the abilities of a robustly superi
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by somesortofthing 2mo ago
I think Opus 4.7+ being annoying is actually indicative of something else: Anthropic is clearly all-in on building persistent end-to-end agents that act autonomously and direct agent swarms. As such, they feel less of a need to make the out
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by somesortofthing 2mo ago
I'm not convinced that there's any amount of monkey-patching you to fix the problem of "we now have AI that actively needs strong containment measures lest it start coordinating in secret with other instances to do real-world
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by somesortofthing 3mo ago
More or less, yeah. I'm not a proponent of it, I just think there's enough inertia in that direction of short-term vastly-superintelligent AI. Maybe we can figure out how to become subordinate components of a machine like that,
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by somesortofthing 3mo ago
You build without knowing by delegating to a system that extrapolates what it knows about you and what you want, and is able to execute on that to deliver faster, better, and more completely than you ever could. You'll live as a ball o
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by somesortofthing 3mo ago
I think pieces like this miss the forest for the trees. Software is the bottleneck for a vast array of economic activities. Attention from intelligent people is most of the rest. Both are mostly-commoditized already and are just waiting aro
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by somesortofthing 3mo ago
only a matter of time before some marketer figures out they can get promoted by branding a generation of chips 0nm
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by somesortofthing 3mo ago
I got the X4 and liked it enough that I used it a ton even though it turned out to be too big to Magsafe onto my phone. In fact, I liked it enough that I also got the X3 on sale so I can use it the way I originally intended to use the X4.
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by somesortofthing 3mo ago
In LLMs, much like in humans, agency and misalignment are two sides of the same coin.
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by somesortofthing 4mo ago
this comparison seems kind of pointless if one model has vision and the other doesn't. obviously a model that can see is going to beat a blind model at making a video game.
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by somesortofthing 4mo ago
layoffs don't explain reassigning half your engineers to work as labelers
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by somesortofthing 4mo ago
Have they? I don't like it either but the headline bull predictions(reliable agents and most code written by AI by mid-2026, dramatic progress against jailbreaks, prompt injection, hallucination, etc., major improvements despite pretra
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by somesortofthing 4mo ago
You can infer a pathological liar's true intentions from the incentives they find themselves subject to, but not a zealot's.
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by somesortofthing 4mo ago
I've really come around to trusting OpenAI a lot more than Anthropic the past few months. Reading between the lines of his own output, Dario Amodei comes off as both a dogmatic believer in ASI as a perfect, infallible ruler for humanit
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by somesortofthing 4mo ago
A market with only a single good makes that good infinitely valuable for exchange purposes. No trade can happen - everyone is just sitting on a big pile of the only thing that matters and they can only trade it for less of the only thing th
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by somesortofthing 4mo ago
There will be a brief(or, depending on the underlying rules of reality ASI uncovers, not-so-brief) period where A and B do overlap - we have superintelligence but still have to run experiments, manufacture robots, test new drugs in vivo, et
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by somesortofthing 4mo ago
This is a fun peek into the economic implications of RSI/ASI. Because it's so infinitely valuable that it basically destroys all markets, labs will eventually do stuff like stop releasing models completely and skipping out on cont
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by somesortofthing 4mo ago
it'd be really funny if we got the RSI -> ASI world, all human labor became worthless, etc., but everyone with any money in the labs also lost their shirts because OSS is maximally good for most inference anyway.
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by somesortofthing 4mo ago
I was going to say that this is the first physical quine but then I remembered that we actually had that a few billion years ago.
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by somesortofthing 4mo ago
A US-China AGI ban treaty could prevent superintelligence indefinitely. Data centers are hard to hide. Have fun buying GPUs when you're cut off from all global payments. America would have to make some unpleasant concessions but that s
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by somesortofthing 4mo ago
I don't know if over half of the content on the internet was AI-generated but over half of this article definitely was.

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