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by spangry 3y ago
Wow. Sounds just like the dream speak in the anime "Paprika".
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by spangry 3y ago
Training & individual user preference data - specifically the data being generated by people interacting with ChatGPT and DALLE. Maybe Google can out data them with all the data they currently hold, but they'd better hurry before t
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by spangry 3y ago
Sounds like a great book, I think you've sold me on buying a copy. Essentially I think there are three levels of positive network effects that will push us towards a future mega AI monopolist: - Single platform network effects: all the
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by spangry 3y ago
We assume others think the way we do - in other words we project. Makes sense - the only mental model I know of is my own so when I try to approximate someone else's mental model I'm just fine-tuning my 'base' mental mod
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by spangry 3y ago
Am I crazy for saying that I think the implications of this are monumental? It's entirely possible I just don't correctly understand how this works. Doesn't this mean that instead of interacting with a single global ChatGPT (
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by spangry 3y ago
> the other 20% of the stress are your reports actively trying to undermine you, or publicly question your purpose/existence, or cut you out of decision making processes, going behind your back and contradicting previous agreements,
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by spangry 3y ago
> My second advice is to always behave as if you are going to leave tomorrow. In a similar vein, my ultimate management technique is to take leave and have my subordinates act in my position (for at least 2 weeks). It really accelerates
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by spangry 3y ago
I'm similar to you - jack-of-all-trades big picture problem solver - and have arrived at the same conclusion after managing for a bit over a year: stress resilience is the key skill. If you're an IC you can develop your career by
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by spangry 3y ago
Isn't exponential growth where the growth rate becomes more rapid as the stock of the thing gets larger (and, more precisely, the growth rate is a function of the stock)? How is growth in solar capacity exponential? Wouldn't it ac
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by spangry 3y ago
To add to the counter-argument you've already acknowledged, direct democracy at least forces the lobbying (and potential misinformation) out into the open. I think this particular part of the argument might boil down to "who is mo
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by spangry 3y ago
Fair enough on your edit, I accept it was a misinterpretation and appreciate the clarification. The precedents you raise are worth considering. They're related but not completely analogous to deepfake porn of real people in my view. CS
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by spangry 3y ago
I'm neither referring to "true threats" nor making any kind of argument about the US constitution, so I'm unsure why you're bringing these up. I thought it would have been pretty clear that in the context of driving
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by spangry 3y ago
Why stop there? I think we'd all agree that "mean words", either written or spoken, have immense power to "cause distress" and have driven many a person to suicide. We should ban those.
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by spangry 3y ago
I suggest we clearly specify the class of problem we're trying to solve and come up with a principled solution that would make sense when applied consistently and universally to all problems in that class. I prefer this over coming up
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by spangry 3y ago
I'm one of the grown men who disagree. I don't think treating half the population as pre-criminals, when in reality it's an extremely tiny minority who act in this way, is a particularly good solution. If we were to apply thi
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by spangry 3y ago
Maybe an opportunity for OpenAI to acquire a robot vacuum company on the cheap. Seems like an easy way to gain access to tonnes of physical sensor and movement data to integrate into a giant multimodal model.
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by spangry 3y ago
It varies, in my experience. I've worked in government agencies with very little politics, and agencies with shitloads of workplace politics. The latter perform far worse than the former. The political agencies tend to have ill-defined
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by spangry 3y ago
Admirable, but be aware that you are choosing to play 'co-operate' in a multi-agent prisoner's dilemma: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner%27s_dilemma
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by spangry 3y ago
> Geometric nightmares Glad I'm not the only one! I also remember this feeling of terror associated with being ground or crushed by the object. I'd wake in a panic but still semi-asleep and unable to shake the feeling of terror
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by spangry 3y ago
What a horribly confusing control mechanism. It could become very hard to distinguish between (1) desynchronization (2) your copilot yielding control to you and (3) a control jam being overcome. They would all feel exactly the same. Not th
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by spangry 3y ago
Pretty chilling reading. A disturbingly similar situation occurred in AirAsia Flight 8501 (Airbus A320): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesia_AirAsia_Flight_8501#... . Similar to the AF incident, the autopilot diseng
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by spangry 3y ago
It's not so straight-forward. Mechanically linked dual controls, like those on this aircraft, do give you indication that the other pilot is operating them (i.e. your controls physically move in tandem with their inputs). The problem i
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by spangry 3y ago
TL;DR - The pilots failed to engage in a 'positive exchange of flight controls' procedure and ended up providing opposite control inputs at the same time, so it felt to both of them like the controls were unresponsive / jamme
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by spangry 3y ago
Their early work was a little too new wave for my taste. But when Sports came out in '83, I think they really came into their own, commercially and artistically. The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consummate p
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by spangry 3y ago
If that's a manual thing then it will work. Automatic transcription won't have the same effect. The trick to this live note taking is that I'm essentially allowing people to read my mind by externalising my thoughts where eve
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by spangry 3y ago
Generating a common understanding can be a really powerful way to avoid misunderstandings. Have you ever had a meeting at work where everyone seems to agree on some course of action, only for everyone to leave the meeting with slightly diff
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by spangry 3y ago
Does anyone know what this Responsible AI team did? Were they working on the AI alignment / control issue, or was it more about curtailing politically undesirable model outputs? I feel like the conflation of these two things is unfortu
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by spangry 3y ago
I've been wondering along similar lines, although I am for all intents and purposes here a layman so apologies if the following is nonsensical. I feel there are potential parallels between RAG and how human memory works. When we humans
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by spangry 3y ago
Alternatively they had underspent their budget allocation and the end of financial year was approaching. So it was either (1) dump the spare budget on consultants (sort of pre-paying for labour) or (2) 'lose' the money when the fi
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by spangry 3y ago
Yep, the article confirms: "Ninety-two studies satisfied the inclusion criteria. Because many of these studies reported data from several samples, the number of samples, 113, was greater than the total number of studies. The total numb

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