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by stalfie 5mo ago
Last time I checked thoroughly (roughly two years ago), AI (in the form of small ML models) mostly outperformed radiologists in areas where the gold standard is "one level" above imagining wise. By that I mean that you train a mod
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by stalfie 5mo ago
The counterpoint is that every company ever has based themselves on human effort they never paid for (usually). The entire scientific endeavour for example. Standing on the shoulders of giants and so on.
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by stalfie 5mo ago
Ok, fair point about the lizardbrain jealousy, the choice of wording there was needlessly antagonistic. In my defense, even though that point might seem reductive, I don't mean it to be. I'd say the only reason words like"fai
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by stalfie 5mo ago
Well, is it true that they give back nothing? What about the compute? Pay checks? The value of the subscription you pay for? What about actual examples of things they have given back for free, like Whisper, which used to be SOTA and is stil
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by stalfie 5mo ago
I'd say both are equally soulless, dualism is a little bit of a philosophical dead end. Frankly, I don't particularly care much for the moral panic around capitalism. Capitalism has it's downsides for sure, but it's the
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by stalfie 5mo ago
That sentence could easily be applied to the human baseline.
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by stalfie 5mo ago
For the past year, I think I've watched more AI generated video content than movies in terms of hours spent. Some of it is quite good (eg. Neuralwiz)! Granted, I watch very few movies, but still, I'd say this kind of counts.
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by stalfie 5mo ago
Well, if the evaluation infrastructure is something humans could have had access to before, and that the agents key "skill" is just that it's a more patient and scalable worker, I would still argue that this "comes from
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by stalfie 6mo ago
Actually you're right, upon reflection the medical records example is a terrible one, given the proclivities of many governments and/or vindictive mobs. Although the greater issue here is that there exists governments that care ab
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by stalfie 6mo ago
If I can play devils advocate in favor of public disinterest about these events, I think you can argue that cybersecurity doesn't really matter, in the grand scheme of things. At least data exfiltration. What would the consequences for
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by stalfie 6mo ago
One problem with this mentality is that reality doesn't really make the ideological distinction between whats private and what isn't, or who pays for what. Healthcare is not an intersubjective field, and so actions have consequenc
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by stalfie 6mo ago
Well, to be honest I think the primary disconnect is in epistemological understanding. The OP did not declare peptides to be a personal revolution, he/she seemingly generalised their own experience to be widely applicable. Basic human
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by stalfie 6mo ago
I don't think that's what's being hinted at. The system card seems to say that the model is both token efficient and slow in practice. Deep research modes generally work by having many subagents/large token spend. So thi
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by stalfie 6mo ago
Non blinded self experimentation is not a useful branch of empiricism. I had an ME/CFS patient that had tried 100s of things and documented the effects thoroughly. She had a quite impressive list. Roughly 30% had had an effect to begin
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by stalfie 7mo ago
The blind spot exploiting strategy you link to was found by an adverserial ML model...
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by stalfie 7mo ago
Late reply, but in case you'll check I think most of what I said is sourced from sources of varying quality and salience, but at least it's sourced from somewhere. But I just typed it all out quickly without checking anything over
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by stalfie 7mo ago
Oookay. I actually tried the harness myself, and there was a visual option. It is unclear to me if that is what the models are using on the official benchmark, but it probably is. This probably means that much of my critique is invalid. How
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by stalfie 7mo ago
I just realized that this also means that the benchmark is in practice unverified by third parties, as all tasks are not verified to be solvable through the JSON interface. Essentially there is no guarantee that it is even possible to under
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by stalfie 7mo ago
This counterpoint doesn't address the issue, and I would argue that it is partially bad faith. Yes, making it to the test center is significantly harder, but in fact the humans could have solved it from their home PC instead, and perfo
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by stalfie 7mo ago
This is incredibly naive. Hunter gatherer communities, especially those in regions without an abundance of food, are and were extremely selective about who were accepted and who weren't. This starts from infancy where non-desirable bab
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by stalfie 7mo ago
Well, to be fair, judging by the shift in the general vibes of the average HN comment over the past 3 years, better use of agents and advanced models DID solve the previous temporary setbacks. The techno-optimists were right, and the nay-sa
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by stalfie 7mo ago
Alternatives naturally become more viable over time as more and more people find car use impossible, but its kind of hard to tell in advance which lanes of public transport are most necessary to improve. So imo the best solution is just to
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by stalfie 7mo ago
This is a nice case study of the downside of creating explicit policies of "no AI comments" without a technical method of enforcing it. I am sure the hacker news comment quality will suffer almost as much from an escalating cultur
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by stalfie 7mo ago
Without a technical means to enforce this, the only result of this policy will be a culture of paranoia and a lot of false positives.
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by stalfie 7mo ago
To be fair to the companies, the machine was pretty hard to make, and expensive. Its not exactly unreasonable to charge for it.
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by stalfie 8mo ago
Harm reduction by just giving drugs to addicts in an organized fashion is honestly a strategy that might work fine on a societal level, and I'm not against it (although I am unsure about the details of implementations). However when yo
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by stalfie 8mo ago
I'm sure that's at least somewhat correct, but if I'd offer a similar reply, I could say that amateurs rarely takes kindly to being told that they do not understand what they are talking about. Dunning Kruger is endemic, and
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by stalfie 8mo ago
This is an urgent problem, but it can probably not be solved without some kind of "verified human 2FA" like the Norwegian BankID + facial recognition. Knowing the HN audience, this will never happen. And so the site is doomed.
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by stalfie 8mo ago
As an internist (not in the US), I would like to put in my two cents to say this is just wrong. The primary utility of most medical professionals is to diagnose and treat a condition correctly. In the ER and elsewhere, the correct diagnosis
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by stalfie 8mo ago
So to summarize, your objections are almost completely unrelated to the technology, and are mostly about capitalism.

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