staticshock

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by staticshock 4mo ago
An agent you can sue would count as a legitimate third party entity. Suing today's agents won't get you very far.
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by staticshock 4mo ago
Feels like an unfair judgment of someone else's values, which have no obligation to match yours.
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by staticshock 5mo ago
Are you saying that a better way to measure perceived time is something like "1 year, 2 more years, 4 more years, 8 more years," starting from birth, and maybe call each of those increments a "log year"? I like it. I gue
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by staticshock 5mo ago
Love it! Bug report, if you're the author: I can't delete periods. Feature request: I wanna be able to move periods from one layer to another.
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by staticshock 5mo ago
"can be" ≠ "must be"
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by staticshock 5mo ago
A pattern I like for CLIs is that by default each command runs in dry-run mode, and only with `--commit` is it allowed to do dangerous things. Kind of like `git clean` vs `git clean --force`, except that `--force` feels like bad names for
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by staticshock 5mo ago
That song is etched into my memory and bring back a flood of great feelings. Daily Motion is giving me a playback error, but here's a copy from youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xb_PyKuI7II
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by staticshock 5mo ago
Contrarian thinking can be great because it taps into the intuition that the masses are mostly followers who can be led anywhere, not critical thinkers who've deeply examined what they believe. Being contrarian, then, is akin to stakin
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by staticshock 5mo ago
The value of such a benchmark, to me, would be, "what is peak performance", not just "what is mid-tier performance". Also, possibly, "what's the per-dollar performance". Time and money permitting, I'd
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by staticshock 5mo ago
AGI is 100% possible, even if the current breed of transformer-based models are not it, and even if silicon is not it. There's nothing special about human brains that we won't eventually be able to match (and then exceed) in vitro
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by staticshock 5mo ago
Feels to me like idealism crossing into realism. OpenAI could be the next Google, or the next Facebook, or the next… I don't know, Netflix? All those companies (and many other large tech companies) have discovered the same arbitrage th
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by staticshock 5mo ago
I just looked up "may you live in interesting times" and learned that it is not, in fact, originally Chinese. Per wikipedia: > The nearest related Chinese expression translates as "Better to be a dog in times of tranquilit
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by staticshock 5mo ago
> What we really need is to recreate software from a subjective perspective. What does "subjective" mean here? Are you talking about just-in-time software? That is, software that users get mold on the fly?
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by staticshock 5mo ago
Yep, there are tons. Growing food, building shelter, etc. But, for pretty much all of the skills we've allowed to atrophy in response to the advances of capitalism, technological & scientific progress, and societal changes, one COU
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by staticshock 5mo ago
Hah, right, I mixed it up!
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by staticshock 5mo ago
That's true, but I think it's beside the point. The flip side of that argument, which is equally true, goes something like, "not doing cognitive push-ups leads to cognitive atrophy." There are skills we're losing th
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by staticshock 5mo ago
The eloquence with which this point gets (repeatedly) made is continuing to improve each next time I read it. However, I still feel like we haven't nailed it. That is, we are not yet at the "aphorism" stage of the discourse (
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by staticshock 5mo ago
I can't believe this article does not mention what I think is the most puzzling part of the repair: the delicate process by which the individual fibers are FUSED TOGETHER in a way that maintains near perfect total internal refraction.
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by staticshock 5mo ago
Not currently, but I have faith in our collective ability to push in the direction of such systems over the long arc of history.
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by staticshock 5mo ago
In a well functioning system, the incentive to make money is somewhat aligned with the incentive to create value for other people.
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by staticshock 6mo ago
I do the same. Gmail gives me a single, standardized interface for opting out of emails: mark it as spam. All the various companies I've given my email to, on the other hand, give me different, either clunky or often outright broken in
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by staticshock 6mo ago
They were taught not to read errors because they encountered thousands of errors (in other software) that were less helpful than that one. Most people have an adversarial relationship with software: it is just the pile of broken glass they
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by staticshock 6mo ago
You know the saying, "when you owe the bank a million dollars, that's your problem, but when you owe the bank a billion dollars, that's the bank's problem"? I suspect the theory behind OpenAI is to grow to be "
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by staticshock 6mo ago
LLMs seem to me closer to Kahneman's System 1 than to System 2. When understood in this way, it is obvious why LLMs are bad at counting r's in "strawberries". But it also makes ZEH feel like it couldn't possibly be
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List of animals awarded human credentials(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by staticshock 7mo ago|0 comments
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by staticshock 7mo ago
here's another good one: https://terraformindustries.com/
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by staticshock 7mo ago
> the death of Payton Isabella Leutner she's alive, so "attempted murder" would be more appropriate. i really enjoyed the "we are 3D printers for our thoughts" framing!
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by staticshock 8mo ago
I think the way to see this as the organic process of discovering hard-to-game benchmarks. The loop is: 1. People discover things LLMs can kind of do, but very poorly. 2. Frontier labs sample these discoveries and incorporate them into benc
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by staticshock 8mo ago
For a social network, more information about their users = better ad targeting. It likely gets plumbed into models to inform user profiles.
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by staticshock 8mo ago
Nailed it. I think about prescriptivism / descriptivism in terms of these archetypes: - "Rule followers" think an org will be better off if everyone agreed on a set of rules to follow. At the boundaries, they will think about

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