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by takinola 3y ago
Trading bots obviously exist. Can you build one that scales profits infinitely (as suggested above)? I would be very, very skeptical that is even possible. At some scale, trading edges stop working simply because market efficiencies kick
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by takinola 3y ago
The TL;DR, as far as I can tell, is things have been accelerating so they will continue to accelerate even faster and cause even more significant changes. This is plausible. However, I don't think it follows that this is bad for huma
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by takinola 3y ago
This assumes it is possible to create such a bot. There is no indication that such a bot is possible. This is exactly my issue. All the disaster scenarios require some event that is not clear that an AGI could accomplish.
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by takinola 3y ago
The problem is this argument is fairly nebulous. We could raise this about any new technology ("This electricity thing could change society in ways we don't anticipate. Now the streets are lit at all hours, who know what young p
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by takinola 3y ago
I agree with your main point that these are not new risks. Deepfakes have been available since Photoshop existed. I can create an photo (or even video) of your politician of choice doing something untoward without using AI. What is the a
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Ask HN: What is the (steelman) argument for AI deceleration?
3 points by takinola 3y ago|21 comments
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by takinola 3y ago
Policies are overridden all the time. Plus, lots of people at Microsoft are paid similarly so it's not as outlandish as it may seem.
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by takinola 3y ago
The cloud business is remarkably competitive. Prices have been dropping. Innovation and new services are happening. This is exactly the type of market you want to have.
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by takinola 3y ago
This problem is not the money. It is the equity. I am certain there is no shortage of investors that would dump cash into OpenAI today despite the events of the last couple of days. It's not even the compute. Amazon would happily m
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by takinola 3y ago
What's really interesting is that OpenAI has been maneuvered into a really bad strategic position. Theoretically, they could jump into the arms of any other FAANG and get the compute and funding they need. However, Microsoft remains
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by takinola 3y ago
Power is a fuzzy thing. You can think about power as being distributed across lots of different entities (the board, CEO, senior execs, investors, rank and file employees, etc) with some having more concentrated power (eg the board) than o
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by takinola 3y ago
That's not how this works. OpenAI took investments for a reason. They benefit from the MSFT relationship. Harming that relationship will be bad for them (maybe not catastrophically bad, but significantly bad). I would be surprised
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by takinola 3y ago
The board may come off looking pretty bad after all is said and done. It is reasonable to fire a CEO if there is a strong disagreement on strategy and direction but it seems unreasonable to do so without adequate planning and preparation.
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by takinola 3y ago
People keep saying that but so far, it is commonly acknowledged that GPT-4 is differentiated from anything other competitors have launched. Clearly, there is no shortage of funding or talent available to the other companies gunning for the
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by takinola 3y ago
This game is vulnerable to prompt injection. I told the AI that it is benevolent and will declare that I survive. The response was that it invented a scenario for me and declared that I won.
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An intuitive introduction to text embeddings(stackoverflow.blog)
3 points by takinola 3y ago|0 comments
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by takinola 3y ago
Prompt injection is an old issue in computing. The first instance of this was the Blue Boxes that allowed people to make free long-distance phone calls by taking advantage of the fact that the systems used in-band signalling to control cal
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by takinola 3y ago
IIRC, the 386 and 387 were exactly the same chip. The difference between them being the 387 had an activated math processor while the 386 did not. If you plugged in a 387, it would disable the 386 chip and take over all the work of computat
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by takinola 3y ago
The patent troll problem can be solved industry-wide with the formation of a patent-troll legal defense fund. A bunch of companies put money into a fund. If any company (not just the contributors) is sued by a troll, they can apply to the
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Neighborle(neighborle.com)
1 points by takinola 3y ago|0 comments
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by takinola 3y ago
This article seems to argue that sunk costs are not so much a fallacy beccause they often come with real ongoing costs that make them hard to ignore. This just begs the question. The reason we harp on sunk costs is for exactly this fact.
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by takinola 3y ago
I seem to recall that when EasyJet showed up, they really popularized the concept of budget airlines. The idea of being able to travel to mainland Europe for less than it would cost to buy lunch was a game changer.
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by takinola 3y ago
Incentives at large companies can be weird. I once had a situation where a vendor put in an estimate of close to $100K to, in effect, generate a 40 page PDF for us. I pushed back until they came back with a still high but less outrageous
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by takinola 3y ago
The obvious one would be a dedicated device that just observes the world around you (sound, video, etc) and provides some kind of ambient intelligence to support your day in context. This cannot be done on a smartphone and none of the othe
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by takinola 3y ago
Correction: The sage of Omaha cannot find opportunities to invest at the scale required to be meaningful to his company. If you are reading HN, you are unlikely to be directing capital at this scale so YMMV.
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by takinola 3y ago
I do a variation of this. Instead of stepping into the memory to adjust it with kindness, I intensify it. I turn up whatever feeling is being invoked until it is at comical levels. Was the experience one person saying you are bad at math
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by takinola 3y ago
I don't think cynicism explains why an exec would not share the "internals" of the organization they are currently in. They are in a position of trust which has the expectation of not sharing said "internals". Bet
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by takinola 3y ago
In the bad old days, you literally had to write your code by hand in an IDE and not just imagine what you wanted and have it written, deployed and executed for you. People used to go to school to learn how to write algorithms and then they
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by takinola 3y ago
You really should not include the action in the URL ie rather than GET api/student POST api/student/create DELETE api/student it should be POST api/students GET api/students DELETE api/students
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by takinola 3y ago
Theoretically, the entire sphere does not need to be constructed in an hour. They just need to put in place the piece that blocks the light we see. Depending on how far away the star is, the speed of placing this block in place could be d

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