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by throwaway4837 4y ago
Sadly, it has nothing to do with "talking about how 'kids' might be influenced by an algorithm", because if it did, they would be trying to ban Facebook, Instagram, and other social media services that have the exact sa
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by throwaway4837 4y ago
> they really do seem to believe the safety/alignment issue deep in their bones The employees are usually they are "in on the message". All you have to do is get your employees to believe the message. This is easy when the
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by throwaway4837 4y ago
I think that is a simple take and underestimates the insidious nature of the AI alignment initiatives. Or maybe I'm overestimating it.
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by throwaway4837 4y ago
I think all of the "AI alignment" talk is mostly fearmongering. It's a cunningly smart way to get ignorant people scared enough of AI so they have no choice but to trust the OpenAI overlords when they say they need AI to be c
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by throwaway4837 4y ago
What I find super impressive now is image generation. I remember just 3-4 years ago the images generated by AI on news articles looked like LSD trip hallucinations. Now they can generate extremely plausible images of any scene you describe.
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by throwaway4837 4y ago
If you live in SF and have gone out to casual bars or restaurants, you meet/hear people talking about ChatGPT. In particular, I've been hearing a lot of people talking about their startups being "a UI using ChatGPT under the
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by throwaway4837 4y ago
Simple thought experiment: if I was a high school teacher and graded hundreds of exams, papers, and homework every month for years, would I develop the same opinion of my C-level students? The ones who have somewhat correct work, often inco
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by throwaway4837 4y ago
> And they have to work somewhere . If there are no jobs these new grads can "flip burgers" or something, but more likely they'll find someone willing to hire them to crank out code. If there are no jobs, then how? The ma
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by throwaway4837 4y ago
True, I'm using the free version which I guess is GPT 3.5.
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by throwaway4837 4y ago
> Yes, you can send me an image as long as it's in a supported format such as JPEG, PNG, or GIF. Please note that as an AI language model, I am not able to visually process images like a human would. However, I can still provide gui
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by throwaway4837 4y ago
It is though? GPT-3 is an incremental improvement on GPT-2 (AFAIK, no groundbreaking scientific insight here), and the chat interface is arguably not even an improvement over a keyword search engine interface that supports pseudo-natural la
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by throwaway4837 4y ago
The press talked about a lot of fads for weeks, like PokemonGO. At this point there's nothing to indicate that this is or isn't a fad. Everything starts like this: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?geo=
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by throwaway4837 4y ago
Search marketshare for Bing is 3% now, Google is 90%. How do you expect Sydney (or generally, AI-powered chat interfaces for Search) to affect Bing's marketshare over the next 5 years? Is it going to be like a first order phase transit
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by throwaway4837 4y ago
Just to be devil's advocate -- I see this sentiment a lot; words which would make someone think that Microsoft's Sydney is on par with Steve Jobs's iPhone reveal in 2007. Is Sydney gonna save Bing, or is it more of a toy and
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by throwaway4837 4y ago
We've gone full circle! Node.js, a javascript engine stolen from browsers, now re-implemented in browsers. But as a serious note, is the value proposition "Less powerful version of Electron without forcing people to download a des
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by throwaway4837 4y ago
How does ChatGPT know to award the app? Could be a shitty idea, but I was thinking of a different way: 1. Pay $20/month for ChatGPT access, get personal API token 2. Sign up to 3rd party app a) Enter your API token into app
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by throwaway4837 4y ago
Zuck has it right. All the worst managers/directors/VPs in engineering I've seen are people who don't contribute anything to the codebase. They actively discourage managers who want to write code from writing code. They
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by throwaway4837 4y ago
Incidentally, I first learned about Stylometry when reading about people using it to decipher the identity of Satoshi Nakamoto, so I'm happy you brought it up. I had my suspicions that bot farms for Reddit (even before 2019) were doing
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by throwaway4837 4y ago
Nice, I got 44.
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by throwaway4837 4y ago
Did you read the full article? In science, you should usually have a very solid understanding of what the top minds in the field are fixated on as it allows you to try something different with confidence, and prevents you from pulling a Ram
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by throwaway4837 4y ago
Wow, crazy coincidence that you all read this article yesterday too. I was thinking of emailing one of them for the list, then I fell asleep. Cold emails to scientists generally have a higher success-rate than average in my experience.
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by throwaway4837 4y ago
I had an idea a few years ago around anonymity, but now it seems even more possible with things like billion parameter LLMs. A service where you enter text that you want to post on Reddit/Twitter/etc. but you instead give it to yo
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by throwaway4837 4y ago
Neat! Try "XxXxXxXxXx", max speed/legibility/width, style 2. The results are bonkers. It's just loops and scribbles. Interestingly, if you write your X's from top-right to bottom-left, top-left to bottom-right
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by throwaway4837 4y ago
I worked at Lattice a few years ago, back when it was under 100 people (probably doxxing myself, but whatever). They did a similar layoff right when covid hit. This definitely seems to be Jack's style, owning his decisions and not doin
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by throwaway4837 4y ago
Do you currently keep up with every clause in every contract and law? Doesn't seem like a new problem.
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by throwaway4837 4y ago
I never once said it was useless, I said decentralization is a great myth of the modern times. Blockchain technology could be useful even if decentralization is a facade.
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by throwaway4837 4y ago
You missed the point -- proof of stake is more likely to become centralized than proof of work since now you don't have to buy computers to own the network, you simply buy the coin. It's much easier to acquire a million ETH than i
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by throwaway4837 4y ago
Decentralization is super hard to achieve in anything other than a toy universe. "Proof of humanity" in theory is cool, but humans can be bought. Power will always tend to centralization when money exists. It's obvious when t
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by throwaway4837 4y ago
This shouldn't have to exist if it was designed properly from the start. This seems like backwards technology, something that is built on top of a legacy system and constrained by the design choices of that system. Perhaps that is why
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by throwaway4837 4y ago
No matter where I move my cursor, it ends up sounding like an opening theme for a light-hearted anime series. Impressed at how melodic it sounds even though I don't know what I'm doing. Also please fix the mouse jacking. I was onl

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