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by trashtester 2y ago
Different places have different cultures. I see no problem with that.
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I'm not sure you noticed, but Europe simply doesn't have the kind of tech sector that the US and increasingly China and even India have. In fact, I'm not sure I know of a single global top 100 company (by market cap) that is
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I live in Europe, so I know. But the respect for such differences should go both ways. A system based on tips makes it easier to start a new place, and then find a few young people to help staff it. Like many places in the US, or in popular
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Banning tips in the hospitality sector would be a bit like banning stock options or similar equity incentives in the tech sector (and startups in particular). Having to replace such performance/luck based incentives with fixed salaries
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The origin of the term "Asia" is from ancient Greece, and meant anything to the east of the Dardanelles Strait. The Romans used the term specifically for the province of western Anatolia. To extend that term to include all those l
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There are many sources and hints out there, but here are some details from one of the devs at OpenAI: https://x.com/_jasonwei/status/1834278706522849788 Notice that the CoT is trained via RL, meaning the CoT itsel
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by trashtester 2y ago
Ilya may not be the only founder. Sam was coordinating it, Elon provided vital capital (and also access to Ilya). But out of the co-founders, especially if we believe Elon's and Hinton's description of him, he may have been the on
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o1 has moved "reasoning" from training time to partly something happening at inference time. I'm thinking of this difference as analogus to the difference between my (as a human) first intution (or memory) about a problem to
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> I'm finding it difficult to believe this. Pay attention to the whole sentence, especially the last section : "... based on the value of human labor." It's not that I'm ruling out capitalism as the outcome. I&#
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The way I understand it, the key difference is that when training o1, they were going beyond simply "think step-by-step" in that they were feeding the "step-by-step" reasoning patterns that ended up with a correct answer
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That seems to already be happening with o1 and Orion. Instead of rewarding the network directly for finding a correct answer, reasoning chains that end up with the correct answer is fed back into the training set. That way you're train
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That's not quite how o1 was trained, they say. o1 was trained specifically to perform reasoning. Or rather, it was trained to reproduce the patterns within internal monologues that lead to correct answers to problems, particularily STE
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That's one risk. I'm more concerned with ex-risk, though. Not in the way most hardcore doomers expect it to happen, by AGI's developing a survival/domination instinct directly from their training. While that COULD happen
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Nobody really knows what Earth will look like once AGI arrives. It could be anything from extinction, through some Cyberpunk corporate dystopia (like you seem to think) to some kind of Techno-Socialist utopia. One thing it's not likely
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by trashtester 2y ago
Could be a mix. We don't know what happened behind close doors last winter. Sam may indeed be happy that they leave, as that consolidates his power. But they may be equally happy to leave, to get away from him.
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Well, I agree that the part that does the reasoning isn't an LLM in the naive form. But that "scaffolding" seems to be an integral part of the neural net that has been built. It's not some Python for-loop that has been b
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I'm guessing that most key players (Mira, Greg, Ilya, etc) negotiated deals last winter (if not before) that would ensure they kept their equity even if leaving, in return for letting Sam back in. Probably with some form of NDA attache
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by trashtester 2y ago
Ok. I'm not sure what angle you come at this from, whether you disagree with my presentation of this (if you know the Quantum Electrodynamics), or some formulation I'm making (if you're not familiar with QED). If you ARE fami
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Electrons (apart potentially from when the wavefunction collapses) do not exist as "particles". They're like a musical "note", simply waves in a field. And if you do not think the wavefunction collapses (as in the M
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Thx. No podcast though.
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> You need 4 for to describe reality + the dimensions of the quantum fields
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> And even then, you are simply getting a measurement of a thing. This is exactly where the Many World Interpretation and the Copenhagen Interpretation diverges. If you send a proton with enough violence through the core of a lead atom,
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If you have $10 in a bank account, are those individual dollars or do they all just form an account balance, which is "just" a number. Electrons in a coherent state are the same. They don't have individual identity. There is
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The main reason for TSMC to build plants in the US is as a hedge against a Chinese invasion of Taiwan. That outweighs anything like jobs or economic efficiency (given no such war) by a couple of orders of magnitude. And this really applies
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Tariffs that merely offset subsidies in the other country has zero net effect on competition, and doesn't harm producers on either side unduely. The net effect is merely a net transfer from the foreign government to the domestic one. T
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It may seem like this makes sense, but in most places it's the opposite. Low income women are single mothers at a higher rate than women with high salaries. In most western countries, low income women do not become much poorer if they
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Which, as rated by average women, is almost the same thing....
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> They're not trying to attract only Apple, they're trying to attract businesses in general. Ok, so this is about circumventing the 15% minimum corporate tax? Is this somehow related to the objectives of directive 2022/252
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> The problem with all of this is that it's all sneaky schemes. The problems start if one member selectively introduces practices that benefit them at a significant cost to the other members. Universal subsidies of healthcare or ele
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AI models for regular X-rays seems to be achieving high quality human level performance, which is not unexpected. But if someone is able to connect a network to the raw data outputs from CT or MR machines, one may start seeing these AI&#x27

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