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by w4der 8d ago
I am not debating IA's capabilities at coming up with proofs, I'm debating whether such systems will be able to figure out new mathematical fields or not. If they can't figure out some field from what was known at the time, w
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by w4der 8d ago
The hell is that reply? If we're obsoleting human mathematicians, which have fundamentally been the same thing brains-wise since forever, why shouldn't an AI system be able to replace a 1870s mathematician in the same way you are
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by w4der 8d ago
Google trends shows it spiking last year: https://trends.google.com/explore?q=frontier%20mathematics&d...
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by w4der 8d ago
You are making your argument on the basis that LLMs and future AI system will be just as good or better as current mathematicians at all the relevant processes involved in academic math and mathematics in general. I'd like to see an ex
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by w4der 10d ago
Isn't $1000 a bit low for compliance consulting fees?
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by w4der 11d ago
> I brought this up to someone else and was told that airgapping is apparently much more expensive than I'd naively think. These labs are one of the most valuable and heavily funded enterprises in the whole world, that they can&#x27
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by w4der 11d ago
> Agents could also hack Anthropic/OpenAI and make it appear that API access has been turned off, when in reality it hasn't. You know cables, modems, RF equipment and optical transducers can all be unplugged right?
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by w4der 16d ago
As a kid I don't remember, or have pictures of, an animal-looking piñata, they were just colorful boxes full of candy and things.
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by w4der 17d ago
For some reason my iphone sporadically won't go back to "music quality" mode after cutting a call on a wireless speaker or car play, and it's incredible how bad music sounds with telephone quality.
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by w4der 17d ago
And what if you take a picture across a IR-filtered window?
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by w4der 22d ago
That sounds plausible, but how much power could an agent running on a small NPU actually muster? Most computers worldwide don't even support AVX, let alone have proper GPUs, so what would be the point of running a worm like this one?
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by w4der 22d ago
> They care deeply. Until it clashes with their quarterly revenue reports.
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by w4der 22d ago
What would an "AI worm" be? You can't just send a bunch of weights across a network and tell them to auto-run on the machine on the other side, unless you've already infected the target with something else beforehand.
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by w4der 22d ago
I'm not sure about Nvidia themselves, but the ARM v. Qualcomm lawsuit was exactly that.
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by w4der 1mo ago
> Have you done that to your own machines? Yes, I worked for a medtech where part of our assurance process was that the machine that was used to burn the device's drives was always unplugged from the internet, and that the devices t
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by w4der 2mo ago
And I bet even current LLMs will get relabeled as not-AI once the next best thing comes around in a decade or less.
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by w4der 2mo ago
I digress with your last quote, I feel like some people who are aware of AI are starting to develop a quasi allergic reaction to slop, and while the mistakes might not matter for most of the population, for others it does and will take noti
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by w4der 2mo ago
The skies are so dark and clear that some of the indigenous people had "constellations" made up of the dark patches in the sky instead of connecting stars.
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by w4der 2mo ago
My Moto X4's FM radio worked well enough without the headphones plugged in, but you needed really good reception.
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by w4der 2mo ago
I know, but my comment was more along the lines of Windows Phone 7 coming out in 2010 and whatsapp being available a year later, and of whatsapp not having a native app for Sailfish
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by w4der 2mo ago
But isn't the point of an API that it abstracts away the language(s) in which your application is written?
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by w4der 2mo ago
It's a chicken and egg problem tho, whatsapp doesn't support smaller platforms, and smaller platforms can't grow without app support. I remember that the uptake of Windows Phone 7 and early versions of 8 was pretty low partly
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by w4der 2mo ago
I remember the frustration of hitting a washboarded dirt road and the CD jumping around and messing playback.
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by w4der 3mo ago
And both were Boeing 737s ... (albeit different variants)
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by w4der 3mo ago
Yeah, sorry, it was a codebase with _only_ regression tests dating to the 80s, so we called everything a "regression".
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by w4der 3mo ago
I'd argue it's worse for consumers, by keeping them alive it staves off competition, and leeches cash by increasing subscription prices or locking once free feature behind paywalls.
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by w4der 3mo ago
I've also seen situations where a customer reports a bug, the fix breaks some regression, and the updated behavior to work around the fix breaking the regressions turns into an undocumented feature.
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by w4der 3mo ago
And remember to format the car before you take it in for a service.
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by w4der 3mo ago
I just go on Wikiloc to find tracks, then export the GPX file into CoMaps. I know that Wikiloc is not OSS, but at least I can do navigation with custom routes that way.
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by w4der 3mo ago
The "Don't be evil" motto was diluted in 2015 when alphabet was formed, and taken down in 2018, so yeah, things were brewing from before.

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