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by willy_k 25d ago
> I would buy it and it was fun to do recreationally which supposedly means you don't have ADHD. That’s something some people with ADHD need to hear to be ok with taking what is a powerful drug. A comorbidity of ADHD is substance ab
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by willy_k 1mo ago
NVIDIA is a lot more than a “lab”.
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by willy_k 1mo ago
Because deleting model weights after training is likely to cause knock-on effects in model knowledge and/or behavior. Targetting it might mitigate this but it’s a) not guaranteed that only censor-ey parameters get removed, and b) likel
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by willy_k 1mo ago
> knowingly Intent or negligence.
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by willy_k 1mo ago
My understanding is that the current effort settings is a part of the system prompt, and that the levels and their intended results are a part pf the training process. The effect is more or less tokens spent reasoning before the model outpu
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by willy_k 1mo ago
IIRC responding to effort level settings appropriately is part of the (post)-training. In that case it could be considered another instance of the Bitter Lesson. Uplifting.
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by willy_k 1mo ago
Is there a specific book from 40 years ago you have in mind? Asking out of curiosity.
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by willy_k 1mo ago
Which is an opinionated rephrasing of the question whether ends justify the means. It’s not clear cut.
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by willy_k 1mo ago
Not a direct response to your question; I figure you or others reading this may be interested in the thoughts of the host of The War on Beauty (best found on youtube).
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by willy_k 2mo ago
Have you used the Google search engine in the past couple years? You’re painting a dichotomy that doesn’t exist and hasn’t for a good while. Edit: I missed your final paragraph. I still disagree with this argument though, people still want
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by willy_k 2mo ago
That doesn’t matter very much for the free tier market though. The game is to have something useable that is actually used , and that can be offered at sustainable margins. Google has significant advantages in those regards.
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by willy_k 2mo ago
Still, to get results from that you need someone who can create a decent finetune. That might not be realistic, but it very well could be realistic to have someone optimize some prompts and curate a knowledge base. Point is, its a possibili
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by willy_k 2mo ago
Ironically, or sadly (or perhaps a mixture of these+), this statement was absolutely informed (hopefully not inspired) by an LLM.
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by willy_k 2mo ago
Best option by what metric? For which enterprises. I say this having worked at an “enterprise” where this was not a good option. For (lack of) talent/expertise, budget, infrastructure, and actual value relative to the eventual bottom l
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by willy_k 2mo ago
So the second option then.
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by willy_k 2mo ago
That’s because a significant portion of the work and spending going on at frontier labs is generating new, more curated data, in select domains like software engineering and now biology[1]. [1] https://www.synbiobeta.com/r
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by willy_k 2mo ago
Hopefully none of those hardened criminals know that a circular saw is the fastest way by far to cut through posts!
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by willy_k 2mo ago
That sounds exhausting. Do things because they’re right or because you want to. Rules are fake (being a little dramatic there, but the point stands - rules create plenty of downside as well, while allowing both people to do the wrong thing
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by willy_k 2mo ago
Maybe because people still want to eat food. The culture of trying to re-engineer life is not it.
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by willy_k 2mo ago
> It's a spiritual belief. Yes. Thats part of human reality. Denying it is counterproductive at best.
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by willy_k 2mo ago
Sci-fi is not reality.
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by willy_k 2mo ago
No. That is not how AI works. It’s built by people, contrary to some of the more woo-ey hype. There’s no “agency”, or personal desires, or person to desire anything.
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by willy_k 2mo ago
Thats some silly intellectualism, people are conscious and machines aren’t. We don’t need precise definitions or scientific rigor to know things.
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by willy_k 2mo ago
LLMs are not conscious.
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by willy_k 2mo ago
If you do any sort of homelabbing, it’s wonderful for making access from different machines easy and portable. Especially since you can leave it on and (unless you set an exit node) it will only route traffic meant for your tailnet through
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by willy_k 2mo ago
When I wrote that I had in mind the idea of “mixed race” people. In the US it is very common for someone to identify as half black and half white, or one quarter Irish and three quarters Mexican, and so on. So, nuanced but not fuzzy, in tha
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by willy_k 2mo ago
Yet, the models are objects built by humans. Any and all responsibility inevitably falls on the humans that built something with those flaws, and/or allowed them to exercise said flaws.
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by willy_k 2mo ago
That’s very anthropomorphized language. It’s still a program operating under the constraints of the programmer. So agreed, don’t blame the AI, but it’s not clear at all that it’s even possible to “blame” an AI.
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by willy_k 2mo ago
Well yeah, thats kind of what race is. It’s something you’re born with, and it’s not fuzzy. It can be nuanced, thats different. How it’s regarded is a separate issue, and that has generally improved over time. Edit: I might be conflating ra
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by willy_k 2mo ago
Four Loko had to take the caffeine out across the US years ago. Now it’s just 8 standard drinks in a tall boy for $4 - still very much a problem but no caffeine.

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