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by wyager 4mo ago
Apple has completely dropped the ball on every single detail of AI rollout for the last 5 years - why do you think they will suddenly stop now? My prior is that the new siri stuff is just as vaporware as the previous "apple intelligenc
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by wyager 4mo ago
Isn't the entire point of this order to prevent filling low-paying jobs with cheap foreign labor, in order to increase demand for domestic labor? "Rural district schoolteacher" sounds like exactly the kind of job where the H1
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by wyager 4mo ago
> By the end of next year you’ll be running most of your AI on device. I expect I'll probably keep paying for whatever badass high IQ model is running on inference servers at that point
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by wyager 4mo ago
> If you believe it is dangerous, you should be dedicating yourself to STOPPING others from making it I don't think anyone has been more successful in promulgating AI safety There are groups like MIRI who tried what you're suge
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by wyager 4mo ago
> It is not illegal, at this point in time, for teachers to oppose AI for political reasons. No, but that would make it a "political coalition thing", which is why I asked
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by wyager 4mo ago
Yes the a priori most likely reason for the TU to be "against AI" is political. If you know much about TUs this is pretty obvious
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by wyager 4mo ago
> Yeah, I work at a CSU and the Teacher's union is against AI. Is this a political coalition thing or is there a real teacher-related reason they don't like it?
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by wyager 4mo ago
> Where's the trillions, or hundreds of billions worth in improved quality of life? Starlink and Claude are both awesome and huge QoL improvements for me!
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by wyager 4mo ago
You don't need to make this judgement; it's fixed by the colorspace you're working in. First, figure out what colorspace the processing needs to happen in. Usually this is linear RGB. Then, figure out what OETF and EOTF your
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by wyager 5mo ago
> there will be hardware capable of running frontier models The current frontier? Sure. The frontier then ? No - obviously that frontier is going to keep consuming available datacenter compute capacity, which will be better
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by wyager 5mo ago
This description falls apart for two reasons 1. It only accurately describes pre-training 2. It ignores the existence of generalization Next token prediction is just a training task, not "what the model does internally" in any mea
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by wyager 5mo ago
> They are a highly sophisticated statistical model designed to mimic the distribution of programming Are we really still doing this?
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by wyager 5mo ago
You're already writing Rust in a very different style if you're writing the type of code that gracefully handles allocation failure. It's to Rust's immense credit that this type of coding is actually fairly well-supporte
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by wyager 5mo ago
It seems bizarre to model the end goal of this research as "grow more birds". Obviously that's not the point
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by wyager 5mo ago
Every time I've ever seen a tech worker's union, it's always some sort of political experiment rather than legitimately advocating for the interests of the workers it nominally aims to represent. E.g. the Google AWU-CWA union
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by wyager 5mo ago
Is it more moral to allocate goods to the people who are willing to pay the most for them, or to the people who have good scalping bots/happen to get lucky
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by wyager 5mo ago
Mercury has been awesome, I've been using them for my business account for years and recently started using them for personal as well. I didn't know they used Haskell until well after I started using them, but it definitely tracks
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by wyager 5mo ago
There are two countervailing effects when you choose a more theoretically advanced programming language. On the one hand, your hiring pool shrinks. On the other hand, the quality of the remaining hiring pool goes way up, which acts as an ex
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by wyager 5mo ago
> You can do this in basically any language. You can do it in Assembly. That doesn't mean it's cost effective.
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by wyager 6mo ago
The final frontier of display tech (as far as being able to elicit any physiologically possible eye response) is a pair of tunable lasers. You really can't go much farther than that for emissive displays! We're almost saturated (n
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by wyager 7mo ago
The bottleneck isn't research funding, it's getting past the FDA
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by wyager 7mo ago
And California keeps adding these bizarre racialized versions of amber alerts https://www.chp.ca.gov/news-alerts/alerts/Ebony-Alert/ https://www.chp.ca.gov/news-alerts/alerts/Feather
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by wyager 7mo ago
> Rent control is one of the best ideas It's funny how this question might have the greatest divergence in answer distribution between people who do and don't know what they're talking about Other candidates are "is d
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by wyager 8mo ago
Let's be real, if a bigtech ignored judicial orders, whether you would describe it as "fighting autocracy" or "corporate fascism" is 100% dependent on who is currently in office Google is a multi trillion dollar com
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by wyager 9mo ago
> Its the fact that it gives very powerful people a vehicle to make lobsided bets on outcomes they control. OK, and? The market is just paying them to make information about their decisions public.
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by wyager 9mo ago
> Like mandatory seat belts, some people argue that there would be no need for CHERI if everyone "just used type-safe languages"[...] I'm not having any of it. It wish the author would have offered a more detailed refutati
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by wyager 9mo ago
> Because the ChatGPT output wouldn't be reviewed! So what? If it's not already, frontier LLM one-shot output will be as good as heavily edited human output soon.
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by wyager 11mo ago
The EU and UK keep trying to undermine encryption, so I'd say there's a pretty clear risk to the freedom of general purpose computation.
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by wyager 1y ago
For the vast majority of customers' utility functions, Apple has the best hardware (both in absolute and per dollar terms) on the market right now. It's not "objectively best", but it certainly meets the most stringent d
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by wyager 1y ago
4chan is not "operating in the UK". They accept and respond to packets from the UK. If the UK government doesn't like this, they can block 4chan themselves.

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