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by xg15 4mo ago
> Every guest walked in to find someone who knew them — not in a creepy, surveillance-state way, but in the way a good friend remembers what you’re going through. ...said every company that does creepy surveillance ever.
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by xg15 4mo ago
Can anyone explain that "anti-science" crusade to me? This doesn't seem to have any effect than reduce America's standing in the world.
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by xg15 4mo ago
> The only option is to not base your happiness on high socioeconomic status. In a way, that's the core tenet of the left: We cannot all be billionaires, so the state should acknowledge that and provide a robust safety net, so tha
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by xg15 4mo ago
Ignoring the hypocrisy and assuming they mean what they say, I'm missing some concrete proposals what the "fellows" are actually supposed to do in the host organizations. Suppose a fellow at say, Brave, is confronted with a g
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by xg15 4mo ago
What I never understood: If the goal is not reducing work (in the "effort to perform a task" sense), then why do AI at all?
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by xg15 4mo ago
Productivity for what end? Efficiency to improve which tasks? Wealth for whom?
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by xg15 4mo ago
Easy fix, just automate away all humans. Economy saved!
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by xg15 4mo ago
I think that was sarcasm.
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by xg15 4mo ago
The promo video is highly unrealistic. No way there are still so many human devs in the office.
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by xg15 4mo ago
> "To avoid the next problem: 'Microsoft locked my data behind bitlocker, and now I can't get it back.' they need to store that key on the MS account." Doesn't that make the account requirement even more
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by xg15 4mo ago
"KYC" simply for operating your own PC?
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by xg15 4mo ago
> Prevention should look a lot more like a global moratorium with whatever enforcement is necessary to stop and prevent any breaches of the agreement. Yep, that was my point. Either the ostensible danger stemming from the models is not
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by xg15 4mo ago
But that's the point. Assuming alignment is not possible and the risk caused by unaligned models is real, shouldn't then all effort go into preventing such models from existing in the first place? ...which would actually be an eas
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by xg15 4mo ago
But that makes no sense here. "If I'm not doing it then someone else will" does not work if everyone is doing it anyway. Even if they had the best model on the market and applied it with perfect alignment and safeguards, what
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by xg15 4mo ago
> Both OpenAI and Anthropic were founded by people who sincerely believed in the risk of out-of-control superintelligence. And then somehow came to conclusion that the only way to address that risk was to go ahead and spend a gigantic
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by xg15 4mo ago
...and no human will be able to understand the algorithm either.
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by xg15 4mo ago
Might be a hint that a lot of tech/SV signalling was just "woke capitalism" the whole time, and they dropped the pretense the moment it became politically advantageous.
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by xg15 4mo ago
...not to mention, which KV cache? Every attention module has its own, and how many attention modules there are, what inputs they get, how many internal features and attention heads they have, etc, all depends on the architecture of the s
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by xg15 4mo ago
Agreeing with the first part of your post, but not the second. > A gift that allows the common man to empower himself with a force multiplier towards his own success, and now access to superintelligence the likes of which few have ever
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by xg15 4mo ago
Isn't it also, most fundamentally, dependent on the model weights? My understanding was that what the KV cache stores is nothing else than the "activations" of the W_k and W_v matrices of an attention module for a given input
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by xg15 4mo ago
At least the malware authors seem content with rebuilding the historic bombs from the 1940s and didn't request any modern designs...
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by xg15 4mo ago
Funny if, after all those trillions of tokens and billions of dollars and grandiose arguments about consciousness, the end of humanity or the next stage of evolution, it turns out it really is just a markov chain after all...
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by xg15 4mo ago
> According to a local office worker, this wasn’t unusual; numerous unexploded bombs had been found on-site in the years prior, prompting evacuations in 2004. Yep, this is still a regular (and mostly mundane) occurrence in Germany.
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by xg15 4mo ago
How can I channel my energy into preventing my data from being used for military purposes?
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by xg15 5mo ago
Addictive yes, but I also realized another dynamic on that site, or at least for the first time, fully caught the weirdness of it: In old-style forums, BBSes and chats, there was at least a premise that you were talking to specific other pe
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by xg15 5mo ago
That sounds like a great incentive for such an agency to create the reviews in the first place...
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by xg15 5mo ago
This story reads as if there should be a message or a point or at least a punchline at the end - but it just ends with nothing?
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by xg15 5mo ago
Yeah, a bit of this. Speaking from Europe, there is the latent feeling of war, and the fear that an even larger one may come. It's also becoming increasingly clear what kind of visions the powerful people are trying to realize, and don
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by xg15 5mo ago
> Flash succeeding is subjective. There were many who were hostile to Flash (and Java) for a long time. I actively disabled the Flash plugin except when necessary. I would define "succeeding" as "having overcome the chic
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by xg15 5mo ago
> Java and Flash struggle in all areas Worth noting that Flash did succeed: It was widely used across the web and installed by enough web users that sites could usually assume it was available (though it was considerate to provide fa

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