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For what it’s worth suicide prevention was probably the number one initiative during my 17 years in the USAF from 2002 to 2020 I think the flu vaccine and sexual assault prevention…

Speaking of taste the author basically tells me not to read the article immediately as soon as I hit the page because the commenters on this site (HN) have made them feel so bad ab…

>There was always an implicit understanding that the white-collar worker would be freed to spend their time on more valuable, higher-level problems "Oh yeah, we're gonna bring in s…

I’d argue this is exactly why this happened and why the poster is correct but missing the point: Your organizational management is the problem not the technology If you can’t coord…

It is full of obvious AIgen artifacts What’s more interesting is that whomever the judges were didn’t seem to notice or care. It was only until afterward were they upset

Like most things a handful of power tripping moderators ruin the whole reputation. It is what it is. Ultimately if you care about the community you’re supporting and put the effort…

Judge for yourself but I’m extremely proud of our community /r/ultramarathon We have a thriving supportive community that has been a support group for 100 thousand people that run …

I appreciate the response because it made me go back and look at my sources. What I conflated was that WebText utilizes Reddit links and data (mostly prior to 2023/4) and that I co…

I started/run a old and moderately popular sub (top 100 in sports) and haven’t noticed any issues that we haven’t dealt with before. We shut down during the blackout so it’s not li…

Common Crawl is heavily populated with reddit threads So a massive chunk of LLMs are Reddit data

I’ve never met another person who can “sit like a frog” who didn’t have to go through something unbearable That has been my experience at least

Citations aren’t gonna cite themselves!

Turing Syndrome (1): "The point which the amount of AI generated data on the internet surpasses human generated content, to the extent that it is impossible to distinguish between …

Why couldn’t this trick be pulled off two decades ago? After all autonomous vehicles has been well funded research since the 1980s the DARPA grand challenge being one of the previo…

Precisely, and quite confusing why that isn’t obvious

Precisely how is the inclusion of LIDAR counter to the bitter lesson?

Please describe the trick you’re suggesting

Yea we got here through recognizing the bitter lesson is a description of reality and adopting techniques that exploit it The entire history of this field is precisely that problem…

Yesterday evening I rode 12 miles in a Waymo actively dodging pedestrians and obstacles dynamically in an open ended environment. Multiples better experience than the two Ubers I h…

Hey Ravin, I’m executive director for AGI Society which has run the AGI conference ( https://agi-conference.org/ ) since 2007 We’d love to invite you to speak about your work next …

Would love to see that report if you have a link

I’ve been playing with LLMs since 2021 that’s what, 5 years now? I was lucky cause I knew David Holz and he gave me early access, but that’s what companies want to hire, people who…

I should have used a different example there for sure. Cryptocurrency was impactful but not in the same way The point I’m making is a financial bubble can burst while also massivel…

Nobody uses crypto everyday

This is exactly why all these people talking about a “bubble” I think are misguided. Are expectations way too high in the near term for tech companies and all of the crap that they…