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I didn't say we'd choose wisely. But since there is still a range of possibilities, I'm not giving up on the whole thing.

Yes, but there's still a range of possible outcomes, depending on what we do next.

You asked what I meant and I told you.

Are you not aware of the protective effects of melanin from higher levels of UV?

I assumed that was what the commenter above was talking about, but perhaps I'm wrong. From the little I know about it, most of the immigrants that right-wing Europeans complain abo…

AWS is heavily used worldwide, not just in the US. The same goes for the big AI companies. Timeframe is accounted for if you look at levelized cost per kWh. The levelized cost of n…

The nasty stuff, yes. Regarding greenhouse gases, natural gas has turned out to be about as bad as coal once you account for methane leaks, and the industry has strenuously resiste…

It's possible to have more than one existential risk at a time. We even have a third, since nuclear war doesn't seem completely impossible these days. We probably shouldn't ignore …

The US has been the foundation of European security since the beginning of NATO. Now Europe has good reason to think that American security guarantees are no longer reliable, and t…

They make less money, but they also notice lower conversion rates on ads, which might make them rethink their strategy. (IP reputation keeps me from doing it though.)

The "it" in that title is an AI smarter than humans. Nobody has built that. GPT-4 never did "scale and learn in uncontrolled ways," it got trained by OpenAI and had fixed weights a…

Not for anything scheduled on a server. But if I could turn a 30-minute task into a local button press, sure, I'd often keep it to myself. You have to decide whether your time is y…

Your friend could have still done the woman a favor, if he shared the automation with her privately, instead of with their employer. Doing things like this for yourself is how you …

And yet, when I was a developer and the only way to automate things was by hand, I found that doing so could give me lots of extra free time.

From the other comment: > this was partially tested last year in Thaler v. Perlmutter which affirmed that copyright requires human authorship Model weights are not authored by huma…

Normal software is copyrighted. Model weights don't seem to be copyrighted, as another comment pointed out here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49073127 If weights aren't cop…

Sure, that's a plausible theory but I haven't seen that anyone's proved it. An alternate theory is that models need lots of input knowledge to learn complex reasoning, but don't ne…

I think the idea here would be to not use your super smart but specialized model to check the weather. It's not obvious that it's impossible to (eg) remove most of its biology know…

For software, not only that, but run batches with a cluster of agents working different parts of the same task. Software like Yegge's Gas Town has one agent act as "mayor," and oth…

That last step contradicts my previous comment.

Of course advertising increases their profit. It does that by increasing their revenue even more than the cost of the advertising. For the rest of us, that giant increase in revenu…

Unless we came up with a different funding mechanism. Joseph Stiglitz for example has advocated a prize system for pharmaceuticals, though he doesn't suggest replacing the patent s…

So pharmaceutical companies spend far less on marketing outside the US, partly because every other country besides New Zealand makes those incessant drug ads illegal, and partly be…

So doing it on a big GPU would be pretty helpful. I wonder if anyone has used CUDA for this, or if any hardware synths have GPUs.