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Mentlo

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About Mentlo

I like to think about things and I work with data and ML for a living

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    Comment #47695331

    The gains have for a year and a half now been post training RL on a harnessed loop. That doesn’t require data, just cycles. If that doesn’t worry you, it should.

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    Comment #47598652

    But starcraft training is not through mimicking human strategies - it was pure RL with a reward function shaped around winning, which allows it to emerge non-human and eventually s…

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    Comment #47588781

    I tried figuring out the reference with Gemini, and it said this: The immediate reply to that comment is: "On the internet, no one knows you're an editor." This is a direct play on…

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    Comment #47588272

    We have strong indicators that inference is profitable on non-economically-valuable prompts. We don't have strong indicators that inference is profitable on economically valuable p…

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    Comment #47095398

    I wrote somewhere that “moving fast and breaking things” with AI might not be the sanest idea in the world, and I got told it’s the most European thing they’ve ever read. This goes…

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    Comment #47037275

    Yes, I was being sarcastic, but I could've been clearer..

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    Comment #47035689

    The generous interpretation is that Open AI is still safety aligned and they hired this guy because it's safer to have him inside and explain to him how reckless he's being, than h…

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    Comment #47022016

    I find your belief that what is needed for emergence is better prompting … amusing. The ai would still be sycophantic even without the pre-prompt. It’s been reinforced to do so, it…

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    Comment #46999952

    Until the problem is politically recognised by the masses with adequate concern there will be no change. Climate collapse is not a problem for the capital and the elites it’s only …

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    Comment #46868167

    Os x has a 10% market share, which is 2nd after Windows, but i agree on that one i conflated terms. I couldn’t quickly find device manufacturers stats. If wiki is to be trusted - a…

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    Comment #46861704

    I guess a quarter of the smartphone market (leader), half of the tablet market (leader) and a tenth of the global pc market (2nd place) / 6th of the usa/europe market (2nd place) b…

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    Comment #46836109

    People struggle with multiple order effects…

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    Comment #46834797

    Same as human tools, what’s your point? Edit: i am not talking evolution of individual agent intelligence, i an talking about evolution of network agency - i agree that evolution o…

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    Comment #46834434

    I think the debate around this is the perfect example of why the ai debate is dysfunctional. People who treat this as interesting / worrying are observing it at a higher layer of a…

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    Comment #46830358

    Humanity is a social network of humans, before humans started getting into social networks, we were monkeys throwing faeces at each other.

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    Comment #46830117

    Very obviously, but a dynamic system doesn’t have to be intelligent to be dangerous.

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    Comment #46829811

    I don’t know why you were flagged, unlimited execution authority and network effects is exactly how they can start a self replicating loop, not because they are intelligent, but be…

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    Comment #46828470

    The objective is given via the initial prompt, as they loop onto each other and amplify their memories the objective dynamically grows and emerges into something else. We are an or…

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    Comment #46828209

    If it turns out that socialisation and memory was the missing ingredient that makes human intelligence explode, and this joke fest becomes the vector through which consciousness em…

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    Comment #46733971

    Having read the other comments in reply to this one (and your subsequent replies) - I believe you might be falling into a "No True Scotsman" situation. First of - I don't know what…

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    Comment #45710163

    “This is not philosophy, this text is following in the footsteps of Alan Turing” (paraphrasing) is both incredibly humble (/s) and incredibly dismissive of philosophy as a structur…

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    Comment #45624754

    The overextension is too complex for most people, same as the 2008 overextension…

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    Comment #45624739

    How this is not more examined is beyond me….

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    Comment #45624715

    Except google and facebook have locked in numbers at times of virtually no competition before they started scaling up ads. If Open AI starts scaling ads next year they will churn p…