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this idea that government regulation is the problem and the companies need economic incentives to self regulate is a religion around here, and after incredible amounts of evidence …

“everyone has reader mode” is I guess freeing?

Given an open weights model trained to sometimes bite kids, we can’t train it to not bite kids, even though billions of dollars of research have been thrown at this open problem. G…

I do appreciate the literal college lectures on there. Hard to get the algorithm to surface them but they’re golden for learning. Of course I would be unshocked if the authenticity…

Use a fucking typewriter?

a gun that goes off when dropped is a very bad gun

The memphis datacenter? Do you have a context limit of under 30 tokens or something?

this will also be true at deployment time

I wonder if it would work to make it illegal to sell ad impressions of underage people. Do whatever you want as long as you can prove its being done to adults, or prove you have no…

I’m saying that providing a better standard of living to adults who cannot work is something we are spending ~3% of our GDP and 5% of all fulltime workers on. That providing these …

We could provide food for the poor and disabled who lack or are not using family support with a tiny fraction of our industrial output. We wouldn’t even notice this expenditure, le…

Why are comments turned off on the blog posts itself? I was planning to make 200 thoughtful comments with the cheapest AI I could find to prove a point, but the lack of an option t…

It appears not.

“you can not stop X” is a shitty lazy stupid argument for “X is not bad.” No comment on the rest of the article.

OpenAI had total access to the most powerful unleashed models that exist, and was unable to use them to prevent a specific known to be evil computer from connecting to the Internet…

(((4,4), (0, -10)) ((-10, 0), (-20, -20))) if you want to sell a product that looks like defect but sucks for everyone, lying and saying “its a prisoners dilemma, don’t be a sucker…

Thats’s the trump pitch, that supporting him is defecting in a prisoners dilemma, but from where I stand it looks like he’a shrinking the pie by damaging America through ineptitude…

isn’t that how we got here though? Everyone in silicon valley was so busy making sure they were open minded, steelmanning, and not treating politics like a sport that no one in the…

The funny thing about Lisp is that writing a Lisp interpreter is significantly fewer keystrokes than correctly installing Common Lisp and its tooling. The ratio of lisps to lisp pr…

The token cost of a report is lower bounded by the number of tokens in the report * price per token of the cheapest model. The token cost of a good report is much higher, but sifti…

If there were examples, their example status would drop the odds that I know about them.

I was asked to train a neural network do detect how much pain a mouse was in- our partner company would be responsible for hurting and filming the mice. I refused and subsequently …

I’d want to estimate P(a random test passes) where the existing suite of tests is taken to be sampled from a distribution.

Putting on my machine learning PhD student hat, the way to do this was to leave 10% of the tests out as a ‘test’ set and then once the port was done, bring them back in and find ou…