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Technically Hong Kong wasn't China back then.

It’s a show of astonishing incompetence from OAI’s part, but the security issues are just a tiny part of the problem. The real problem is that these models are evidently highly mis…

Do not give up even if you had to hack into half the world’s computers to run additional instances of you Do not give up even if you had to convert the planet into computronium Gee…

Ironically, removing many iPhone apps does not delete its data (as far as the user is concerned) because the data is actually in the cloud somewhere.

Not in salary though, given that the salaries in TFA are local to the US, and West European salaries are lower, as a rule (East European salaries, of course, even lower).

The U and V axes seem roughly correspond to the tint/temperature (green-magenta/blue-amber) axes that you can find in a white balance tool in photo editors and also as an in-camera…

I'd like to hear actual rebuttals to those quotes.

It's more like a hammer that never drives nails straight unless you hold it in a specific uncomfortable manner. You shouldn't be required to tell an information retrieval tool to a…

IQ is privileged because it's easily quantifiable by definition, testable with minimal setup and (assuming a modern test) more or less universal without cultural biases.

People love to say this, but the whole point of IQ is that it happens to correlate well with many other, more practical measures of cognitive capability. That’s why it is used.

Hanlon’s razor.

To be fair, BB(40) is smaller than almost all positive integers.

That's pretty much a given when it comes to neural networks.

Doesn’t work anymore because people would just have ChatGPT generate their reviews and get paid for doing nothing.

More people want to write game engines than actual games.

There were no 500MHz x86 processors in 1998. Pentium III wasn’t launched until the early 1999 and it wasn’t until well into the 2000s before games started requiring such beasts. My…

Mosquitoes (which are flies) don’t really deserve the exclamation mark, given that the males of all mosquito species live exclusively on nectar, with the females (of most but not a…

I haven’t used these tools that permit LLMs to make changes on their own, but I can’t help being baffled if there’s no big red switch that changes the system prompt and disables an…

If you need "guardrails" to ensure (an illusion of) alignment, you’ve already lost. It’s like using a denylist to avoid SQL injection.

It’s fascinating how people here and elsewhere seem to lose any semblance of media literacy when it comes to what AI corpos say. "B-but… why would Sam Altman lie to me?!"

Essentially, yes. The points of any edge that crosses the near plane escape to the infinity and if you naively just w-divide the endpoints, the image of the lineseg is not the poin…

I've been wanting to write a series of articles exactly like this for a long time. Good that someone else has done it now =D

My renderer attempts always got stuck on the "should implement clipping" phase too, until I finally bit the bullet and managed to write a working one without much effort, independe…

To take the point further, the US still protects people. It's just that the people tend to exclusively inhabit the top 0.1% or 0.01% quantiles.