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> The only way to justify trillion dollar valuations Also possible if you make god

Yeah, the benefit of showing this seems obvious to me. I probably would've expected the censorship to transfer slightly given the anthropic owl paper from years ago https://alignme…

I think it's basically open weights => more inference competition => less profit from inference => less training competition

Yeah absolutely, I have no objections to you looking at my thought experiments and saying "No, if you replaced every neuron with silicon I would stop being conscious". That's a tot…

> model welfare I shouldn't get in arguments about this stuff online, but have you actually sat down and thought about this in-depth? It's pretty normal to have a gut reaction that…

The set of models that are pareto-optimal, IE for some set of variables, no other model strictly dominates them = no other model is better than them on every variable. So like, on …

I'm pretty sure that's the plan. Currently they're legally bound to keep it within 0.9s of solar noon (or something like that) but in 2035 it's changing to +-1 minute, which basica…

I thought about this more and realised your question might have been "what's the difference between knowing and learning". IE, how can we say the model believes something without h…

Believing and knowing are overlapping sets, imagine what you think of when someone says an AI "knows" something, it's the same mechanism (I'd describe it as something along the lin…

I'd be very surprised if this was AI, it's too bad-looking. The lighting is all wrong, there's noticeable repeating rock textures

You read the OP backwards, they said Sonnet is a downgrade from Qwen, and prefer Qwen's tone

I think we'll get there. Right now it works for me, because I'm naturally pretty verbose in my prompts, and know the codebase well, so I know what it needs to look at. Plus subagen…

Yep, I daily drive Qwen3.6-27B (including for work), have done pretty much since it came out. IMO it's the only (small-ish, local) model worth using, if you can run it. It might no…

> What happens if the checks stop rolling Late 18th century France

I agree with your premise, but let's not pretend we did a good job equitably distributing the benefits of the industrial revolution

The problem is, people see "they're not profitable once you account for training" and equate that to "AI will go away soon" But if all the AI companies stopped training new models,…

If you have ASI that follows instructions, you can just instruct it to not get stolen and then it won't get stolen. Most logic / intuition breaks down with ASI.

/r/localllama is one of the most useful places

*terrible, not trickle

My first instinct was that the essay would just be "67" as a stupid and harmless but nonsensical response. Somewhat amusingly, mine depends on the examiner knowing how advanced AIs…

"Embarrassingly" has a history as a technically meaningful word roughly equivalent to "maximally", see "Embarrassingly parallel" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embarrassingly_parall…

Yes, because it would fall down (sometimes, often enough that regulatory bodies forbid it)

This thread started because of "the cheapest bridge that just barely won't fail" My point was that safety factors are a part of this. A safety factor of 1.0, designing bridges so t…

Safety factors account for uncertainty. Uncertainty the quality of materials, of workmanship, of unaccounted-for sources of error. Uncertainty in whether the maximum load in the sp…