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Perhaps raw statistics, or estimates based on measuring traces in wastewater. I know that in the U.S. during covid they traced some new viral strains using that method.

I think the play now is to just try out whatever the best new model is every time you see a headline that fundamentally reorganizes your conception of what's possible.

If the post drops long before the IPO, it's vain boosterism. If it's near the IPO, it's fattening the pig. If it's after the IPO, it's pumping the stock price.

Build monumental architecture and increase the size of your harem.

Spectacular use of free will.

And you couldn't make Blazing Saddles today.

Around 9T parameters, depending on quantization.

He's been vibecoding some stuff himself personally, on one of his scuba projects. You could take people as actually believing in the things they do and say.

Are you aware of how productivity has increased over the past century in general? That didn't lead to 100x wage increases or more free time. Labour is a market commodity and follow…

People like checking items off of lists.

You get AIs to prove their code is correct in precisely the same ways you get humans to prove their code is correct. You make them demonstrate it through tests or evidence (screens…

Tao's broad project, which he has spoken about a few times, is for mathematics to move beyond the current game of solving individual theorems to being able to make statements about…

Does a system being deterministic really matter if it's complex enough you can't predict it? How many stories are there about 'you need to do it in this specific way, and not this …

If you haven't tried it yet, OpenCode is quite good.

It's an extension of how I've noticed that AIs will generally write very buttoned-down, cross-the-ts-and-dot-the-is code. Everything gets commented, every method has a try-catch wi…

You can recognise that the technology has a poor user interface and is wrought with subtleties without denying its underlying capabilities. People misuse good technology all the ti…

The industry is still seeing how far they can take transformers. We've yet to reach a dollar value where it stops being worth pumping money into them.

Because I'm getting paid to.

A system having terminal failure modes doesn't inherently negate the rest of the system. Human intelligences fall prey to plenty of similarly bad behaviours like addiction.

That series messed me up when I was younger.

Yeah. To me it seems very intuitive that humor is one of those emergent capabilities that just falls out of models getting more generally intelligent. Anecdotally this has been pro…

IIRC the guy who makes Aider (Paul Gauthier) has some videos along these lines, of him working on Aider while using Aider (how meta).

If everyone hated AI images, nobody would be creating them.

It crushes the orphans very quickly, and on command, and allows anyone to crush orphans from the comfort of their own home. Most people are low-taste enough that they don't really …

You beat me to that idea, haha. I was making an aider for fiction, but your project looks way more useful than what I had.