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When the base model has been trained with safeguards, putting "Satan himself" in the system prompt won't make it turn satanical, just do an elaborate form of role play. Additionall…

> With what accuracy? And with how many intermediate tokens? So you are arguing here that LLMs should just "know" the result of a multiplication when the operands are in context, i…

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The field now favors into the view that symbolic manipulation is not the mechanism of general intelligence, but rather an emergent byproduct of learning. So the fact that a connect…

I think it's becoming harder and harder to argue that LLMs don't really reason and just mimicry human speech. This counterexample is clearly the result of a sequence of steps that …

Arguably, Exxon's plan to build a computing ecosystem rival to IBM's would have worked too, if the 16 bit successor of the Z80 would have maintained upward binary compatibility wit…

Assuming the necessary laws banning this crap are not put in place, what is the endgame here? Activists destroy visible surveillance cameras, so they hide them and make them hard t…

In a society that respects and protects privacy rights by law, the service Flock provides could not exist. There are no 'guardrails' to mass surveillance.

This is another reframing of the problem. What makes the area desirable is previous investment society has made there, to the benefit of some and the exclusion of others; the scarc…

A baseline of housing - for example, a Japanese style capsule or ultra-tiny home, that you can lock and store your belongings safely - costs close nothing. Of course, nobody would …

It's circular to say "it's an allocation problem". Yes, that's the entire point: we're post-scarcity on food supply and yet, as a species, we can't guarantee the allocation of a li…

They can't, because they use RL with synthetic data and LLMs as judges. So the system naturally convergences towards certain load bearing, genuine, not just annoying but ridiculous…

It was quite clear 4.7 was a dumbed down high efficiency model they put out in a rush to handle the capacity issues they were having at the time. I've experienced myself substantia…

Can't wait to see what unusually simple Erdos problem LLMs will expose next, hiding in plain sight for decades and seemingly intractable for professional mathematicians who weren't…

You are still getting the models you signed up for. The all you can eat added a French wines selection - which requires separate payment.

This is true for any drug, any drug can presumably become a poison, can interact with some genetic or biological trait and trigger a side effect and so on. The complexity of the bi…

It's easy to find counterexamples: the entire science of pharmacology is based on macroscopic effects that often lack a fundamental understanding of the underlying mechanisms of ac…

Personally, I would avoid UTF-8 levels of complexity because you only pay the size cost once per string. A simple 2-bytes + optional 4 bytes continuation scheme handles strings up …

You can have a universal variable length field, for example 2 bytes for strings The subdivision issue is a good perspective, but i would argue the performance impact of cloning sub…

The point is that knowing what you don't know allows you to hedge your bets on events far into the future; my child will need to become productive 20 years from now and maintain it…

The counterargument is that kids will live in a world different from our own. For example, in many countries children lost the ability to write cursive; that used to be a critical …

> rewriting a big widely used project in a stricter language is always a good thing Always might be a too strong word. Rust is, by design, a language with low development velocity.…