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That's it! They (rather dubiously) claimed it came from a recycled Russian coke can, if I recall.

Hardly anybody is talking about the biggest political aspect of open weight LLMs (actually, any LLMs): Because they instantly and reliably(tm) give you the information you want in …

Oh goody, an expert in a question I've always wanted to ask. Once upon a time, I encountered a sort of interactive museum book called "Earthsearch". One of its "exhibits" was a col…

That's like inhaling a virus to see if it's contagious. Reading text generated by a model tuned with RLHF is a dangerous pastime. It's all too easy to reach past a human's critical…

Over the weekend I learned that the new Odyssey film fails a blind watching test; a friend-of-a-friend is sightless, and reports that the entire second half of the film is unintell…

But how will we ensure human CEOs are properly aligned? We can't fine tune them, inspect their internals, or repeatedly assess their behavior in isolated containers. ...can we?

Serious question - looking around, do you really think "everything is going basically fine"?

It's warranted. Oh boy, is it ever warranted. If anything, we suffer from a catastrophic skepticism deficit. Memes (the original kind) exist in a fast paced hypercompetitive enviro…

Do you really believe that everyone in society is precisely equally likely to reproduce? No inheritable traits liable to move the needle one way or another?

I think we have to consider the origin of it as a concept, which predates the United States entirely and is quite a lot more damning. From the same Wikipedia page you linked: "The …

It literally predates the United States Constitution by hundreds of years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_copyright Also, I'd be careful at taking the reasoning of politi…

Was it really "designed to incentivize" anything? Or was it introduced to protect a powerful, influential business model? Looking at how laws are passed now, I know which explanati…

Why's that? "Just trust me bro" is the security model of all closed source, proprietary software. OMG, the program with secret source code is doing shady stuff? I'm shocked - shock…

At 20x the parameter count I should hope GLM beats Gemma! But is it 20x better? Expertise is demonstrated, not by making big models, but by making small ones. Bigger isn't better i…

Looks more like standard decision-washing finger pointing to me. "AI did it" is both hypey and also conveniently distracts from an uglier reality: >Palantir Technologies [built] Ma…

In terms of open models, Gemma 4 beats the pants off everything else to the point that paying for APIs becomes hard to justify. Qwen has the meme-share for coding, but it feels muc…

...did it really, though?

Thank you for using the phrase "stochastic parrot". I only request that you use it at the beginning of your long comments, rather than the end. It saves time.

That's kind of terrifying. It's extremely obvious. Overwrought "punchy" style and riddled with not-x-but-x chatgpt-isms (all the LLMs have that now): "We don't just "laugh" anymore…

Heh, your flip remark leads to an interesting observation: I think the most obvious signature of "abstract intelligence" is suboptimality. An alien would look at an agricultural gr…

Even on that scale, major roads and agricultural grids are clearly visible. The mark of abstract intelligence is unmistakeable.

What a weird straw pile to die one. No one is saying "four beers and you're guaranteed an accident". They're saying "drive drunk and you are a piece of shit, don't do it ever ever …

It's disappointing that the reaction to a clear case of a compiler bug is just to give up.

People are most certainly not less educated than in the 1800s. Meanings do indeed shift, especially when terms become euphemisms for other less savory terms. "Moderation" sounds mu…

That doesn't pass the sniff test, or chimpanzees would be smarter than humans.