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That's not saying much. The real distribution is probably heavily skewed by risk factors such as poverty, age, drug abuse, etc.

I actually don't feel like Tao's recently published conversation is the best example of this idea. As intelligent as Dr. Tao is, and surely more so than me, I got the feeling that …

Everything he does benefits his adversaries because they're all playing him like a fiddle because he's basically the dumbest person alive.

I disagree. In fact, I think the field of dev ops gives a clean analogy with mathematical proofs. My point was that my work often requires that I figure out a consistent way to pro…

Exactly. I really wish people wouldn't use this. If this becomes popular, anthropic will just modify their cache policy to be much less fair. It's not like they have infinite cache…

Without any more context, "keep going" seems to be doing a lot of work. The user is placing a lot of faith in the LLM to not make subtle logic mistakes and to take good approaches …

Not sure I follow. I can't imagine humanity has evolved much since 1974.

We're not talking about ambulances though?

What if taking longer leads to a better result? Doesn't faster imply less thought?

Care to explain?

Also known as, the tu quoque fallacy. Just because politicians in both parties have been doing this for decades doesn't mean that this administration is not especially hypocritical…

I'm finding it extremely hard not to have a cynical perspective on all of this. There's an idea that I've been mapping onto this whole this, which could be called something like ef…

Kind of highlights how ridiculous their notion of safety is in this case. By this measure, I guess making the model "safe" means making it play dumb and intentionally ignore securi…

And the US gov could pull the rug out from under our business at any time? That's confidence inspiring?

I like to think that the long arc of history bends towards greater access to knowledge and intelligence. I mean, isn't that what we all want? To be collectively less ignorant and m…

And they probably don't enforce those restrictions within their own company would be my guess.

Honestly, this is a larger portion than I would have expected.

I'm not sure what the mechanism is, but I've definitely had Claude refuse to work on sessions that were touched by other models. Some kind of integrity check failure. Resetting the…

It feels telling that it reads like university course guidelines.

So then the Rust maintainers are going to give you an F on your report card?

> The more fundamental bottleneck is not even the frontier models, it's the datacenters. Is it even though? Quantization and speculative decoding are improving the local AI story b…

What I would buy: a local AI focused laptop with a built-in, powerful TPU. And it would have to open its hardware interface so that I could actually do what I wanted to do with it.…

One question jumps out at me: just because a string of text happens to be a good compressed representation (in the autoencoder) of a model's internal activation, does that necessar…

Yeah AI is the perfect scapegoat for layoffs recently to soften the impact on stock price and investor confidence. Coinbase is obviously doing layoffs because they are strongly tet…

Stockton Rush trusted his submarine with his own life.