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the point is that introducing data from a foreign source could lead to e.g. exfiltration: the model retrieves https://somewhere into its context and then gets confused, following i…

similarly, i think that something that someone took the time to proof-read/verify can be of value, even if they did not directly write it. this is the literary equivalent of compil…

i'm reminded of the film Annihilation, especially the entity encountered at the end.

schemes exist for cryptographically verifying that an output is the deterministic result of some program run on some input. i'm at least aware of BitVM * as one example of this. i …

companies routinely demand and supply things of and to each other. i don't see why the economy necessarily has to "touch a floor" of human desire. a company could be founded with t…

yeah, i really think it accomplishes a lot. at a minimum, it makes it clear to others that they are not alone in thinking this regime is beyond the pale. people who are able to tak…

peaceful protest is not pointless, no. peacefully expressing opposition is enormously powerful. there is still hope that it will be the path out of this worsening nightmare.

i wasn't aware of this feature - thank you for sharing it. with more awareness of /active perhaps these urgent political conversations can still survive on HN.

"an architecture that learned more like humans" i.e. enduring countless generations of evolutionary selection and cross breeding, then fine-tuning a bit? although it could be inter…

I am sorry, but the sameness will be quantified and dealt with algorithmically, as and if desired. Dial up the temperature, launch however many parallel threads to research and avo…

i'm curious, how did you arrive at "40-50%" possible human performance? the task of "predicting the next word" can be understood as either "correctly choosing the next word in the …

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"a magic box capable of novel work" or a box whose content can be cleanly swapped out with future iterations which already demonstrate the potential for novel discovery: https://th…

"strong opinions, loosely held" (i think it was Bezos who first expressed this ideal?)

i wonder whether a deactivated (but not deleted) account complicates submitting a claim for a "current" account in any way?

upvoted but really, society has an extraordinary array of often incoherent desires we're trapped in an excruciating process of experiencing these desires assert and resolve themsel…

just start new instances from the base image or useful checkpoints "The Age of Em" by Robin Hanson thinks through a lot of this in great depth

does doing awareness entail something non-mechanical?

i'm reminded of the short story "unwirer" by charlie stross and cory doctorow, which imagines a counter factual universe in which the internet was captured by corporate intentions …

does agency equate to volition here? when humans exercise agency, is this more than a mechanical phenomenon?

> but this would require people to be able to manage their own private keys a few generations ago social networking would have seemed infeasible because it would require wide sprea…

> The main problem is that I don't have the 5-10 years to really sink into that comfortably to get there from raw experience, or the stamina to go through what would seem to be my …

> I'd argue that if you're smart enough to be reading this website, you're smart enough to create and sell a piece of software to 10 businesses. it's both fascinating and horrifyin…