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I like "good enough" LLMs for search and quick trivia. But "cars, appliances, etc" is exactly where LLMs are between noxious and dangerous. My food processor could use a self-clean…

Data centers have the potential for fire and so local fire departments must spend resources being prepared for such a thing. Edit: water (and sometimes electricity) are local servi…

I think the idea that "regulation is the bottleneck" is at least as pernicious as the idea that "intelligence is the bottle". US health care is well known to be an ongoing disaster…

...a United States presidential administration that almost certainly will not be able to deal quickly and competently with a massive financial crisis. Meh, admittedly this sidenote…

Yes, the police own the videos they take of you? Like LLM companies own the models they digest from the texts they don't own?

"This post sounds like it was created by AI, considering rewriting it in a more personal style" lol.

Yeah, Robert Putnam's Bowling Alone talks about the decline of community in America but the decline of community inside shops isn't mentioned because it never really existed. Taver…

Yeah, moreover, the argument is a particular kind of apologism for one or another kind of profiteering. Basically, "the people criticizing this (profiteering) don't understand the …

Perhaps it matters where you grew up. I grew up in LA and was a young in the Bay Area. I experienced none of what you describe and I was often in shops. Me and a friend would go to…

I was around for many of these things. At different points in my life from the 70s to the 90s, I'd hang around arcades, the local coop bike shop, a hobby shop that specialized in D…

I too know nothing about formal verification but I know that mathematical proof is different individual tooling. Informal statements, Lean and whatever other formal provers are all…

In a sense, what eventually gets legalized through settlement or what doesn't provoke a lawsuit isn't that relevant. The process of creating an LLM involves taking and processing a…

All LLMs are based on distillation broadly defined. Western models began distilling texts. If Chinese models are distilling Western models, they are taking information that Western…

Overall, all the different linear attentions out there are approximations the original (quadratic) attention and this is important for the whole "AI" enterprise[2]. Original attent…

I'd assume the gp was just inflating their rhetoric but cost of model is an interesting topic. I'd guess Anthropic and OpenAI's models are expensive relative to the cost of running…

Employers who expect to know things about employee's personal lives are despicable. I expect to accomplish my tasks. I can be friendly, polite and humorous but you don't need to kn…

So, you have "Thesis #3: The real threat is the war against the infrastructures and institutions that make all forms of literacy possible". So they're saying things are bad, deeply…

The way through is to change the way you relate to your work, and to appreciate the fact that you can now produce far more output. I currently, emphasis on currently, feel like I c…

OK, I should have put have put things as "when you are primarily interested in some benefit outside of the task at hand". Some of those benefits might be great, sure. But it's stil…

I begrudgingly agree, but with the caveat that tending to a vegetable garden in your backyard is also a spiritual pursuit. Mathematics isn’t some special discipline that elevates y…

The only "fields" where a genie appearing and doing all your work for you are fields (jobs) where you only about the money at the end. There are some fields where a serious practit…

Dogpile was only a good idea while Search Engines were mostly trash. Well, search engines are trash again. Perhaps it should come back

It's a matter of degree. If open source means "everything you need to reproduce this" then maybe an open source application should include a detailed architecture document and cour…

If AI were to become a super weapon why should I trust a private company to own it? If AI becomes a super weapon, it's possessor will no longer care whether you trust it. It would …

I agree with your overall argument. But I think there's a challenge here - if the "ultimate AI" is now being built in the West, it is being built with private investment from many …