Viewing profile — khafra

A friend of mine built just built a project for doing something like that, although it's built on enforcing a spec rather than elegance: https://medium.com/@joeldg/architecting-out…

I think Musk sucks, as a person and political activist, and also that Grok is a terrible LLM which only gets lumped in with the leading labs because of the enormous quantity of com…

I feel like "relatively" is doing a lot of work, there: at about $4k per GB10, that's $36k for a 1TB cluster. Cheap compared to equivalent H200's, but out of reach for home labs th…

In the dark ages of machine learning, researchers tried to fit natural language into a defined, human-curated taxonomy. It kinda worked, for a reasonable amount of stuff; but faile…

If this becomes cheap and widespread, there'll likely be an initial iatrogenic spike, of course--but how could you think that having an enormous amount of precise, quantifiable dat…

Today, you keep seeing "sovereign" LMs that are subject to the sovereignty of some human-led state. Tomorrow, the "sovereign" LMs will be called that for a completely different rea…

> fear of pick pocketing may reduce the degree to which people carry around and spend money with vendors. Yes, that's why I specified an unattended wallet. I agree that direct mone…

I don't think he meant "show the actual data," I think he meant "what leaked? My name, address, phone number, email, medical records, payment history, bank account number?" We get …

Some theft is efficient. If a hypothetical thief grabs a few bills from an unattended wallet, and the wallet's owner wasn't counting on having a specific amount of money available …

You're correct that, generally speaking, policy debates should not appear one-sided ( https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/PeSzc9JTBxhaYRp9b/policy-deb... ). We should put very little p…

Ted Chiang is a great SF author, but it's bizarre how much foggier and more obfuscated his thoughts about thinking machines got, once those machines became real. Same with several …

I'm willing to buy the idea that most fund managers have the lattitude to give SpaceX the standard seasoning period, instead of buying in right when they hit the index. Which funds…

And for a dev, that's essential professional ethics, and good personal pride as a craftsman. However, from an operations perspective, a dev is a piece of the qa pipeline with a non…

When "guess with some magic" can solve long-standing problems in mathematics that no human had been able to, it seems fair to ask whether it's approaching risky levels of intellige…

This is not a contradiction; it's an augmentation. As an operations guy, I can tell you that well-constructed automation to reduce the amount of manual checking a human has to do a…

If you want to talk about ends, you're talking Axiology, not strictly Ethics. By "ceteris paribus correct," I mean that if you were programming a superintelligent AI-- and you knew…

Neither Deontology, Virtue Ethics, nor Consequentialism describe the ends; only the tradeoffs. You could have a deontological commitment to never giving a sucker an even break. You…

The death toll per heat wave can easily hit 5 figures in just france. A hybrid portable-minisplit that will cool a 100m^2 apartment is under a thousand euros, and draw just under a…

If power is so cheap mid-day, why don't european buildings have sufficient air conditioning not to kill the elderly during heat waves? The laws restricting AC all have power conser…

Are you sure they're not the same thing? I'm quite certain I've heard people talk about "beef curtains."

What about your rouladen? Articulated steel blinds block quite a lot of light, don't they?

Should be able to use the local LLM to generate a short "They Live" style phrase based on the content of the ad.

The other scary part is when they have a fantastic negotiating position; because all of commerce depends on their continuing to work, and they can easily coordinate with each other…

A wise man once noted that the word "amusement" has the same structure as "deforestation." (@stevenkaas on twitter).

"Did the vehicle just crash" has a short feedback loop, very amenable to RL. "Did this product strategy tank our earnings/reputation/compliance/etc" can have a much longer, harder …