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I am saying this probably is "silly behavior by a government" and it is a milestone that points towards what the future may look like. Why can't it be both? It's easy to wave this …

You may be right, and I actually agree with you: I think that in this case the most likely outcome is that Fable becomes available again at some point, albeit possibly only to a re…

So many comments here missing the big picture, and just gleefully pointing out that Anthropic got what they deserved, or that this is the natural culmination of some kind of market…

Where? Please point it out! All he says is there will be more desperate people on the market in future and because they're desperate they'll have to accept trial work. But that's n…

Well yes, there is tons of AI bullshit about and all sorts of scammy behavior , but I don’t think that says anything at all either way about whether the core technology is a “scam”…

People that know more about nuclear physics than I do already answered, but I’ll just say that: 1) It’s easy to think about the past in terms of what we now know, and it involves a…

You’re thinking of the other bomb, the U-235 one, which they didn’t test at Trinity and which was dropped on Hiroshima. That is two separate pieces of Uranium that are slammed toge…

That’s the one I meant. It’s the core, but in a box, which makes it look even more innocuous, like he is indeed just lugging a piece of industrial equipment around. There’s lots of…

I used to teach a class on the history of contemporary science (WW2-present) and I started the class with Trinity. There’s no other moment better. We know how it turned out, but th…

> We haven't seen a significant increase in the quality of LMM output since 2023 that hasn't been the result of throwing even more energy and compute at it. This is completely fals…

> Looking away shall be my only negation. I’ve been thinking of building myself my own frontend to HN that makes it impossible to view comments, for this reason. Yet sometimes ther…

Well yes, but there is a choice being made here and I would love to believe we can do better. The rational response to being afraid about your livelihood isn’t to spend time fillin…

This HN thread depressed me. I’m still thinking about why. Look past the press-releasey gushing from OpenAI and there are all sorts of interesting and subtle questions here about t…

This is a good point, and there’s some deep philosophical questions there about the extent to which mathematics is invented or discovered. I personally hedge: it’s a bit of both. T…

It's fast. Two skilled pressmen working together could do 200 to 250 impressions per hour or about one every 15 seconds (which might be 4, 8, 16 pages on each impression depending …

Well, yes, but as the other commenter says, that’s a very broad general statement akin to something like “AI will change knowledge work“. That’s certainly true, but how? What are t…

Thanks for the summary. I do love Benedict‘s work; I find he’s one of the few commentators who consistently strikes a balance between taking the transformative potential of AI seri…

You didn’t answer my question. You just restated your claims. Specific examples? Specific tasks?

> When you train LLMs on large volumes of text that describe logically consistent facts in a million different ways, the "logic" sort of becomes part of the grammer that the model …

I did read it. She doesn’t mention mathematics or RLVR training once, so I assume you’re referring to my point about empirical testability. Well, I think her statement that the cla…

Maybe, but a claim about what and LLM is not is still a claim about what it can or cannot do. And specifically: > without any reference to meaning is vague, but I read it as actual…

> She says explicitly it's not an empirical hypothesis. It's just a label for how they function. Then… what’s the point of the label, if it’s not making any empirically-meaningful …

It would have been nice to see some version of “I am very surprised by how far LLMs have come since I wrote the stochastic parrots paper, here is how I have revised my thinking.” B…

That’s correct, and yes - not less compute total on the main model (actually slightly more, since checking failed draft tokens costs you compute), but faster because inference is m…