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Well, it’s mentioned as a limitation of the analysis, very much not ruled out (or in.) That simonw is causing labs to do extra fine-tuning runs for this seems highly probable :)

What if they’re not pelicanmaxxing, but svgmaxxxing in general? Because otherwise using a LLM to generate complex svgs is pretty niche and what I thought made this a good benchmark…

You get calls about a new service or promotion, and it's the diction of the caller that makes you not wish to engage...?!

Counterpoint: the standardized surface area of a browser is already enormous, and while these components seem simple, there are a billion different options, variables or alternativ…

What was the “well defined” definition? I’m not aware of any other than “this particular thing a human can do that I expect would be difficult for a computer.”

"intelligence" is not well defined. LLMs are throwing this into high relief with how "spiky" their capability curve is. Yes, they can solve some crazy hard problems with enough com…

I would bet that Canva's bet is that companies will always want a "last mile" of manual control, even if only for the Queen's Duck effect. If Canva is the default, zero friction pa…

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Well if you are talking about environmental stuff (like leaded gasoline), sure. If you’re talking about trying to improve the genetics of populations at scale… yikes.

This is a must-read series of articles, and I think Kyle is very much correct. The comparison to the adoption of automobiles is apt, and something I've thought about before as well…

To be clear: most people who are keen on making such an argument, or who are identifying racial genetic differences as the primary takeaway of studies like this, are doing so to ju…

Did you read the article? There's a whole section on "this is already happening."

I think we should all consider the possibility that part of the reason Anthropic hasn't immediately released Mythos is that it would be slightly disappointing relative to the bench…

This is a really interesting point though -- it's really scaffold-dependent. Because for the same price, you could point the small model at each function, one by one, N times each,…

Disagree, I don't particularly want to up the level at which I'm building the core. Core is where I want to prioritize quality over speed, and (at least with today's models) what I…

I like this framing, but it does seem to imply that a whole dev shop, or a whole product, can or should be built at the same level. The fact is, I think the art of building well wi…

Yes. That is the point I was making. Calculators provide a deterministic solution to a well-defined task. LLMs don't.

That's not what I mean. If I use a calculator to find a logarithm, and I know what a logarithm is, then the answer the calculator gives me is perfectly useful and 100% substitutabl…

I think that's too easy an analogy, though. Calculators are deterministically correct given the right input. It does not require expert judgement on whether an answer they gave is …

So, isn't this a rather longwinded way to say that a signature only extends to the scope of the message it contains? It doesn't matter if I sign the word "yes", if you don't know w…

I could not possibly enumerate all the possible things that have been enclosed. Human beings obviously being the most morally egregious.

Also, the defining feature of capitalism is that it encloses what was previously common . Land used not to be owned (feudal lordship was functionally different than private ownersh…

Rent is charging money for access to an asset or property . The P in IP is Property.

I'm not sure how this relates to AGI. This measures the ability of a LLM to succeed in a certain class of games. Sure, that could be a valuable metric on how powerful (or even gene…