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Half the thread is arguing about whether OpenAI staged this or whether theyre being sincere, as if OpenAI has agency. openai is just an optimizer maximizing paperclips (valuation, …

on the other hand, now we have claude mythos... which is wtf returns even for a very large number of instructions...

Richard Dawkins is primarily a _showman_ who wants to sell books, and secondarily extremely sure of his own convictions, to a fault. In _The God Delusion_ he took an uncompromising…

I hate articles that don't define their acronyms! Lazy? Intentionally exclusive? So that others don't also have to look it up, it's Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG). They even …

And how do you know it's irreducible? In the sense of knowing there's no short program to describe it (Kolmogorov style).

"LLMs are not intelligent and they never will be." If he means they will never outperform humans at cognitive or robotics tasks, that's a strong claim! If he just means they aren't…

> You can iterate your way out of a valley if you know which way is up. love this, I think this is my new personal motto!

aider https://aider.chat/ basically does this already. % aider [...] > do this on command line: ffmpeg cat\ meets\ skunk.mp4 normalize audio without reencoding video to video2.mp4 …

Love this. The adhd spirit is inspiring. Right at the end of the article: "There is also an extra colon mark in the line just below." pretty sure that's a semicolon!

> We can stop thinking of theories as being real or not in a binary sense, and merely ask how well they compress the data. Of course, different theories can achieve the same compre…

Agree, "spooky action at a distance" isn't spooky at all if you just accept it as physical!

Near the end: "I believe that the quest to understand the reality of the universe must contend with the truncations imposed by the perceptual and cognitive limitations of the mind.…

"... with the aim of enabling the company’s AI... to plan ahead enough to navigate the internet autonomously and reliably to perform what OpenAI terms “deep research...” Nice... le…

Yawn. Evaluated in terms of Graham's hierarchy of disagreement, this article employs the techniques of: contradiction, ad hominem, and name-calling

What if we take AI out of the equation. Should the voice actress who voiced Sky (call her A) be unable to do any voice work because she sounds too much like SJ? How about if the pr…

I dunno, it's hard to agree that the outputs contain "no emotion" when you see these examples (scroll down): https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/09/opena... In part…

100% yurt. Yurts in cold climates is a thing. Sometimes they just have a smoke hole in the roof instead of a chimney. All the pictures are at weird angles, they're printed on a bal…

Here's one from the inside with a wood stove, thanks airbnb: https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/17261315?adults=1&children=0&in...

Why did no one guess "yurt" (with smoke coming out the chimney)? Pictures of yurts here, first one with a chimney: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yurt

Context: LLMs learn all the amazing things they do by predicting the next token in internet data. A shocking amount can be inferred from the internet by leveraging this straightfor…

One reason to discuss job displacement is that otherwise you sound like a nutcase ("we're all going to die!")... which causes most people to dismiss you out of hand. If you talk ab…

Surely we can agree there is risk? (You do imply it's powerful, "this tech is literally the most exciting development of my lifetime".) Also can we agree "It's not up to a handful …

Your idea is also voiced in Forbes magazine. https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattnovak/2023/03/29/the-real-r... Search "Graham's hierarchy of disagreement" which is popular on HN. You…

Regarding Chomsky's characterization of LLMs "gorging on hundreds of terabytes of data" compared to the "miniscule data" required for a child to learn a language: The brain is evol…