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procgen

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    Comment #49127309

    Pragmatism is as American as it gets: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pragmatism

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    Comment #48992615

    > 3,000 year-old cultures Like Western culture?

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    Comment #48985460

    Apples to oranges. The AWS premium buys you a much broader platform with autoscaling, dozens of instance families, managed databases, serverless products, IAM, global regions, etc.…

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    Comment #48939364

    Now it seems the best way to tell if a frontier model is benchmaxxed is to check if it can autonomously solve a major open mathematical problem.

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    Comment #48707649

    Dario is an American patriot who wants the US to win. Don't see this happening.

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    Comment #48371079

    Demand is high and will remain so. Supply just needs to catch up.

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    Comment #44924689

    Reminds me of the theory that insects like flies spontaneously emerge from decaying matter and dung. I wonder what magical thoughts we're taking for granted today.

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    Comment #44674079

    Progress on the 2nm facility (P3) in Arizona is apparently ahead of schedule, slated to be operational in 2027

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    Comment #44615275

    riding coattails

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    Comment #44282701

    > that they're simply compositions of things already in the training set Yes, knowledge is compositional. This is just as true for humans as it is for machines.

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    Comment #44273220

    something can only be "slow" relative to something else. it's not an intrinsic property.

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    Comment #44196517

    FYI, Frasier's not "faking a British accent". It's a Boston Brahmin/transatlantic accent.

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    Comment #43412300

    There's much to be said!

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    Comment #43257474

    Then ASML gets Nord Stream'd.

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    Comment #42522156

    But can they afford it?

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    Comment #41828529

    Convincing liquid physics (e.g. surf interacting with a beach, rocks, the player character) might be a good candidate.

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    Comment #41812958

    ChatGPT o1-preview was not flummoxed by the small kiwis, and even called out the extraneous detail: ``` To determine the total number of kiwis Oliver has, we’ll sum up the kiwis he…

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    Comment #40285209

    What misery? The hyperbole here is astounding.

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    Comment #40285169

    Intelligence is next-token prediction. See: active inference, predictive processing.

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    Comment #40285140

    Is your contention that AI can't be implemented on a Turing machine?

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    Comment #39911709

    I'd love to play against the original algorithm.

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    Comment #39783652

    It is. That's why I do all of my banking on iOS.

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    Comment #39780470

    This seems obvious to me, as there'd be ten times more computational resources.

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    Comment #39726884

    It's illegal because it threatens the viability and health of native populations of animals.