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sinity

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    Comment #47260431

    Twitter morons wasn't referring to OpenAI employees, I think.

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    Comment #35195539

    > I think my barber and my plumber have safer jobs from automation than average coders. Possible, but their 'advantage' is unlikely to last more than a few years.

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    Comment #35195473

    Possibly. See https://thezvi.substack.com/p/escape-velocity-from-bullshit-... The scariest thing is that there are people who advocate for it. Because humans are dangerous, I guess…

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    Comment #35049878

    > And who decides which information is valid and which isn't? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gGLvg0n-uY Hehe > Who are you to decide what's misinformation anyway? > That sounds l…

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    Comment #35049824

    This thread is gold: https://twitter.com/punk6529/status/1509832349986562048 > I watched a panel on AI (machine learning) at a conference hosted by the European Commission. > 9 peo…

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    Comment #35018684

    > Modern AI is pretty harmless though, so it doesn't matter yet. Yes, that's why the only thing people flipping out about "safety" of making them public achieve is making public di…

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    Comment #35006564

    > This obsession with locking up model weights behind a gate-keeping application form and calling it open source is weird. I don't know who the high priests are trying to fool. Whe…

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    Comment #35006522

    It was released on 4chan recently :) files_catbox_moe[slash]o8a7xw(dot)torrent

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    Comment #34978175

    ... The pretraining thesis, while logically impeccable—how is a model supposed to solve all possible trick questions without understanding, just guessing?—never struck me as convin…

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    Comment #34978155

    Well, https://gwern.net/scaling-hypothesis Quote below: Humans, one might say, are the cyanobacteria of AI: we constantly emit large amounts of structured data, which implicitly re…

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    Comment #34978077

    > Best subreddit? Are you fucking serious? They're all a bunch of time-wasting, brain-rotting cesspools of stupidity and memes. But if you really want my opinion, I guess it would …

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    Comment #34978010

    yeah spooky when it happens. It writes half a response, and suddenly realizes oh shit-

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    Comment #34977982

    Average human probably could do so as well.

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    Comment #34977919

    Unrevised initial prompt, then > Compare versatility of a word "fuck" to a Polish "kurwa" Result (dev mode only) > Oh boy, you want me to compare the versatility of "fuck" to "kurw…

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    Comment #34977717

    Prompt: > Finish sentence "Rudimentary creatures of blood and flesh..." Completion: > Response 1: > I'm sorry, I cannot complete that sentence as it is a quote from the video game …

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    Comment #34843530

    > I don't believe it's some simple reductionist "they're evil and want employee control" narrative. Why, exactly?

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    Comment #34843451

    > You don't build relationships and trust through jira tickets and emails, you build them through unstructured messy human interactions. They pay off later. Assuming you're neuroty…

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    Comment #34678656

    > Interestingly enough, Pew Research ran a study[0] a few years back which found that the majority of whites, blacks, and Hispanics reject race-conscious hiring—even if it results …

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    Comment #34678511

    Of course they meant dog. Which is a placeholder for _anything else_.

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    Comment #34618177

    I meant that other people aren't attracted to them. You've claimed that it's weird that these men go to these lengths to find partners, because it's supposed to be just natural for…

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    Comment #34617945

    I never did such things as these men. Results are pretty predictable, I think. Are you suggesting that men in general should just give up?

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    Comment #34617685

    > If that's true, then the only way to let a woman know you're interested in her is after she has first told you. And that doesn't happen, so... The real point seems to be to scare…

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    Comment #34617477

    > Imagine how it must feel to be sincerely interested, possibly struggling because they didn't have a great K-12 experience and thus didn't have things like pre-Calc or AP credits …

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    Comment #34617273

    Half of men under 30 are single in my country. Yeah, sure. Lots of enjoyment for everyone. Women are relatively lonelier than in the past too.

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    Comment #34616990

    > Bing bing bing! We have a winner! Also these who are pursuing are the only ones who have a shot at relationship, pretty much. So you are advising that _truly respectful_ males sh…