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> Where in nature has anything ever grown exponentially in perpetuity? you could make the argument for human total GDP, which looks like https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/global-g…

LLM + scale = more intelligent, this can be proven more than empirically, https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.15318 shows that neural nets can fit a number of independent AND-gate operation…

> defeat any nations that don't discard humans AGI doesn't do away with nuclear MAD, it just messes with economics and makes many people temporarily jobless. Temporarily because in…

> Ensuring Chinese compliance would be incredible hard to enforce or to check consider SALT and other treaties from USSR vs USA cold war. they checked

> But every exponential is at a certain point a sigmoid. strongly, no . its just hard to distinguish them. for example, radioactive decay. cmon

> Governments exerting this much control will only end in war elaborate. regulation -> war, how?

we should never make ASI, what I am saying is strongly sane. ASI = not good. AGI, ~human brainpower, can be made safe enough. > Are there examples of where we have collective decid…

source needed. I'm not saying ur wrong, but source needed

all easily varifyable tasks can now be solved with money. this is worth paying attention to. math proofs are verifyable -> math proofs are easy now. you can think of other such tas…

people use different models. I use small local ones for instance

Can they add hackernews to their study analysis? And do a measure over time?

why is this better than eg matplotlib?

strawman fallacy, I can debate anti-subscription arguments much better. I don't think subscriptions have to be bad, but this is unreasonable

reminds me of https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/qEbqPitYhWHthwFNu/bun-s-migr... . remember anthropic owns bun

I like the quote at the end "we cannot choose to become idiots"

I like stuff that takes a statistic that we view one way and explains how to see it another way in this sense, related https://danluu.com/p95-skill/

linux is gpl, not dead

'X-risk/S-risk' is a superset of 'hierarchical world with zero social mobility' and 'ASI taking over the planet is ridiculous'. x-risk=bad, smart enough power-seeking llms automati…

Probably has something to do with smart technical people being attracted to free software, and then OSS, and then copyleft. the idea of writing code under gpl feels pretty left to …

coordination problems. everyone (mostpeople) wants action to be taken, but it requires coordination

> CO2 has been rising it rises faster now because we have more co2-emitters today than we did 20 years ago. source: economy has grown. idc if this sounds rude, but honestly you sho…

In pretty much every single HN post ~~on this topic~~, there are a number of commenters that are probably bots. Anyways it makes sense from a theoretical standpoint that LLMs shoul…

I like the metric of tok/joule a lot. it really brings to mind a lot of really nice ideas about energy and work and ideas and thought and efficiency

one option Ive liked for entering flow state for this is running a small 3b param model and using it as an alternative to stackoverflow or websearch while I code. I don't often do …

llama.cpp + pi.dev for me, using small Gemma and qwen llms