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ungovernableCat

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    Comment #49225974

    Of course they could, in fact it'll probably be great prep if they read it and understand it instead of just memorising the answer. If they just memorise the answer any smart teach…

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    Comment #49222349

    My guess is from the "cheapness" association. AI generated images and video are used a lot in scams, really cheap and bad marketing, waste of time clickb8 videos and stories etc. I…

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    Comment #49221369

    There is a lot of that with the population but I don't see it at the leadership level yet. The top politicians are all still desperate to go back to the good old days of euro-atlan…

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    Comment #49217021

    Working culture at OpenAI and Anthropic is quite brutal. But hey, a lot of their employees are on 7+ figure compensations (when counting their paper worth) so it's certainly a moti…

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    Comment #49198223

    PBH (if they exist) are microscopic in size. If they're real and qualify as a potential dark matter candidate they have passed our solar system many times with the only thing happe…

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    Comment #49183495

    The best example of lesswrong rationality in practice is this infamous piece and the first reply to it. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/udFuYqqNdpdo5ym3f/genuine-qu...

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    Comment #49183188

    >Because the goal of GA is to preserve individual human cognitive liberty and flourishing, the corporate structure should be designed with that in mind. >So far, the Anthropic corp…

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    Comment #49145175

    Yeah I understand that. I mean just the methods they use to acquire the training data has already had a shit ton of drama, there's no way the western labs are ever going to be publ…

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    Comment #49144899

    If we start with the same ingredients and independently make our stews they're likely still going to taste a bit different due to the non deterministic nature of the process. Isn't…

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    Comment #49144863

    My understanding was that there was a lot of non determinism in the training process because of many factors: how GPUs optimise floating point arithmetic, how the compute is distri…

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    Comment #49138730

    Dead company, purchased completely via SpaceX stock. Hope it doesn't crash more before the cliff period ends.

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    Comment #49129677

    The world's a big messy place. You could do something like idk make a whole big mess in a region where they get most of their fossil fuels from.

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    Comment #49126961

    The EU is not a state or some federation. It's like a NAFTA+ It unfortunately doesn't have the risk averse VC system (or pragmatic state driven like China) ecosystem to support the…

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    Comment #48968019

    I've seen both variants of this where the midwit is enthusiastic about the impending singularity and where the midwit is saying it's all a bubble. Everyone's just portraying a stra…

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    Comment #48891481

    If you had a time machine and you could republish a claude generated article about some interesting tech topic to 2010 I'm sure it would get ok engagement. To me the issue is that …

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    Comment #48858033

    >I actually accept Jarred for who he is, and actually perceive him as successful by his own standards This was my favourite part. Nerd drama is entertaining.

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    Comment #48796679

    >I think most of the substantive criticism of Zuckerberg has been about burning funds. I'm not in the org myself I know some Meta SWEs tangentially. My understanding is that the bi…

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    Comment #48741400

    They haven’t even restored access yet lol, they’re doing that tomorrow.

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    Comment #48674374

    2026 computing, brokies need not apply.

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    Comment #48572521

    I was promised 10000 AI scientists curing cancer and solving fusion but all I got was unemployment and short videos of fruit people cheating on their partner.

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    Comment #48557055

    I’m worried some of the people leading this race will try to entangle the institutional financial giants or even the government to ensure some sort of too big to fail scenario. The…

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    Comment #48485096

    Wait a few months and a competitor will release a similarly powerful model with less guardrails, if they steal sufficient market share Anthropic will reverse policies. This is why …

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    Comment #48469201

    Machiavellianism

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    Comment #48325040

    Nah, I think AI has fundamentally changed the perception of the value of most tech labour in the eyes of the people running the show. The end result of it is that the average dev p…

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    Comment #48243516

    The only thing that's really being enfranchised by AI is my stock portfolio. I was promised cancer cures and longevity medicine but all I got is a way bigger workload for the same …