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Feels like a really weak bad-faith take. I guess you're trying to draw a false-equivalency between taking a problem extra seriously and denying/perpetuating it? However taking a problem too …

Yes, the market will compress drastically. You'll have a few experts leveraging/debugging AI, or designing/architecting novel things, and there will be no need for "average" e…

I doubt it has anything to do with data-quality, I'd be surprised if even 10% of climate denialists have studied the numbers. Remember >20% of US citizens are still creationists, a lot of peop…

Very emotionally powerful to watch something play out, even if I'm already consciously aware of it. Would love a speed where I can watch the whole dataset play out in about 1 minute.

"You're absolutely right!" I think for a while the test was passed. Then we learned the hallmark characteristics of these models, and now most of us can easily differentiate. That sai…

I agree. Also put some about global warming on there, or pollution, or efficacy of the covid vaccine.

Well, fun little experiment, at the very least. I'll also pick apart this question "The mainstream media gave Trump an 8% chance to win the 2016 election. Him winning clearly shows they were…

I don't know, seems needlessly speculative. I'll wait until there's more evidence from a better source.

Just seems like baseless speculation, another attempt to rationalize what occam's razor can much more easily explain with long-established egomania or senility.

I think despite the presentation this has some good ideas in it: 1. Formally calling out a concept for judgment-based skills that cannot be easily taught. I think everybody understands this, but havin…

ELI 5 You teach the machine by asking it to solve some problems, and then whatever answer it gives you say "That's exactly right. Now we train on those answers YOU just gave me" (even i…

This might sound paradoxical -- but any decent LLM will be happy to explain all the papers to you at great depth, and read new ones, and translate the math into simpler concepts and such. It'll a…

Yeah basically. You use the outputs from the first run (right or wrong) as answers for the second training run, and repeat. Magically it works. That's what's so surprising. I guess a theory …

I think a lot of studies are actually illegitimate. I think scientists all admit this, which is why peer-review, disclosing conflicts of interest, sharing your data, reporting all your measures BEFORE…

Counterpoint -- Yes he's wrong and obviously so. But is some rich dude saying something stupid worthy of platforming? It almost feels to me like acting as though a famous person being gasp wron…

I don't think any of this old-school advice applies when our employers are trying to go agentic in the next 5 years.

Yeah -- 93 commits in there. Not to say AI can't make an improvement in a domain like this, but it's definitely not a YOLO situation right now. I use AI code heavily at work and it's qu…

Well the thing is -- when you have rampant inflation, the cost of everything in USD goes up -- be it houses, eggs, or even stocks. So when you subtract out how much the value of the USD has gone down …

Well, when a companies have 100billion dollar incentives to make discoveries like this, I don't know if we should assume this is the only optimization that will happen. Given that increasing mode…

Okay, I spent about half an hour reading about this and asking gemini I guess my best understanding is this: The main breakthrough [rotating by an orthogonal matrix to make important outliers averaged…

I guess I'm trying to understand. I'm hearing this paper has been around for a year -- I would think that many companies would have already implemented and measured its performance in produc…

This is good news, probably. We'll have to wait and see which studies replicate and which don't.

For those of us outside of Britain (i.e. 98% of us?) the message here isn't "mission accomplished" -- it's "Yes it's possible"

Not saying these are bad, but I haven't seen any place where these seem to make much difference. I think the concept that you have a process for peer-review of architectural decisions open to any…

Yes it's a very small % of the population, but it's actually a significant percent of the earnings of these platforms. Just for illustration -- when I worked at Zynga they'd sell in-g…

Well I think a good way to differentiate things that are guilty-pleasures like a twinky and gambling is to take a survey of people and see what % say "I wish I had never ever gambled in the first…

It seems to me that interfering in a foreign election should be understood to be grounds for war.

I find your comment more interesting than the rest of the discussion. Specifically American culture does not permit enjoyment for the sake of it. Sometimes I feel that way too, but I'd love to …

There some evidence that nicotine may be inadvertantly used as a self-medication for schizophrenia and/or adhd Cocaine is a party drug afaik, I'll give you that one. Hallucinogens have the a…