opus131csharpminor @op131csharpminr

Recovering mortgage-backed securities trader, lifelong programmer, longtime EA/AI safety adjacent, Beethoven and Mahler appreciator USA Joined October 2024

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opus131csharpminor @op131csharpminr

9 months ago

There's a lot to like in this thread but the bit about English being fake shows exactly why school can be so bad, under OP's criteria. The typical high school English assignments of dull books can crush your love of literature and the arts, leading to an impoverished inner life

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opus131csharpminor @op131csharpminr

9 months ago

Re-reading Anthropic's article, "The case for targeted regulation," a month later: it relies on there being some obvious set of frontier labs which are subject to these transparency and safety policies. I do think their proposals are sensible, for those labs. But in the era of…

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opus131csharpminor @op131csharpminr

10 months ago

Two rather different things going on here: cnbc.com/2024/10/09/ai-… What's the breakthrough? Is it the corporate-friendly product? Or the method of training on synthetic data? Are these linked in any way or completely unrelated? Anyone have any idea?

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opus131csharpminor @op131csharpminr

10 months ago

New essay: I recently stumbled on Bill Joy's famous essay, "Why The Future Doesn't Need Us," after forgetting about it since publication in 2000. It's a puzzling read, mixing deeply wrong-headed views with some prescient intuition on AI risk. Read here: x.com/op131csharpmin…

opus131csharpminor @op131csharpminr

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opus131csharpminor @op131csharpminr

10 months ago

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opus131csharpminor @op131csharpminr

10 months ago

An 8xH100 machine will cost you $24/hour on RunPod. You should be replicate this yourself for about $3. What a time to be alive

Keller Jordan @kellerjordan0

10 months ago

An 8xH100 machine will cost you $24/hour on RunPod. You should be replicate this yourself for about $3. What a time to be alive

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opus131csharpminor @op131csharpminr

10 months ago

Struggling to think of how Mistral is death metal and not quite getting it

François Chollet @fchollet

10 months ago

Struggling to think of how Mistral is death metal and not quite getting it

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opus131csharpminor @op131csharpminr

10 months ago

This piece and others have me coming around on the benefits of open source/open weights AI, after years of only being exposed to LW/rationalist arguments against. We could have a world where the benefits of intelligence are broadly distributed, where algorithmic improvements…

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10 months ago

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opus131csharpminor @op131csharpminr

10 months ago

"Lock down the physical world" is not the phrase I would have chosen, but tighter security seems necessary bc small open models will eventually be v good. Frontier labs have a large "regulatory surface area" and but don't seem like the most likely source of harm from misuse