Here’s my theory about AVP. Apple’s strategic position is to be the main device by which apps and AI can gain access to end users. Now if someone were to come out with a new type of device and a new paradigm that could…
Yes, “consistent with”. Thanks.
To be fair to Ed, I’d describe his usual argument (at least currently) as saying that Meta, MS, google are “mature” companies trying to be maintain the high valuations and growth of a young company, which they no longer…
Agreed. With steak, the main point is to let the quality of the meat speak for itself. Too much input from the cook and you just get in the way of this.
Absolutely. I don’t know how strong their case is or isn’t, BUT if you hire Jony Ive and a bunch of Apple device people in order to build something that is a threat to the “Apple tax” revenue machine, they are coming…
It seems like the widely-covered news stories that support OpenAI’s narratives originate from things that happened inside OpenAI. It wasn’t an outside benchmark evaluation, or an external security researcher that…
And you need a rich person to do the exploiting. The power differential is a key ingredient.
> Can someone breakdown to me how this makes any sort of economical sense? Capital markets are excited by AI. By tying his rockets to AI with his vision of “orbital data centers”, Elon turned an $8 per share IPO (at…
Fair enough. I too use LLM coding tools all day everyday. If we’re specifically talking about the arguments in this thread, I have experienced both sides of the argument. Some use cases are more in-distribution than…
Somewhere, someone may be painting an equally reductive picture of you and your position. You two are obviously smart people, but have you considered that maybe you are unconsciously being backed into a position that is…
> foreign labs Apparently not just foreign labs. It looks like xAI distilled Anthropic models to train grok. https://opentools.ai/news/xai-trained-coding-models-claude-o...
There are many possible futures, but the one that will come to pass is the one we collectively allow to happen. To a degree, of course. A future that I like to imagine is one where LLM scaling laws hit a plateau.…
Similarly, xAI “attacked” Anthropic and OpenAI to train grok. https://opentools.ai/news/xai-trained-coding-models-claude-o...
I had a similar experience at a bank some time ago. To sign up, you had to sign a digital pad without seeing what you were signing first. You could get a copy mailed to you later. At that future time, I was told, you…
A bullied kid finds refuge in sci-fi and fantasy books. This kid builds a mental fantasy world where they get revenge on their tormentors. In this mental fantasy world, every self-serving thing they do is “righteous”,…
If you apply Occam’s razor, this explanation stands out.
> "We need an approach to make sure AI doesn't destroy the world and wipe humanity to extinction." "Yeah, and quotas on web scrapers!" —— I see it as: “Let’s do a study on abstract future concerns.” Vs. “Let’s take…
I hate this kind of thing too, but realistically this is every newspaper/digital that I’ve subscribed to ever. In a way, I get it. The new media landscape has put traditional news organizations in an existential crisis.…
An easy way out might be to just ask the candidate how they got from one step to another. That way you can differentiate between “toxic, so smart i can’t communicate” and “non-toxic, so smart that i honestly thought the…
When the author says “crimes”, I didn’t take it to mean a literal criminal enterprise, but instead casual-speak for something like “bad governance”. It’s like if you saw some bad programming practices and casually…
Sure, indiscriminate tokenmaxxing is a gamble that can pay off sometimes. However, I think that the decision to take any gamble should be made by someone who will bear responsibility for the downside as well as the…
That reads a bit like: an equal role in external politics, but not in internal church politics. It’s hard to have a role in politics if you don’t have a voice.
>>I have found that, for many of the statements about what AI should do, I would actally be happier if the letters "AI" were replaced with "companies" Perhaps, but at the moment AI is at the forefront of the…
To me, the problem is when IP laws are stretched and abused by big corporations (like, say Disney) or by patent trolls. If IP laws could work in a way that gave limited and reasonable protections to actual creators and…
But this new tool is not a blacksmith’s tool in the traditional sense. It’s more like an automated blacksmith that works fast, for cheap, does mediocre work, but has this mediocre skill level in an exceptional broad…
Here’s my theory about AVP. Apple’s strategic position is to be the main device by which apps and AI can gain access to end users. Now if someone were to come out with a new type of device and a new paradigm that could…
Yes, “consistent with”. Thanks.
To be fair to Ed, I’d describe his usual argument (at least currently) as saying that Meta, MS, google are “mature” companies trying to be maintain the high valuations and growth of a young company, which they no longer…
Agreed. With steak, the main point is to let the quality of the meat speak for itself. Too much input from the cook and you just get in the way of this.
Absolutely. I don’t know how strong their case is or isn’t, BUT if you hire Jony Ive and a bunch of Apple device people in order to build something that is a threat to the “Apple tax” revenue machine, they are coming…
It seems like the widely-covered news stories that support OpenAI’s narratives originate from things that happened inside OpenAI. It wasn’t an outside benchmark evaluation, or an external security researcher that…
And you need a rich person to do the exploiting. The power differential is a key ingredient.
> Can someone breakdown to me how this makes any sort of economical sense? Capital markets are excited by AI. By tying his rockets to AI with his vision of “orbital data centers”, Elon turned an $8 per share IPO (at…
Fair enough. I too use LLM coding tools all day everyday. If we’re specifically talking about the arguments in this thread, I have experienced both sides of the argument. Some use cases are more in-distribution than…
Somewhere, someone may be painting an equally reductive picture of you and your position. You two are obviously smart people, but have you considered that maybe you are unconsciously being backed into a position that is…
> foreign labs Apparently not just foreign labs. It looks like xAI distilled Anthropic models to train grok. https://opentools.ai/news/xai-trained-coding-models-claude-o...
There are many possible futures, but the one that will come to pass is the one we collectively allow to happen. To a degree, of course. A future that I like to imagine is one where LLM scaling laws hit a plateau.…
Similarly, xAI “attacked” Anthropic and OpenAI to train grok. https://opentools.ai/news/xai-trained-coding-models-claude-o...
I had a similar experience at a bank some time ago. To sign up, you had to sign a digital pad without seeing what you were signing first. You could get a copy mailed to you later. At that future time, I was told, you…
A bullied kid finds refuge in sci-fi and fantasy books. This kid builds a mental fantasy world where they get revenge on their tormentors. In this mental fantasy world, every self-serving thing they do is “righteous”,…
If you apply Occam’s razor, this explanation stands out.
> "We need an approach to make sure AI doesn't destroy the world and wipe humanity to extinction." "Yeah, and quotas on web scrapers!" —— I see it as: “Let’s do a study on abstract future concerns.” Vs. “Let’s take…
I hate this kind of thing too, but realistically this is every newspaper/digital that I’ve subscribed to ever. In a way, I get it. The new media landscape has put traditional news organizations in an existential crisis.…
An easy way out might be to just ask the candidate how they got from one step to another. That way you can differentiate between “toxic, so smart i can’t communicate” and “non-toxic, so smart that i honestly thought the…
When the author says “crimes”, I didn’t take it to mean a literal criminal enterprise, but instead casual-speak for something like “bad governance”. It’s like if you saw some bad programming practices and casually…
Sure, indiscriminate tokenmaxxing is a gamble that can pay off sometimes. However, I think that the decision to take any gamble should be made by someone who will bear responsibility for the downside as well as the…
That reads a bit like: an equal role in external politics, but not in internal church politics. It’s hard to have a role in politics if you don’t have a voice.
>>I have found that, for many of the statements about what AI should do, I would actally be happier if the letters "AI" were replaced with "companies" Perhaps, but at the moment AI is at the forefront of the…
To me, the problem is when IP laws are stretched and abused by big corporations (like, say Disney) or by patent trolls. If IP laws could work in a way that gave limited and reasonable protections to actual creators and…
But this new tool is not a blacksmith’s tool in the traditional sense. It’s more like an automated blacksmith that works fast, for cheap, does mediocre work, but has this mediocre skill level in an exceptional broad…