such as helping you create a network that's good at playing go This is really what’s happening right now… LLMs are excellent computer users. Which makes one of the frontiers “amazing things computers always could have…
Agreed, I keep thinking to myself that there's a huge mathematical question right in front of us today that is in exactly this vein - all the various nuances of why LLM's work so well is a mathematical question. As far…
I was however often scolded to a point where I felt horrible about myself. I've come to wonder about this. Deal with a kid who doesn't have a care in the world. The kid in the past variously didn't believe their friends…
Take garbage hauling. You have five haulers running the exact same routes through town, stopping at different houses. Government is unhappy with the tremendous added wear on the roads from the redundant trucks, and the…
Regulation is usually what you accept in exchange for a monopoly. I would argue a granted monopoly without any regulation is evidence of regulatory capture. If you want to argue from first principles, and we accept for…
I question whether that's the dominant assumption. I know there's hoarders, but there's also loads of "stuff" associated with day-to-day life. Live in one place and you'll have boxes of bandages and aspirin, tools for…
We can dream that every human should be self reliant enough to personally inspect a used car, test knife steel for ductility and carbon content, inspect the stitching in a pair of pants, on and on. But if you need vast…
The dark part is you, as a consumer who is willing to pay to not watch ads, are worth considerably more than a few cents to advertise to. In fact, the more you are willing to pay to have no ads, the more valuable…
A large fraction of the innovation in CPUs is driven by working around the memory wall. I anticipate AI inference will follow the same trend, and innovations that work around the autoregressive nature will be enormously…
I've got bad news for you jsrozner, John down in accounting at <your employer> did something very unethical last week. So you, jsrozner, a first level manager in customer support who has never even met John, are going…
You can't give all citizens effective veto power and then expect it will only be used for good in cases where the law is behind.
It sounds more like a joke or a lampoon of always-connected culture.
you need to be able to experiment With what? It’s not prima facie bad to have limits or bounds. I’d agree it’s good to be able to be goofy, but there’s plenty of actually-illegal activities teenagers used to…
Clearly the point of this paper was not to flag a specific lake as being a specific problem. It seems pretty clear it's a case study meant to provide generalizable information and principals for remediation, and while…
It’s a cop out, but depends on the company and it’s somewhere in between. Even with success-of-the-company as your compass, other stuff always matters. Good work done invisibly can’t be rewarded. Working on the…
I'm always suspicious we read far too much into most works, as if they were all live examples of The DaVinci Code. It feels inevitable that one day, centuries from now, someone will "realize" that JK Rowling embedded a…
An intelligent person can convince themselves of anything Not to mention via shortcuts, reductionism, and other (ironically) lazy thinking. After all, they're too smart to take a shortcuts that lead them to the wrong…
Seriously, aside from the folks with the “2hrs of sleep is enough” gene, it’s not. It’s an actively harmful myth that is sold hard. Start gathering your own evidence, with a critical fact-finding eye. Don’t just accept…
I've started peering behind the curtains when I get the chance, and I've not yet found someone wildly successful who is also a model parent. Time after time, their spouse is quietly shouldering an enormous load, or…
I had roughly the same realization about the pillars of math & science years ago. Many terrible, terrible parents whose children suffered mightily. While I had aspired to intellectual impact all my life, I had an…
Exactly, it feels dishonest that this point is so rarely brought up in essays on formal methods. You can do things like prove that all possible faults are always caught, or any memory that is accessed has first been…
What exactly does a bespoke ISA buy you? What will justify hundreds of engineers writing a new good one & working through the compiler support? I bet it would be pretty easy for a user to interoperate between 67…
Have done a lot of “parallel invention” where I invent something genuinely novel & new-to-me, only to later discover it was first developed eighty years ago. The part that’s really disheartening is there’s so much…
They even loudly declared how they were going to clean up all the messy corners and warts. The underlying truth seems to be that a “clean” ISA doesn’t by nature make the beer taste better, and many of the warts probably…
It's usually a pretty clear case of reaching for statements that both sound impressive while also being broad and vague enough they are less likely to be factually wrong. In this regime, being difficult to parse is…
such as helping you create a network that's good at playing go This is really what’s happening right now… LLMs are excellent computer users. Which makes one of the frontiers “amazing things computers always could have…
Agreed, I keep thinking to myself that there's a huge mathematical question right in front of us today that is in exactly this vein - all the various nuances of why LLM's work so well is a mathematical question. As far…
I was however often scolded to a point where I felt horrible about myself. I've come to wonder about this. Deal with a kid who doesn't have a care in the world. The kid in the past variously didn't believe their friends…
Take garbage hauling. You have five haulers running the exact same routes through town, stopping at different houses. Government is unhappy with the tremendous added wear on the roads from the redundant trucks, and the…
Regulation is usually what you accept in exchange for a monopoly. I would argue a granted monopoly without any regulation is evidence of regulatory capture. If you want to argue from first principles, and we accept for…
I question whether that's the dominant assumption. I know there's hoarders, but there's also loads of "stuff" associated with day-to-day life. Live in one place and you'll have boxes of bandages and aspirin, tools for…
We can dream that every human should be self reliant enough to personally inspect a used car, test knife steel for ductility and carbon content, inspect the stitching in a pair of pants, on and on. But if you need vast…
The dark part is you, as a consumer who is willing to pay to not watch ads, are worth considerably more than a few cents to advertise to. In fact, the more you are willing to pay to have no ads, the more valuable…
A large fraction of the innovation in CPUs is driven by working around the memory wall. I anticipate AI inference will follow the same trend, and innovations that work around the autoregressive nature will be enormously…
I've got bad news for you jsrozner, John down in accounting at <your employer> did something very unethical last week. So you, jsrozner, a first level manager in customer support who has never even met John, are going…
You can't give all citizens effective veto power and then expect it will only be used for good in cases where the law is behind.
It sounds more like a joke or a lampoon of always-connected culture.
you need to be able to experiment With what? It’s not prima facie bad to have limits or bounds. I’d agree it’s good to be able to be goofy, but there’s plenty of actually-illegal activities teenagers used to…
Clearly the point of this paper was not to flag a specific lake as being a specific problem. It seems pretty clear it's a case study meant to provide generalizable information and principals for remediation, and while…
It’s a cop out, but depends on the company and it’s somewhere in between. Even with success-of-the-company as your compass, other stuff always matters. Good work done invisibly can’t be rewarded. Working on the…
I'm always suspicious we read far too much into most works, as if they were all live examples of The DaVinci Code. It feels inevitable that one day, centuries from now, someone will "realize" that JK Rowling embedded a…
An intelligent person can convince themselves of anything Not to mention via shortcuts, reductionism, and other (ironically) lazy thinking. After all, they're too smart to take a shortcuts that lead them to the wrong…
Seriously, aside from the folks with the “2hrs of sleep is enough” gene, it’s not. It’s an actively harmful myth that is sold hard. Start gathering your own evidence, with a critical fact-finding eye. Don’t just accept…
I've started peering behind the curtains when I get the chance, and I've not yet found someone wildly successful who is also a model parent. Time after time, their spouse is quietly shouldering an enormous load, or…
I had roughly the same realization about the pillars of math & science years ago. Many terrible, terrible parents whose children suffered mightily. While I had aspired to intellectual impact all my life, I had an…
Exactly, it feels dishonest that this point is so rarely brought up in essays on formal methods. You can do things like prove that all possible faults are always caught, or any memory that is accessed has first been…
What exactly does a bespoke ISA buy you? What will justify hundreds of engineers writing a new good one & working through the compiler support? I bet it would be pretty easy for a user to interoperate between 67…
Have done a lot of “parallel invention” where I invent something genuinely novel & new-to-me, only to later discover it was first developed eighty years ago. The part that’s really disheartening is there’s so much…
They even loudly declared how they were going to clean up all the messy corners and warts. The underlying truth seems to be that a “clean” ISA doesn’t by nature make the beer taste better, and many of the warts probably…
It's usually a pretty clear case of reaching for statements that both sound impressive while also being broad and vague enough they are less likely to be factually wrong. In this regime, being difficult to parse is…