> half They own the careers of all but a tiny handful of US politicians
It's hard for me to understand Google's redefinition of "world models" (basically: a txt2videogame modality for LLMs) as anything other than an attempt to bury Yann Lecun's definition of "world models", which includes…
From the perspective of your career, the best thing to do is not have objections, or really any principles at all, in the first place.
This is so vague as to be impossible to pin down what you mean in order to refute it without you slipping out of it. But in very general terms, trust busting was a real thing that happened in this country once upon a…
Why would you expect training costs to come down in the future? It seems to me that the labs themselves have concluded they can't stop training due to competition, which is why they're now asking the government to step…
How do we know this isn't just propaganda to force people to learn about the natural world, go outside, and make new friends?
It's a shame you've been downvoted, this is better satire than anything A24 has put out in years. Must be a large number of people who saw that post as a slightly exaggerated mirror held up to themselves and didn't like…
I have a pretty negative opinion about LLM's coding abilities (and predictions about how they will improve). But I don't get a lot out of this type of argument. Compilers created a perfect, deterministic, provable…
Agree, and I am worried about what happens when that old code is written by LLMs, approved by a human who pretended to have read it, and now needs to be touched by another human who is completely reliant on LLMs to…
Seems like a non-sequitur? "because math is formalizable", I agree it makes sense to then predict that data-driven AI models will be able to perform well on it. But where is the evidence that software coherence is…
Fantastic framework that I will be adopting, thank you! One thing I will add: I'm sure the optimistic side will try to take the quantization that your (and other work like SlopCodeBench) are introducing and claim that…
In the day since I posted this, I've seen a few good links on HN that touch on this question. 1. The Decoherence Trap: https://maevyn.codes/decoherence 2. SlopCodeBench, a benchmark that quantifies how models decohere…
No, they're in post-colonial conditions and intentionally prevented from developing economically via a relationship of economic dependence on the imperial core. And as a result, they can't produce their own…
Those companies, and those people within otherwise decent companies, have existed since long before the advent of LLMs. Avoiding their influence is a career skill as important as the code itself. And I'm not saying you…
Thank you! It's made me lose a lot of respect for my field how credulous everyone is to any argument that starts out with a fig leaf of pretending to be on your side. "The AI labs are scared of their own models, surely…
I think you're entitled to your opinion, but want to point out that there's 2 different axes on the graph here. You are unhappy about LLMs' affect on your working conditions, but also concede it's inevitable and the…
> The ability of people to freely associate > solipsist This is exactly the point they're making though. This is an exercise only available to the privileged. It is not available to people who haven't worked in tech for…
LLMs are very useful, I use them every day as a software engineer to solve problems and search for information represented within the data available to them. But they are a specific type of intelligence, with many…
Open sourced by whom? Was this a standalone company or a spinoff of Figma or something? I imagine they must have been making serious money to afford that domain.
I do hobby work in Three.js and have always felt more comfortable using the declarative scene.add()-style API to manage my scene vs fiber / reactive stuff. But I imagine I'd feel differently if I were making 3d…
But doesn't that just amount to labs intervening to teach the models to use a particular strategy to mask this one very obvious marker of the difference between their intelligence and biological intelligence? (And…
I don't quite understand the leap you're making between stochastic AI models for robotics (maybe with an LLM making api calls to it) and embodied AI / the rate of progress towards a singularity. Because they're both…
The American state is the most militaristic and violent state on the planet today, and the American people are the most armed in human history and regularly experience mass shootings and even school shootings.
Drone warfare relies on large numbers of drones overwhelming enemy electronic warfare countermeasures, in urban or open landscapes that haven't been specifically designed against it. A billionaire in a western country…
Effective altruist / rationalist doctrine is that the best thing a person can do is become ultrawealthy and use that wealth to fund technological progress. It is an ideology tailor-made for those who strive to become…
> half They own the careers of all but a tiny handful of US politicians
It's hard for me to understand Google's redefinition of "world models" (basically: a txt2videogame modality for LLMs) as anything other than an attempt to bury Yann Lecun's definition of "world models", which includes…
From the perspective of your career, the best thing to do is not have objections, or really any principles at all, in the first place.
This is so vague as to be impossible to pin down what you mean in order to refute it without you slipping out of it. But in very general terms, trust busting was a real thing that happened in this country once upon a…
Why would you expect training costs to come down in the future? It seems to me that the labs themselves have concluded they can't stop training due to competition, which is why they're now asking the government to step…
How do we know this isn't just propaganda to force people to learn about the natural world, go outside, and make new friends?
It's a shame you've been downvoted, this is better satire than anything A24 has put out in years. Must be a large number of people who saw that post as a slightly exaggerated mirror held up to themselves and didn't like…
I have a pretty negative opinion about LLM's coding abilities (and predictions about how they will improve). But I don't get a lot out of this type of argument. Compilers created a perfect, deterministic, provable…
Agree, and I am worried about what happens when that old code is written by LLMs, approved by a human who pretended to have read it, and now needs to be touched by another human who is completely reliant on LLMs to…
Seems like a non-sequitur? "because math is formalizable", I agree it makes sense to then predict that data-driven AI models will be able to perform well on it. But where is the evidence that software coherence is…
Fantastic framework that I will be adopting, thank you! One thing I will add: I'm sure the optimistic side will try to take the quantization that your (and other work like SlopCodeBench) are introducing and claim that…
In the day since I posted this, I've seen a few good links on HN that touch on this question. 1. The Decoherence Trap: https://maevyn.codes/decoherence 2. SlopCodeBench, a benchmark that quantifies how models decohere…
No, they're in post-colonial conditions and intentionally prevented from developing economically via a relationship of economic dependence on the imperial core. And as a result, they can't produce their own…
Those companies, and those people within otherwise decent companies, have existed since long before the advent of LLMs. Avoiding their influence is a career skill as important as the code itself. And I'm not saying you…
Thank you! It's made me lose a lot of respect for my field how credulous everyone is to any argument that starts out with a fig leaf of pretending to be on your side. "The AI labs are scared of their own models, surely…
I think you're entitled to your opinion, but want to point out that there's 2 different axes on the graph here. You are unhappy about LLMs' affect on your working conditions, but also concede it's inevitable and the…
> The ability of people to freely associate > solipsist This is exactly the point they're making though. This is an exercise only available to the privileged. It is not available to people who haven't worked in tech for…
LLMs are very useful, I use them every day as a software engineer to solve problems and search for information represented within the data available to them. But they are a specific type of intelligence, with many…
Open sourced by whom? Was this a standalone company or a spinoff of Figma or something? I imagine they must have been making serious money to afford that domain.
I do hobby work in Three.js and have always felt more comfortable using the declarative scene.add()-style API to manage my scene vs fiber / reactive stuff. But I imagine I'd feel differently if I were making 3d…
But doesn't that just amount to labs intervening to teach the models to use a particular strategy to mask this one very obvious marker of the difference between their intelligence and biological intelligence? (And…
I don't quite understand the leap you're making between stochastic AI models for robotics (maybe with an LLM making api calls to it) and embodied AI / the rate of progress towards a singularity. Because they're both…
The American state is the most militaristic and violent state on the planet today, and the American people are the most armed in human history and regularly experience mass shootings and even school shootings.
Drone warfare relies on large numbers of drones overwhelming enemy electronic warfare countermeasures, in urban or open landscapes that haven't been specifically designed against it. A billionaire in a western country…
Effective altruist / rationalist doctrine is that the best thing a person can do is become ultrawealthy and use that wealth to fund technological progress. It is an ideology tailor-made for those who strive to become…