mh, there's some truth to this, but I think it's much more that a split emerged in the community. There was originally a coalition between the social progressive movement and the techno-liberal/libertarian STEM side.…
How is unit 731 an apt comparison here? Those were unethical experiments from the onset. If anything, my argument would be more "just because unit 731 ended up doing live vivisections of humans, that doesn't mean we…
I don't see why we should outlaw this. There's so many potential insights to be gleaned from research like this that you just can't predict. And making something like this illegal often has unintended side effects. What…
reality does not have an infinite set though. Infinity is an abstraction that simplifies a lot of maths, it isn't real though.
What kind of infrastructure do you use for that scale? Are these computationally light ARIMA models? We're running 150k models per day and while I'm sure I could scale this to running them every 30 minutes, it would…
there is a lot of thrill of exploration and discovery with things you already know to be true. Basically all natural sciences work that way. Knowing the truth of an apple falling down a table when rolled over the edge…
which non-capitalist country provides more living space or food or other necessities? We currently certainly have some issues, but the average living space per person has only trended up for the last half century at…
> Our product has some sciencey bits as well, ands Astra kills it as a rubber duck in this area. In my experience, this has always been the advantage of OpenAIs models. Throughout iterations, Claude is better at pure…
that's my experience (at least for experimental quantum materials research). LLMs help a lot with paper discovery, grant/paper writing etc., but on the experimental side, they barely move the needle for now. Some…
I don't think it's smart at all to position yourself in bucket 1. There's a reason there are maybe a few hundred professional marathon runners in the world vs tens of thousands of professional mathematicians. Bucket 1…
yeah, this. I think a more interesting discussion that should be had is, whether we can automate this kind of "simple research" with AI agents and get anything interesting as a first step out of it just from the pure…
computer scientists/software engineers and their completely messed up sense of how long it takes for things to actually take a hold in real life is always a bit amusing to me. Half a year is not a lot of time when it…
I worked a lot with and built up ultra-high vacuum systems during my PhD. At least for that level of vacuum, you introduce a lot of headache. You can't use normal plastic or any kind of lubricant anymore because it…
Just like all these initiatives have been failures. The problem are pretty fundamental issues of how we set up and developed our economies since around the late 80s. Unfortunately that also means it will take decades to…
>The accusation >So, why are you still working for them? >If the answer is the salary, say it louder, and do not force yourself to make excuses. >If the answer is “someone worse would replace me”, say it too, and louder…
> I'm fine waiting a bit for the opportunists to shake out so we can see who is genuinely committed to bringing something valuable to the open-weight community. that is generally a very healthy attitude in the AI space…
You even notice that with the recent opus and fable models by Anthropic. If you give them a wide open problem statement, they'll start talking a lot of semi intelligible gibberish. My guess is that this happens because…
I think in general these smaller applications of AI are seriously overlooked even though they will actually add lots of economic value for companies and lots of quality-of-life features for users.
At least my QUERTZ layout also works as expected in the simulator. You use WASD to move the duck, Q and E to kick left and right etc. I think it's just the splash screen they didn't properly localize.
openworm: https://github.com/openworm/OpenWorm
oh please... lesswrong was full of idiots already in 2010 when people outside of that community were laughing about "self-taught expert" Yudkowsky's bullshit physics takes. They are not "further along" the AI…
what are you talking about bro, I think you're really getting carried away here. Nobody cares about the direction of writing on the spine of a book. And your thing with sentence vs title case doesn't make sense because…
but this seems quite overkill no? I currently run pi agent in Lima on a Mac with only the code project folder mounted and an extension that prevents pi agent from reading the contents of .env files directly. Yeah, there…
I don't know, I don't think this "effort for effort's sake" is a very convincing argument. In particular, I think it's very much affected by recency bias in a way? What we perceive as "effort worth taking" instead of…
I think this could be an interesting read for you, I read it last week and it kind of argues the same points: https://shakoist.substack.com/p/against-time-series-foundati...
mh, there's some truth to this, but I think it's much more that a split emerged in the community. There was originally a coalition between the social progressive movement and the techno-liberal/libertarian STEM side.…
How is unit 731 an apt comparison here? Those were unethical experiments from the onset. If anything, my argument would be more "just because unit 731 ended up doing live vivisections of humans, that doesn't mean we…
I don't see why we should outlaw this. There's so many potential insights to be gleaned from research like this that you just can't predict. And making something like this illegal often has unintended side effects. What…
reality does not have an infinite set though. Infinity is an abstraction that simplifies a lot of maths, it isn't real though.
What kind of infrastructure do you use for that scale? Are these computationally light ARIMA models? We're running 150k models per day and while I'm sure I could scale this to running them every 30 minutes, it would…
there is a lot of thrill of exploration and discovery with things you already know to be true. Basically all natural sciences work that way. Knowing the truth of an apple falling down a table when rolled over the edge…
which non-capitalist country provides more living space or food or other necessities? We currently certainly have some issues, but the average living space per person has only trended up for the last half century at…
> Our product has some sciencey bits as well, ands Astra kills it as a rubber duck in this area. In my experience, this has always been the advantage of OpenAIs models. Throughout iterations, Claude is better at pure…
that's my experience (at least for experimental quantum materials research). LLMs help a lot with paper discovery, grant/paper writing etc., but on the experimental side, they barely move the needle for now. Some…
I don't think it's smart at all to position yourself in bucket 1. There's a reason there are maybe a few hundred professional marathon runners in the world vs tens of thousands of professional mathematicians. Bucket 1…
yeah, this. I think a more interesting discussion that should be had is, whether we can automate this kind of "simple research" with AI agents and get anything interesting as a first step out of it just from the pure…
computer scientists/software engineers and their completely messed up sense of how long it takes for things to actually take a hold in real life is always a bit amusing to me. Half a year is not a lot of time when it…
I worked a lot with and built up ultra-high vacuum systems during my PhD. At least for that level of vacuum, you introduce a lot of headache. You can't use normal plastic or any kind of lubricant anymore because it…
Just like all these initiatives have been failures. The problem are pretty fundamental issues of how we set up and developed our economies since around the late 80s. Unfortunately that also means it will take decades to…
>The accusation >So, why are you still working for them? >If the answer is the salary, say it louder, and do not force yourself to make excuses. >If the answer is “someone worse would replace me”, say it too, and louder…
> I'm fine waiting a bit for the opportunists to shake out so we can see who is genuinely committed to bringing something valuable to the open-weight community. that is generally a very healthy attitude in the AI space…
You even notice that with the recent opus and fable models by Anthropic. If you give them a wide open problem statement, they'll start talking a lot of semi intelligible gibberish. My guess is that this happens because…
I think in general these smaller applications of AI are seriously overlooked even though they will actually add lots of economic value for companies and lots of quality-of-life features for users.
At least my QUERTZ layout also works as expected in the simulator. You use WASD to move the duck, Q and E to kick left and right etc. I think it's just the splash screen they didn't properly localize.
openworm: https://github.com/openworm/OpenWorm
oh please... lesswrong was full of idiots already in 2010 when people outside of that community were laughing about "self-taught expert" Yudkowsky's bullshit physics takes. They are not "further along" the AI…
what are you talking about bro, I think you're really getting carried away here. Nobody cares about the direction of writing on the spine of a book. And your thing with sentence vs title case doesn't make sense because…
but this seems quite overkill no? I currently run pi agent in Lima on a Mac with only the code project folder mounted and an extension that prevents pi agent from reading the contents of .env files directly. Yeah, there…
I don't know, I don't think this "effort for effort's sake" is a very convincing argument. In particular, I think it's very much affected by recency bias in a way? What we perceive as "effort worth taking" instead of…
I think this could be an interesting read for you, I read it last week and it kind of argues the same points: https://shakoist.substack.com/p/against-time-series-foundati...