That "for now" has been going on for ~10 months. That was enough for some startups to make a splash in the pre-AI era; now that they can move 10x faster, shouldn't we be seeing evidence left and right? All the…
Again, I've heard that countless times on HN. Every time you ask, everyone is 10xing it and building amazing things that will go to market very soon now. But it's been a while; where is it? Somehow, everyone is just…
I really don't think this needs so many words, or forced parallels to human behavior. It's simple: in their nascent state, LLMs are aimless token generators that have no special compulsion to be helpful or truthful. So…
It might feel that way, but I'll ask again: where's the payoff? Where's all the amazing software that everyone is now supposedly shipping 10x faster than before? If I look at the software I'm actually using day-to-day,…
Selfishly, I hate these things. No one in the 1980s and early 1990s expected the internet to become what it did. I discovered the Usenet as a dumb teenager and posted some frankly idiotic stuff over there. I also put my…
It doesn't, that's the whole point. You can produce output that passes the smell test with naive buyers in a matter of hours. If you want to write good LLM books, then you gotta work closer to human speed - weeks,…
I'm really tired of these arguments (this and "it's just like calculators"). Photography decimated other forms of visual art, so the concern wasn't wrong. But AI threatens the entirety of human intellectual endeavors. I…
Yeah. My other favorite example are books. Why do nonfiction books exist? There are some pathologies and corner cases, but fundamentally: to develop and share new ideas. Downstream from that, if it reads well and if…
Similarly to many other countries, the US has a concept of "adhesion contracts" - essentially, contracts where you have no realistic opportunity to negotiate the terms, and your rights are constrained much more than the…
Are you trying to paint mathematicians as having an ulterior motive compared to Sam Altman? Are you trying to paint them as worse than other professions? Or what? Humans are humans. I care about paying my bills and job…
"Discovery" is not a goal in itself. I could launch a project to find out how many people in the United States have names such that if you assign numbers to every character and then sum the values, the sum works out to…
LLM writing is optimized, at a great expense, for that specific parameter. They literally have human raters fine-tuning "favorability" - general appeal - as a part of post-training. So yes, the conclusion here doesn't…
> I'm not sure the low cost of living of the guy who kicks off the AI generation still makes much of a difference? ... In any case, why do we care about the cost of living of the author? It seems like you're trying to…
I agree with you in principle, but I think this completely ignores the reality. Many nonfiction categories are completely overrun by self-published AI slop generated at an industrial scale by hustlers in low-CoL…
As I noted, there's plenty of things to worry about, and your example fits into that mold. But it has nothing to do with the "AI will kill us all in 10 years" claim of the rapid self-improvement doomer crowd.
Yeah, frankly, this doesn't make sense to me. Has the author checked any nonfiction categories on Amazon recently? In many categories, 80-90% of all new releases are obvious AI slop. And even for non-self-published…
I'm going to charitably assume that you forgot to include quotes around the names in your query, because that's absolutely not what Google Trends shows. Stop 100 people on the street in NYC and 100 of them won't be able…
Unlike most other commenters, I applaud him for acting on his principles. If you sincerely believe that, of course you should act. You might not succeed, but your voice might be the one that tips the scales and starts a…
Pure math is practiced mostly for the intellectual thrills and peer recognition among a very small group of peers. There's little else to it. You don't become rich, you don't become a celebrity. You teach students,…
I had that conversation several times with friends outside of tech. The universal reaction is just a shrug - "my life is boring, what do they care". And yes, you can counter with a hypothetical about a future…
Because it's a risk most people intuitively understand, but most of them also don't know how difficult it is to "build a bomb" or "make a bioweapon". In reality, the skills needed are pretty basic, but they overlap…
If I showed up at your place and painted some tactful ads on the walls, would you have an issue with it? Or, if you bought a mattress and discovered that it hums some well-targeted, inoffensive jingle at 11pm every…
Old textbooks. They love 741 op-amps, etc.
It might, but if there's one thing that hasn't changed since 2022, it's that the models tend to ace the tasks where you have gobs of training data and where verification loops are fast and cheap... and they are not…
This appears to be a completely AI-generated article, in which AI is telling us how to protect ourselves against AI. I don't know what's going over at IEEE, but every article from them that I've seen in the past year is…
That "for now" has been going on for ~10 months. That was enough for some startups to make a splash in the pre-AI era; now that they can move 10x faster, shouldn't we be seeing evidence left and right? All the…
Again, I've heard that countless times on HN. Every time you ask, everyone is 10xing it and building amazing things that will go to market very soon now. But it's been a while; where is it? Somehow, everyone is just…
I really don't think this needs so many words, or forced parallels to human behavior. It's simple: in their nascent state, LLMs are aimless token generators that have no special compulsion to be helpful or truthful. So…
It might feel that way, but I'll ask again: where's the payoff? Where's all the amazing software that everyone is now supposedly shipping 10x faster than before? If I look at the software I'm actually using day-to-day,…
Selfishly, I hate these things. No one in the 1980s and early 1990s expected the internet to become what it did. I discovered the Usenet as a dumb teenager and posted some frankly idiotic stuff over there. I also put my…
It doesn't, that's the whole point. You can produce output that passes the smell test with naive buyers in a matter of hours. If you want to write good LLM books, then you gotta work closer to human speed - weeks,…
I'm really tired of these arguments (this and "it's just like calculators"). Photography decimated other forms of visual art, so the concern wasn't wrong. But AI threatens the entirety of human intellectual endeavors. I…
Yeah. My other favorite example are books. Why do nonfiction books exist? There are some pathologies and corner cases, but fundamentally: to develop and share new ideas. Downstream from that, if it reads well and if…
Similarly to many other countries, the US has a concept of "adhesion contracts" - essentially, contracts where you have no realistic opportunity to negotiate the terms, and your rights are constrained much more than the…
Are you trying to paint mathematicians as having an ulterior motive compared to Sam Altman? Are you trying to paint them as worse than other professions? Or what? Humans are humans. I care about paying my bills and job…
"Discovery" is not a goal in itself. I could launch a project to find out how many people in the United States have names such that if you assign numbers to every character and then sum the values, the sum works out to…
LLM writing is optimized, at a great expense, for that specific parameter. They literally have human raters fine-tuning "favorability" - general appeal - as a part of post-training. So yes, the conclusion here doesn't…
> I'm not sure the low cost of living of the guy who kicks off the AI generation still makes much of a difference? ... In any case, why do we care about the cost of living of the author? It seems like you're trying to…
I agree with you in principle, but I think this completely ignores the reality. Many nonfiction categories are completely overrun by self-published AI slop generated at an industrial scale by hustlers in low-CoL…
As I noted, there's plenty of things to worry about, and your example fits into that mold. But it has nothing to do with the "AI will kill us all in 10 years" claim of the rapid self-improvement doomer crowd.
Yeah, frankly, this doesn't make sense to me. Has the author checked any nonfiction categories on Amazon recently? In many categories, 80-90% of all new releases are obvious AI slop. And even for non-self-published…
I'm going to charitably assume that you forgot to include quotes around the names in your query, because that's absolutely not what Google Trends shows. Stop 100 people on the street in NYC and 100 of them won't be able…
Unlike most other commenters, I applaud him for acting on his principles. If you sincerely believe that, of course you should act. You might not succeed, but your voice might be the one that tips the scales and starts a…
Pure math is practiced mostly for the intellectual thrills and peer recognition among a very small group of peers. There's little else to it. You don't become rich, you don't become a celebrity. You teach students,…
I had that conversation several times with friends outside of tech. The universal reaction is just a shrug - "my life is boring, what do they care". And yes, you can counter with a hypothetical about a future…
Because it's a risk most people intuitively understand, but most of them also don't know how difficult it is to "build a bomb" or "make a bioweapon". In reality, the skills needed are pretty basic, but they overlap…
If I showed up at your place and painted some tactful ads on the walls, would you have an issue with it? Or, if you bought a mattress and discovered that it hums some well-targeted, inoffensive jingle at 11pm every…
Old textbooks. They love 741 op-amps, etc.
It might, but if there's one thing that hasn't changed since 2022, it's that the models tend to ace the tasks where you have gobs of training data and where verification loops are fast and cheap... and they are not…
This appears to be a completely AI-generated article, in which AI is telling us how to protect ourselves against AI. I don't know what's going over at IEEE, but every article from them that I've seen in the past year is…