Seems like a great way to crush dissent. But respect to you for replying to me. I wish you only the best in moderating, and I hope that this forum can remain healthy--especially in a time where enormously well-funded…
What? He quotes the opening line of the article, and notes that he reacts negatively to it. Interpreting his sentiment as "curmudgeonly" is a clear exaggeration. And sure--it isn't a high-substance comment, but it isn't…
I don't comment on HN much, and I don't really expect HN comments to hold to rigorous standards. This forum is more casual than other places on the internet where people expect heavy citations. I also wasn't expecting…
People always napkin math something low, and then every academic who formally studies it ends up with a much higher estimate. I await OpenAI's carbon footprint field.
This is such a strange reply I don't even know what to do with it. Good on you for being vegan, and not prompting? I have gone lacto-ovo vegetarian in the past year, so I'll take your 5 years of veganism as inspiration.…
Someone needs to name this fallacy. The existence of existing harmful norms does not, ex ante, justify introducing additional harmful norms. I propose naming it the "GenAI Defender Fallacy". Separately--yes, I would…
The sheer waste that accompanies image and video genAI is actually terrifying. I challenge OpenAI to put a "your carbon footprint" field next to each generation. If you have nothing to hide, more information is surely…
This one should go in the history books when we pass the 3C warming threshold. We decided that the natural world's value amounted to.. 3 billion AI-generated images per day.
I elaborated on my use of "dark forest" in another reply. We're headed for a dark forest--not between interstellar civilizations, but in intellectual work. I agree that we have not solved the Fermi paradox; I disagree…
I also think the trope is a little overused, but do wonder if there is an interesting analogy for what this will do to research: Massively incentivize keeping results secret, to avoid being scooped by someone willing to…
Sad turn of events for our world. After watching the behavior of the most prevalent OpenAI researchers on twitter, I feel even less confident in them as a team to be shepherding this much capital and compute. The dark…
This is such a good analogy, I might have to steal it. :)
Pair this with the Hugging Face incident, and it hints that OpenAI is currently training their models to aggressively reward hack. That doesn't feel like a good sign to me--for the AI bull or the AI bear cases.
Yes, this discovery is surprisingly similar to the recent counterexamples LLMs have been finding for mathematical conjectures: a semi-novel construction, built on previous work, that feels like it was found with…
Vibe code giveth, vibe code taketh.
I can't agree with this more. May cooler, more compassionate minds prevail.
As your writing seems to allude to, life is an impossibly complicated series of trade-offs made with imperfect information, so I definitely wouldn't consider joining an AI frontier lab to be a priori bad. Even if I have…
No worries! Thanks for engaging. Fun to have the rare kindly-resolved internet discussion.
Hmm, links for what? My student project? The decisions that face humanity that are pretty clearly modellable as prisoner's dilemmas? Otherwise not sure what I could cite--I would assume most all on this forum know that…
Nothing but respect to TurnTrout for taking an action like this. The world needs more smart people who are willing to stand for what they feel is right, despite the pressures otherwise. Without that occurring more, our…
There is a very real contingent of people driving AI who genuinely believe this. And it is this belief that allows them to avoid their cognitive dissonance around the negative externalities of their work. For the…
Don't worry, just a few more months until we get AGI and all of our problems magically disappear as the singularity changes everything forever. Why care for current iterations of nature, when we will all get to…
I agree with you--but just fyi I think "antifragile" is generally used in the opposite to what you mean. If I'm remember correctly Taleb has tried to coin it as a precise word to describe the inverse of your phenomena:…
Tell me you don't understand Taleb without telling me you don't understand Taleb.
The cult in this case is TESCREAL, not everyone working on AI. Last I checked not all the "several thousand skilled workers" in AI subscribe to TESCREAL ideology, although it has been a while since I've been to the Bay.…
Seems like a great way to crush dissent. But respect to you for replying to me. I wish you only the best in moderating, and I hope that this forum can remain healthy--especially in a time where enormously well-funded…
What? He quotes the opening line of the article, and notes that he reacts negatively to it. Interpreting his sentiment as "curmudgeonly" is a clear exaggeration. And sure--it isn't a high-substance comment, but it isn't…
I don't comment on HN much, and I don't really expect HN comments to hold to rigorous standards. This forum is more casual than other places on the internet where people expect heavy citations. I also wasn't expecting…
People always napkin math something low, and then every academic who formally studies it ends up with a much higher estimate. I await OpenAI's carbon footprint field.
This is such a strange reply I don't even know what to do with it. Good on you for being vegan, and not prompting? I have gone lacto-ovo vegetarian in the past year, so I'll take your 5 years of veganism as inspiration.…
Someone needs to name this fallacy. The existence of existing harmful norms does not, ex ante, justify introducing additional harmful norms. I propose naming it the "GenAI Defender Fallacy". Separately--yes, I would…
The sheer waste that accompanies image and video genAI is actually terrifying. I challenge OpenAI to put a "your carbon footprint" field next to each generation. If you have nothing to hide, more information is surely…
This one should go in the history books when we pass the 3C warming threshold. We decided that the natural world's value amounted to.. 3 billion AI-generated images per day.
I elaborated on my use of "dark forest" in another reply. We're headed for a dark forest--not between interstellar civilizations, but in intellectual work. I agree that we have not solved the Fermi paradox; I disagree…
I also think the trope is a little overused, but do wonder if there is an interesting analogy for what this will do to research: Massively incentivize keeping results secret, to avoid being scooped by someone willing to…
Sad turn of events for our world. After watching the behavior of the most prevalent OpenAI researchers on twitter, I feel even less confident in them as a team to be shepherding this much capital and compute. The dark…
This is such a good analogy, I might have to steal it. :)
Pair this with the Hugging Face incident, and it hints that OpenAI is currently training their models to aggressively reward hack. That doesn't feel like a good sign to me--for the AI bull or the AI bear cases.
Yes, this discovery is surprisingly similar to the recent counterexamples LLMs have been finding for mathematical conjectures: a semi-novel construction, built on previous work, that feels like it was found with…
Vibe code giveth, vibe code taketh.
I can't agree with this more. May cooler, more compassionate minds prevail.
As your writing seems to allude to, life is an impossibly complicated series of trade-offs made with imperfect information, so I definitely wouldn't consider joining an AI frontier lab to be a priori bad. Even if I have…
No worries! Thanks for engaging. Fun to have the rare kindly-resolved internet discussion.
Hmm, links for what? My student project? The decisions that face humanity that are pretty clearly modellable as prisoner's dilemmas? Otherwise not sure what I could cite--I would assume most all on this forum know that…
Nothing but respect to TurnTrout for taking an action like this. The world needs more smart people who are willing to stand for what they feel is right, despite the pressures otherwise. Without that occurring more, our…
There is a very real contingent of people driving AI who genuinely believe this. And it is this belief that allows them to avoid their cognitive dissonance around the negative externalities of their work. For the…
Don't worry, just a few more months until we get AGI and all of our problems magically disappear as the singularity changes everything forever. Why care for current iterations of nature, when we will all get to…
I agree with you--but just fyi I think "antifragile" is generally used in the opposite to what you mean. If I'm remember correctly Taleb has tried to coin it as a precise word to describe the inverse of your phenomena:…
Tell me you don't understand Taleb without telling me you don't understand Taleb.
The cult in this case is TESCREAL, not everyone working on AI. Last I checked not all the "several thousand skilled workers" in AI subscribe to TESCREAL ideology, although it has been a while since I've been to the Bay.…