He’s proposing using LLMs (which model human behaviour) to study humans so the distinction is pedantic. You don’t call it speadsheetology just because someone opened Excel.
> The server that delivers the page never receives the content, never knows which site you are viewing, and has no way to find out. Let me tell you about a thing called JavaScript. > A site that was never put on a…
> Doooooooooo dooodeeedoooodeeee doooooooooo doooooooooooo bshshhhhhzhhhhhhzhhhh Anyone?
The purpose seems clear to me from the explanation provided. Here's what I read between the lines. 1. Send out thousands of letters expecting some to be returned. They may be returned due to deliverability issues, or…
I took that to mean savings in developer hours (reduced, not eliminated) and assume the subscription price will be nominal at its lowest tier / usage.
No, you’re right, it was chosen because “trust me bro”. Look, it may well be something he believes, and he’s free to prognosticate (or market) however he likes, but I see absolutely nothing to support the number outside…
> when compared against other 4b and 8b parameter models I would genuinely champion the quality of their responses You clearly have some very specific models in mind. Even if the latest 4B and 8B models don’t move the…
He added a lesser option, catastrophically harming humanity, so whatever he meant by the first is immaterial (“there’s a 70% chance of a hurricane or strong winds”). Furthermore, if it wasn’t a high number chosen for…
No, the number is made up and the facts don’t matter so the statement can easily be reimagined as an ad lib. > There’s a [arbitrary number] percent chance that [technology] will destroy or catastrophically harm humanity…
> Sam Altman is revered as a tech god in this forum I don’t think that’s true. > I will likely get downvoted, but there's something deep within his character that doesn't seem genuine or sit well with me That’s actually…
Can a collection of around 1.5 billion interconnected cells that predictably respond to signals in their environment using simple rules? How about 86 billion? 36 trillion? These are ballpark counts of cells in crow’s…
Well, yes, reasoning and planning abilities exist on a spectrum, so it isn’t so much a matter of where to draw the line as a question of degree. As for LLMs, I think their reasoning and planning is some of the most…
It’s been downgraded to “a preponderance of evidence” from “beyond a reasonable doubt”.
They absolutely can reason and plan; how do you suppose they predict the next token? That they’re not autonomously solving complex tasks is a bit of a straw man though, and with a bit of creativity we can easily imagine…
My tin foil hat is telling me that no publicity is bad publicity and LLMs are great at spinning dramatic yarns.
A “SSHal credit score” tied to a pooled resource, yes, that will work out well! Kind of like how a used car purchase should come with all its tickets! EDIT: To this feature’s credit, it’s not federated centrally, so a…
We used to use them for this all the time!
> Yea, taking 5 seconds to rinse the bag out in the sink is _such_ an inconvenience. The old "you're just not doing it right" chestnut, where have I heard that one before! Hey, by any chance have you noticed how many of…
> There’s huge business interest pushing the usage of environmentally damaging products forward because it generates money. The converse (pushing green products) is also true so we have to consider whether the…
I can't trust a plastics poll that doesn't also ask who wants the old straws back.
I’m taking this with a grain of salt because 85% of people adopting such a hardline environmentalist stance defies reason. I think the poll’s design and authors probably had something to do with it. Context matters!
Haha, sure, you can call it that if you want, but foolish is cousin to fun, so one application of this tech would be as a comically overwrought way of communicating subtext to an adversary who may not be able to read…
> If you make it do double duty as a poor-man's encryption, you are going to have a bad time. For the serious use cases you evidently have in mind, yes, it's folly to have it do double duty, but at the end of the day…
I was imagining the message encoded in clear text, not encrypted form, because given the lengths required to coordinate protocol, keys, weights, and so on, I assumed there would be more efficient ways to disguise a…
The weights of the LLM become the private key (so it better be a pinned version of a model with open weights), and for most practical applications (i.e. unless you're willing to complicate your setup with fancy applied…
He’s proposing using LLMs (which model human behaviour) to study humans so the distinction is pedantic. You don’t call it speadsheetology just because someone opened Excel.
> The server that delivers the page never receives the content, never knows which site you are viewing, and has no way to find out. Let me tell you about a thing called JavaScript. > A site that was never put on a…
> Doooooooooo dooodeeedoooodeeee doooooooooo doooooooooooo bshshhhhhzhhhhhhzhhhh Anyone?
The purpose seems clear to me from the explanation provided. Here's what I read between the lines. 1. Send out thousands of letters expecting some to be returned. They may be returned due to deliverability issues, or…
I took that to mean savings in developer hours (reduced, not eliminated) and assume the subscription price will be nominal at its lowest tier / usage.
No, you’re right, it was chosen because “trust me bro”. Look, it may well be something he believes, and he’s free to prognosticate (or market) however he likes, but I see absolutely nothing to support the number outside…
> when compared against other 4b and 8b parameter models I would genuinely champion the quality of their responses You clearly have some very specific models in mind. Even if the latest 4B and 8B models don’t move the…
He added a lesser option, catastrophically harming humanity, so whatever he meant by the first is immaterial (“there’s a 70% chance of a hurricane or strong winds”). Furthermore, if it wasn’t a high number chosen for…
No, the number is made up and the facts don’t matter so the statement can easily be reimagined as an ad lib. > There’s a [arbitrary number] percent chance that [technology] will destroy or catastrophically harm humanity…
> Sam Altman is revered as a tech god in this forum I don’t think that’s true. > I will likely get downvoted, but there's something deep within his character that doesn't seem genuine or sit well with me That’s actually…
Can a collection of around 1.5 billion interconnected cells that predictably respond to signals in their environment using simple rules? How about 86 billion? 36 trillion? These are ballpark counts of cells in crow’s…
Well, yes, reasoning and planning abilities exist on a spectrum, so it isn’t so much a matter of where to draw the line as a question of degree. As for LLMs, I think their reasoning and planning is some of the most…
It’s been downgraded to “a preponderance of evidence” from “beyond a reasonable doubt”.
They absolutely can reason and plan; how do you suppose they predict the next token? That they’re not autonomously solving complex tasks is a bit of a straw man though, and with a bit of creativity we can easily imagine…
My tin foil hat is telling me that no publicity is bad publicity and LLMs are great at spinning dramatic yarns.
A “SSHal credit score” tied to a pooled resource, yes, that will work out well! Kind of like how a used car purchase should come with all its tickets! EDIT: To this feature’s credit, it’s not federated centrally, so a…
We used to use them for this all the time!
> Yea, taking 5 seconds to rinse the bag out in the sink is _such_ an inconvenience. The old "you're just not doing it right" chestnut, where have I heard that one before! Hey, by any chance have you noticed how many of…
> There’s huge business interest pushing the usage of environmentally damaging products forward because it generates money. The converse (pushing green products) is also true so we have to consider whether the…
I can't trust a plastics poll that doesn't also ask who wants the old straws back.
I’m taking this with a grain of salt because 85% of people adopting such a hardline environmentalist stance defies reason. I think the poll’s design and authors probably had something to do with it. Context matters!
Haha, sure, you can call it that if you want, but foolish is cousin to fun, so one application of this tech would be as a comically overwrought way of communicating subtext to an adversary who may not be able to read…
> If you make it do double duty as a poor-man's encryption, you are going to have a bad time. For the serious use cases you evidently have in mind, yes, it's folly to have it do double duty, but at the end of the day…
I was imagining the message encoded in clear text, not encrypted form, because given the lengths required to coordinate protocol, keys, weights, and so on, I assumed there would be more efficient ways to disguise a…
The weights of the LLM become the private key (so it better be a pinned version of a model with open weights), and for most practical applications (i.e. unless you're willing to complicate your setup with fancy applied…