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Comment · 1 month ago
Agent ability is far outpacing alignment though
Comment · 1 month ago
Comment · 1 month ago
I've been a long-time indie gamer and the appeal of older games has increased significantly for me since AI. Nearly an endless supply of top-notch human-crafted classic video games exist, virtually all for free or very cheap. I understand not everyone has the same taste as me but if they did I'd be surprised of there still was a modern gaming industry at all.
Comment · 2 months ago
A good heuristic is to understand the generated code you submit as if you typed every character yourself. A "I'm not sure, AI wrote it" type circumstance is a critical failure.
Comment · 2 months ago
Idiocracy seems like the most likely sci-fi outcome.
Comment · 2 months ago
More like don’t be the thing all the models are trained on.
Comment · 3 months ago
If you present the text in an image / GIF format it could be useful.
Comment · 3 months ago
> most likely to be correct and sensible.

No, you mean “the non-deterministic transformation this time based on my training weights and temperature setting”

Comment · 3 months ago
You still have to think about significant figures with calculators I used. Most will produce an irrational number result with as many insignificant digits that will fit on the display.
Comment · 5 months ago
I've found regarding nuances I discover in language learning it will really fail me. It will tell me the incorrect path, I correct it, it apologizes, then just to see I tell it that latest one was incorrect actually, it apologizes and I can put it in an endless loop of getting it to apologize as I correct it into the opposite of something over and over.
Comment · 5 months ago
Maybe we need some kind of worldwide negative event first. In Star Trek lore, World War 3 starts this year (2026). Like with World War 2, perhaps it’s needed to calibrate the zeitgeist to a spot where a prosperous era can follow /shrug
Comment · 5 months ago
He left a caveat for you if you read it
Comment · 5 months ago
Care to elaborate? Just taking the impact of data centers on locals is enough to validate his point. (Noise pollution, heat pollution and emissions from on-site gas turbines)

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