awinter-py

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Comment · 2 months ago
I mean he voiced them before being fired too, it's the reason they fired him right?
Comment · 2 months ago
is this dwarf fortress
Comment · 3 months ago
he didn't? stan ulam credits 'singularity' to von neumann

vinge wrote his singularity piece in the 80s I believe

Comment · 3 months ago
I use nono.sh for sandboxing -- I think a lot of power users are using sandbox + YOLO mode because approval prompts slow them down

yes it's bad if the permission system is broken, but serious users have not trusted this stuff for a while, find the built-in permissions layer burdensome, and are already using a safety layer somewhere else

Comment · 3 months ago
Comment · 3 months ago
yeah I noticed it missing on the openrouter leaderboard -- very interested to know what that's about
Comment · 3 months ago
comments on this at MR are brutal

it's one at the top like 'maybe you guys shouldn't have built a network to launder chuds huh' followed by like 50 chuds defending the funding cuts because of DEI keywords in the grants

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Comment · 3 months ago
Yeah the hyperparallelism and the fact that it would emerge from machine translation are shockingly good calls. There are things in there that resemble the bag of words model, his 'clumps' sound a lot like tokenization, and he has concepts like RAG.

Also, of the early AI writers, I think he was the least doom-y. Norbert wiener and I think von neumann were very concerned about the social effects of the singularity (von neumann's word for it).

Vernor Vinge has an 80s essay calling down to Good a lot, and credits him with a 'meta golden rule' which aspirationally says that what comes after us will care about their origins.

Comment · 3 months ago
who among us hasn't reasonably skipped [paying] it since customers are part of the simulation anyway
Comment · 3 months ago
I mean who among us hasn't seen an opportunity to profit while locking him into a dependent relationship where I control the supply chain
Comment · 4 months ago
need a countdown for when it gets there
Comment · 4 months ago

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