computerphage

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Comment · 17 days ago
There's an ongoing race to build capabilities and there's a race to understand, control, and align these systems. If we rush too far ahead in the first race, we face disaster. That's why so many people working at the leading American companies signed the pacing the frontier letter.
Comment · 1 month ago
Why do you think global warming could kill literally every human being? What's the scenario in which that happens?
Comment · 2 months ago
Shouldn't we be trying to do something even better than that, where the superintelligent AIs help every human to live a meaningful and thriving life? Perhaps substantially maintaining human autonomy over the trajectory of the future, even while doing things like keeping the peace, preventing people from becoming victims of crime or random disasters or disease.
Comment · 3 months ago
What is ingenuity?
Comment · 3 months ago
Each individual book is rare, the purchase includes many different rare books
Comment · 3 months ago
I read it as "was posted earlier this year. It claimed that compute has been doubling every seven months for quite some time, on average"
Comment · 3 months ago
What do you mean by "folded during wartime"? When did wartime start, and who folded?
Comment · 4 months ago
Why do you agree?
Comment · 4 months ago
They claim it has a very low false-positive rate, which is meaningfully more nuanced than "accuracy".

"Detect AI-generated content with 99.98% accuracy." -pangram themselves

Comment · 4 months ago
Comment · 5 months ago
In my view, you're the one claiming to be able to tell the difference! You said, "You tend to see that more..."

...which I took to mean that there were threads where you can look at the comments and categorize them into the two categories and then assert that the size of the paid comments category was larger on posts for high margin than it is for low margin.

Like, it makes sense that the incentive is stronger in that case, but that's not what you said. You said "you tend to see that more"

Comment · 5 months ago
Comment · 5 months ago
Do you?? Show me an HN thread where half the comments are paid for
Comment · 5 months ago
That strikes me as a really poorly calibrated expectation. Who benefits? Who's paying? How could I get this job?
Comment · 5 months ago
This is AI written, according to pangram, and also obviously

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