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Comment · 1 month ago
There are only a few countries in the world where 2.1 MB extra would add (barely) more than 1 second to site download based on the country’s median internet connection speeds. The vast majority of countries would see less than <100ms from 2.1MB.

And the bigger thing here is that this is all cached after it’s downloaded the first time.

Comment · 1 month ago
There’s quite a gap between pirating content (even en masse) and hacking prominent entities.
Comment · 1 month ago
Why should we discount this model just because other models that are already thought to be worse weren’t very accurate? I’m not in this field at all, so curious if I’m missing something here.
Comment · 1 month ago
I mean, sure. Things can be wrong if you intentionally misunderstand words to mean something that they weren’t intended to mean. Is there anyone that legitimately thought that “most” here meant “majority of all actual attempts”?
Comment · 1 month ago
Interestingly, there are many laws against launching precision guided missiles, despite the fact that people were throwing snowballs at each other long before missiles were invented.
Comment · 2 months ago
Ok I watched the red green picture first and was getting pretty impressed that some type of optical illusion was making the circle appear smaller and smaller to me until it vanished!

Then I realized that wasn’t an optical illusion and instead just part of the setup…

Comment · 2 months ago
Isn’t this essentially what anthropic is doing, albeit in a manual fashion? They work with code owners to run mythos and find issues.
Comment · 2 months ago
Why do you say API based llms looking iffy at best? Do you just mean current profitability due to market pressures from some companies’ subsidized investor money?

Surely, even if you’re just using open weights models, it should theoretically be cheaper to use them in a highly optimized cloud architecture(even with vendor markups) rather than each person serving their own models from much less efficient (and more importantly, much less consistent volume) self-owned “server under your desk”?

Comment · 2 months ago
Boom. ROST’d.
Comment · 2 months ago
Lawn mower blades are meant to be somewhat blunt. Like a butter knife. Too sharp and the blade will chip away on the harder materials.
Comment · 3 months ago
All of those supplements are made with “magtein (r)” branded magnesium l-threonate. It all goes back to the same company and that company is the one that has supplied the “studies” that prove its effectiveness. And by “supplied” I mean that the literal vice president of the company’s research arm was an author on at least one of their studies but didn’t disclose his connections until a follow-up update to the study.
Comment · 4 months ago
I agree that the rapid improvement from like 2023-24 era is over (from a perspective of going from a 3/10 to a 7/10, you can’t then go to a 11/10). There was just so much more space to grow back then.

But isn’t Fable supposed to be another step change? I never used it, myself.

Tbh, at this point I think top tier models are smart “enough” (I’m sure this will look antiquated in a year), and the way to give me MORE noticeable improvement is to make them much faster rather than much smarter. Or even a way to automatically and accurately pick faster models when it makes sense. I know that IDE’s have Auto modes, but it’s not something that I trust right now to pick smart+fast instead of picking “maybe smart enough”+”cheaper for harness owner”

Comment · 4 months ago
So what you’re saying is we should see an increase in account hijacks and spamming account creation as scalpers now try to optimize for max s.

Show me the incentive structure and…

Comment · 4 months ago
Considering he named it “the Tim Ferris mafia” makes me think he’s fully aware of that.
Comment · 4 months ago
I’m very on the pro-ai side (check my comment history for proof), but this “ai will give us more free time” logic is seeming more and more patronizing (to be clear, I understand that you are being sarcastic haha).

I was listening to a podcast a couple days ago and Brad Gerstner was on and mentioned that with how AI is boosting productivity that perhaps one member of a household would be able to start staying home from work if they wanted. I shut off the podcast after that (to be fair, the podcast just seemed to be one massive SpaceX IPO pump).

It’s just so divorced from reality and every new advancement is just making *higher expectations for doing more work*.

The unfortunate reality is: Companies that are selling ai will sell that ai will make life easier. Companies that are buying ai will demand more from employees using ai (why else would they buy it?).

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