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Comment · 5 days ago
LLMs today are improved by experiments that assay their performance, changes to architecture, pretraining, and post-training. None of those steps necessarily require humans. Welcome to your sci fi future.
Comment · 6 days ago
Rude. You could try explaining instead
Comment · 6 days ago
I’m going to give an earnest answer. first, most people don’t care they’re being spied on, don’t know they’re being spied on, or lack the knowledge to do anything about it or find alternatives. Some people just want to watch TV. Another big reason is that it’s nearly impossible to stream anything higher than 1080p from the major content providers unless you’re using DRM ready systems. The solution to that is torrenting media and running a plex/jellyfin server, which once again most people don’t want to do
Comment · 7 days ago
I’m not sure there’s too much to take away from this. It seems like a fun experiment, but I find it unsurprising LLMs failed in this context. They used this “mineflayer” wrapper, allowing GPT to read some game state and take actions. Yet the whole time, the game is running and the agents have to sit and process every minute or so. We know that agents cooperate much better in a harness more like bash in a Unix VM attempting some programming task. To conclude from this that agents categorically poorly cooperate and descend into bureaucracy is an overreach. I think anyone working on AI robotics would find this result pretty unsurprising
Comment · 17 days ago
Does he confirm he uses OpenAI models? It could have been something like GLM. In any case, I have had no problem getting standard gpt 5.6 to get me root access to hardware I own.
Comment · 18 days ago
After several rereads I cannot figure out the premise of this article.
Comment · 25 days ago
If we say that AI models can’t go rogue and refrain from using any language that personifies them, we haven’t solved anything. We still have AI systems going rogue - err oh wait they can’t do that - producing misaligned output.
Comment · 1 month ago
If your argument is that people who oppose broad work visa programs are secretly racist but won’t admit it, that’s unfalsifiable.

When a country has far more people seeking visas than it’s willing to admit, it needs some mechanism for deciding who gets in, whether that’s a lottery, eligibility requirements, or some combination. None of those is inherently racist. You seem to be arguing for a radical open borders policy that I doubt many people would support, in just about every country.

Comment · 1 month ago
I read through every comment in this thread. As of 12:21 EDT I can’t find a single racist comment. It’s not racist to oppose visa work programs. It certainly can be, but that depends on their arguments.
Comment · 1 month ago
Depending on how old you are, that very well may be a choice you have to make one day
Comment · 1 month ago
Regardless of political lean, this is a very low effort article.
Comment · 1 month ago
> The output of an LLM is useless without a human mind to comprehend it.

I don’t understand mRNA vaccines, but they are useful to me. The output of an LLM could at least in theory be the design to a major technological advancement, and its implementation with automatic tooling. We don’t have to understand that for it to be useful.

Comment · 1 month ago
Gene editing tech has the possibility of transforming medicine.
Comment · 1 month ago
I was not expecting model weights to be updated on current events.

It’s clearly warranted because a model that trusts its weights on current events will give an outdated answer. Extremely improbable events happen all the time.

Comment · 1 month ago
I remember when the US captured Venezuelan president Maduro, and when I posed a prompt related to this, the model said that’s pure fiction. I told it to double check. Still didn’t want to entertain the idea. It only acquiesced when I specifically directed it to check Reuters. I haven’t noticed this problem in months. Model cutoff seems to be less of a problem these days.

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