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Comment · 48 minutes ago
Sadly this.

Sol, write me a function that moves all the toothpicks from jar 1 to jar 2

>computing requirements

>planning

>writing test harnesses

>writing tests

>450/450 offline tests pass

>1 toothpick moved...

> verifying

>writing acceptance tests for toothpick 1

>error in acceptance test, fixing...

>toothpick is one pixel from expected destination, restarting toothpick job

>...

>THIS MODEL IS AT CAPACITY. PLEASE TRY ANOTHER MODEL.

Comment · 54 minutes ago
Space Age or classic? Space age is much harder.
Comment · 55 minutes ago
You wouldn't download a car
Comment · 3 days ago
I’m getting unsolicited texts all the time about how the “billionaire tax” in California is the worst thing ever. No matter if you think the tax is misguided, it’ll probably work at preventing the billionaire tax from passing, but it’s a good firsthand demonstration at how power accumulating to billionaires tends to accumulate even further. Only billionaires have the resources to fight back so aggressively against any encroachment on their power.
Comment · 3 days ago
Look at Trump and even Vance “joking” about Canada being a state. They wouldn’t hesitate to take Canada by force if America ever got to the point where fleeing to Canada was forcibly prevented.
Comment · 14 days ago
Very cool. Too bad the demo was achieved with wires and special effects.

Edit: citation? Common sense. If it was real they'd have done everything they could to prove it. It's as real as Tesla's self driving taxis were a decade ago. How many more times will people get duped by this conman?

I want a citation this was real before I believe literal smoke and mirrors at night.

Comment · 14 days ago
This was done at night like all large scale David Copperfield magic tricks, so it's more like someone else played a chord and said the dog did.
Comment · 20 days ago
abolitionists weren’t actively slavemaxxing and trying to monopolize the slave trade like AI companies are
Comment · 20 days ago
This is devastating for Yandex. What does the SRE recovery plan even look like? “Raise shields”?
Comment · 22 days ago
Slowing pacing because of real fears of out of control AI isn't scuttling, if they believe what they're saying.

Of course they don't actually believe their nonsense about AIs doomsday hokey, so full speed ahead.

Comment · 1 month ago
Same. If I use google, it’s only because the LLMs I’m talking to use it.
Comment · 1 month ago
Give me a break. It's possible to actually think Eliezer Yudkowsky is a complete lunatic and his Roko's Basilisk essay should've been the end of him as a "thought leader" in the AI space. He has close ties to Altman, Musk, Thiel, and others, so as far as I'm concerned it's just an End Times cult.
Comment · 1 month ago
Thank you for that gift link, I had no idea that Altman and other "leading" (deep-pocketed) figures in American AI had such close ties to that raving lunatic Eliezer Yudkowsky. It explains so much about why China is approaching AI like it's a friendly technology but American CEOs keep blabbering on about the End Times.
Comment · 1 month ago
A quick search suggests to me that those same abolitionists were born into families that were slave owners, but rejected their upbringing to become abolitionists. It doesn't suggest that a large fraction of practicing abolitionists were contemporary slave owners.
Comment · 1 month ago
If you read between the lines, that's not exactly a pause. That's just them lamenting that unsupervised training has temporarily hit a limit, and using that as yet another reason the industry needs to be regulated so that OpenAI, Claude, and MechaHitler are the only approved AIs.

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