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Comment · 8 days ago
>The MWI has no explanation for how this other infinity of possible states disappears into just two states. You still wind up with the collapse of the wave function--involving a lot of hand-waving or appealing to some nebulous property of consciousness.

The real issue here is the preferred basis problem, not an infinity of worlds: a single state vector can be decomposed many ways, and the bare math doesn't say which decomposition counts as "the branches." Decoherence picks it out: once the cat is entangled with its environment, the alive/dead decomposition becomes effectively unique and stable, through ordinary unitary dynamics. No collapse, no consciousness (that's von Neumann–Wigner, not Everett). MWI does have an open problem, but it's a different one: the Born rule, i.e. why |c|^2 should count as probability when every branch is real. Also, the normalization is |c1|^2 + |c2|^2 = 1.

Comment · 12 days ago
Comment · 12 days ago
Lost completely trust to MiniMax after the latest benchmaxxing evidence.
Comment · 12 days ago
Open source models are objectively dangerous. You are delusional if you think otherwise. I am not really arguing for banning them (seems impossible to enforce), but also denialism of the real dangers involved is pretty naive.
Comment · 18 days ago
This is a theoretical computer science paper. This is what they are like! Post sucks.
Comment · 22 days ago
Do not bet against airplanes.
Comment · 26 days ago
You said: >I'd say if you know and like Rust, then Gleam should be easy to pick up but otherwise I'd try Elixir.

This is way too strong and narrow statement. Gleam is statically typed garbage collected language, closer to OCaml than Rust. Elixir if you like dynamically typed instead.

Comment · 29 days ago
If you read the paper, they had a solution for this.
Comment · 1 month ago
They hacked the JFrog artifactory package they were all using, thats why it was a natual communication channel.
Comment · 1 month ago
The public frontier is not the frontier. Actual frontier models are too expensive to serve to public, and also risk distillation by competitors.
Comment · 1 month ago
Do you think Chinese lab researchers have not read Yudkovsky, or are not AGI pilled? Hate to break it to you, but they are racing to AGI with pretty same reasoning as western labs.

Just recently DeepSeek researcher in his post was saying that they need to get to AGI first, because if Anthropic gets there first then that brings a dystopia. Exact same argument was used to justify launching OpenAI (against DeepMind), and Anthropic (against OpenAI)

Comment · 2 months ago
Yep. As is "can't know".
Comment · 2 months ago
You do not even need a subscription. Even ChatGPT free account has some quota for Codex/Work use.
Comment · 2 months ago
Why delete comments! Constrained grammar! Make invalid state unrepresentable.
Comment · 2 months ago
Interesting, so they shipped slop? Succumbed to their own AI psychosis?

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