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Comment · 25 days ago
>if model intelligence stalls. If model intelligence continues to improve

So much in AI is dependent on which of these two outcomes occur.

Comment · 1 month ago
Nice! I'm waiting for the day when the remainder of the Maya codices are solved by AI.
Comment · 2 months ago
I was just thinking about the good old days combining human judgements on mturk for classifying high-value forum threads. Since replaced by using judgements from multiple LLMs.

The only use I can think of it these days is for social scientists who need to gather judgements from bona fide humans.

This will be devastating for a lot of workers in low-infrastructure countries.

Comment · 2 months ago
And that it will be just another utility, like electricity.
Comment · 2 months ago
This is like an earlier internet era when it was common for people to just copy-paste directly from other websites into a forum response.
Comment · 2 months ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing

This wiki page is updated frequently and only needs to be fed into an AI to remove its telltale writing.

Comment · 3 months ago
Nice! But needs more footgun.
Comment · 3 months ago
They're sweating it big time, and their fear is bleeding through their AI beneficence-speak. Time for the big US AI companies to call in some favors from the administration. But you can't unring a bell.
Comment · 3 months ago
Recipes like this get baked into the next iteration of a model.
Comment · 3 months ago
This is true, but when we compare them to OpenAI's repeated feints at altruism and nonprofit structure, the irony is plentiful.
Comment · 3 months ago
This was interesting; thank you. He admits that he can't really answer this question. His point about technology seeming obvious in retrospect is similar to the Egg of Columbus idiom: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_of_Columbus

The video hints at the notion that they may just have not figured it out. Certainly working iron and steel would have been extremely useful, but they never developed that ability either, even after thousands of years of civilization. The interplay of a wheel and an axle may not be as intuitive as it seems to us in modern times.

One of the more esoteric explanations that I have heard is that there was a religious taboo around easing manual labor. And that the wheeled (and axled) figurines that we have found were not children's toys, but religious objects.

Comment · 3 months ago
I use my wheelbarrow to do work around my mountain property all the time. We have a 4-wheel utility cart that sees a lot of service too. Their utility lies in doing work over short distances.
Comment · 3 months ago
I still can't reconcile how they didn't use the wheel for transportation. The explanations of lack of draft animals and unsuitable terrain aren't great. Not even a wheelbarrow?
Comment · 3 months ago
Thanks, that means a lot. I've found that browsing through a few dozen build threads is the perfect cure for the AI blues.
Comment · 3 months ago
Thanks; much appreciated. I picked up an endless list of new build interests in starting the site and exploring different niche forums. Turns out I really like wooden boat builds, cyclekarts, intricate custom knives, handmade violins, the list goes on...

You're right that getting a car custom-built is where the costs add up quickly; easily north of $50K. Most of the cost is labor, which is $0 if you do it yourself. Some of the projects are much easier than others. If you want to fall down a rabbit hole, look in the kit car and hot rod categories; lots of affordable and small builds in there. The Buick Riviera in La La Land is more of a resto-mod cruiser project, but the small/retro itch is exactly what the kit car category scratches. The first step is to find a forum where people are building the car you like, and start following related build threads. That's the majority of my social media intake these days.

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