zero_shift

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Comment · 1 day ago
Really? I think that in most orgs up to medium size, you expect senior and especially staff engineers to have that scope

They wouldn't be able to draw it all onto a whiteboard from memory. But give them a half day and they will have mapped out the data flow

Comment · 1 day ago
We're explicitly talking about a situation where BigTech and AI labs ask the government for money or (very hypothetically) allow coordinated defaults to spill out into the banking fabric

In those cases, the economy and society you want to externalises losses onto has every right to negotiate something in return. We are not in the business of just forgiving multi billion debts.

Comment · 5 days ago
Goedecke is often inconsistent.

To put it as politely as possible, he seems like the kind of person who comes to a conclusion after writing his essays, not before.

Comment · 10 days ago
I think AI is going to be like television: a hugely important technology, that you can't make much money from.

There's not enough moat and the open models just have to be good enough for people to cheap out.

Comment · 23 days ago
When the dust settles, I reckon OAI will make FTX's losses look like chump change
Comment · 23 days ago
What's plus or minus $20bn between friends?
Comment · 23 days ago
Not a good day for OpenAI!
Comment · 1 month ago
> I agree with the article - they'd better hope they are messianic super geniuses

It sounds remarkable, and I didn't believe it at first. But after more reading, I am convinced an influential part of Anthropic leadership really is something like a religious movement

Comment · 1 month ago
I would be less confident about that, there are false friends in EME and most modern readers would benefit from not having the added complication.

(I don't have a theology degree, but I do have an English degree. I have read parts of KJV, and it has literary significance, but it is not attempting to be a bare literal translation)

Comment · 1 month ago
I do not advise this. It is effectively translating twice: Hebrew through EM English to contemporary English
Comment · 1 month ago
Television and also the VCR. The cassette recorder revolutionised TV because you could watch programmes independently of your friends
Comment · 1 month ago
In a recession, too. You have to ask where the money even enters the funnel.
Comment · 1 month ago
Nicolas Polson?

Sin: A Slop Colon!

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