I have more hope for putting serious pressure on my middle-of-the-road Dem rep. The district here only really turned Dem around 20 years ago thanks to the influx of Bay Area bedroom-community commuters, but there are still plenty of families around who immigrated as ag workers. So he already felt a degree of pressure, but now I feel like urging him to get on board with properly punishing the very worst Trump excesses might (might!) not be an empty gesture anymore.
I don’t understand why anyone would think this would ever be possible for LLMs.
Yes, as I understand it, inference requires strictly less computational capacity than training; it’s just that a training setup can be turned around and run inference sessions massively in parallel. Just because you can run inference doesn’t mean you can accomplish a training run. Unless there’s some rationalist super-computer-science I’ve been missing this whole time…
damn, I thought my sneers were on point, but clearly I must up my vip game. seems like boots optimized for rapid heel-turn vipping may be the meta
Kurzweil actually liked the warp 10 lizard sex episode – pass it on
Artemis III is going to be so embarrassing, isn’t it. Next summer they’re supposed to link up with a lunar lander-configuration Starship (and also Bezos’ company’s slightly more reasonable lander design) in orbit as a proof-of-concept.
Not that Altman’s company is ahead in the AI coding race, but everyone’s PCs will still need increasing amounts of DRAM to be able to run the next generation of slop-coded JavaScript apps.
Yeah, I’ve read a few stories in the past year or two that updated suspiciously rapidly and weren’t terribly well written. But overall the culture there is against AI generation.
Tesla Semi went up in flames on I-880 in the Bay Area: https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/tesla-semi-fire-i880-hayward-traffic/4165797/
Between this and the carload of freshly manufactured Teslas that burned to the ground on the Grapevine on I-5 last year, that seems like only one (1) freeway-closing big-rig related explosion per year. That’s not so bad, right?
Also - is the coivd lab leak conspiracy nonsense STILL a shibboleth among this bunch? Just because it underscores their ideas about Researchers Have To Be Careful?
I feel like it plays to their aesthetic, which is partly built on their insecurities. Oh, humans aren’t smart enough to handle all this advanced research (read: very few of these people were committed enough to get bio or chem degrees, let alone follow through with research careers), but the superintelligent AI surely will be able to! If we submit to the AI god now, it will make up for the gaping voids of meaning and skill inside ourselves.
Too bad our old friend Kirk Johnson couldn’t make it in
‘it’ll be Good beyond our wildest imagination’
pumpkin spice season will be permanent
It’s not working, I spotted a probable hackernews all the way out in Modesto last week, they’re like the goddamn nutria now
I can’t help but think it’s another instance of the unquestioning Californian Ideology assumption that all new technology is inherently liberatory.
When I first encountered people trying to expand upon the Mark Fisher interpretation of hauntology, a few years ago, I thought they were perhaps overreaching. But after a few more years of observation, now I no longer think so. The rationalist project isn’t really about predicting the future, and perhaps never really has been. Its conservative essence is to enshrine and protect a certain, mainly pop-cultural, framework about what the future should look like, and events are now passing that framework by. It only gets stranger from here.