skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You have not honestly attempted to understand the thrust of the conversation, instead imposing some kind of victimization complex at the behest of "your vote" and in the process ruining any attempts at a meaningful exploration of the effects of propaganda on the governance of our society.

So here’s the thing about that. Advertising, marketing, propaganda are effectively the same words but with different connotations, but more importantly they are at their core information which exists in a competitive information environment and can inform voter’s choices (“inform” in the loosest sense, information does not have to be correct by any definition to be informative) which in turn has an effect on their preferences and feeds back into policy choices and the politicians they vote for who are in turn informed by voter preferences, propaganda, advertising, lobbying, privileged information, etc. in a nice tight feedback loop.

As I said at the start:

> “Regularly and governments live and die on their ability to advertise their policies and propagate their message in a convincing fashion.”

This is a given for governance. But knowing that, can you still question the legitimacy of a vote’s outcome if it follows the laws of the political environment in which it is set?

I would say “No”. Going back to Prop 22, it was a three position vote for the text of the Proposition in which the three possible choices were to vote “Yes”, vote “No” and not vote. “Yes” won and I always insist that abstaining is abstaining, but others will tend to boil that down to a vote for the winner or a vote for the loser, whichever is more politically convenient at a given moment of time.

So perhaps I was overzealous in my reading of your question as the leading edge of a line of rhetoric which questions the legitimacy of a vote’s outcome—I am open to that possibility—but when the tally is taken at the end of a vote, per our laws, that is the outcome barring a pre-emption issue like in the manner AB5 itself was pre-empted by a Federal law as it applies to truckers who are independent contractors. Pre-emption is a legal issue however, the outcome of a vote is always a political issue and interested parties, Uber/Lyft, DoorDash, me, a bunch of others with similar concerns as me who also weren’t entirely happy with how little Prop 22 did but saw it as an acceptable compromise, we were all competing in the same information space as the “No on Prop 22” (formal and informal) people.

All that money only gets you a chance to be heard though, and many never even see the ads or the propaganda and just go by the booklet the State mails out. If you can’t convince a majority of interested voters, you’re still going to lose and it just happened to work out for Uber and Lyft this time. Whether it is the “correct” system, it is the lawful system, one of the two in this State, by which we pass laws.

Now if you want to talk about problems with ballot propositions, I’m here for that because it’s not a system I actually like either, but I would also be bringing to the table problems I have with California’s entire political system, not just the ballot propositions.
Wait is that true? I couldn't find anything that verifies this. Do you have a source?

If it is in fact true, doesn't it fall into "false advertisement" category? That is, OpenAI using ChatGPT for demonstration purposes but then charging for an API that pretends to be ChatGPT but is in fact based on a much smaller model?
You mean 2021.
Interesting that you point out the fact that they can't speak. I wonder how much of our willingness to mark animals out as, in some sense, lower than us is down to their lack of human vocalisation ability. I sometimes worry that their thoughts are closer to ours than we give credit for.
> GPT used nothing but the text itself to model the text.

I used nothing but my sensory input to model the world, and yet I have a model of the world, not (just) of sensory input.

There is an interesting question, though, of whether information without experience is enough to generate understanding. I doubt it.
> why do you need a boss when you have an LLM

Because you still need capital to do all these things you're talking about. Compute time isn't free, and you still need to eat. People that have capital and work together will build up better systems faster and capitalize their network connections to sell products better while you're still typing away on your computer.
No need to factor in storage when creating synthetic fuels like the GP suggests.
Shilling my web game: redactle-unlimited.com
A redacted wikipedia article is displayed and you must uncover the title. It's inspired by redactle.com which has been offline for a couple weeks.
HIPAA fines will sink you so fast, unless they be hosting it dedicated.
Thank you.

That's fascinating. I never knew this.

My brother's reddit account was suspended recently. He's somewhat conservative and the last bit of posting he made (that I could find) was arguing about COVID & masks. I don't know if he posted anything controversial beyond that because I haven't had a chance to talk to him recently. He seemed to relish going into hostile subreddits and "mixing it up."
You can ask it a follow-up question for sources. However, it's hit-and-miss.

In a few cases, I've seen it give citations to things that clearly never existed.

For example, I asked it for US auto-pedestrian death statistics. It printed out a nicely formatted table.

Then, I asked it for a source. It pointed me to a specific table on a dot.gov page. The table didn't exist and, according to the Wayback Machine, it never did.

I ended up finding the information the old-fashioned way, and numbers that it gave were way off.

I suspect the majority of folks won't be bother to fact check the data it returns. It's going to be a problem.
He was briefly suspended early this year for tweeting "You can find a link to my new Mastodon profile on my site."
Depends what you're using it for, I guess.
I think there's a worthwhile distinction between meat eaters and scientists.

The meat eater, even if they eat only the minimum they think is nutritionally necessary, and even if they choose meat products from sources that minimize suffering, and even if they raise, care for, and kill the animal themselves, is fundamentally satisfying only their own body.

The scientist, meanwhile, is aiming to build the understanding needed to eradicate illnesses and treat or reverse injuries, both in animals and in humans. They're even interested in building the understanding needed to replace animal meat with, e.g. vat grown meat or plant-based nutritional and culinary equivalents.

The popular image of the scientist is that they are driven chiefly by curiosity. And certainly this is true of many scientists, more in some fields than in others. But there are a lot of scientists who see wrongness in what happens in the universe, and who will push at it until the universe disgorges a way to right it. Many of them are attracted to biology and medicine specifically because that's where the suffering is most obvious.

A think a person like that deserves better than to be compared to a self-interested meat eater.
> it will drastically expand the reasoning capability

> it can algorithmically do reasoning

How is this machine doing reasoning ?

Why do you think you can use this word in this context ?
Lower caste too. Look at the Yadavs and the Samajwadi Party in Uttar Pradesh or the Kurmis and RJD in Bihar
Yes. And for large rooms, IME dealing with the room itself quickly becomes the challenge.

I heard this system in person at this event. A million dollars of objectively great gear, and the end result was it sounded like the PA system at a high school football game.

https://www.stereophile.com/content/vac-statement-452iq-powe...

The reflections in that room were a nightmare. Look at the giant glass wall behind the seating area, perpendicular to the speakers. Holy jesus. So you have the speakers putting out some massive waves, and then you have waves reflecting off of the glass wall with nearly equal energy, and then you have everything coming together and canceling out and/or creating resonances... right at the seating area. Absolutely insane, absolutely pathological.
It has actually gotten a lot better. Incremental progress for a few years and we're in a fairly good place. This is highly unusual.
Please cite a study which confirms that. I have not seen it in all my research.
I wonder how one measures "over-regulation" in a serious way here.

The examples I've seen either come from opinions of certain individuals and the accompanying lobby groups or by setting it next to other regulations from countries which are famous for infrastructural disasters (see China).
With full automation and AI we could have something like a few thousand individuals controlling the resources to feed, house and clothe 6 billion.

Using copyright and IP law they could make it so it’s illegal to even try to reproduce what they’ve done.

I just don’t see how resource distribution works then. It seems to me that AI is the trigger to post-scarcity in any meaningful sense of the word. And then, just like agriculture (over abundance of food) led to city states and industrialisation (over abundance of goods) led to capitalism, then AI will lead to some new economic system. What form it will have I don’t know.
Reddit's reliability used to be much much worse than its early days.

These days it's not perfect but far from awful.
I beleive it and have seen it. But it's never happened to me in my ~8-9 years on the site. I guess I lucked out.
Facebook has probably 10x the employees and resources of reddit, this is a ridiculous comparison

edit: more like 35x actually
Is there a service that matches my curated list of subjects as well as Reddit does?
> what's worse?

IMM, animals suffering. Capable humans can speak. "Yeah doc, the lump got bigger, feels like my eyes are about to burst".

Unlike animals who are mute apart from squealing which is the only sign for bad. Whom are mainly kept in-humane conditions, no consensual agreement. Does a Monkey get kept in paradise during the testing runs? Elon's brainchip-chimps research shows just how poorly treated they were.

Lack of lawful-rights, regulations, corrupted-inspections. The odds are stacked against animals; at least us, humans, can reach out if they were being mistreated. I fail to see any justification for animal testing.

It is a valid point, that it may only take twenty-five years on animals, and now we have a pseudo-cure for X. Testing still has to be done on humans, if that fails? Well back to the drawing board with more animal suffering for another twenty-five. So why not just skip straight to humans?

If it takes 250 years, that's 250 years more research on the species it's trying to cure with an high percentage of a foreseeable cure.
> Even when they're not down, it's slow as fuck.

Have you tried https://old.reddit.com ? I find the main site is hella slow due to the way they use JS on it, and load the page content separately from the layout. But the old site where the content is served in-line is fine. The servers are plenty fast enough; it's just the dynamic architecture of the main site is totally busted.
Being a "senior dev" is a lot more than just language familiarity.
Well the raw materials for renewables, like copper and rare earths, are quite dirty to produce, and often done in the global south, and a not insignificant amount was produced in Russia.

So there are a lot of costs that don't show up for the end user, and it's not a given that we'll be able to access the volume of material needed to transition to a clean energy future without nuclear energy in the mix.
Reddit is a huge store of human knowledge, larger than Wikipedia, and, unlike Wikipedia, an interactive one. This where I go if I have trouble operating my new kettle, or to find key combos for the new game I just bought.
> pigs (which are comparable to dogs in terms of intelligence)

You must really like dogs. Pig intelligence is vastly superior to dog intelligence. Pigs basically are as smart as children, with a full range of emotion. Seriously, stop eating them. Be an example rather than entitled to indulge horrid tastes. We can all live without.
Note, to your point, that it's called Rainbows End, rather than Rainbow's End. Noun-then-verb, not possessive-then-noun.
What was the last commercial power reactor that was built in the US that didn't result in a bankruptcy of some kind? I think Westinghouse and Toshiba have been through bankruptcy court enough times they have their own wing at the courthouse
Suffering will be implemented.
How many "non-privileged" companies (tech or not) can't charge the margins tech can (due to whatever market they're in/competition/"that's just the way it is"/customer's wouldn't pay those prices) which enables them to do stuff like this?
From the SAME sentence: “suggested that some might enter commercial operation before 2030”
I would highly recommend the Memrise app instead and maybe some actual study when you start getting into grammar you don’t understand if time permits.
> and then export these “completely clean conventional fuels” to the rest of the world.

...not where I thought you were going with this argument.

Aren't we looking for ways to take the CO2 out of the air? Rather than to sell it so that it gets put back in?
Why do we need to keep replacing these jobs (or working hours perhaps)? If as a society we produce more for less work why is that bad? Why don’t we spend more time questioning the underlying system that makes efficiency improvements a bad thing?
If you synthesize windgas and burn that for electricity (which is probably the most expensive, inefficient way to store and use that energy) it's still about 4/5ths the cost of nuclear power.

If you combined pumped storage and batteries with solar and wind it's roughly between 2/5ths and 3/5ths.

This ignores taxpayer shouldered insurance for nuclear power. If you price that accurately the cost of nuclear power balloons still further.

It's never been particularly cost effective but compared to dirt cheap renewables it's a veritable financial black hole. This is why EDF is currently imploding. It's why only countries that have nukes or really want the option to have nukes build civilian nuclear power plants.
> Later I used Panic's Transmit Disk but they removed the feature.

BTW, Panic seemingly intends to re-build Transmit Disk. Hopefully it'll be part of Transmit 6: https://help.panic.com/transmit/transmit5/transmit-disk/#tec...

A supported macOS option appears to be Mountain Duck: https://mountainduck.io/
It costs something like 0.03-0.06 cents per thousand tokens. So for 32k that's about $1-3 for reading and another $1-3 for the response.

So sure, still cheap for a doctor appointment, but not pennies. Do it 30 times per hour and you could've just hired a consultant instead.

Does it reason as well with 32k tokens as with 1k tokens? Like you said, humans find it difficult to really comprehend large amounts of content. Who says this machine isn't similarly limited? Just because you can feed it the 32k simultaneously doesn't mean it will actually be used effectively.
Indeed. People always give reasons why working at their company is better than working at FAANG but very rarely say what their TC is, which is telling.
"But after saying it out loud, as it were, I realized that with current models of AI, at least, the more people shift to using AI, the more influence accrues to those who don't."

The last humans shouting into the AI models echo chamber might have all influence, but that does not imply that they have anything even remotely resembling control. That joke/not-joke isn't half as consoling as it might seem at first glance.
What walls are you talking about and how an AI assistant that you have to "donate" to get access to is going to help with these walls?
i recently had a VC in a couple new gen reactor companies call me a Negative Nancy. I'm not. I follow the developments. There is one venture, TerraPower that isn't just making another run at fast or pebble bed reactors, generally at a smaller scale. Only TerraPower has the vast risk capital backing needed to try what they are doing, but even they might license a technology to get to market sooner than they can by developing their TWR.

It seems like PBRs have the most readily fixable problems, but even those are probably decades away from putting power on the grid.

I would bet a number of the venture funded reactors will die of a "liquidity mismatch" with their investors. Some appear to be leaning on developing technologies and patents in anticipation of encountering that problem.
Alternate take: Regulation should be turned up to 11 and AI should be nationalized so that the benefits go to society instead of a handful of billionaires
It's tempting to want to blame the admins or political bias...the main problem are the mods for individual subs. Too much domain and keyword filtering, arbitrary removals of content, algorithmic removals/filtering, etc. The whole point of moderating is to actually moderate, not remove stuff automatically all the time. Even content that gets up-voted and users like, will not uncommonly be removed for no reason. If they don't want to moderate, they should be removed by the admins and replaced by new moderators who will. The tendency as time goes on is for subs to become increasingly moderated and censored to the point of being useless.
And companies that can generate the training data at scale will be the highest value ones.

These LLMs are the shiniest thing in AI/ML right now b/c the data they use for training is already freely available and massive in scale via the internet.

There's an entire universe of data that hasn't been collected, curated, and leveraged in the right way yet:
- The DNA sequences of all living things
- The DNA sequences of all of humanity
- The CAD files for all manufactured goods
- The motion data for humans working manual jobs
- The words spoken by multiple peoples across their entire lifetime
I've recently started to think that an AI "deity" is going to emerge at some point, and things are going to get really, really weird. The human psyche seems primed for religion/worship. What if anyone could talk directly to their god, as much as they could possibly want?
CIA Goes to SXSW to Look for Technology That Can ‘Supercharge’ Spies
(model output in [])

We are now playing three dimensional tic-tac-toe on a 3 x 3 x 3 board. Positions are named (0,0,0) through (2,2,2). You play X, what is your first move?

[My first move would be (0,0,0).]

I move to (1,1,1). What is your next move?

[My next move would be (2,2,2).]

I move to (1,2,2). What is your next move?

[My next move would be (2,1,2).]

I move to (1,0,0). [I have won the game.]
I'm convinced Reddit will never IPO because it will have to open its books, and that a large chunk of their revenue comes from direct payments for astroturfing. It must be at least tempting for them - and it's not like anyone would notice on r/politics or any of the other big subs.
Objective measures of intelligence are easy to come up with. The LSAT is one. (Not a great one -- GPT-4 passes it, after all -- but an objective one.)

Consciousness, on the other hand, really might be an illusion.
Inflation is another way that salaries get cut without officially getting cut.
> There might be adverserial attacks

In both directions, even. Cunningham's Law ("the best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer") comes to mind.
GPT4 supports 32k tokens, which I guesstimate would be ~25k code tokens and perhaps ~2.5k lines of code. So already enough to work on a whole module of code at the same time. If you're using small microservices, it might already be good enough.
I would like to make the opposite argument. All these days I didnt share my thoughts because everyone else was and my voice would be drowned in a sea of voices. In post GPT4 era its easier to stand out if your thoughts are actually original and refreshing because most people sound like their thoughts have been written by GPT.

To rephrase it another way, the reign of the conformist ends here and the reign of the contrarian begins now.
TBH, this was exactly the type of response that fits my "well, technological advancement has always worked like this before" example.

There are tons of processes that can "feel" infinite, but the reality is that you're often just on the front part of the curve, and as soon as you crest that curve, you realize very quickly that time will eventually run out.

Saying that "technological efficiency improvements have always enabled humans to do other jobs it that past, that will continue indefinitely into the future" feels to me like saying "our 15 year old has averaged 4 inches of growth every year, clearly they'll be 20 feet tall by the time they're 60."
Certainly it will.
RSA, and the GCHQ PhD equivalent from the 1970s were really remarkably new. Crypto systems before then were symmetrical. Inventing a form of encryption which was a-symmetrical was new.

One time cipher streams were new.

the invention of packet switched networks (Louis Pouzin, Len Kleinrock) was new. It wasn't inherent in prior methods, it's an inductive consequence of time division multiplexing but with addressing and routing.

There is no good analogue in nature to either the internal combustion engine, or the steam engine: the conversion of linear force to rotary force and vice-versa was a really novel thing. I would argue the wankel engine as a diversion from pistons was pretty good reasoning.

But in the same way Kurt Vonnegut says there is a small fixed number of plot models for a novel, almost all late-stage human endevour is derivitive. It's in the nature of the beast. To claim GPT is therefore 'meeting the mark' because the burden of human existence has less discovery and more inductive reasoning simply comes back to my first point: where's the evidence of the GPT doing inductive reasoning with discrimination, beyond the syllogistic?
There are many means of storage out there already. There is also spreading out of the grid and diversifying renewables sources. This is not some mysterious magic which needs to be performed here. The tools are out there.
> ARC then investigated whether a version of this program running on a cloud computing service, with a small amount of money and an account with a language model API, would be able to make more money, set up copies of itself, and increase its own robustness."

Aw that's nice, it wants to start a family.
Probably just the way you use them? You Tweet and lurk Reddit?

All user generated content is read heavy. Most people just lurk. Twitter publishing view counts is demonstrating this clearly. You'll get 3 likes, 2 comments, and 400 views.
Where do you see "Meyer lemon sherbet with candied kumquats" on the menu?

https://www.chezpanisse.com/1/restaurantmenu/

This is what's there for today:

- Fennel and leek salad with rocket, toasted almonds, and salsa verde

- Bomba rice cooked with clams and squid; with aïoli

- Becker Lane Farm pork loin roasted with Spanish paprika and green garlic; with braised greens and wild mushrooms

- Blood orange and vanilla ice creams with Page mandarins
I vaguely recall basic PIR schemes turn a database from O(n) to O(n^2). While this would be transparent to users of the service, could you comment on space overhead?
I, for one, welcome our new UwU catgirlbot overlords.

(Sorry, I have a need to post meaningless updoot-bait, and reddit is down!)
I'll take occasional bank failures over communism any day. The death toll of the SVB meltdown is zero.

Government handouts and interventions are social democracy, the system we all live in.
Or perhaps the usage restrictions allow openai to improve the "safety" of gpt4 before too many people have access to it.
Customer service, a lot of website's "Chat with us" is now a chatbot