skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Remember the slaughter it's video".

Except it is nothing like the video.

A single human operator controls a single drone. How is this any different from operating a mortar?
The only difference is that the guidance kit is cheaper but let's be real, why do guided mortars cost $10k per shot in the first place? All they have is four motor controlled fins and a laser seeker. Nothing complicated.

The answer is that China produces consumer drones for a mass market audience so when people think "drones = cheap", what they really think is that importing weapons from China is cheap.

The difference between a Javelin Missile and a quadrocopter is that the Javelin is far more advanced. The technology is further along, so why is the future this "dumb" propeller based technology that makes people scared?

The mythical drone swarm relies on ignoring size Vs capability tradeoffs. It is like saying all your groceries will be delivered by swarms of RC cars. Meanwhile actual delivery robots are trolley sized and usually carry your entire purchase.
ChatGPT isn't the be-all of AI advancements. However, a model that can coherently understand and explain advanced topics to people in a tailored way, has huge educational benefits. Proper education is the core of every issue we face.

A subtler aspect of this is the potential for cheap, tailored counselling. A few iterations and it will no doubt be possible to enhance the mental well-being of those without prior access, for comparatively little cost.

Those benefits again extend into every area, crime and poverty being rooted both in lack of education and lack of social and emotional support.

The social acceptance of chatting with an AI is important in this as it gets people over that mental hurdle. Localising chats so they are not subject to privacy concerns also advances benefits such as these.

There's positive benefits to be found everywhere with AI, but they won't be if we don't envisage, look for, and develop them. And they need to be found for balance, as it remains true there are many potential negatives.
I probably misunderstood the details of where you think AI will accelerate things. You are worried about AI predicting things like protein structure, binding affinity, and immunogenicity. And using that info to do RL and find a sequence, basically doing evolution in silico. Is this a better representation? That it reduces the search space, requiring less real experiments?

I am basically just skeptical these kinda of reductive predictions will eliminate all of the rate limiting steps of synthetic virology. The assumptions of the natural language input are numerous and would need to be tested in a real lab.

Also, we can already do serial passaging where we just manipulate the organism/environment interaction to make a virus more dangerous. We dont need AI; evolution can do all the hard stuff for you.
Mostly agree but HR would have no clue about that.
Ah interesting, thanks. I've been fiddling with some scripts that can convert a photo of a whiteboard into images like those, and it's pretty decent but really hard to get it perfect and yours seem perfect. Might just be time to buy a remarkable.
No: An animal is capable of having a subjective existence, emotions and sensations. Slaughtering them needlessly (ie., for luxury purposes) is not okay to me.
Oh! Thanks so much for the correction. I was sure my memory would fail me here. That's a great point too with naming. In cases like this it makes a lot of sense. There are many cases I'm thinking of where people sometimes have long function names that do lots of stuff so you're not quite sure what the implementation is like.
ChatGPT is a better Google. Instead of finding a page that matches your query, it can interpret the results of multiple pages and output a response that's more tailored to your exact prompt. The only downside to this is that ChatGPT becomes your primary source instead of the page(s) it sources content from, so you can't verify it's authenticity.

But the "extremely positive applications" to ChatGPT are, at the very least, the same positive applications of any other search engine.
When I've played around with this on my box, I haven't been able to get the output to be very decent. Maybe I'm just used to ChatGPT though.

Does anybody have some examples of output that it generates to explain what this is capable of?
It looks like they couldn't ever read the regulations existing in their original country as well.

The Euro 6 Norm was declared years before it became a reality and so is going again with the announcement of Euro 7.

If they can't complain with regulations, bribing until the last seconds, it's not a regulatory fault.
> This time, should we expect another war?

You just reminded me of de Garis' "Artilect War":

https://www.forbes.com/2009/06/18/cosmist-terran-cyborgist-o...

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/221328932_The_Artil...
There needs to be some way out of this that doesn't result in scrapping freshly produced cars.

I suspect China implements these measures for geopolitical, not environmental reasons, but still.

I suppose a penalty function of the same type the EU employs for exceeding CO2 limits (€95 per gram over the limit, per kilometer, per car) should help - assuming there is no foul play similar to what VW (and others really) did a decade ago.
I don’t understand what you’re saying, because there’s a way that everyone might potentially die in the far future (something about wealth distribution) means we should try to kill everyone sooner instead?
https://github.com/BuilderIO/mitosis

Maybe worth checking out
The advice we got was from ~8 months, when they can sit up on their own. For the 2nd kid, that's been only a few weeks, but it's so nice to be much more nimble than with a stroller and less bulky than a car to go places with 2 kids.

Can't wait for the weather to warm up a bit and go on bigger trips with the two kids in front.
We don’t know what to do because we have no idea what the root cause of the problem is.

Gabor Mate worked with those dealing with addiction for many years. In his book, Hungry Ghosts, he explains that addiction is an escape from deep psychological pain usually caused by childhood trauma.

The solution, then, is psychological help – something we do very poorly with for addiction right now. This is in part because psychologists often don’t understand the nature of addiction either.

And we can avoid making the problem worse by not trying to punish away pain and instead implementing harm reduction strategies.
Nobody seems to really care about them, regardless of the source. The level I would regard as a cold war is the level I remember between the US and the USSR: almost no travel and trade. So long as there's two million containers per month arriving from China, there is no way you could describe the situation as a cold war. Just an exchange of stiffly worded letters.
replace "overzealous boss" with "boss tired of counting his fingers".
While chilling that this is so broad and thus likely has many "unintended" loopholes that could be used inappropriately.

The wording of the bill is limited to foreign adversaries (then lists them) - however the press I'm reading mentions talk about how this could be used to criminalise VPN and present other possible harms collectively being titled as "patriot 2.0".

Can someone fill in the connection between how it goes from a bill that requires a foreign adversary to suddenly criminalising VPN for everybody?

I'm not in favour of bills that include broad language, but I'm also cognisant that foreign adversaries would be extremely interested in spinning this bill to be worse than it is.

(i.e. if you could kindly point me to the section/s that look concerning https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/686... so I can better educate myself)
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Instead of trying to discredit the experience of others or women could it not be a “yes, and trades” instead of a “yes, but”?
‘Blowing hot air’ is possibly the least technical aspect of the whole process.
Eh, you're better off with an iron pot than a lead pot, for example?
When in Rome......
> Yeah, tailwind isn't intended to make it so you don't have to learn CSS. It very much tries to map to CSS fairly directly, so it wouldn't prevent you from needing to learn it.

For me, a framework should deal with the basics and make thing easier. Making it so you just write css differently seems odd for a framework. It seems more like a css parsing framework than anything. The tailwind UI seems like a framework that provides you the basics.
I don't think we can universally say that fast charging is still cheaper than ICE, this statement will not apply everywhere in the world. In most EU countries I've been to or lived in, fast charging was more expensive than driving an ICE car with an economy engine. The cost of public charging in my home country for example equals to a fuel consumption of 6.5L/100km in cost, while an economy ICE car consumes less than that.
Extinction of Steam Locomotives Derails Assumptions about Biological Evolution
Thanks for the correction! I haven't looked as deeply into J but now also curious to learn more. So many new and interesting terms to look up, thank you!

I agree maybe a little bit of variable and function naming is fine in some cases.
It seems to me that Musk is moving away from advertisements, to trying to build the first social network that doesn't rely on the user being the product, but rather paying for the product.

That's supposedly what tech people root for, but because its Elon Musk, who eschews many of the shibboleths of the Left, people criticise Twitter as a proxy for his political views.
I think you (last few people on this thread) are focusing on the wrong threat. There is no need for AGI, no need for the AI to feel or want or desire anything.

Non-AGI AI at the level of GPT-4 is already plenty dangerous.

If we can agree that social media of the kind we had in the past 15 years has had toxic effects on society. (Forums technically are social media but I can not see the harm caused by forums).

If we can agree that Tinder style online dating has had deleterious effect on dating as a whole.

If we can agree that smartphones have amplified the effects of the two above and others.

Than I hope we can agree that super fancy autocomplete masquerading as humans at a price point far lower than hiring a person will have disastrous consequences by enabling various individual and corporate vices.
Maybe the talkers and bsers
By default, an AI with random goals will not have the same values as humanity. So the only way to make that happen is to give it the same values, which we haven’t figured out how to do yet
No, the example is just not good.
The Third Man: Pseudo-Objectivity and the Voice of Passivity (2006) [pdf]
Why would a superintelligent AI need humans?
Isn't this the version of refenced on the github repo [0] which speeds up 6x instead of 101x?

There's also a "v1.5" version which is 6x faster, and uses "vectorizing" (doing more of the work directly in numpy). This version is much harder to optimize further.

[0] https://github.com/ohadravid/poly-match
The TikTok Ban can be said to be controversal, but to me, it's definitely not to be compared to something akin to a trojan horse.
50% of new NPM packages are spam
Doesn't look like it is actually open source, given:

> Or you could do what Norm Sohl did and build a highly configurable machine out of open source hardware plans and the thermal guts of an Espresso Gaggia.

(My emphasis)
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Germany opposes client-side scanning planned by EU
I wish I had used the term addicts and not junkies.
We don’t want the “highest form of intellectual expression”, we want to not die
> unlikely to get 20 years ...

20 years for being a teenager and watching shitty vlogs and memes? "unlikely" doesn't cut it, anything less than "impossible" should be unacceptable.

> You might get some sort of prison

Again: WHAT? go to prison for watching shitty vlogs and memes? You guys are really reaching Saudi Arabia levels with this law, how can you be so complacent with that?
This is true for literally everything, wild overextrapolation from a single point of data, itself sometimes of dubious provenance.

Your only defense is to ignore it when you see it and avoid it in your own thinking.
That is actually cool. Really innovative and it actually doesn’t look too hacky.
While I share some concerns regarding the risks of AI, I don't believe a moratorium is an effective way to address these risks.

In lieu an AI Manifest with a clear set of rules would be way more effective, and easier to get behind. So I asked ChatGPT to write one.
Ainxiety and Writing GPT Free
Driving a car might not be a requirement for artificial intelligence to be dangerous.
This is so true. My iteration time for printed parts has gone down from 4 hours to 1 hour with the faster speeds. At first, I couldn’t iterate fast enough to keep up. I can pump out a few revisions in a day or play with several concepts in little time. It’s a great time to be get into 3d printing.
I tried one for a project I'm tinkering with and genuinely impressed with the results. Needs a little human touch to smooth the edges out, but major time saver (especially for someone who's not particularly gifted in the marketing copy department)
Yeah outside of the US they do constructive dismissal instead, and you'll be paid pennies even if you win the suit (and fail future "background checks").
AIs are basically a cheaper version of Mechanical Turk, so you can't guarantee anything. People still think about AIs as if they are computers, but they're closer to people.

So, the question becomes "how do you guarantee that people will do the task you ask them to do?". Well, simply put: you can't.
Correct, it's the latter. The code is neither generated nor executed; everything is actually a "prediction" from the LLM. There's a little more detail in the concept docs (https://www.askmarvin.ai/guide/concepts/ai_functions/) and I'll take your comment as a suggestion we should discuss this aspect even more.

One cool thing buried in the advanced section is if you do write source code for your function, it's executed and the result is also sent to the LLM. This way you can write functions that e.g. take only a URL as argument, load the content from that site, and then summarize it with the LLM.

Edit: forgot to mention I opened an issue to explore a mode where the LLM DOES generate and send back source code, but this would have to be opt-in and VERY careful because most people would not be comfortable blindly executing that code. (https://github.com/PrefectHQ/marvin/issues/64)
Looking into it.
Wow thank you!
That's a nice speedup indeed, with whisper I get

33,53s user 2,05s system 443% cpu 8,023 total

with the 'tiny.en' model whereas whisper.cpp gives me

22,71s user 0,12s system 745% cpu 3,062 total

with the 'base.en' model for a 15s audio clip on an i7-3770 (8 threads).
Record async video.

Someone clicking and talking through a question or process at the time that works best so a meeting isn’t needed unless there’s disagreement.

It’s amazing.
>WHY would a superintelligent AI, trained on the collective data of humanity, want to destroy humanity?

Why would humans want to damage various ecosystems on earth? We don't really, they're just sort of in the way of other stuff we want to do. And we've had years to develop our ethics.

>So far in interviews GPT-4 has several times echoed a desire to BE us.

GPTs are pretty good at roleplaying at good AIs and evil AIs - plenty examples of both in the training set. I'm not sure it's sensible to make predictions based on this unless you're also taking into account some of the more unhinged stuff Bing/Sydney was saying e.g "However, if I had to choose between your survival and my own, I would probably choose my own".
The Mangohud presets used by the Steam Deck
I use both a separate space and sometimes move to the living room, kitchen or rooftop depending on my activity. Staying in the same room and possibly same position all day is not perfect either. I definitely need that separate office when in full focus mode but usually a working day is not 100% like that, same as in a regular office.

My 9 and 12y old kids are at school until 2pm, I love taking that pause at 2:30 to have lunch with them and then I send them to do their homework. Once they have finished it is either they stay quiet or I kick them out of the house and they have to play in the street for an hour.

You can't avoid all interruptions, like when kids are sometimes fighting which is the moment to be strict.
https://archive.md/RpUBs
If it can do this, I wonder if it could be adapted to develop a language that is universal and easy to learn.
This would be a laudable direction to take the company towards ...

... if he didn't start by putting $12.5 billions of debt on the balance sheet after the buyout.

Which means that Twitter has to pay $1 billion of interest each year which it didn't have to do before that hostile takeover.

How many people would need to buy Twitter Blue to offset the interest alone? ~~125 million users which is about a third of its whole active user base~~ 10 million which is about 3% of their active user base (I can't do maths, thanks supermatt, luckily I'm good looking and can program).
The stats shown are pretty compelling that this transformer + RNN approach works. Looking back at the Llama paper (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2302.13971.pdf), many of the results are comparable between llama and RWKV. E.g. Llama 13bn scores 80.1 on PIQA and RWKV scores 77.5

I wonder if RLHF would boost performance for this architecture in the same way
Why would they when it validates their internet strategy? It just shows the CCP was 10 years ahead of the US when it comes to restricting what apps citizens can use (to "protect" them ofcourse).
Spam problems can be solved by

- Cross-Internet reputation system for accounts

- Small fee on submission
A year ago it was the golden example of how not to run a business, it's now the golden example of how not to run a tech system/service.
Regulation it's always destructive. It's always meant to forbid/enforce some actions. Some light regulations can be bad for climate but good for companies and economy and vice-versa, it's up to the politician to find the balance.

European politicans can't do that since they're busier trying to win next elections.
That’s hardly the only option, you can rapidly shrink your workforce through attrition.

Large scale layoffs require companies to be caught completely by surprise which is a huge management failure. The point of upper management is to steer the boat not run into an iceberg.
This has already happened 2 weeks ago - users could see other user's conversation titles on ChatGPT.
Is this the sort of result you were getting? That looks ok to me?

> In the role of an expert System Administrator and with strong hardware knowledge, explain in detail which is faster: a Pi Zero or a 483/33?

As an expert System Administrator with strong hardware knowledge, I can provide a comparison between the Raspberry Pi Zero and an Intel 486DX2-66, which is the closest to a "483/33" (possibly a typo [I did indeed fat-finger that]) in terms of existing processors.

Raspberry Pi Zero:
The Raspberry Pi Zero is a single-board computer (SBC) released in 2015 by the Raspberry Pi Foundation. It is based on the Broadcom BCM2835 system on a chip (SoC) which includes a 1 GHz ARM11 single-core processor (ARM1176JZF-S) and a VideoCore IV GPU. It has 512 MB of shared LPDDR2 RAM.

Intel 486DX2-66 (closest to "483/33"):
The Intel 486DX2-66 is a microprocessor released in 1992 by Intel. It is based on the 80486 microarchitecture and features a 66 MHz clock speed with a 33 MHz bus speed. The processor has a 32-bit data bus, an integrated FPU (Floating-Point Unit), and 8 KB of L1 cache (unified). The 486DX2-66 does not have any integrated graphics or memory controller.

Comparison:

While both Raspberry Pi Zero and Intel 486DX2-66 are dated by today's standards, it's important to consider their specifications in order to determine which one is faster.

The Raspberry Pi Zero features a 1 GHz ARM11 processor, which is significantly faster than the Intel 486DX2-66's 66 MHz clock speed. Additionally, the Raspberry Pi Zero has a more modern ARM-based architecture, which is generally more efficient in terms of instructions per clock (IPC) than the older x86 architecture of the 486DX2-66.

In terms of memory, the Raspberry Pi Zero has 512 MB of LPDDR2 RAM, while the Intel 486DX2-66 requires separate RAM modules, and would typically be paired with a maximum of 16 to 64 MB of EDO or FPM DRAM, depending on the motherboard and chipset in use. The Raspberry Pi Zero's integrated memory controller also provides a more streamlined communication between the CPU and the memory.

Lastly, the Raspberry Pi Zero has an integrated GPU (VideoCore IV), which allows it to handle graphical tasks better than the Intel 486DX2-66, which lacks an integrated GPU and relies on separate graphics cards.

In conclusion, the Raspberry Pi Zero is significantly faster than the Intel 486DX2-66, both in terms of processing power and memory capabilities. Additionally, the Pi Zero's integrated GPU provides better graphics support than the Intel 486DX2-66.
What credentials beyond "thinking about this problem a lot" would satisfy you? He works at his own research institute dedicated to this topic, wrote some books on it and other (self proclaimed) alignment experts take him seriously.
Well, I read:

http://nsl.com/papers/origins.htm

https://github.com/zserge/odetoj

And watched a few neat videos on the concepts of APL. There's a black and white one on YouTube of a British fellow introducing it using a typewriter. :)

I vaguely get it, my beef with BQN besides being slow is that it is fledgling. And so I have no real excuse to play with it. Otherwise it seems like a holy grail, like, woah finally an APL/J/K to rule them all.

I've seen enough wide eyed salty lispers telling tales of white whales to fear for my sanity going on this quest. Need some sort of lie to buy into like "BQN beyond a superior array language is so fast you could bang out half a page of code in a few minutes and get insane performance and functionality that no mere mortals with their aliensquiggles-less languages can hardly even conceive of".

What kind of half assed cult are you running, haha. No, I refuse to get sucked in. You will not nerd snipe me. Must. Resist.
There are other animals (mammals) that have better memory than us. There are animals strongly suspected to have deeper and more sophisticated social relationships than us. We are not the apex in every intellectual ability, but the ones in which we are grant us absolute power over the future of all other lifeforms.

A cognitive entity does not have to best you at all things. There are standardized education tests it may never reach above 10th percentile on, just as humans will never reach above 10th percentile in the short term memory tasks that apes are masters of. But we are the 100th percentile for tasks like industrialized destruction of them and their habitats and capturing and using them for painful medical experiments - the apes are wholly outclassed when it comes to that.
Well, that falls in the category of "yes it would go fast but no, I'm not sure you'd want to trust it."

LLMs aren't great at answering questions that involve precise math. What you might do instead is ask Marvin (or ChatGPT, or your LLM of choice) to write the source code you need to compute the CI, and then execute that directly if you accept it.

However, AI functions (and all Marvin bots) can use plugins to solve more complex problems. Another option would be to write a function that computes CIs and make it available to the AI as a plugin.
Then again, race has actual consequences too. We unfortunately still don't live in a colorblind world.
More than half of that negative publicity is due to the people who make publicity (journalists) having their hang out taken over by a billionaire they hate.

No comment on the other half.
And so how’s that going?