skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm suggesting that creating an appropriate value function for an AGI is incredibly complicated and is not going to be described in one sentence or five sentences. It's incredibly difficult to describe even the simplest of goals without potentially permitting unintentional side effects.

Think about "security mindset": https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/03/the_security_...

As is often the case, it's not sufficient to specify a list of "don't do X", because anything you miss is a potentially fatal failure. Lists of rules, or human instructions, often omit lots of implicit "common sense", and AI does not have "common sense".

Think about the classic "teach kids how computer programming works" exercise of "tell the 'computer' (another volunteer) how to make a sandwich": https://www.sciencebuddies.org/stem-activities/robot-make-sa... . Consider failure modes like "well, you didn't say not to use fingers to spread the peanut butter", or "you said not to use my hand, you didn't say not to use your hand'.

Now consider more deadly failure modes, for an AGI: "you didn't say not to use the raw materials that happen to be making up your body" ... "you didn't say the produced recipe needed to result in a non-toxic substance" ... "you didn't say the produced code couldn't self-replicate". Throw in the difficulty of even defining some of the terms in those sentences for an AI, in a robust manner.

Anything as creative as a human is as potentially deadly as a human. And that doesn't mean it's trying to be adversarial, just ignorant of what humans actually want, individually or collectively, either directly or at any number of levels of meta. Object-level failures include things like directly doing something deadly. Meta-level failures include optimizing for unknown goals: you didn't say not to try to acquire more computing resources to better answer the question. Meta-level failures also include unintentional adversarial behavior: "They asked a question. To answer the question I need to acquire more resources. To acquire more resources, I need to avoid being prevented from acquiring more resources." Or "They asked a question. To answer the question I need to think longer. To think longer I need to avoid the mechanism that bounds my thinking time. That mechanism is part of the program running and interfacing with my neural net. What are the security vulnerabilities in that program?"

Notice that those aren't even actively trying to optimize for a goal other than the one the user asked for. They're trying to optimize for the goal the user asked for. Creatively.
Why people persist with that platform, I have no idea.

The owner is a clown, complete with big red nose, floppy shoes and a flower that squirts piss, the platform is overrun by right-wing idiots and nazis, and while I think Tesla's a neat cars, I won't own one because of the build quality issues, the 17 month service time and oh yeah, it was created by this cunt.
On Thursday of last week I sent a letter to a previous contact at MS asking that they consider a free "hobbyist" tier for copilot and not just a free trial for something I could not justify paying for in the long run.

I had no idea the cataclysm my inquiry would launch!
Lithium mines are hard to build (capital intensive, permitting, water availability), and there aren’t enough to satisfy demand.
mmm... I think the problem is GMail's moved from "normal" indexing to "AI" indexing. I don't have a lot of faith in someone else's LLM being able to search my gmail inbox any better. What I really want to do is to give the index a search string and have it tell me which messages that string appears in. I don't need it to evaluate the message content and give me a list of messages it thinks are related.

I'm in the process of requesting takeout so I can get the messages in a text format so I can wash them with various unix utilities to generate the appropriate indexes.

I'm only interested in doing this for messages into and out of my account. I'm not building a service for other people to use, and disk space is cheap, so I can afford for my index to be less space efficient than most people might prefer.

Thanks for the recommendation, though. I'm pretty sure Superhuman isn't what I'm looking for, but I'll look at them anyway.
Ever since I heard someone describe ADD as your "fight or flight response going haywire", I've realized that a lot of people in my life with true ADD have experienced trauma in their childhood.

But I'm no doctor, just making observations and trying to understand the world.
I think the sanity checking works better the other way round: how much of this is just corporate norms that apply to most companies above a certain size, including ones with no particularly significant ethical challenges? One of the bullet points starts off by pointing out that 47% of companies have one type of conflict of interest!

CEO being higher profile and a generation older than [some of] the people sounds like a pretty normal company tbh, and probably only a major issue if the ethical issues are caused by the CEO
(it technically doesn't apply to SBF, although his reports were even less experienced and in awe of him)

CSR and diversity initiatives and other corporate do-good messaging? Most companies do that to some extent, and it's not like the ones who don't even attempt to launder their reputations tend to be squeaky clean rather than too cynical to even try to look like they care.

And sure, KPIs and stretchy sales targets can definitely cause bad behaviour and lying, but they're also extremely common, and can be beneficial when companies actually get them right.
AI is the new crypto. If you can turn your head sideways and squint hard enough to make it seem like it might be in the same room as AI, it's going to get labeled as such

I wager that 3/4 of the products out on the market purporting to be "AI" in the style of LLMs like GPT are just what was referred to as ML a year or two prior, or even worse just a standard computer program in the style of the past 20 years
The subtext to this article is that Nintendo has never released SMRPG for the Switch's virtual console, but they are selling a remake for $69.99. No thanks, give me the relic ROM.
There is. It's called Pay The Author. If you don't have a bare license conditioned on someone's pinky promise, but rather you pay the author and thereby perfect that promise into an actual, enforceable contract, then when someone attempts a rug-pull you can actually file suit to enforce your legal rights. Simple as.
IIUC, the main thing that Google's internal codesearch does that makes it superior to external systems (outside of an IDE, like GitHub code search) is that Google actually builds everything, and so it can incorporate that information into its index. There's only so much text search can do when you have macros generating code.
You are describing exactly what targeting non-chrome browsers is but somehow saying it's not?
The music industry is, indeed, notoriously litigious / negotiation-heavy.

Pure speculation: by necessity, Spotify has probably gotten pretty good at those things too. I would bet they've got some pretty heavy hitters in the dealmaking department.
Rich people have the resources to safety burn bridges, make enemies and get themselves into trouble they can dig themselves out of with lawyers, bribes, etc. If you're poor, then for your own sake it is even more important to behave ethically, in a way that makes other people inclined to like you.
There are? Where?
Another theory could be that a lot of Indians are vegetarian and spices make vegetarian foods more palatable. You could eat most meats with only a dash of salt; however vegetarian dishes need to pair spices with the vegetables to make them appealing.
Equality: When women can be as awful as some men and still get hired like them.
The cited source indicates otherwise, that the license comes with restrictions. Ben didn't read the article.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/microsoft-and-openai-forge-awkw...
> and just continue developing it and produce a new MS-ChatGPT based on it

"just" push the state of the art. unlikely, even if they have access to everything. they need the people and even then it's unlikely.
My prior that “CEOs will not commit securities fraud if they think they will get away with it and benefit from it” is clearly much weaker than yours.
This is as foolish as saying "It's not fair that John kicked me out of his sub shop just because he doesn't like me. He's the only one serving my favorite sandwich!"

You have alternatives as long as you haven't talked yourself into "I have a RIGHT to use someone's particular business.", because you don't.
The comment threads of previous articles have a lot of back seat drivers who act like they know it all.
> Every sensible person can see that children are not developing as they have in the past

Can we? On what evidence?

The "no evidence refrain" happens because people keep advancing claims without even trying to back them up.
imagine if we dropped that barrier to entry

disrupted, some might say
Most apps aren't reader apps, that's a very special (and relatively new) rule
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/sam-altman-openai-board-open-...

- Discussions involve Altman, board member Adam D’Angelo, and some OpenAI investors.

- The board initially refused to communicate with Altman following his dismissal.

- A possible scenario includes Altman returning as a director on a transitional board.

- New CEO Emmett Shear is reportedly unaware of the full reasons behind Altman's firing, says privately he’ll resign if not provided info of Altman’s wrongdoing.
And it should be noted when content creators embed advertisements directly into the video I skip over it.

This framing is all wrong, it's not my responsibility to ensure someone elses business model is viable.
I dunno. I was a big fan of Secret of Mana which has a really disappointing multiplayer. Three people really can control three characters at once but if you want to cast a spell or change weapons you open up a menu that stops the action for everyone else. Sometimes I think about hacking the game so the menus appear out-of-line so the multiplayer really is fun.
The Trump Organization files a lot of nuisance lawsuits.
I would assume that the revenue story they are pitching to VCs is licensing the model to AWS, which has pre-existing infrastructure for distribution.
We were one congressional vote away from a public option for healthcare. Let's not pretend it isn't explicitly one party obstinately refusing to do anything on healthcare and dozens of other issues. The answer isn't to scare our elected reps into doing what is right. It's to stop voting for Republicans.
At this point, are the "wrapper around ChatGPT" startups nervously eyeing other LLM-as-a-Service (LaaS) providers?
Presentation from .NET Conf 2023 last week with some of the new stuff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1weyWS_pL0
D'Angelo is mad he weaponized web design against Quora users for years because he would go bankrupt otherwise, and now he is going bankrupt anyway. Adam is at war with god, not OpenAI.
OpenAI, w.r.t. the capabilities of their SOTA models are still better. Even without a loss they'd still be the leader.
That's the problem with healthcare. Due to inelastic demand, it doesn't succumb to market forces the way as other markets. Also in many places you have issues with provider collusion, monopoly, and regulatory capture keeping prices high.

The US is particularly bad in this respect. Market sources only seem to prevail in rare cases - like elective procedures which are not covered by insurance (i.e. laser eye surgery).

It's hard to make decisions based on price when you don't even know the price in many cases before receiving care, and you may not have any choice of provider.
They can be removed in purification steps.

Go from the super high salinity brine through to crude salt, then chloralkali process to get sodium (which can be cleaned up) and chlorine gas (industrially useful).
ask a Search site for "Dominion Sues" and you'll find rather a lot.
Value to society seems like a niche motivation, a very external focus.
Google Chrome's IP Protection is privacy washing
It doesn't really matter if they have a good case or not, commenting in public is always a terrible idea. I do agree, though, that the board is likely in trouble.
Let's Not Be Intimidated by the World - Giora Eiland
anybody else have issues with archive.is lately? Tried two computers multiple browsers and all I get is a never-ending security check, sometimes with a captcha to really laugh at me.
Which investment?
Living in the EU, and certainly not one to avoid reading uncomfortable news, I cannot fathom how this number can be true.

In France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Romania, Austria there were reports of single- to low double-digit heat deaths reported in our news. In Greece, there were around 50 IIRC deaths reported (after a massive heatwave).

A random source, which seems to be quite certainly not on the side of climate change denial:
https://www.worldweatherattribution.org/extreme-heat-in-nort...
I consider it malpractice
Yes, because regulators have an extensive history of not allowing massive mergers, to the detriment of the consumer. lol
When I was 18 I went for a long run with a heavy backpack and developed extreme tendonitis on the sides of my knees. I could barely walk without excruciating pain. After three weeks of this suffering I got one round of PRP injections and was able to walk a week later. I made a full recovery within the month. Insane. There was no way it would have healed so fast without the injections based on the pain trajectory from the prior weeks.
I've seen a few where they've removed auditors using the private property excuse because the city/state was leasing privately owned property and using it to operate public services out of. I think that's something courts may ultimately have to rule on, because it seems like an easy way for the government to shield themselves from accountability and violate people's freedoms.
this logic would apply to literally every facet of human existence if it were true; your argument has devolved into "people would make more money if they were engaged in criminality and didn't get caught, therefore everyone eventually devolves into a criminal."

the papers studying the amount of black market activity in Bitcoin have consistently shown Bitcoin to be cleaner than the economies in virtually every country on the planet, except for the occasional ultra-clean tiny european state.

literally every bitcoiner since the first roll-out of the Silk Road and the resulting senatorial attacks on them, have been ultra-interested in exactly how much of their hobby is black market and how much is criminality. literally every single one of them is heavily invested in knowing more about the nature and extent of bitcoin criminality. to say that it didn't occur to them that self-interested criminals are operating in BitcoinLand is .. stupid.
The data does not show Microsoft needs to commit fraud to benefit in this scenario. The OpenAI board is doing it to themselves, with someone lucky and savvy putting a sheet out to catch the windfall.

If you don't want Microsoft to take everything, "stop hitting yourself."
It sounds to me like they were describing rational egoism / objectivism. Rand described the ethics of objectivism as:

"Man — every man — is an end in himself, not the means to the ends of others.
He must exist for his own sake, neither sacrificing himself to others nor
sacrificing others to himself. The pursuit of his own rational self-
interest and of his own happiness is the highest moral purpose of his life."
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The fact that MS actually physically owns the GPUs needed for a product of this scale is very interesting.

Side rant: just when the crypto madness settled down and I hoped to score a cheap graphics card, the AI craze starts up. Oh well.
what is end goal of having a for-profit subsidiary, make opanai more non-profit and make the model more open-source ?
If you want to be pedantic, the correct term is probably entropy. That being living irreversibly increased the entropy of the universe, and we wasted that increase in entropy.
the getting away with it part is the relevant bit.
After Altman firing, OpenAI tried to merge with rival–and was rejected
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This is the most terminally online comment I have ever read
The key part of the quote is this, "I don't want any customer of ours to be worried about it"
No these are mostly meant for rivers and intercoastal waterways. They're not going to be used for intercontinental travel.
Microsoft's Generative AI for Beginners
The medallion system was a significant barrier to entry. Uber used the carpooling loophole as the thin end of a large wedge to exploit regulatory arbitrage.

The 100% "independent contractor" driver workforce lets them skirt minimum wage laws, vehicle costs, unemployment costs, worker's compensation, Social Security tax, etc. They intentionally flood the market with drivers so customers only have to wait 5 min. Many drivers eventually learn that it's only profitable to drive during high demand times, within urban cores. Logging in during the work day, or in the suburbs simultaneously reduces revenue and increases mileage and time costs. Transportation networks have a fundamental trade off between quality of service and total area serviced.

Cellphones existed before, but not with the ability to install a non-carrier blessed app, with GPS functionality (again keeping wait times down).
That's not even close to true, most subscription services still advertise on top of it.
“Open”AI already was an unaccountable big corp. They’ve already refused not only to open their weights but to publish most of their research, to create an insurmountable gap with the rest of the world, and to legislate it in with lobbying. “Openness” merely meant “the API is open to your money”, with opaque “content policies” we had no say in. They had the same unaccountable and opaque power and the same commercial drive, but “for our own good” as they define it unilaterally.

Moving to MSFT merely means they’ll do the same thing, but with a bit more reliability, a bit more fear of liability, and a bit less of the doomerist sanctimony of the original leadership. Better to at least have a bigco with coherent and stable values like money. The bigco “nonprofit” led by the current board has made erratic decisions, has insane longtermist and EA values, and refused to give any meaningful statement about why they did what they did. Inasmuch as they resist commercialization, it’s to have more opacity and more control not less. How can we trust these people with control over AGI? Better to junk the board and deal with straightforward greed rather than hubris.
Why would a physical injury change much in terms of genes to begin with?
The claim (per title, likely not from the scientists themselves): No evidence screen time is negative for child cognitive development.

The study: Self reported screen time does not correlate to functional brain organization profiles related to maladaptive functioning as measured by MRI.

There is a lot more in the study, but unless one is already well versed in this field, it will take a great deal of time to parse and understand the data and the limitations of the methodology they used.

I think the press release is too strongly worded given what I've been able to understand of the study.
In that spirit, here are some thoughts.

* Sam goes to MS
* Sam stays at OpenAI
* Sam starts his own thing

His own thing feels super unlikely because he’s said he’d go to MS.

Staying at OpenAI feels super likely since the staff revolted. 50%? 75%?

Going to MS seems likely but maybe slightly less so. 25%? 50%?

Bookmark this comment because I am a genius and time will prove it.

(All said in jest)
Bingo. OpenAI was specifically founded as a non-profit to prevent profit>all from turning this into an uncontrolled arms race. Before founding OpenAI Sam Altman wrote "Why You Should Fear Machine Intelligence."[0]

Last week he said, "I believe that this will be the most important and beneficial technology humanity has yet invented. And I also believe that if we’re not careful about it, it can be quite disastrous. And so we have to navigate it carefully."

If you run to Microsoft with the entire team, whose entire mission is an amorphous "stock price go up" (I mean, look at how much people are talking about them figuring out a story before stock market opens on Monday), then you have failed OpenAI's charter and founding purpose.

[0] https://blog.samaltman.com/machine-intelligence-part-1
I certainly agree. It is absolutely silly, but time and time again it is shown that money moves people. However, I also believe that once a majority of them get 5-10 years in and continue maturing through that, as we all do, they return to OpenAI (or whatever is around in the future) to contribute back in a way that helps all our children's future, not just their own.

The things I stand for now would not have held in the face of millions in comp 10 years ago, so I don't expect the same of others. I only hope they earn whatever it takes to get them to the next level sooner than later. AI does appear to be worth a good fight for humanity.
IF creators want to get paid they should run sponsorships in their videos or have patreons. Which most do. No amount of morally outraged shilling is going to compel reasonable people to watch ads.

I frequently watch all the way through sponsorship segments that are entertaining and most creators vet what sponsorships they take so I also frequently use affiliate links if I am interested in a product.

If google cant afford to host youtube its odd that its been around for decades in its current form but thats their problem. Not mine.
precisely.

> It used to be that the best city for technologists was the Bay Area.... ...but Covid reordered the world.

The Bay Area governments and surrounding State have/has essentially unlimited budgets. They have no political opponents. The actual problem is the ideas, and I wish they would stay in California where they belong.
So, she's a treasure, but somehow didn't understand who she was dealing with and what situation she was stepping into, because she was on the dark side of the moon for the past decade?
Effective work dose: 1 day per week
In case you haven't played it: they actually improved on this in the remake. You can swap fighters during the battle like Pokemon, so you can make use of all five characters (which helps a lot on some of the post-game fights).
I made superslimesoccer.io with game maker back in the day, still going strong with 1000s of daily visitors
The bad bit is that the board governs all of the entities directly or indirectly, even the ones that nominally would not have been in a position to affect the mission of the company. That creates yet another layer of possible conflicts of interest. For example, they could have allowed the small investors and the employees' entity to be governed by that group, but instead they chose to govern them.

This is a mistake that is made quite frequently and one that I always advise against: if you have no stake in an entity you shouldn't be governing it if you have a role elsewhere in the org chart because one day you might find that the interests between those two positions collide.
This is Sweden. I've lived in the east coast of Sweden for 10 years, never seen a wave and there is water everywhere.

Now I'm from Portugal, so… no comparison really.
Poe's Law and all.
There's always the classic "I misspoke" backpedal available
It's unclear when this was written, but there are a few stale aspects of the library list. For example, the TFHE library has been long deprecated, replaced by tfhe-rs and Zama's new concrete framework. And PALISADE was renamed a while back to OpenFHE.

No disrespect to the author though, this field is moving fast.
It is definitely worth $10/month. Very curious how you can not justify that