skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This so called AI is still only released in "United States" and not outside yet!

Not infuriating at all.
GPT3/GPT4 currently moralize about anything slightly controversial. Sure you can construct a long elaborate prompt to "jailbreak" it, but it's so much effort it's easier to just write something by yourself.
Previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11155203 (356 points | Feb 23, 2016 | 165 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23674012 (421 points | June 29, 2020 | 266 comments)
I could not endlessly watch TV, because it was in the living room and I was not only one able to pick programs. Parents had a say and there was no privacy over what I was watching.

Plus, there needed to be something interesting on schedule which was completely outside of my control.
I am, and it is. Having a diverse board ensures that women’s viewpoints are taken into account in a way that men simply aren’t tuned into. That’s the whole point of diversity in the workplace, and particularly in leadership. Especially with women, who are 50% of the population.
How is this still a problem? We’ve been building large open worlds for ages now. At what point did some developer decide to always render the ocean and this never got addressed?
If they prioritized legal exposure, they would not have made disparaging remarks in their initial press release.
This is from February 2022. This should be in the title.
Then you are still part of the problem.

Besides, if you're trying to reach the people who remain on Twitter, that says a decent amount about you.
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Do you have some resources for someone who wants to start to build their own version and/or some other GA?
The thing that always strikes me with these kinds of demos is how absurdly efficient old OSs were / had to be. It's obviously not an apples to apples comparison, as modern operating systems have to handle a lot more, but even Windows XP (which handled a lot of the same basic Internet browsing tasks as I still use now!) is almost comically fast on modern hardware.
I've heard $20 just buys like 9 minutes of actual processor time for GPT 4. Apocryphal maybe, but whatever the real number is, it's still going to be very high, once the VC money runs out I bet the rates will shoot.
Nicely written :)
.. and, as it subsequently produces deformed babies at an alarming rate for generations after its use on the battlefield, it should be 100% banned and its usage treated as a crime against humanity.
When offices are already being prepared, and HR processes being put into place, we are beyond saving a situation.
I can speak to this a bit, having piloted a Candela (the speed boat version, I forget the number) on the Swedish west coast where seas can get notoriously choppy seemingly out of nowhere. This is a couple of years ago though so maybe they've improved things since.

The impact of any waves higher than maybe a meter is likely to make the software take you in for a rather rude landing, and quick stop.

It's unlike any boat of that size I've piloted, it was very heavy and it never felt like you were totally in control, with some small but quite noticeable latency between input and action. Felt more like piloting a larger ship than a small speed boat.

The fact that it felt like you were at the mercy of the controlling software meant it became a very anxious ride as soon as you ran into a bit of choppy waters.

When flying it was a very nice ride, but when you're not you have to go very slow or you quickly run out of battery. It was not particularly pleasant doing 3-4 knots in choppy waters, even if it did seem rather stable presumably due to the wide base, low height and deep rudders (foils).

Fine boat in calm seas for sure, but I wouldn't use it for anything else. Should do fine in fair weather in central Stockholm though.
The initial board consists entirely of swamp lizards. I really hope they mess up as you predict.
Yeah. Most of my code these days works like this, to the point where almost all of my allocation happens roughly in my main entry-point. Or I use arena allocators and pass those into my utilities. But there's basically never a `realloc` or `malloc` call deep in my code anymore.
Part 2 here: https://blog.samaltman.com/machine-intelligence-part-2
I guarantee ChatGPT won't lie to you about how to bake a turkey.

The paranoia around hallucination is wildly overblown, especially given the low stakes of this context.
> Furthermore, the overwhelming groupthink shows there's clearly little critical thinking amongst OpenAI's employees either.

If the "other side" (board) had put up a SINGLE convincing argument on why Sam had to go maybe the employees would have not supported Sam unequivocally.

But, atleast as an outsider, we heard nothing that suggests board had reasons to remove Sam other than "the vibes were off"

Can you really accuse the employees of groupthink when the other side is so weak?
Sorry to hear about your painful past experience and thanks for sharing this feedback. QuestDB improved a lot in the past two years and it's much more robust and production-ready now.

A couple of things the engineering team did to address this as it grew from the early days at Ycombinator:

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There is still a lot of work to be done to bring better functionality. If you're keen to try QuestDB for one of your projects, we'd love to hear your feedback and see how it works for you.

[1] https://questdb.io/blog/fuzz-testing-questdb/
[2] https://github.com/sqlancer/sqlancer/
[3] https://questdb.io/case-study/airtel-xstream-play/
[4] https://questdb.io/case-study/yahoo/
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Sounds like talk in the kafanas
Do we need to false dichotomy. DotA 2 bot was a successful technology preview. You need both research and development in a healthy organisation. Let's call this... hmm I don't know "R&D" for short. Might catch on.
I'm pretty sure hackernews posts can be used as a unique fingerprint, especially by a party who collects sensitive text information like chatbot conversations.
That might be selection bias, in those 11 years Jobs built NeXT.

A lot of Apple's engineering and product line back then owe their provenance and lineage to NeXT.
That should be irrelevant, because flush is flush right? If your SSD does not write the data after a flush it's violating basic hard drive functionality.
That's a lot of hacks to avoid hacking into the .swf

I mean, damn, you'd think they'd come up with a better methodology than having a Python bot playing online, in real time, one instance at a time, with 50ms maximum speed, ORCing the screen to see the score.
Almost all employees did not resign in protest, but they did _threaten_ to resign.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/20/23968988/openai-employee...
No, because many writers have editors whose role is to prevent mistakes like these from going to print
It's a fair comparison IMO. There are Linux flavours still making my 15 year old hardware faster with every other update. And any standard flavor still works like a charm.

There is no real reason OSes get more shitty with every version
Well yeah but that's undeniably AI when used to predict such a process, even if it is wildly primitive and incapable of being adapted to other things. It's all statistical* models.
A bit strange that they write that timing is essential, yet don't actually allow the GA to experiment with timing. They could have added to their representation a symbol for "no change". Surprised they didn't.
This sounds like the religious idea that "the magical Invisible Hand of the Free Market will ensure that only the best-run businesses survive."
>but even Windows XP (which handled a lot of the same basic Internet browsing tasks as I still use now!) is almost comically fast on modern hardware.

Why is it surprising that an old OS built for late 90's hardware runs "comically fast" on 2020's hardware?

Just look at XP system requirements:

- Pentium 233-megahertz (MHz) processor or faster (300 MHz is recommended)
- At least 64 megabytes (MB) of RAM (128 MB is recommended)
- At least 1.5 gigabytes (GB) of available space on the hard disk.

How would anyone expect that not to be much faster on a modern quad+ core, 4GHz system with 8GB+ RAM?
Not sure if you are sarcastic or not. :) Let’s assume you are not:

The cool thing is that it doesn’t only talk about AIs. It talks about a more general concept it calls a superinteligence. It has a definition but I recommend you read the book for it. :) AIs are just one of the few enumerated possible implementations of a superinteligence.

The other type is for example corporations. This is a usefull perspective because it lets us recognise that our attempts to control AIs is not a new thing. We have the same principal-agent control problem in many other parts of our life. How do you know the company you invest in has interests which align with yours? How do you know that politicians and parties you vote for represent your interests? How do you know your lawyer/accountant/doctor has your interest at their hearth? (Not all of these are superinteligences, but you get the gist.)
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The main downside is that those OSes were also really quick to hack, and the smallest problem bluescreen'd the system and lost all your work.

But you can get a reasonably close experience with Linux or the BSDs and a simple GUI environment like the *box window managers. They're modern and snappy even on things like older generation RasPis.
Diversity is good, but diversity for diversity's sake is not good. I think teams should be made based on merit, and if then the team is also diverse, all the more better. Although important, imo making diversity the most important criteria seems a bit misguided and somewhat idealistic although on paper and in principle it seems to be coming from a good place.
> situation showed they are “easily persuaded”

How do you know?

> look at how “quickly” everyone got pulled into

Again, how do you know?
Great point. Either way, when this all started it might have all been too late.

The board said "allowing the company to be destroyed would be consistent with the mission" - and they might have been right. What's now left is a money-hungry business with bad unit economics that's masquerading as a charity for the whole of humanity. A zombie.
> He was even trying to depose board members who were openly critical of open AI's practices.

Was there any concrete criticism in the paper that was written by that board member? (Genuinely asking, not a leading question)
> Don't forget that it would also increase the power of the good guys.

In a free society, preventing and undoing a bioweapon attack or a pandemic is much harder than committing it.

> And considering that our default fate is extinction (by Sun's death if no other means) - we need all the good we can get to avoid that.

“In the long run we are all dead" -- Keynes. But an AGI will likely emerge in the next 5 to 20 years (Geoffrey Hinton said the same) and we'd rather not be dead too soon.
Not that I’m against the described 3d way, but personally I don’t care about light and shadows until it’s so bad that I do. This obsession with realism is irrational in video games. In real life people don’t understand why light works like this or like that. We just accept it. And if you ask someone to paint how it should work, the result is rarely physical but acceptable. It literally doesn’t matter until it’s very bad.
Wait, do folks in the UK refer to what we Americans call "pickup trucks" as SUVs?
Basic desktop interaction is the same as 22 years ago, yet modern desktop environments are orders of magnitude slower at performing those same basic tasks.
Never been happier to be wrong. Altman basically unionized the openai labor force and the investors. He contained the board. Instead of scattering the board to 3 corners of the planet, it will be further contained by adding 6 board members including Sam and microsoft and hopefully brockman. Order will have been restored. And they lived happily ever after !
No one has, no.
So, if bad grammar -> human. If good grammar -> could be both?
What I've not found anywhere is whether this resulted in a detectable increase in background gamma radiation at ground level for the few minute period of this event - and the radiological maps I found don't provide historical data going back more than a month.

Does anybody have any more info on this?
I'm just annoyed that the big websites rank ahead no matter what. It's tedious to scroll past all their SEO spam to get to something with substance written by an actual expert.
Yes. I, too, read a whole three tweets in the past few days, which is more than I did the entire year before that.
It is chilling. And beyond kids being taken away, being forced to go to parenting classes or just having to be there for follow up visits, having to pay layer are all significant hurdles.

In the case you mention, kids would be supposedly taken away for being without supervision in the car. Shoplifting is unrelated crime.
I'm confused what you mean?

If you are talking about refactoring prior to merging into the tree? then no it's not a waste of time. That's the intended workflow. You make your changes to the commits or add new commits in between using rebase. This is how all the development for linux is done.

If you are talking about after they are merged into the mainline? That's also not a waste of time. You don't have to go back and change those commits because they are now finalised and your iterative refactoring can be done via small one off patches gradually merged into main, a series of large patches merged into main, or a set of patch series all merged into an incubation branch that is kept up with main and eventually merged back into main once the refactor has made sufficient progress to take over.
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Sure, but how is it surprising that an old OS built for late 90's hardware runs fast on 2020's hardware?

I'm failing to see the surprise. Isn't it a a given that old SW runs faster on modern HW when you factor in how far HW evolved since then.
Many times, some helpful person posts a comment with a link to the same article, sans paywall, on archive.org.
Yet the article url's slug uses the adjective, but it's grammatically correct! "2023-11-phosphorous-outskirts-milky.html"

And still yet, the article's diagram's caption does not use the correct word!! "Currently known Galactic distribution of phosphorous."
Nah, I too will threaten to sign a petition to quit if I could save my RSUs/PPUs from evaporating. Organizational goals be damned (or is it extinction level risk be damned?)
Another, from 2 years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0WQnwNFqJM
It probably means that they anticipate a need for dealing with the government in future, such as having a hand in regulation of their industry.
>They were supposed to have higher values than money

which are? …
The concerns are unrealistic because there are massive unusual and unvalidated assumptions in multiple levels, and lynchpin arguments that depend on utterly unsupported assumptions.
Preposterous!
"users of my application".

You seem to be claiming that everyone still on Twitter is ideologically compromised. There's a ton of people just ignoring the politics and I still need a channel to reach them.
In light of this weekend's events, and the more i've learned about OpenAI's beginnings and purpose, I now believe that there isn't necessarily a "for profit" motivation of the company, but merely that the original intention to create AI that "benefits humanity" is in full play now through a commercialized ChatGPT, and possibly further leveraged through "GPTs" and their evolution.

Is this the "path" to AGI? Who knows! But it is a path to benefitting humanity as probably Sam and his camp see it. Does Ilya have a different plan? If he does, he has a lot of catching up to do while the current productization of ChatGPT and GPTs continue marching forward. Maybe he sees a great leap forward in accuracy in GPT-5 or later. Or maybe he feels LLMs aren't the answer and theres a completely new paradigm on the horizon. Regardless, they still need to answer to the fact that both research and product need funds to buy and power GPUs, and also satisfy the MSFT partnership. Commercialization is their only clear answer to that right now. Future investments will likely not stray from this approach, else they'll fund rivals who are more commercially motivated. Thats business.

Thus, i'm all in on this commercially motivated humanity benefitting GPT product. Let the market take OpenAI LLMs to where they need/want it to. Exciting things may follow!
When kids roamed alone, they did not roamed where moms were. And moms were in the kitchen or with youngest baby. And also, back then kids in areas where women worked due to not being middle class, still roamed alone.
Altman is very consistently clear-eyed about the risks of AI and the need to develop it responsibly. People reflexively pigeonholing him as reckless, greedy accelerationist are being lazy.
Describe event bubbling.

What would you do to radically improve test automation speed?

Describe accessibility in as much detail as you can.

In the context of web services explain full duplex service transmission.

What is something amazing you would suggest we implement with Node.js to reduce our operating expenses?
This Summers?

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/06/larry-summers-was-wr...

https://prospect.org/environment/2023-11-20-larry-summers-in...
The first time I saw that I laughed at the audacity, absolute cynical bullshit by the industry.
> OpenAI has some of the smartest human beings on this planet

Being an expert in one particular field (AI) not mean you are good at critical thinking or thinking about strategic corporate politics.

Deep experts are some of the easier con targets because they suffer from an internal version of “appealing to false authority”.
Exactly, this should be enabled by default everywhere.
Ethics presumably
> my wife walks up to my computer and makes a copy of the data

As you agreed to in our contract, you now need to compensate me for the damage caused by your failure to prevent unauthorized third-party access. Of course you're free to attempt to recover the sum you have to pay me from your wife.

> The output of a program is rarely copyrightable by the author (as opposed to the user).

The author of the program can make it a condition of letting the user use the program that the user has to assign all copyright to the author of the program, kind of like "By uploading any User Content you hereby grant and will grant Y Combinator and its affiliated companies a nonexclusive, worldwide, royalty free, fully paid up, transferable, sublicensable, perpetual, irrevocable license to copy, display, upload, perform, distribute, store, modify and otherwise use your User Content for any Y Combinator-related purpose in any form, medium or technology now known or later developed." https://www.ycombinator.com/legal/
It is a correct statement, not really "borderline narcissistic". The board's mission is to help humanity develop safe beneficial AGI. If the board thinks that the company is hindering this mission (e.g. doing unsafe things), then it's the board's duty to stop the company.

Of course, the employees want the company to continue, and weren't told much at this point so it is understandable that they didn't like the statement.
Proven means all parts needed for the realisation of the risk are known and shown to exist (at least in principle,
in a lab etc.). There can be some middle ground where a large part is known and shown to exist (biological risks, for example).), but not all.

No in relation to my edit, because we have no existing mechanism for the AGI risk to happen. We have hypotheses about what an AGI could or could not do. It could all be incorrect. Playing around with likelihoods that have no basis in reality isn't helping there.

Where we have known and fully understood risks and we can actually estimate a probability there we might use that somewhat to guide efforts (but that invites potentially complacency that is deadly).
You're wrong. This is exactly AI safety, as we can see from the OpenAI charter:

> Broadly distributed benefits

> We commit to use any influence we obtain over AGI’s deployment to ensure it is used for the benefit of all, and to avoid enabling uses of AI or AGI that harm humanity or unduly concentrate power.

Hell, it's the first bullet point on it!

You can't just define AI safety concerns to be 'the set of scenarios depicted in fairy tales', and then dismiss them as 'well, fairy tales aren't real...'