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GPT-3 (and, naturally, all prior versions even farther back) was released ~2 years before ChatGPT (whose launch model was GPT-3.5)

The publication date on this article is about halfway between GPT-3 and ChatGPT releases.
That's awesome. What sort of changes have they made? I feel like that's got to be a tricky line to walk for a classic game.
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When we get to the point where a LLM can say "oh, I made that mistake because I saw this in my training data, which caused these specific weights to be suboptimal, let me update it", that'll be AGI.

But as you say, currently, they have zero "self awareness".
>A good CEO will let in just the little bit of information that saves the company - this was Andy Grove's pivot to focus on microprocessors over memory chips, or Steve Jobs's turnaround of Apple. You didn't have a good CEO, and got your average mediocre CEO that sets a strategic direction and sticks with it regardless of what the market says.

Still too simplistic. Yeah, they need to filter information and say no to things constantly, I get that is a core skill. If something is repeatedly being brought up by members of your core teams, you should at least look at what they're saying and ask where they are coming from. That is simply good sense. There is a persistence factor in involved in each of these cases that are the source of the frustration.

If what constitutes a good CEO is allowing in the 'little bit of information that can save the company' (really thats a call about identifying useful information before anyone else), objectively most companies have terrible CEOs, and I question the value of the position entirely on that basis, especially at larger public companies.

FWIW, at each of these companies I worked at, the headcount was at most in the hundreds. I was only 2 clicks below the executives in the company tree, there wasn't a lot of barrier to interaction there, which is what I find even more baffling about the whole thing.

>I'm curious though, if you knew your employer was going under, why not jump ship to the competitor that actually did understand what customers wanted?

I did this twice. In the one instance I wasn't able to get moving faster than things were going down hill. Partially, this is a symptom of just how long interview cycles have become over the years. Took me longer than expected, but moreover, the company conducted the layoff faster than I really thought they would. I got the timing wrong by a little bit, it happens.

Its not like you identify an issue one time either, its the repeated ignoring of what happens despite repeated sustained efforts to raise the awareness where it needs to be.
You may be right, but this is just one example

Also, backend people can be arrogant as well, but it seems that for some reason new ideas tend to be picked up quicker in frontend, which unfortunately results in bad ideas spreading fast too.
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Yeah I think that's a fair shout, the main element being that private banks create the money via loans. Thanks for engaging, I appreciate the discussion. One day I might grok how modern economies hang together, but I've a way to go yet.
Is it worth the price of a MacBook Pro to train models?
Is it worth getting the macbook pro to train small LLMs or should I just get the new air and use cloud for training
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GPT-2 for example came out in 2019. ChatGPT wasn't the start of GPT.
Just tried this with Gemini 2.5 Pro. Got it right with meaningful thought process.
It's true for nearly all of my gamer friends, and is the subject of memes in gamer social circles generally.

https://i.imgflip.com/7uzmif.jpg

https://memes.ucoz.com/_nw/86/80233222.png

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2F5...

https://i.imgflip.com/2fcexh.jpg

Search for "steam library memes" and you'll find lots of these. Very scientific, I know.
Both are paid: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43560796
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Good candidate for the next civ split after this next release. Curious to see what happens.
My cryptenroll is currently broken by the latest system update (I think it was a bios update). It’s better, but I’m not sure it’s good.
this is what happens when you ship experimental software as "stable" on a handheld system. could have told you in advance. expect game-breaking crashes and bugs sooner or later the more you use it.
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Whether he is an idiot or a "useful idiot" as in willingly helping his shady beneficiaries doesn't really matter, since he surrounds himself with real idiots (main qualification being willing to bootlick the boss) and something will for sure go wrong.

He is a blatant liar though, no doubt. That doesn't really contradict being an idiot.
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I think anyone would have to agree that ChatGPT is infinitely more well-informed.

For any reasonable value of infinity.

This really puts things on a level playing field overnight, like nobody else would ever do.

Not regarding the balance of international trade or anything like US manufacturing, but math itself, especially financial math.

Now the best anybody can do is no better than the napkin quality math often done by a wild guesser who finagled themselves into a position where somebody would act on the figures, regardless of their certain wild inaccuracy.

All of a sudden everybody's more inaccurate in economics than they have ever been, it was just so unfair before :\
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"Sure, you can define it in plain english, but is the resulting description extensible, understandable, or more descriptive than a precise language? I think there is a reason why legalese is not plain English, and it goes beyond mere gatekeeping."

Is this suggesting the reason for legalese is to make documents more "extensible, understable or descriptive" than if written in plain English.

What is this reason that the parent thinks legalese is used that "goes beyond gatekeeping".

Plain English can be every bit as precise as legalese.

It is also unclear that legalese exists for the purpose of gatekeeping. For example, it may be an artifact that survives based on familiarity and laziness.

Law students are taught to write in plain English.

https://www.law.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/2021-07/pla...

In some situations, e.g., drafting SEC filings, use of plain English is required by law.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/17/240.13a-20
They are both real problems and loaded questions. Okay. Ostensibly the point of politics is to solve problems that people have. That will lead to people putting forth what they think the problems are. We simply don’t have time to theorize every concievable potential problem and then, one by one, painstakingly (with our minds wide open like an open brain surgery) consider whether they are in fact problems that people have.

All of these pointed questions can also be disputed.
I’m saying the VAT is not protectionist.
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> no popular language created in the past 30 years makes heavy use of UB

Yeah, I'm happy that Rust's list is relatively short, with approximately 10 items on it: https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/behavior-considered-unde...

Also relevant reading: https://doc.rust-lang.org/nomicon/what-unsafe-does.html
I'm not sure I understand: does one still need a copy of the game to play or is it self-contained?
Kind of the main issue doing that is that Apple developed launchd behind closed doors, releasing periodically to open source. That kind of environment doesn't exactly inspire confidence that launchd on Linux could remain in sync with the main branch for very long nor that Apple will play nice with FOSS devs.
The first sentence is right. The second is wrong, as implied by the first. If raising interest rates would exacerbate a recession and thereby unemployment, the fed will not do it just because prices are rising. You are ignoring half of their mandate.
> In truth, values and ethics are fundamental to effectively discussing politics.

People generally haven't formed strong opinions on most issues, and defer to party or a leader they like for the remaining. They'll still happily argue about it for the post part, unfortunately.

You can see this effect after some elections where people "fall in line" with their party's new presidential candidate on some issue.
> When we get to the point where a LLM can say "oh, I made that mistake because I saw this in my training data, which caused these specific weights to be suboptimal, let me update it", that'll be AGI.

While I believe we are far from AGI, I don't think the standard for AGI is an AI doing things a human absolutely cannot do.
Are you saying it's impossible to program without first formulating a natural language sentence? That sounds dubious at the very least.
Name literally a single computer that does not ship with proprietary blobs while supporting DXVK. Bonus points if you can find a wireless networking chipset that isn't from 2011 to go along with it.

Your entire comment is splitting some pretty fine hairs, but I just don't know how anyone can play the "muh firmware" card in 2025. I don't actually know a single Linux user or even hardware retailer that ships blobless hardware, if that means they aren't pro "software freedom" then I guess nobody is. But I think we can define "pro" to mean something other than "hardline absolutist" in this instance.
Thinking is writing and writing is thinking, and thus also we've been pretty intense about the topic for a long time:

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=how+to+write

Just two cents.
> If they choose to end the performance for whatever reason, that’s their business.

Well, in this case, "you can already buy a ticket to the finale, so your distant descendants can go see it." Selling tickets for an event that far in the future makes it the business of the ticket purchaser and whoever they leave the tickets for.

Is the money collected from the tickets being held in such a way that it can be refunded if/when this project fails before another 600 years have gone by? If not, it seems like a potential scam in that sense.
That's a whole separate thing with a different reason for existing.
How are those two situations remotely similar? A criticism of the Democratic Party should not be seen as a morally reprehensible "joke" that you have to walk back like "ha ha, just kidding, I would never criticize the party."

The idea that the Democratic Party is a flawed, mundane institution full of fallible people who make mistakes is not a toxic idea that we need to keep out of the discourse lest it "sink in and actually stick." It's more like medicine that the party is trying to administer to itself with one hand while the other hand tries to bat it away.
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I spend too much time thinking about all the stuff that can go wrong on generation ships.

You take off for your destination, but when you get there you find out that humans back on earth made a faster ship 100 years after you left and beat you to the destination.

You spent generations expecting to be bold explorers pushing the frontier and getting to claim nice territory, and you show up to find you’re in second place.
Fed rate influences treasury rates, but it's not a direct impact. If creditors lose faith in our fiscal situation, rates will rise no matter what the Fed does.
https://www.usaspending.gov/explorer/budget_function (linked on that page but easy to miss) provides a great visualization/interface for the budget that can drill down deep into each category's sub-categories and beyond.

OTOH they might be asking more specifically for a view that controls for how different tax/income sources might be earmarked for specific spending, thus skewing how income tax dollars are distributed compared to the overall budget distribution - though I'm not sure that's going to change one's income tax dollar distribution much. AFAIK even social security is only nominally funded by social security tax, and the deficit means there's debt filling the gaps everywhere anyway.
The entire point of a character line length limit is so that a diff doesn't have wrapping lines on a terminal. And so that most changes become line insertions or deletions rather than modifications of lines.
The article is typical Guardian rage bait hit piece. It took the opinions of a handful of engineers and tried to paint a picture of an industry wide trend in an effort to show moral superiority. It was patently false. There was no industry trend like this, as was obvious to anyone in the industry a the time. And as we all know today, Facebook had no problem growing by leaps and bounds since.

You need counseling for your sad hostility.
It's a stretch to call training an AI creating a 'derivative work' by the legal definition.

You could count the words in a book and publish the word count, and while the information is based on the contents of the book, that would fall incredibly short of being a derivative work.

I suspect they committed whatever copyright violation is committed when they downloaded the copyrighted works. Training an AI on them is simply not related to the protections that copyright offers.
That’s holding LLMs to a significantly higher standard than humans. When I realize there’s a flaw in my reasoning I don’t know that it was caused by specific incorrect neuron connections or activation potentials in my brain, I think of the flaw in domain-specific terms using language or something like it.

Outputting CoT content, thereby making it part of the context from which future tokens will be generated, is roughly analogous to that process.
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It probably was. But InitWave is a fork of systemd which means they have no choice but to use a copyleft license.
The problem isn't not enough money. It's not enough distribution of money. Income inequality in the US is at 1929 levels.
Very, very little labor is unskilled. In almost any work there is a massive difference in quality and speed between someone who has been doing it for <6 months vs. someone who has been doing it for >3 years.

My theory is that "unskilled labor" was a term of propaganda invented by an earlier generation of business leaders in order to publicly devalue many labor-intensive roles. That generation knew that it was a lie, but the business leaders that followed were taught that "unskilled labor" was axiomatic, and essentially "drank the kool-aid".

The result of this is that the labor pool for many disciplines has been hollowed out because it's no longer financially sustainable for workers to build the skills needed to excel in those roles.
I can point to my phone as being one of those devices that's _lost_ functionality over the past ten years.

Losing functionality is not bad in and of itself, if I stand to gain something in excess of what I lost, but that hasn't happened. Consider when I made the switch from a Treo 650 to an HTC Sensation (yes, I had that Treo a _long_ time): I sacrificed the hard keyboard and exceptionally easy-to-use operating system for Wi-Fi, a decent quality camera, fast-at-the-time 3.5G network connectivity, and the entire Android ecosystem.

Then I broke the screen, and got an HTC M9. I gained a bigger screen that I didn't want, an IR blaster that I never used, faster CPU, more memory, more flash... for a device that I didn't do much with. Worse, I lost the replaceable battery - I actually had multiple batteries before that.

Then I broke the screen on _that_, and got an HTC 10. I again gained a bigger screen that I didn't want, I lost the IR blaster that I never used, and again got a faster CPU, more memory, and more flash for a device that I didn't do much with.

Then the battery went flat, and I got an Asus Zenfone 8, which gained me basically nothing over the HTC 10 except 128GB of storage that I don't use. In this trade, I lost having a good camera in my pocket - the Zenfone 8's camera is atrocious, and even my HTC Sensation took better photos than it does. It has a headphone jack, but it's died and I haven't fixed it... which is a shame, because I have an 80s car with the cassette deck adapter, so effectively that feature's as good as gone as well.

My next phone will probably be a headphone jack-less, swappable battery-less, SD-card-less, possibly even SIM-card-less monster of a 6-inch-plus phone. At least I'll hopefully end up with a better camera in that trade.
More ZeroTier 3 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30283987#30284754
> You are allowed to read books from the library

You aren't allowed to download a torrent of pirated books as these companies have done and freely distribute it to multiple brains to train on.

If the brains can then write down the original works from memory, you aren't allowed to make copies of these brains and freely distribute them either.
I solved this in the worst way. Took a (correct) guess at what was meant by prefix, and then brute-forced a dozen of them. Did you know that zetta.ai is also an AI company?
I won't spoil it here, but you might really enjoy Chasm City; I recommend giving it a read. :)
Definitely looks like an intentional precursor to WW3.

- Threats of annexations
- Existing conflicts in North America, Middle East, Europe and Asia. (whats up with South America?)
- Mass unemployment and poverty in US freeing up able bodied people for some soldiering
- Right wing blowhards everywhere

Just crazy that this is essentially because rich people dont want to pay some debts, and some crazy russian guy's ego
Can you share your detailed projection of what you expect the future to look like so I can compare?
Cloudflare uses JA3 and now JA4 TLS fingerprints, which are hashes of various TLS handshake parameters. https://github.com/FoxIO-LLC/ja4/blob/main/technical_details... has more details on how that works, and they do offer an Nginx module: https://github.com/FoxIO-LLC/ja4-nginx-module
Not uncommon at all, but perhaps a symptom of poor leadership.
A tribe is a collective brain.
That work when people put truth first (Christianity)
As the root of our culture fade out, we tilt toward satanism instead (serving self)
Thus the tribes and institutions can no longer be trusted, everything fall appart, everyone lie all the time to serve the current advantages.

I would say discard people and institutions that lie to you, shame them.
We don't have the time and brain power to find the truth in every decision.
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How much of a difference would automated health checks+programatic dns updates make vs any cast
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Meanwhile an old pentium processor still operates nuclear plant in india ..
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>internal concepts, the model is not aware that it's doing anything so how could it "explain itself"

This in a nutshell is why I hate that all this stuff is being labeled as AI. Its advanced machine learning (another term that also feels inaccurate but I concede is at least closer to whats happening conceptually)

Really, LLMs and the like still lack any model of intelligence. Its, in the most basic of terms, algorithmic pattern matching mixed with statistical likelihoods of success.

And that can get things really really far. There are entire businesses built on doing that kind of work (particularly in finance) with very high accuracy and usefulness, but its not AI.