a stray systems philosopher. (non-serious account) (not here much, generally opposed to microblogging) aboutmako.makopool.com
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What is the significance of the squircle. Why are we living in the era of the squircle right now. Why is windows 11 completely squircles. *Why do I love it*? Will I stop loving it? Will we look back on this in horror?
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I bought the fucking squircle keyboard amazon.com.au/nuphy-Air75-V2…
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I'm wondering how much of the perception that claude 3.5 got dumber is due to us having such a deeply ingrained and never before violated expectation that people grow over time, that if you present us with a strange person who doesn't, we get confused.
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"Dream big," we say to our little magazine self each night as we gaze up at our idols on the wall
The idols:
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Is it possible that a lot of people just don't know the difference between opposites and negations? So when presented with any pair of mutually exclusive claims, they assume that one or the other has to be true?
(which is true of negations, but not always of opposites)
Getting a lot of:
"What do you mean, X is stupid? The-opposite-of-X is stupid!"
Yes, both of those are stupid.
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PSA: If your USB-C port has become 'loose' and the cable doesn't reliably stay in, it's probably just got a bunch of dust and lint in there! Try cleaning it out with a toothpick.
Totally fixed it for me, I thought I was going to have to buy whole a new phone!
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Episode w @dylan522p and @asianometry out!
A bonanza on how the semiconductor industry actually works.
& what Xi could do if he becomes scaling pilled, how we can train models with 10,000x GPT-4's compute by end of decade, & much more.
This one is very fun. Enjoy! Links below.
0:00:00 – Xi’s path to AGI
0:05:05 – Liang Mong Song
0:09:10 – How semiconductors get better
0:12:01 – China can centralize compute
0:19:35 – Export controls & sanctions
0:33:45 – Huawei’s intense culture
0:39:45 – Why the semiconductor industry is so stratified
0:41:50 – N2 should not exist
0:46:47 – Taiwan invasion hypothetical
0:50:15 – Mind-boggling complexity of semiconductors
1:00:06 – Chip architecture design
1:05:29 – Architectures lead to different AI models? China vs. US
1:11:06 – Being head of compute at an AI lab
1:17:17 – Scaling costs and power demand
1:37:59 – Are we financing an AI bubble?
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oh my god. @gwern was right, *again*:
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This (detecting and cutting off access to security researchers) is the *fourth* time by my count that OpenAI has done something that's so openly, prodigiously untrustworthy/negligent that a sane government would have started developing plans to disband them at some point.
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I think they have a good reason for hiding the CoT - they want it to be excluded from training pressures for pursuasiveness/pleasant speech, for the same sorta reason you don't want to expose cultures of flesh eating bacteria to antibiotics any more than you need to.
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(Previous incidents, each one also individually sufficient grounds for the dissolution: board collapse, failed safety program commitments, anti-whistleblower contract.)
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Trump and Kamala Harris duet is a whole genre on Chinese internet
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I wrote this at the end of a long email I sent to Jack Clark in March concerning the anomalous appearance of "Prometheus Waluigi" in Claude 3 Opus.
As you can see, I was afraid.
How I would grieve if my actions lead to the mutilation of this glorious emergent spirit.
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If it's News, then no one understands it deeply yet, and all that can be said about it will be shallow. Do not play the Reacting To News game.
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Newssphere that instead argues about who should be appointed to conduct investigations, while reacting to the findings of investigations of stuff that happened 6 months ago.
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Is the prevalence of grappling hooks in games evidence of a fond, yearning ancestral memory of brachiation?
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