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What surprised me was scrolling through https://xcancel.com/search?f=tweets&q=claude+code , so many tweets every few seconds.
For more on why I'm skeptical it will end this way, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existential_risk_from_artifici...
I don't see why machines should keep biological life around, since they'll be much more efficient
The file is 500 lines because of the piece square tables (as you mentioned), comments, and the CLI interface logic
Previous HN thread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20068651
https://www.chessprogramming.org/ is also really interesting, see e.g. https://www.chessprogramming.org/Sunfish and https://www.chessprogramming.org/Quiescence_Search
Also "my product will kill you and everyone you care about" is not as great a marketing strategy as you seem to imply, and Big Tech CEOs are not talking about risks anymore. They currently say things like "we'll all be so rich that we won't need to work and we will have to find meaning without jobs"
They donate a significant percentage of their income to the global poor, and save thousands of lives every year (see e.g. https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/in-continued-defense-of-eff... )
It offers basically the same API and could be faster in many cases
Maybe older models?
Yes I fully agree with that, you might be interested in this TED talk (linked in my original comment) https://www.ted.com/talks/lewis_bollard_how_to_end_factory_f... for what you can do about it
I agree that cows are an exception and live decent lives, but >95% of pigs, chickens, and fish are farmed in atrocious conditions, inside and outside the US: https://ourworldindata.org/how-many-animals-are-factory-farm...
But I think eating someone doesn't need to imply causing them as much suffering as our current farming practices do
https://www.ted.com/talks/lewis_bollard_how_to_end_factory_f...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forced_molting
The US also has basically no animal welfare laws for the vast majority of its animals
5% to 10% of US electricity going to AI in 10 years is consistent with the current valuations of AI companies.
Same for eggplants/aubergines: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggplant
> Vegetables are edible parts of plants that are consumed by humans or other animals as food. This original meaning is still commonly used, and is applied to plants collectively to refer to all edible plant matter, including flowers, fruits, stems, leaves, roots, and seeds. An alternative definition is applied somewhat arbitrarily, often by culinary and cultural tradition; it may include savoury fruits such as tomatoes and courgettes, flowers such as broccoli, and seeds such as pulses, but exclude foods derived from some plants that are fruits, flowers, nuts, and cereal grains.
> 92. In spring 2024, Altman learned Google would unveil its new Gemini model on May 14. Though OpenAI had planned to release GPT-4o later that year, Altman moved up the launch to May 13—one day before Google’s event.
> 93. [...] To meet the new launch date, OpenAI compressed months of planned safety evaluation into just one week, according to reports.
My understanding is that huge compute is necessary to train but not to run the AI (that's why using LLMs is so cheap)
> To me the more real risk is creeping integration and reliance in everyday life until things become "too big to fail" so we can't pull the plug even if we wanted to
I agree with that, see e.g. what happened with attempts to restrict TikTok: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restrictions_on_TikTok_in_the_...
> But I would imagine if it really became a genuine existential threat we'd have to just do it
It's unclear to me that we would be able to. People would just say that it's science fiction, and that China will do it anyway, so we might as well enjoy the AI
And, xor, and or are red, green and blue