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Read some Peter Watts. He imagined biological neural nets in jars used as firewalls to get a usable network connection... Not far off now.

because arc agi involves de novo reasoning over a restricted and (hopefully) unpretrained territory, in 2d space. not many people use LLMs as more than a better wikipedia,stack overflow, or autocomplete....

hopefully the free plastic feedstock from oil will go away soon. if polyester cost as much as cotton or wool, it wouldnt be wasted by these scum sucking bottom feeder manufacturers.

Thank you China for forcing the world into the solar battery future.

seems fun. needs more physics :)

if you like alien aliens, psychology and biology, Blindsight is your bag. Much darker though.

well, it's no banana duct taped to a canvas, that's for sure...

"I needed money." - Charles Ponzi "I needed money." - Bernie Madoff "I needed money." - Kenneth Lay "I needed money." - Qusay Hussein

that's an interesting perspective.

are expensive ads higher quality? but are they therefore pushed more to justify the cost?

does the higher cost improve the information conveyed?

this exact 'cottage industry' you speak of is what existed in north america and started little conpanies like Apple, etc.

The sad fact that we lost all of these because of the entire electronics supply and design chain moving to Taiwan and China, is why we are where we are. These barriers might bring some back, who knows.

Ultimately global open borders, for goods and services, had their own issues. For example open competition between free market economies and centrally planned economies creates rather obvious advantages of scale that are skewed...

At the 1940s Manhattan project, back when computer meant a job: "person who computes mathematical statements", major advancements were made in the integration of hyperbolic PDEs, by substituting electro-mechanical and then vacuum-tube machines to do the job. You know, those hard-wired vacuum tube monsters like ENIAC.

You could argue that the First useful thing electronic computers did was integration...

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00295450.2021.1...

hrm. on nature portrait photography 600x600 upscale, it has a LOT of artifacts. Perhaps too far out of distribution?

That said, your examples are promising, and thank you for posting a HF space to try it out!

Show me the experimental results...

Eh? By all indications compute is now evolving SLOWER than ever. Moore's Law is dead, Dennard scaling is over, the latest fab nodes are evolutionary rather than revolutionary.

This isn't the 80s when compute doubled every 9 months, mostly on clock scaling.

Thanks for all your work buro9! I've been an lfgss user for 15 years. This closure as a result of bureaucratic overreach is a great cultural loss to the world (I'm in Canada). The zany antics and banter of the London biking community provided me, and my contacts with which I have shared, many interesting thoughts, opinions, points of view, and memes, from the unique and authentic London local point of view.

LFGSS is more culturally relevant than the BBC!

Of course governments and regulations will fail realize what they have till it's gone.

- Pave paradise, put up a parking lot.

We just have to get creative, or discover some new physics :-)

In addition to the ark-ship colony, or the cryosleep slow ship:

1. Assuming it's a stream of robotic probes doing flybys, without decelerating, we have the Breakthrough Starshot approach. Maybe there's a way to use the target system's sun for solar sail braking? Send smart enough robots that have agency, that can do the exploring for us.

2. For human travel - it could just be a bunch of frozen embryos with a robotic nursemaid, accelerated via external propulsion and decelerated via nukes / high-g aerobraking... (Raised by Wolves had a cool introduction like this in the first episode - then went quickly downhill)

3. ...

it's a skill that takes 15 minutes to learn. maybe 30 if you include roasting your own beans. it could be taught in highschool to everyone.

hardly requires a bustling industry to solve this 'problem' or provide this 'value'.

starbucks is a monument to the lazyness and exploitation of this lazyness in homo sapiens.

Yes it was a cautionary tale, but not about the technology, but about the role of empathy and the human spirit.

The actual technology of Gattaca has already started 50 years ago with the first "test tube babies" and IVF treatments. You get a "optical selection" of the most well developed blastocysts, checking for symmetry, growth rates, and other biomarkers, without even resorting to DNA sequencing selection.

It will absolutely make the world a better place long term - all of our children can be genetically "the best of us", according to various criteria. I'm all for it.

A fantastic view on the nature of inference and the physical world! What I appreciate most about our LLM adventures in the past 5 years, is that it's finally:

1. Plausible to discuss, and find hints of what "AI" might mean - ("AGI" or "Strong AI").

2. Dig up all those crusty and dusty notions of philosophers long dead, and some nerding out reads from my teenage years. And try to apply them to an interesting system to study empirically, instead of just humanistic pondering.

3. Same with psychology! Now that our pattern matching systems are starting to pass various turing tests, what does that mean for "sentience" and "sapience" and should we all become armchair psychologists as we teach our systems to understand and act in the world? Recall the first part of Oddyssey 2010; where the AI researcher is more of a child psychologist...

Lastly - LLMs and "glimpses of AI" are something new! Not the same old same old recycled tech and popculture. Truly something new under the sun. Good times.

Thank you! That makes a lot more sense than several other descriptions of the proof I have read (and promptly forgotten!)

Passport might be a bit onerous - it's expensive and painful process and many don't need it.

But it's a hilarious sign of worldwide government incompetence that social insurance or other citizen identification cards are not standard, free, and uniquely identifiable and usable for online ID purposes (presumably via some sort of verification service / PGP).

Government = people and laws. Government cannot even reliably ID people online. You had one job...

LLM Code Assistants have succeeded at facilitating reusable code. The grail of OOP and many other paradigms.

We should not have an entire industry of 10,000,000 devs reinventing the JS/React/Spring/FastCGi wheel. Im sure those humans can contribute in much better ways to society and progress.

Ukrainians integrating into Polish culture is similar to the East and West German unification post wall, only more complicated by a few extra generations...

"Patient sick enough to need a kidney transplant, dies"

LOL "the market demands". Sure, and Opium was also demanded by the market, should we just add it to all food items?

Watch the Tencent adaptation - like 30 episodes on just the first book (with subtitles). Really well done and faithful to the first novel.

What? It was outstanding for the time, great price performance, and very tunable for clock / voltage IIRC.

the natives just immigrated 20,000 years earlier is all...

A prophetess, at a holy site.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sibyl

Yes, openAI is dumping the market with chat-gpt 3.5. Vulture capital behaviour at its finest, and I'm sure government regulations will definitely catch on to this in 20 or 30 years...

It's cheaper than the ELECTRICITY cost of running a llama-70 on your own M1.Max (very energy efficient chip) assuming free hardware.

I guess they are also getting a pretty good cache hit rate - there are only so many questions people ask at scale. But still, it's dumping.

4. Biking - way more energy efficient - you'll get more MPG (Miles-Per-Gnocci).