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Or naming one of the technologies “DREADD”

Unless you’re running at temperature 0, there’s not one single token that the model definitely would have chosen each time.

These models are already running with a temperature that is >0. This just replaces a random number with a slightly less random number.

The ever-expanding pelican lore

It's the 2nd least dense large city in America. It has a population of San Francisco but across like 15x more land.

Not helpful for Linux users, but FYI both the Windows and Mac Apple Music clients are native apps.

I'm not sure why people really really really want it to be that so they can have a simple reason to hate on it. I'm sure there are fancy people there having a fancy time... but it's 80,000 people and probably 79,000 of them are not millionaires and billionaires. Just friendly weirdos being living in the desert for a week.

I didn’t expect that we humans would be out of our depth even before “AGI” much less anything coming after.

What happens when the models are ooms smarter than today?

AI safety starts to feel like an impossibility.

It's baffling that the counterfeiters don't use the exact same design for the box. At least using the same text. Almost seems harder to make text thats sort of close but not just a straight copy.

The main thing that has made America exceptional has been that we attract all the smartest and most ambitious people from around the world. They work side by side by all of the smartest and most ambitious people born in America. We have won by having a disproportionate percentage of the world's smartest and most ambitious people, those born here + those who choose to come here.

So now, we're just throwing that all away and becoming a merely average country with an average amount of smart and ambitious people. Throwing away our key advantage for literally no benefit.

> “We haven’t eaten them yet because we’re awaiting approval for testing in humans,” said Jayakody

I refuse to believe nobody in the lab has eaten one

We pretty famously can't prove that humans are conscious. I'd hold off from making strong statements that AI can't become conscious.

This is amazing, thank you

Does anyone remember their crazy Ovaltine-decoder-ring two factor auth that they had for a while? They mailed you a physical card with custom grid of numbers and letters and the login challenge would be to submit the letters an numbers at various grid points.

We’re reaching transvestigation levels of people trying to spot AI text everywhere they look

Markets don’t always need an external change to drop. Sometimes it’s just part of the same price discovery process that ran the price up early on.

Extremely hard to predict what the world of careers will look like to someone starting out 20 years from now.

Make it easier to sell ice cream.

Make it harder to trap people in subscriptions with not viable way to cancel.

There is this new thing where people love to show off their sophistication that they can "spot AI". Every time they see an a Claudeism, every time they see an emdash, they talk about how they feel sick to their stomach and are ready to boycott the business that may or may not be guilty of the high crime of using a computer tool.

Absolutely, but it was claims about ultrasound in general

There were a lot of people who declared very loudly last week during the Midjourney discourse that this was an impossible use of ultrasound.

People hunting for AI text is reaching transvestigation levels

I'm still remembering the demo from many years ago where a bot would voice call a local business and get information for you and report back.

I think the number of people still holding a grudge for that today is small.

"Everyone will not just"

I don’t think this discussion is complete without mentioning Trump, if not as an outright cause, at least a symbol and a symptom.

The level of toxicity and cynicism and nihilism that has been brought to the foreground every day is really something to see.

The idea of kids being a get-out-of-jail-free card to happiness and existential turmoil has never made sense to me. Kids are wonderful, but not because they’re not a magical gateway to happiness.

We’ve seen an incredibly powerful technology follow multiple exponential curves in its capability, but we’re supposed to ask why we’re telling ourselves “stories” if we think about what will happen if that technology continues to follow the curves it has been following without sign of hitting any walls?

Is AGI certain? No. But there’s currently no specific reason to believe it isn’t coming in the next few years.

How long could a public figure have a hidden address? It doesn't seem practical.