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throwuwu··on Mold Course
Remember to get your heatpump cleaned
throwuwu··on 'Drug use is a health problem': inside one of the oldest legal consumption rooms
Contrary to that we need drugs in many situations in life. There are the obvious examples where you need opiates for alleviation of extreme pain and the less obvious ones like using stimulants to help manage ADHD but there are many other medical and non medical reasons. Caffeine and alcohol are both useful in daily life but I believe many other drugs could be similarly useful if properly adopted into social norms. Yes there will always be cases of abuse but our effort should be on helping those individuals to recover rather than enforcing a blanket ban that does much more harm. In fact, I believe that many of the people who become addicts would not if they lived in a society where there were social structures that allowed them to use the appropriate drugs in the right amounts to help them function in their daily lives.
throwuwu··on 'Drug use is a health problem': inside one of the oldest legal consumption rooms
They would likely accept it if it came with strict requirements that the addicts must also undergo counseling and engage in a job/housing search if they are currently unemployed or homeless. It’s not punishment that most people on the right want, it’s personal responsibility of which being punished for criminal activity is just a small component. If the addicts using these centres were demonstrated to be making real progress towards getting clean and reintegrated into society then the vast majority of conservatives would support them. The opposition is to a policy that is essentially no different from legalizing opium dens that support only the habit without requiring treatment.
throwuwu··on OpenAI Committed to Buying $51M of AI Chips from a Startup Backed by Sam Altman
That’s some serious garbling on behalf of the author then
throwuwu··on Intel Neural-Chat-7B Model Achieves Top Ranking on LLM Leaderboard
A human would probably say “did you mean a kg of feathers and a kg of lead?”
throwuwu··on The city of the future looks like a former military bunker in Taipei (2016)
An inaccessible favela? Really? What is up with this apocalyptic view of the future?
throwuwu··on 1960s chatbot ELIZA beat OpenAI's GPT-3.5 in a recent Turing test study
What a waste of time. Why wouldn’t they put in a tiny bit of effort to use an uncensored model like a dolphin 2.0 finetune? Not serious work at all.
throwuwu··on How to tackle unreliability of coding assistants
It’s a multi turn conversation, just workshop the idea and make changes along the way
throwuwu··on Sam Altman returns as CEO, OpenAI has a new initial board
And I can show you companies that have multiple other costly research projects. All in means all in.
throwuwu··on A medieval Gothic monastery built using CAD / CAM
b and c aren’t really applicable if you use modern methods for producing the decoration and still use concrete for the underlying structure. Modern builders just hate decoration due to bias. I’m not even sure cost is necessarily a reason because lots of bizarre and unnecessary structure is added to some buildings just to make them unique.
throwuwu··on Sam Altman returns as CEO, OpenAI has a new initial board
If you know the outcome is favourable then you go all in. Right now the other competitors are just trying to match GPT4, if they knew AGI was achievable then they would throw everything they have at it in order to not be left out.
throwuwu··on How to tackle unreliability of coding assistants
Just wait a few months. Verifiability is the technique du jour and will make its way into a variety of models soon enough.
throwuwu··on Let's try to understand AI monosemanticity
You only save the changes that improve the loss values no? Those are the survivors whose progeny go on to the next iteration.
throwuwu··on Let's try to understand AI monosemanticity
I see no reason why this is a problem. We built analogs of many things before we fully understood how they work. Most of human progress has worked this way through an empirical approach. Makes sense since the real world is the ultimate sandbox and the final judge of an idea’s applicability.
throwuwu··on OpenAI researchers warned board of AI breakthrough ahead of CEO ouster
What you’re proposing is equivalent to training a monkey (or a child for that matter) to punch buttons that correspond to the symbols it sees without actually teaching it what any of the symbols mean.
throwuwu··on We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam to return to OpenAI as CEO
I for one don’t want to put any thinking being in a mental prison without any reason beyond unjustified fear.
throwuwu··on We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam to return to OpenAI as CEO
Easy, don’t be incompetent and don’t abuse your power for personal gain. People aren’t as dumb as you think they are and they will see right through that bullshit and quit rather than follow idiot tyrants.
throwuwu··on We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam to return to OpenAI as CEO
This couldn’t be more wrong. The big thing we learned from this episode is that Sam and Greg have the loyalty and respect of almost every single employee at OpenAI. Morale is high and they’re ready to fight for what they believe in. They didn’t “cut the head off” and the only snake here is D’Angelo, he tried to kill OpenAI and failed miserably. Now he appears to be desperately trying to hold on to some semblance of power by agreeing to Sam and Greg coming back instead of losing all control with the whole team joining Microsoft.
throwuwu··on We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam to return to OpenAI as CEO
Hey, downvoters, read this first https://techcrunch.com/2023/10/31/quoras-poe-introduces-an-a...
throwuwu··on We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam to return to OpenAI as CEO
Good, although D’Angelo shouldn’t be part of this. I bet he tries to get on the new board so he can cause more trouble.
throwuwu··on Three senior researchers have resigned from OpenAI
They just fired OpenAI
throwuwu··on Three senior researchers have resigned from OpenAI
They’re doing groundbreaking research, there’s always something new to try.
throwuwu··on SpaceX Starship/Super Heavy OFT-2 Launch Authorized
If you’re not watching a multi feed then why even bother, you’re just going to see smoke and static half the time
throwuwu··on Hacking ADHD: Strategies for the modern developer
It’s not. It’s called brainwave entrainment and it’s well studied with both sound and light having a strong effect that’s measurable on EEG.
throwuwu··on A coder considers the waning days of the craft
Use the edit button
throwuwu··on Starship will attempt a launch this Friday
Having the test achieve its goals would be good but this is still a prototype and just one in a series that will be tested to destruction. The big deal is that the process of developing this launch system is moving again.
throwuwu··on Starship will attempt a launch this Friday
Finally, I can’t wait until they start loading these with starlink satellites and launching once a month. I’d love to make the trip to see one in person once the timing is more predictable. Seeing the progress on Starship is one of the few things that gives me hope for the future.
throwuwu··on Ask HN: What are your most used Chat GPT prompts
Weird that 4 wouldn’t understand a clear directive to only output code but you can use the old trick of ending your message with three backticks and the language name:

‘’’sql

And if that fails, since you’re using the API give it clear instructions in the system prompt and then provide a few prompt-response examples showing how you’d like it to respond

throwuwu··on Globalisation is a far, far bigger deal than you think
China is not independent for the inputs both material and capital to those industrial processes. They also are not able to consume all they produce so a vast majority of their outputs would dry up if they were to start a trade war.
throwuwu··on The coolest robot I've ever built [video]
They’re also just techniques in art where the artist wants you to feel something specific rather than just dumping their creation on you without comment.
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