firebirdn99

you just need to look at Mythos to see the jump in performance from a 10T(?) model. As they scale, they get more capable. We might have an yearly release, but I believe the releases will continue, as long as scaling laws are in tact, and there's huge problems still need solving. (think cancer)

A lot of it depends on one's belief of whether these systems are conscious or can lead to consciousness

Still hard to fathom the exponential of Moore's law-

"took up an entire room and now I can carry more computer power on my finger"

its a pretty great realization to come along. We are all stardust, but complicated bits and blobs of atoms and molecules.

because no one watches them, so better be available, and in peoples minds, grab attention (which is the #1 commodity in the world) than fall to obscurity

i don't know if they were ever profitable. But certainly i think there's been a paradigm shift to commercializing everything (mostly through advertising) the last decade or two and if you fall behind, whatever growth you were aiming for goes away and revenues shrink.

And also almost all advertising revenues have probably become centralized with google search, social media by facebook, and youtube, etc. That combined with rising costs, and higher opportunity cost to instead do something else means these sites are biting the dust.

almost every tech ceo is like that. Could list many examples. It's an effect of capitalism.

James Somers is awesome. Every now and then, I see another of his articles that comes up here. Really great writer, who didn't set out to be one, but switched from a career in tech I believe.

This is super interesting. I've been visiting HN every day, multiple times a day for the past year. Over the last month, as I was preparing for interviews I removed the HN bookmark on my browser tab, and almost for weeks in between interviews I would go without checking it.

And honestly I think I was healthier, and happier. Reading, and bookmarking things on HN overflowed my brain with information, and created more anxiety in me I think. Just visiting back to see what I missed after not checking it the past week, and I was better off without it I feel.

lowest common denominator of shows this is a good description, they've gone the CBS route with cable TV type programming, and Reality TV. There's been a lot of documentation over this- https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/bela-bajaria-global-tv-netf... https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/01/16/how-much-more-...

I guess it's sadly what brings most viewers. I think there's some truth in the overall dumbing down of society.

Kinda sad that Netflix opted for quantity over quality. It shows with all the inane sequels like Murder mystery 2, Extraction 2 and with the idea of just filling an uninteresting script with some stars to make the numbers like Red Notice. And many of the top 50 shows reflect just that. The last Netflix original I watched and liked was The Queen's Gambit.

Wealth begets wealth. Capital compounds with no effort. A reminder for myself to revisit Capital by Thomas Piketty from 2013(!)

"When inequality gets too extreme, then it becomes useless for growth, and it can even become bad because it tends to lead to high perpetuation of inequality over time and low mobility."

-Thomas Piketty

Funnily enough, I was watching the Spotify series on Netflix, The Playlist, and saw Sony Music Group's fight with the Pirate Bay(which covers similar themes) before Spotify exploded on to the scene. This was a real event too covered in the early episodes - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirate_Bay_trial

Otherwise, to be relevant in guiding research towards AGI, they need to stay a going concern, and that means not running off 90% of the employee base.

That's why they presumably agreed to find a solution. But at the same time shows that in essence, entities with for-profit incentives find a way to get what they want. There certainly needs to be more thought and discussion about governance, and how we collectively as a species or each company individually governs AI.

The board was a non profit board serving the mission. Mission was foremost. Employees are not. One of the comments a member made was, if the company was destroyed, it would still be consistent with serving the mission. Which is right.

The fallout showed non-profit missions can't co-exist with for-profit incentives. And the power that investors were exerting, and employees (who would also benefit from the recent 70B round they were going to have) was too much.

And any disclaimer the investors got when investing in OpenAI was meaningless. It reportedly stated they would be wise in viewing their investment as charity, and they can potentially lose everything. And there was an AGI clause that said it will reconsider all financial arrangements, that Microsoft and other investors had when investing in the company was all worthless. Link to Wired article with interesting details -https://www.wired.com/story/what-openai-really-wants/

I remember seeing many posts about this in the last few yrs, one - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34423395

It's not necessarily consultants in these companies that are malicious. I find working with many to be honest, and deeply caring about their work. It's that some of the management in these companies are incentivized to engage in duplicitous behavior to gain clients one way or another.

Working for a tech consultancy before, they do have clear lines to distinguish for legal reasons and make you take courses. For e.g., you can't give or receive gifts of any monetary value, etc. But management find other ways, to gain client's trust and affection. One way is to overwork the consultants, and other is to share information that is privy sometimes.

Related blog post with above link on FIFO vs LIFO queue management: https://www.qminder.com/blog/queue-management/first-in-first....

I got back into Pokemon collecting for a bit during the pandemic, like many others . And boy it showed how fun and awesome collecting the original cards were in the late 90's/early 00's. Then with the 25th anniversary, they did a great job marketing it with special releases and a lot of hype!

I also went to a Pokemon TCG conference in Toronto last year, and it was amazing! There were around 10,000 people there. People of all ages, parents and kids, older collectors. It really showed the longevity and cultural brand power of Pokemon!

Agreed, I enjoyed it throughly. Even with poor graphics, was a lot of fun! The new mechanisms are great innovations for future games

I honestly enjoyed Pokemon Arceus. It has a 3D open world game and there is a fun mechanism of throwing the Pokeball. I think they found a great formula for future games. The graphics are somewhat disappointing at times, but it's so fun. Hopefully future versions of the Switch will be more powerful to play 3D open world games.

This just shows there is no way you can have a non profit board with a profit cap structure. The capitalists always will push through and "exert pressure" one way or another if they want their way. The non profit setup was a facade. And this has clearly showed it in the fallout. The board had every right to veto or replace Altman if they didn't feel they were prioritizing their mission.

It was down 4% earlier today from yesterday. Just back to where it was.

I didn't know this before, but it's cool that originally back then Apple's directory explorer was still called 'Finder and it's not changed since.

There has to be UBI for A(G)I. Period.

I think it's always been that way to some extent. There's some element of being human, where we seek empathy from others or pity if you will to a degree. I know I've done it, where I made justifications for something I have difficulty in.

It's just now there's a lot more of it, where there is a lot more awareness of disabilities, and empathy rightfully but also means more people are inclined to maybe take the easy way out through diagnoses or taking medication to cover for some emotional issues. If there is no other way, then you should seek out meds,etc. But it is part of being human, to understand and overcome some difficulties through perseverance, resilience, or emotional work.

There's a teens react to LP video on YT. It's refreshing. It's how previous generations discovered older music. Also the one on Blink 182...is like, "my Mom loves that song"...so a lot of times that's how.

This is very impressive at 17, and her Github activity. So age definitely qualifies. We were fascinated with Mark Zuckerberg, or Bill Gates at their ages, so this isn't anything new. Doing anything remarkable at a young age is impressive and worthy to be noted.

This is a young person making strides in a hard field, and quite different from majority of peers at their age, but especially today with short attention spans, and TikTok, gaming, other distractions.

Another point is many high schools tend to coddle their students even for very little accomplishments. I was surprised by the attention one 16 yr old student got for making an interesting yet simple science explainer about the sleep cycle. She won the award in the Breakthrough challenge competition, got a 250K scholarship, and given feedback to the tune that she would cure cancer.

There's also a huge competitive gap between US High schools today on average, than many other countries. It would be great for the US system to challenge HS students again and reward real accomplishment.

If you don't have a rental agreement in place, then the costs for travel is largely from flight travel. And many places locally are easy to fly for just several hundred $. If you have more of a budget, you can travel overseas in relatively cheap economic countries. It can be done if you plan accordingly within a budget.

Also helps if you are solo, and can cook. And I also think it's a great energy recharger and helped me when I was burnt out.

Mental health is your biggest asset, and without it, you can't function in life let alone job. Taking care of that is anyone's number one priority. Took a career break last year, and it was one of the best decisions I made.

It's important to also have a plan so you know at least roughly how long you can have your break for ($ wise), and what you will do in that time. I've come back to work feeling much better and knowing what/how I want my career to look like/unfold. Job hunting is hard especially now, but clearing your mind of burnout is important to build your resilience and confidence in your skills and conveying that in interviews.