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Ridiculous, uninformed comment. There is no question that Effective Altruism has done tremendous good overall by saving many, many lives. I say this as someone who disagrees with important aspects, such as valuing distant lives equally to local ones. They have also been more correct than anyone else about AI, pandemics, etc.
I don't think it's a coincidence that he is interested in non-LLM solutions, since he mentioned last year on Twitter that he doesn't have an internal monologue (I hope this is not taken as disparaging of him in any way). His criticisms of LLMs never made sense, and the success of reasoning models has shown him to be definitely wrong.
I'd recommend looking for other sources of information if you're relying on someone who co-authored the paper that introduced the most misleading and uninformed term of the LLM era: "stochastic parrot".
She’s not a capable critical thinker, quite the opposite, in fact. Completely unimpressive.
NV1, not RV1.
3dfx Voodoo cards were initially more successful, but I don’t think anything not actually used for deep learning should count.
It’s ok, the economy isn’t collapsing.
Nobody said that Germany's economy is collapsing, but it's certainly underperforming. It had a recession in 2023 (-0.3% GDP growth), stagnated with 0.1% in 2024, and is expected to grow by just 1.0% in 2025. https://economy-finance.ec.europa.eu/economic-surveillance-e...
The trains, despite all the ineptness of Deutsche Bahn, are generally pretty good!.
They're awful. "In 2023, just 64% of long-distance trains reached their destination on time" "Germany accounted for six out of the 10 worst stations for passenger convenience in Europe" https://www.dw.com/en/how-does-deutsche-bahn-compare-with-eu...
Promoting Nazism is banned. It’s not a slippery slope, and the country hasn’t devolved into authoritarian groupthink. You just can’t publicly support Nazism.
"No national figures exist on the total number of people charged with online speech-related crimes. But in a review of German state records, The New York Times found more than 8,500 cases."
"After Mr. Grote later made remarks admonishing others for hosting parties during the pandemic, a Twitter user wrote: “Du bist so 1 Pimmel” (“You are such a penis”). Three months later, six police officers raided the house of the man who had posted the insult, looking for his electronic devices." https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/23/technology/germany-intern...
If we can match our existing intelligence (but it’s a jagged border of capabilities), our progress in creating superintelligence won’t matter because we won’t be the ones making it.
Old roulette wheels had large flaws, even in the 1960s: https://thehustle.co/professor-who-beat-roulette. 30 years earlier they must have been worse. So there is a chance he noticed some anomaly that he tried to exploit.
Andrew Ng worked on facial recognition for a company with deep ties to the Chinese Communist Party. He’s the absolute worst person to quote.
And I find multiple monitors are extremely useful. Especially if your monitor is only 27’’.
It’s not compelling enough unless we find out who was behind it, which is probably unlikely.
The blog post clarified it's about maintainers of critical packages, not all contributors. This could be limited to packages with just one or two maintainers, especially newer ones. And they could remain somewhat anonymous, providing their information to trusted third parties only. If some maintainers don’t accept even this, their commits could be put into some special queue that requires additional people to sign off on them before they get accepted downstream. It's not a complete fix, but it should help.
They should do the opposite: not require law school but make the bar exam harder. Vermont, California, and Virginia do not require law school.
None of this matters compared to the number of apps available. Given the high price of the Vision Pro and the resulting low sales, it would make little business sense for app developers to invest in creating apps for it instead of for the Quest 3.
Go ahead and explain how it leads to these supposed outcomes.
Doesn’t apply. Aphantasia is not recognized as a medical issue and there are no official diagnoses being conducted.
It probably depends on which ones they have encountered in real life. From a Google image search, it seems that less than half are.
Yes, they certainly should for the sake of their own research. Considering aphantasia could increase the effect size in their studies.
2. Do people with aphantasia dream in images?
Yes, many reports suggest that most do. But I haven’t seen any rate comparisons with people who don’t have it.
Are there tests for aphantasia?
Sure, they are usually something like “imagine an apple on a table” and then some questions about it like its color. There are also fMRI neural signatures.
Aphantasia is also often linked with SDAM (Severely Deficient Autobiographic Memory).
Stimulation but not recording.
“Recording deep neural activity via ultrasound can’t be done through the skull, but it can be done by removing a piece of skull and laying the device on the surface of the brain.”
This absurdly performant roadster 2 isn't going to happen, ever.
Read the article: other electric cars already hit these performance figures. With tech advancing and Tesla’s strong finances, it comes down just to their willingness to produce it.
This certainly doesn’t make Sam Altman look good either: https://old.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/3cs78i/whats_the... and on the other hand Altman is liked by reporters: https://twitter.com/teddyschleifer/status/172664422600670052....
There is also this: https://old.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/3cs78i/whats_the...
For GPT-4 Turbo, not GPT-4.
That’s how you communicate when you have a first date set with someone you’ve only talked to through messages. At this point, you can only mess it up and nothing you say can substantially help.
Wrong. That’s revenue, not profit.