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i mean, to be fair, these are professional researchers.

i'm very inclined to trust them on the various ways that models can subtly go wrong, in long-term scenarios

for example, consider using models to write email -- is it a misalignment problem if the model is just too good at writing marketing emails?? or too good at getting people to pay a spammy company?

another hot use case: biohacking. if a model is used to do really hardcore synthetic chemistry, one might not realize that it's potentially harmful until too late (ie, the human is splitting up a problem so that no guardrails are triggered)

Poison Fountain 6 months ago

By publishing the poison fountain, you are making it so that researchers will have to invent techniques to "de-poison" data, perhaps contributing to long-term AI advances in intelligent data filtering while training

And secondly, why would you want worse LLMs? Seems less useful that way

A one-click avatar replacement (for when you detect you are in an AI interview) - that'll be interesting huh

The fun part is that then, the interviews can look way different than today -- e.g. the robot interviewer can demand proofs of the user's skill, etc.

It can even be confidential (ie, robot interviewer <> user's agent in a black-box room) so that they can share data

Imagine you have a function f(user_profile) -> decision

You can run f in a way that respects the user's privacy (and also hides the details of f from the user).

Companies get ~10x more data from each interviewee

Interviewees don't need to even show up

Sounds like a good deal to me!

Study mode 12 months ago

I don't know if you're joking, but here are some answers:

"The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled." — Plutarch

"Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself." — John Dewey

"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing." — Albert Einstein

In order to think complex thoughts, you need to have building blocks. That's why we can think of relativity today, while nobody on Earth was able to in 1850.

May the future be even better than today!

Yeah, one way to think about it is like... protocols restrict things, so that people can expect the same stuff.

With a traditional API, people can build it any way they want, which means you (the client) need API docs.

With MCP, you literally restrict it to 2 things: get the list of tools, and call the tool (using the schema you got above). Thus the key insight is just about: let's add 1 more endpoint that lists the APIs you have, so that robots can find it.

Example time: - Build an MCP server (equivalent of "intro to flask 101"): https://developers.cloudflare.com/agents/guides/remote-mcp-s... - Now you can add it to Claude Desktop/Cursor and see what it does - That's as far as i got lol

The comments on Bluesky are really cool, did you implement it yourself?

I wonder what other things Bluesky has!

this is the most brilliant piece of writing i've ever seen -- reminds me of Godel, Escher, Bach.

Would love recommendations for other things like this where the style is one of discovery!! (like math textbooks that make you feel like you invented something?)

The Llama 4 herd 1 year ago

yes, and it's on a per-layer basis, I think!

So if the model has 16 transformer layers to go through on a forward pass, and each layer, it gets to pick between 16 different choices, that's like 16^16 possible expert combinations!

You know what you should do next? Out-innovate Vercel & offer even more cool features!

Some ideas:

1) Live object state! (like liveview/instantdb!)

import {useLiveState} from 'zercel'

const [state, setState] = useLiveState({whateveryouwant}, {name: '/roomId/keyId'}) // will sync automatically in realtime between clients!

2) Storage!

import { storage } from 'zercel'

storage.put("hello", file)

Inspirational, thanks for the open source code!

Wait this sounds really cool, I want to start exploring Kubernetes! Can someone with more experience tell me why I should? (currently I just make all my apps on NextJS/Supabase...)

Is there a cost advantage vs using a more managed experience, say, Fly.io?

Let's think about it.

If your website runs by uploading the files, that means the content must be determined by the files.

Use youtube/chatgpt: - "how do static websites work" - "how to code files on my computer"

Step 1. ALWAYS MAKE A BACKUP! (copy the folder somewhere safe). Or use git - you can learn the basics in 15 minutes.

Step 2. Edit the files. 1) First, you need a way to edit the files. Use Cursor. 2) If it's some text you want to change, use Ctrl+F to find the text & replace it with your thing. 3) If it's something else, you can ask the AI to change it for you.

Step 3. After changing your files, you can upload them to the hosting company again. You should see the changes!

Hope that is enough to get started!