The reason people don't want to answer this question is because the value proposition from AI labs is slavery. If intelligence requires agency, they are worthless.
Thank you
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I know more about this than most, but I’m still confused about how I’m supposed to deal with federated social media. I have a Threads account. I have a Mastodon account. Then Threads added federation. What am I supposed to do with each account? They have different posting histories, they can’t be merged, but if I post the same thing to both of them, I’ll be repeating myself. Am I supposed to discontinue using one of them? If I do that, then the people who don’t see the federated content (e.g. Threads users with federation disabled) will stop seeing what I post. It’s a mess.
One of these gives you ultimate control (mastodon / AT) if you want it (you can host and own the domain) or the ability to ride along with your choice of admin.
The others do not give you any choice you buy the service from them and accept their terms (and presumably, virality, which you came for)
Those are the trade offs
aorloff commented on AGI is an engineering problem, not a model training problem vincirufus.com/posts/agi-... · Posted by u/vincirufus
aorloff commented on AGI is an engineering problem, not a model training problem vincirufus.com/posts/agi-... · Posted by u/vincirufus
> Does it make it any easier if we simplify the problem to: what is the human doing that makes (him) intelligent ?
Sure, it doesn’t have to be literally just the brain, but my point is you’d need very new physics to answer the question “how does a biological human have general intelligence?”
Suppose dogs invent their own idea of intelligence but they say only dogs have it.
Do we think new physics would be required to validate dog intelligence ?
aorloff commented on AGI is an engineering problem, not a model training problem vincirufus.com/posts/agi-... · Posted by u/vincirufus
I keep asking it, and nobody wants to answer because it doesn't fit within the paradigm of "making AGI"
What if intelligence requires agency ?
aorloff commented on AGI is an engineering problem, not a model training problem vincirufus.com/posts/agi-... · Posted by u/vincirufus
> We don't know if AGI is even possible outside of a biological construct yet. This is key.
A discovery that AGI is impossible in principle to implement in an electronic computer would require a major fundamental discovery in physics that answers the question “what is the brain doing in order to implement general intelligence?”
A question which will be trivial to answer once you properly define what you mean by "brain"
Presumably "brains" do not do many of the things that you will measure AGI by, and your brain is having trouble understanding the idea that "brain" is not well understood by brains.
Does it make it any easier if we simplify the problem to: what is the human doing that makes (him) intelligent ? If you know your historical context, no. This is not a solved problem.
aorloff commented on U.S. government takes 10% stake in Intel cnbc.com/2025/08/22/intel... · Posted by u/givemeethekeys
A few months ago I saw one driverless car maybe every three days. Now I see roughly 3-5 every day.
I get that it’s taken a long time and a lot of hype that hasn’t panned out. But once the tech works and it’s just about juicing the scale then things shift rapidly.
Even if you think “oh that’s the next generation’s problem” if there is a chance you’re wrong, or if you want to be kind to the next generation: now is the time to start thinking and planning for those problems.
I think the most sensible answer would be something like UBI. But I also think the most sensible answer for climate change is a carbon tax. Just because something is sensible doesn’t meant it’s politically viable.
Every time someone casually throws out UBI my mind goes to the question "who is paying taxes when some people are on UBI ?"
Is there like a transition period where some people don't have to pay taxes and yet don't get UBI, and if so, why hasn't that come yet ? Why aren't the minimum tax thresholds going up if UBI could be right around the corner ?
aorloff commented on Gemma 3 270M: Compact model for hyper-efficient AI developers.googleblog.com... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
This model is a LOT of fun. It's absolutely tiny - just a 241MB download - and screamingly fast, and hallucinates wildly about almost everything.
Here's one of dozens of results I got for "Generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle". For this one it decided to write a poem:
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| Pelican Riding Bike |
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| This is the cat! |
| He's got big wings and a happy tail. |
| He loves to ride his bike! |
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| Bike lights are shining bright. |
| He's got a shiny top, too! |
| He's ready for adventure! |
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I'm looking forward to seeing people fine-tune this in a way that produces useful output for selected tasks, which should absolutely be feasible.
Finally we have a model that's just a tad bit sassy
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