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danbmil commented on Exploring model welfare   anthropic.com/research/ex... · Posted by u/psychanarch
andy99 · a year ago
This is so irresponsible, it's "misinformation" of the worst kind (in that it's difficult for a layperson to parse and comes from an ostensibly trustworthy source).

When "blockchain" was on obvious scam, we all knew it but weren't vocal enough, now that AI is venturing into mountebank territory, it's important for everyone to speak out against this kind of charlatanism (importantly by dismissing it as nonsense and not letting them shift the narrative). I've lost so much respect for Anthropic who have done some good work but now appear to be a cult.

danbmil · a year ago
How exactly is this irresponsible? Are you proclaiming that any discussion of "machine consciousness" is axiomatically misleading?
danbmil commented on Gödel's theorem debunks the most important AI myth – Roger Penrose [video]   youtube.com/watch?v=biUfM... · Posted by u/Lockal
danbmil · a year ago
If the Universe is computable, then human thinking is computable. All due respect to Penrose for his stellar achievements, but frankly the implications of Turing Complete, the halting problem, Church/Turing hypothesis and the point of Godel's Theorem seem to be things he does not fully understand.

I know this sounds cheeky but we all have brains that are good at some things and have failure modes as well. We are certainly seeing shadows of Human-type fallability in neural nets, which somehow seem to have a lot of similarities to human thinking.

Brains evolved in the physical world to solve problems and help organisms survive, thrive, and reproduce. Evolution is the product of a massive search over potential physical arrangements. I see no reason why the systems we develop would operate on drastically different premises.

danbmil commented on Blender-made movie Flow takes Oscar   reuters.com/lifestyle/flo... · Posted by u/boguscoder
danbmil · a year ago
I would love to see the day when Autodesk is sold to some scumbag bigCo for peanuts.
danbmil commented on The Aging Programmer [video]   youtube.com/watch?v=mVWQQ... · Posted by u/belter
danbmil · a year ago
My peak programming skills are close to what they were 30 years ago, but I cannot sustain that level of concentration for long periods as I once could.

I feel like a pinch hitter: I can do a couple innings at a high level of performance, but I can't keep that level up as long as I used to.

OTOH I think I have better judgement when it comes to deep, complex questions of long-term architecture choices. My "meta-programming" skills are sharper than ever.

danbmil commented on OpenAI researchers warned board of AI breakthrough ahead of CEO ouster   reuters.com/technology/sa... · Posted by u/mfiguiere
zx8080 · 2 years ago
> > sure 10x engineers are cool but damn those 10,000x engineer/researchers...

What was he referring to?

danbmil · 2 years ago
I think he is referring to an AGI that is 10000x more productive than a median programmer
danbmil commented on I deeply regret my participation in the board's actions   twitter.com/ilyasut/statu... · Posted by u/Palmik
fmajid · 2 years ago
Ben Thompson has the best take on this (if a bit biased against nonprofits):

https://stratechery.com/2023/openais-misalignment-and-micros...

I don't know what the risk of AI is, but having a nonprofit investigate solutions to prevent them is a worthwhile pursuit, as for-profit corporations will not do it (as shown by the firing of Timnit Gebru and Margaret Mitchell by Google). If they really believe in that mission, they should develop guardrails technology and open-source it so the companies like Microsoft, Google, Meta, Amazon et al who are certainly not investing in AI safety but won't mind using others' work for free can inegrate it. But that's not going to be lucrative and that's why most OpenAI employees will leave for greener pastures.

danbmil · 2 years ago
Agreed. This discussion around safety reminds me of the early days of cybersecurity, when security by obscurity was the norm.

It's counter-intuitive, but locking up a technology is like trying to control prices and wages. It just doesn't work -- unless you confiscate every GPU in the world and bomb datacenters etc.

The best way to align with the coming AGI's and ASI's is to build them in the sunlight. Every lock-em-up approach is doomed to fail (I guess that makes me a meta-doomer?)

danbmil commented on I deeply regret my participation in the board's actions   twitter.com/ilyasut/statu... · Posted by u/Palmik
setgree · 2 years ago
This whole thing smells bad.

The board could have easily said they removed Sam for generic reasons: "deep misalignment about goals," "fundamental incompatibility," etc. Instead they painted him as the at-fault party ("not consistently candid", "no longer has confidence"). This could mean that he was fired with cause [0], or it could be an intended as misdirection. If it's the latter, then it's the board who has been "not consistently candid." Their subsequent silence, as well as their lack of coordination with strategic partners, definitely makes it looks like they are the inconsistently candid party.

Ilya expressing regret now has the flavor of "I'm embarrassed that I got caught" -- in this case, at having no plan to handle the fallout of maligning and orchestrating a coup against a charismatic public figure.

[0] https://www.newcomer.co/p/give-openais-board-some-time-the

danbmil · 2 years ago
An alternate theory is that Suskever was manipulated and sucked into the plot on sketchy pretenses, and realizes it now and trying to make right.
danbmil commented on OpenAI's employees were given two explanations for why Sam Altman was fired   businessinsider.com/opena... · Posted by u/meitros
danbmil · 2 years ago
The CEO's I've worked for have mostly been mini-DonaldT's, almost pathologically allergic to truth, logic, or consistency. Altman seems way over on the normal scale for CEO of a multi-billion dollar company. I'm sure he can knock two eggs together to make an omelette, but these piddling excuses for firing him don't pass the smell test.

I get the feeling Ilya might be a bit naive about how people work, and may have been taken advantage of (by for example spinning this as a safety issue when it's just a good old fashioned power struggle)

danbmil · 2 years ago
as for multiple teams with overlapping goals -- are you kidding me? That's a 100% legit and popular tactic. Once CEO I worked with relished this approach and called it a "Steel-cage death match"!
danbmil commented on OpenAI's employees were given two explanations for why Sam Altman was fired   businessinsider.com/opena... · Posted by u/meitros
kumarvvr · 2 years ago
Giving 2 people the same project? Isnt this like the thing to do to get differing approaches and then release the amalgamation of the two? I thought these sorts of things are common.

Giving different opinions on same person is a reason to fire a CEO?

This board has no reason to fire, or does not want to give the actual reason to fire Sam. They messed up.

danbmil · 2 years ago
The CEO's I've worked for have mostly been mini-DonaldT's, almost pathologically allergic to truth, logic, or consistency. Altman seems way over on the normal scale for CEO of a multi-billion dollar company. I'm sure he can knock two eggs together to make an omelette, but these piddling excuses for firing him don't pass the smell test.

I get the feeling Ilya might be a bit naive about how people work, and may have been taken advantage of (by for example spinning this as a safety issue when it's just a good old fashioned power struggle)

danbmil commented on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2022)    · Posted by u/whoishiring
dokein · 3 years ago
SmarterDx | 150 - 230K + equity + benefits | Remote first (but U.S. only due to data confidentiality) | Full time

We are a Seed stage health tech company using A.I. to improve hospital revenue cycle (making healthcare costs lower and allowing doctors to focus on patient care). The team is small but high functioning (M.D. data scientists, former ASF board member, Ebay fraud detection engineers, etc.) and initially scaled the company to $1MM+ in contracted revenue without raising capital. We have since been backed by top investors including Floodgate & Flare Capital and there is enough market demand for us to 10X in the next 18 months (plus runway through September *2024*).

Who we are looking for:

- Full stack engineers

- Data engineers

- Healthcare data scientists

Be part of the journey as we hone our PMF and build to scale! For more, see: https://smarterdx.com/positions.html

If interested email us at hiring at smarterdx dot com

danbmil · 3 years ago
Your Sr Data Eng posting says "Sr Data Scientist" and looks almost identical to the scientist posting.

u/danbmil

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