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naveen99 commented on IQ tests results for AI   trackingai.org/home... · Posted by u/stared
alphazard · 8 days ago
IQ is a discovery about how intelligence occurs in humans. As you mentioned, a single factor explains most of the performance of a human on an IQ test, and that model is better than theories of multiple orthogonal intelligences. To contrast, 5 orthogonal factors are the best model we have for human personality.

The first question to ask is "do LLMs also have a general factor?". How much of an LLMs performance on an IQ test can be explained by a single positive correlation between all questions? I would expect LLMs to perform much better on memory tasks than anything else, and I wouldn't be surprised if that was holding up their scores. Is there a multi factor model that better explains LLM performance on these tests?

naveen99 · 8 days ago
Some points on the 4 ? or 5 dimensional personality space correlate with higher iq though.
naveen99 commented on AI is different   antirez.com/news/155... · Posted by u/grep_it
itsalotoffun · 9 days ago
> The future may reduce the economic prosperity and push humanity to switch to some different economic system (maybe a better system). Markets don’t want to accept that. [Emphasis added]

What a silly premise. Markets don't care. All markets do is express the collective opinion; in the short term as a voting machine, in the long term as a weighing machine.

Seeing a real uptick of socio-policital prognostication from extremely smart, soaked-in-AI, tech people (like you Salvatore!), casting heavy doom-laden gestures towards the future. You're not even wrong! But this "I see something you all clearly don't" narrative, wafer thin on real analysis, packed with "the feels", coated with what-ifs.. it's sloppy thinking and I hold you to a higher standard antirez.

naveen99 · 9 days ago
Voting, weighing, … trading machine ? You can hear or touch or weigh colors.
naveen99 commented on OpenAI's new GPT-5 models announced early by GitHub   theverge.com/news/752091/... · Posted by u/bkolobara
ben_w · 18 days ago
OpenAI's announcements are generally a lot more grounded than the hype surrounding them and their stuff.

e.g. if you look at Altman's blog of "superintelligence in a few thousand days", what he actually wrote doesn't even disagreeing with LeCun (famously a nay-sayer) about the timeline.

naveen99 · 18 days ago
Few thousands days is decades.
naveen99 commented on LLM Inflation   tratt.net/laurie/blog/202... · Posted by u/ingve
MontyCarloHall · 19 days ago
The only definitively non-renewable resource is time. Time is often spent like a currency, whose monetary instrument is some tangible proxy of how much time elapsed. Verbosity was an excellent proxy, at least prior to the advent of generative AI. As you said, the reason Bob needs to write 4 paragraphs to get a new PC is to prove that he spent the requisite time for that computer, and is thus serious about the request. It’s the same reason management consultants and investment bankers spend 80+ hours a week working on enormous slide decks that only ever get skimmed by their clients: it proves to the clients that the firm spent time on them, and is thus serious about the case/deal. It’s also the same reason a concise thank-you note “thanks for the invite! we had a blast!” or a concise condolence note “very sorry for your loss” get a lot less well-received than a couple verbose paragraphs on how great the event was or how much the deceased will be missed, even if all that extra verbiage confers absolutely nothing beyond the core sentiment. (The very best notes, of course, use their extra words to convey something personally meaningful beyond “thanks” or “sorry.”)

Gen-AI completely negates meaningless verbosity as a proxy of time spent. It will be interesting to see what emerges as a new proxy, since time-as-currency is extremely engrained into the fabric of human social interactions.

naveen99 · 18 days ago
Just stuff some cash inside the greeting card instead of time as a proof of burn.
naveen99 commented on FDA approves eye drops that fix near vision without glasses   newatlas.com/aging/age-re... · Posted by u/geox
merek · 18 days ago
> The FDA approval comes based on trial data submitted by the pharmaceutical company, so it's worth noting that published peer-reviewed reports are yet to be published. Peer-reviewed publications often follow regulatory approvals, not precede them, which is common in the field of ophthalmology and dermatology.

Does anyone know the reason that data is published after approval rather than before? Seems illogical at face value, but I'm obviously missing something.

naveen99 · 18 days ago
You aren’t allowed to sell / distribute / market to “peers” until fda approval.
naveen99 commented on A.I. researchers are negotiating $250M pay packages   nytimes.com/2025/07/31/te... · Posted by u/jrwan
bbminner · 23 days ago
A PhD dropout with an alright (passable) academic record, who worked in a 1.5-tier lab on a fairly pedestrian project (multimodal llms and agents, sure), and started a startup.. Reallyttrying to not sound bitter, good for him, I guess, but does it indicate that there's something really fucked up with how talent is being acquired?
naveen99 · 23 days ago
Molmo was pretty slick
naveen99 commented on A.I. researchers are negotiating $250M pay packages   nytimes.com/2025/07/31/te... · Posted by u/jrwan
SamvitJ · 23 days ago
One way to make sense of this specific case at least.

- He's on track to becoming a top-tier AI researcher. Despite having only one year of a PhD under his belt, he already received two top awards as a first-author at major AI conferences [1]. Typically, it takes many more years of experience to do research that receives this level of recognition. Most PhDs never get there.

- Molmo, the slate of open vision-language models that he built & released as an academic [2], has direct bearing on Zuck's vision for personalized, multimodal AI at Meta.

- He had to be poached from something, in this case, his own startup, where in the best case, his equity could be worth a large multiple of his Meta offer. $250M likely exceeded the expected value of success, in his view, at the startup. There was also probably a large premium required to convince him to leave his own thing (which he left his PhD to start) to become a hired hand for Meta.

Sources:

[1] https://mattdeitke.com/

[2] https://allenai.org/blog/molmo

naveen99 · 23 days ago
Molmo caught my eye also a while ago.
naveen99 commented on The Making of Dario Amodei   bigtechnology.com/p/the-m... · Posted by u/spenvo
pamelafox · a month ago
I generally am impressed by Anthropic's focus on safety, but I was taken aback by this quote from Dario: https://bsky.app/profile/kylierobison.com/post/3lujbtfdzyk2e

“Unfortunately, I think ‘no bad person should ever benefit from our success’ is a pretty difficult principle to run a business on.”

I agree, it is hard to run a business on that principle, but I also thought that if any AI company were to aspire to it, it would be Anthropic.

naveen99 · a month ago
the old sabotage yourself so you can’t accidentally help your enemy trick. When you value your enemy’s pain more than your own happiness.
naveen99 commented on The natural diamond industry is getting rocked. Thank the lab-grown variety   cbc.ca/news/business/lab-... · Posted by u/geox
ghushn3 · a month ago
If that was true, you'd expect the younger professionals of today would have comparative amounts of wealth to the boomers when they were young professionals. It's absolutely not the case. Each generation is getting poorer and poorer as they hit the same benchmarks.

This tracks with broad trends of wealth inequality increasing as well.

So no, it's not just "they haven't accumulated yet", because it's not clear they will have the opportunity to do so.

naveen99 · a month ago
Boomers had a lot more sibling and lot smaller inheritances coming to them. Kids these days will inherit a lot more and share a lot less with siblings.
naveen99 commented on Windsurf employee #2: I was given a payout of only 1% what my shares where worth   twitter.com/premqnair/sta... · Posted by u/rfurmani
stouset · a month ago
Vested is not exercised.

Options vest, but you have to exercise them to purchase the underlying shares. This is nominally cheap, but from the IRS’ perspective you have just spent $1 to purchase a share worth $100, so that’s $99 of income. Multiply by a large number of options and you can easily have a real multimillion dollar tax bill even though you have no way to sell the shares to recoup their value.

Worse, if the company loses its value before you can sell, you’re still out those taxes with zero recourse. It’s an enormous risk.

If you leave a company with vested but unexercised shares, you generally forfeit them.

naveen99 · a month ago
Doesn’t income happen when you sell the shares ? What is the cost basis of the shares you purchase if not the strike price of the option ?

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