Modern AGI discourse defies the voice of reason
Readit Newsyaroslavvb commented on God, Gold and GPUs yaroslavvb.substack.com/p... · Posted by u/yaroslavvb
yaroslavvb commented on Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time data.stackexchange.com/st... · Posted by u/maartin0
This is a perfect example of an element of Q&A forums that is being lost. Another thing that I don't think we'll see as much of anymore is interaction from developers that have extensive internal knowledge on products.
An example I can think of was when Eric Lippert, a developer on the C# compiler at the time, responded to a question about a "gotcha" in the language: https://stackoverflow.com/a/8899347/10470363
Developer interaction like that is going to be completely lost.
I used to look at all TensorFlow questions when I was on the TensorFlow team (https://stackoverflow.com/tags/tensorflow/info). Unclear where people go to interact with their users now....Reddit? But the tone on Reddit is kind of negative/complainy
Well shit, we can really lower water bills by getting rid of all clean water regulations and simply stop water treatment.
Think of the cost savings!
Stricter (but not looser) standards can be imposed on state level. Canada has no binding national drinking water law, they leave it to territories/provinces to decide how to implement guidelines.
Does anyone know why this is done? What is the reasoning here? Is this defendable in any way?
Balancing protection against water bills - https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-announces-it-will-keep-...
Seems like they had to opt-in to make it "discoverable". But was this just once, or for every shared chat? Did it default to 'on' after the user checked the box once?
I've used this feature before to make my chats discoverable through search engines. I had to manually click it each time I shared, it didn't toggle on.
What is the reason Google published their research details about Imagen?
Why don't they just keep their findings to themselfes and build products on top of them?
Public companies can't do stuff just for the fun of it, right? So there must be some commercial reasoning behind it?
Researchers like to talk about and show off their work outside the company. If you don't let them, they get unhappy and leave.
yaroslavvb commented on The intellectual incoherence of cryptoassets stephendiehl.com/blog/cry... · Posted by u/matthewsinclair
I like this point. Bubbles all the way down. If one becomes fixated on the troublesome qualities of crypto its intellectually dishonest to ignore the similarities in every other non-crypto investment vehicle.
The difference is that for some assets you can calculate value based on fundamentals. IE, humans need shelter, hence estimate future value of shelter (real estate) based on migration trends and other factors. How do you estimate future value of bitcoin? Lack of predictability is probably why serious investment funds don't go into crypto
yaroslavvb commented on Why AI lags behind the human brain in computational power nautil.us/blog/why-ai-lag... · Posted by u/meanie
Realistic simulation of neurons is expensive. Back in my grad school days we ran Genesis and could afford at most 10k neurons - each neuron needs a lot of work to model the corresponding differential equations. However, it's unclear how to translate this into requirements for artificial neural networks -- the type of computation is too different.
A different metric is a more relevant goalpost -- number of synapses. If each of 125 trillion synapses in the brain can adjust its strength independently of others, it loosely corresponds to a parameter in a neural network. So if we get 100 trillion parameter networks training but still no human intelligence, we'll know conclusively that the bottleneck is something else. Currently training 1T parameter networks seem feasible
yaroslavvb commented on A Field Guide to Japanese Mojibake dampfkraft.com/mojibake-f... · Posted by u/polm23
Similar guides exist for Russian encodings: http://vault.pmpc.ru/vf/16011417/6a7b205721142511253e4d581.p...
Then they got extended to detect writing systems: https://i.stack.imgur.com/ed1Co.png
It has a name too -- крякозяблики (kryakoziabliki)