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daveguy··on US confirms for first time it has deployed space weapons
Maybe they'll ask for a "slower pace of development" so it doesn't look as much like they're just asking for new regulatory barriers on their competition.
daveguy··on AI is breaking our proxies for expertise
I am 100% certain the code you write by hand will be better quality, even with AI pointing out options, than letting the AI string together completely obtuse abstractions.
daveguy··on Don't be the out of touch Kung Fu master
Yup. More hype mania from someone with a financial interest in people abdicating their thought to AI.
daveguy··on Don't be the out of touch Kung Fu master
Rapid, empty, and poorly integrated code that appears to work but no one bothers to understand is much less valuable than everyone seems to believe.
daveguy··on Bad benchmarks and evals: Senior SWE-Bench, napkin math, and winter tires
It's something an LLM would never be able to come up with because it requires a depth of experience that LLMs just don't have. It's authentically human.
daveguy··on Romania soccer introduces black card to 'combat abusive behaviour' from parents
I'm not sure why you think I was assuming that. Or why either of those wouldn't be a valid reason their actions shouldn't result in punishment the most direct way possible to the parent. A loss for their own team. That's not a good outcome for someone who treats their kid as a lottery ticket no matter who they were harassing. Although I do understand the response in a sibling post that it still gives the asshat parent some degree of control over policy and outcome. It seems like you may have mistaken some of what I said as implying something about the recipient of the abuse. Nothing I said had anything to do with the recipient of abuse. Just the parent and the team they want to win for vicarious satisfaction.
daveguy··on Romania soccer introduces black card to 'combat abusive behaviour' from parents
This makes more sense. Automatic loss for the offending parent.
daveguy··on Romania soccer introduces black card to 'combat abusive behaviour' from parents
Result is a permanent cancellation? Does that mean the match is nullified or the winner at the time wins? Either way, one team could draw a strategic black card. Seems like cancellation of the match is not the correct outcome. What about penalizing the harassing team? A red card result for the team (down a player for the next game). This seems like an odd way to handle abusive behavior from parents. Abandoning the current game may be good if parents are behaving that way, but there needs to be a serious consequence for the parent's team too. Otherwise it will just be another tool.
daveguy··on David Sacks: OpenAI and Anthropic Don't Need Regulations to Pace Frontier Models
But.... Money. (as if no one understands this is regulatory capture and/or failure to improve... aka Money)
daveguy··on We must pace the frontier
Wait... Which of the 2 did Altman not do where Amodei did? I mean, maybe not quite 8 attempts at regulatory capture. But come on. And the only reason OpenAI didn't get blacklisted is they rolled over for the worst applications.
daveguy··on Fuck it, make it anyway
One question: did you jump straight from programming to depending on the AI without looking at the code? If so, I've got some bad news for you.
daveguy··on Aligned to whom?
The illusions of thinking produced by a "thinking trace" is just as ignorant of reality as the first and last tokens. All they know of reality is the tokens in their context.
daveguy··on Aligned to whom?
The problem is, LLMs have such little understanding of the world around them. "Find exploits in specific software on this device" may as well be "find exploits".
daveguy··on Nvidia is the central bank of AI
I would love for good governance principles to seep into corporations rather than the other way around. Seems about time the direction reversed.
daveguy··on Nvidia is the central bank of AI
Or you might find out how little people care about AI. Which would not bode well for bearing load.
daveguy··on The Magic Behind Cubacadabra
Yeah, vibe coding produces shit software.
daveguy··on A misalignment of AI in mathematics
The point isn't what happens after something is solved. Where is the motivation for humans to study/find a potential solution if your kids are going to starve while you do it? These things can brute force problems that have a clearly and feasibly searchable answer, but they can't make creative leaps. It will be a severe dark ages for mathematics if humans stop contributing.
daveguy··on A misalignment of AI in mathematics
It also takes human labor to run an effective nigerian prince scam. That doesn't make it okay.
daveguy··on AI Is Breaking This Thing We Call Trust
But also, fuck trump.
daveguy··on I have a theory that software drives people insane
Getting the kids to insist they be paid what their contributions are worth would raise the boat for all developers. Of course that would take some sort of big bad union, which the oligarch vc asshats really don't like.
daveguy··on Creativity is the new moat
The coming shitstorm of crappy software is going to suck.
daveguy··on More questions about whether researchers can trust OpenAI with unpublished math
Nah, that just makes it a shitty tool.
daveguy··on What will our economic future look like?
Slick bullshit. That's AI.
daveguy··on What will our economic future look like?
I don't think they meant the nurse would be responsible. The LLC would and should be fucked in that case.
daveguy··on On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem
The question is more whether OpenAI can be trusted to honor that toggle switch. Given that they hold all chats for 30 days "for safety and security".
daveguy··on On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem
#2 (prove those chats changed model behavior) is pretty straightforward if the anonymized data from chats can be actively searched by a model. In fact, it could be very clear if the provenance of context is traced. If anonymized data from chats leak into the context of an actively running model it would clearly influence the answer.
daveguy··on On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem
If the model has access to the "anonymized" data from chats, and the model is capable of building its own context from data that it can search through, including this data. Then it looks pretty damning. An independent review of the data traces from CoT and tool use involved in producing the result should make it clear one way or the other. Seems like discovery in a civil lawsuit could be very productive.
daveguy··on Research acceleration: The view inside OpenAI
But you get more funding when you call it Recursive Self Improvement. Even better if you call it RSI so it doesn't evoke pesky skynet scenarios outside of AI safety circles.
daveguy··on Your intellectual fly is open when you use an LLM to author a post (2025)
This only applies if LLMs aren't making mistakes 20% of the time and that's the problem. When you're only saving time on the easy part, it doesn't matter if you're working twice as fast because review of the tricky parts is still going to take 80% of what it would have taken to do the whole thing. Total effort ends up being more rather than less if you want the same quality.
daveguy··on The revolt of the reader
Nice strawman. I doubt the white supremacists / nationalists / nazis even want you to come to their defense if you're going to be weak about it.
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