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Feelings need chemicals - dopamine, seratonin, oxytocin.
Our meat substrate has these, silcon doesn't.
While mirrors, TVs, Tiktoks, LLMs can evoke emotions in us, that's not sufficent to assign feelings, consciousness or souls to that substrate.
He's demonstrated the former 16B times, now he's demonstrating the latter.
The big downside risk I see for Nvidia is a garage startup inventing a more efficient AI algo.... that only needs 20W to run.
2) Time is far more valuable than money. If you can take life-changing $$$ off the table in exchange for time, do so. The 2nd $1M buys you a tiny proportion of the benefits that the first $1M did.
3) You have a v. high risk concentrated portfolio that is aligned with your income. That's massive risk.
4) Taking it now buys you time & optionality. Leaving some still buys you blue sky. Best of both worlds.
My brain only needs to get mugged in a dark alley by a guy in a hoodie once to learn something.
Precisely. The world has lost faith in both the US voters and its' checks & balances.
Buffet said he is prepared to lose $Bs, but not an ounce of trust - in 100 days the US has lost both.
faith in the stability of US govt
declining need for petro dollars
increase in US debt as %age of GDP
(IANA Economist)
...does Trump not understand 2nd round effects ?
From afar he seems to be intent on Making America Great for Billionaires at the expense of any country less powerful than the US.
Then call it GPT 4.1 and allow version space for the next iteration.
I think the label V4.5 is giving the impression of more than marginal improvements.
Deepseek is a side project for a hedge fund.
Shorting NVIDIA & releasing everything including the source would have a high probability of being hugely profitable, with almost zero downside if it went unnoticed.
His response to a billionaire was 'I have something you will never have - enough'.
However, no amount of scaling will change a text memorisation algo into a symbolic reasoning or composability algo, both of which are necessary for progress towards AGI.
So yes, LLMs are a dead end in the quest for AGI. However, they have their uses as a google/stackoverflow replacement.
Adjust separation, cohesion and alignment manually, or use the presets.
Surely the most significant side effect of any F2F interview is to evaluate social skills. An answer that the interviewer fully expects to be a lie just isn't required.
Anyway... "Why do you want to employ me over other candidates ? "
As a payload agnostic platform, Zephyr can transform into a multi-functional tower in the sky to provide low latency 5G direct-to-device mobile connectivity services.
"type in 'dir \documents' and press Enter. What comes up?".
"Nothing".
"Nothing at all?"
"Nothing happens".
After trying many variations of this, it eventually became apparent that he was pressing the Space Bar instead of the Enter key.
There was a recent post suggesting that our thoughts are 98% unconscious.
It's not hard to imagine that there could be some animals with more than 0.01% consciousness. After all, we started at 0% conscious and evolved a little - other species are probably some way down that track.
That's something that bugs me too. D3 is pretty amazing but is only accessible to coders.
> we’ve almost completely lost the art of offscreen rendering
markdown2.com is something I'm working on to address that. It lets you design markdown documents containing charts & diagrams, and then Save As HTML/PDF or SVG/JPG. There's also an API for generating them in bulk.
There's an API coming that will allow those customised docs to be generated at scale.
LLMs will always have the same basic challenges - their 'kinda copy what a human has written' algorithm has hit its limit.
He is an advocate of symbolic learning - getting that to work is a lot harder, however it's far more likely to result in genuine intelligence.
Obviously doesn't work for anything that needs real phone# or real physical address, but anything to reduce risk of data breach, cross-referencing data, tracking helps.
I also use disposable digital credit card number (from wise.com) for non-mainstream sites.
It's a lot easier than having to navigate the 'delete all my data' maze.
I run alone (at a slow conversational pace) for 5-6 hours a week, and see that time as an opportunity to learn conversational German. Any ideas what I could be listening to... maybe a listen & repeat type app ?
Inoreader has a 'Load Full Content' button above every (shortened) feed item. It retrieves the original in full & displays it in clear text (no ads and little html formatting).
I discovered the button by accidently clicking it - it's an unintuitive steaming coffee cup.
Downside is that there are many jobs yet.
It starts a web server on the phone on port 4444. Then point a browser at the phone & view/download anything.