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hisfraudulencyon Geoffrey Hinton: it might turn out we were better off without AI

Why are the using the Ukrainian transliteration of Chernobyl now

hisfraudulencyon Could a modern chess engine on a Pentium have defeated Kasparov in 1996?

Yeah that last bit is what I was going for.

hisfraudulencyon Could a modern chess engine on a Pentium have defeated Kasparov in 1996?

I was responding to the commenter's intuition that GMs do actually analyze more lines. I'm saying the original article's claim checks out even for machines.

hisfraudulencyon Could a modern chess engine on a Pentium have defeated Kasparov in 1996?

There's an analog in machine chess. According to the research paper from 2017, AlphaZero considered ~10,000 moves per decision, 1,000x fewer than Stockfish at the time. h2h it beat Stockfish pretty badly.

hisfraudulencyon Anthropic S-1

Made it up tbh

hisfraudulencyon Anthropic S-1

So it looks like $2T is indeed the target

hisfraudulencyon Sixteen years after Deepwater Horizon, deep sea life shows few signs of recovery

TMI hadn't even entered my mind while typing out that comment which just goes to show how political the historiography of this stuff is.

hisfraudulencyon Sixteen years after Deepwater Horizon, deep sea life shows few signs of recovery

Interesting that the spill hasn't dampened long term prospects for offshore drilling (besides the brief push against it around 2016) whereas Chernobyl basically nerfed American nuclear power gen.

hisfraudulencyon Why We're Banning AI

Too much ambiguity on my part, I meant the WSJ staff shouldn't use it in the final output of their op-eds.

hisfraudulencyon Why We're Banning AI

Good point.

hisfraudulencyon Why We're Banning AI

I'm kinda ambivalent on the Druckenmiller WSJ case. He's admittedly a poor writer, and probably wouldn't have published anything had it not been for AI.

Obviously the WSJ staff shouldn't be using it in the final output, but if it's a prominent guest's opinion filtered through ChatGPT, I'm mostly fine with it.

hisfraudulencyon OpenAI's average basic pay for British staff hits £794,000

This is like making $5M in the US.

hisfraudulencyon Americans' social activity has steeply declined in the past 30 years

It feels strange to assign all the blame to media, like theoretically it should be a number of factors, but that's what I got from reading Bowling Alone (fwiw I read the 1995 essay and not the 2000 book).

Even on the TFR point, the birth rate in 1976 in USA was 1.74, 2025 it was 1.6. So it's not like a China situation where it went from over 3 to less than 1 in 50 years.

hisfraudulencyon Character.ai has initiated voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy

Huh. Idk if that makes it more or less strange. Post GPT-3 and he thought the future of AI was an artificial version of Cameo.

hisfraudulencyon Character.ai has initiated voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy

It was always odd to me that talent like Noam Shazeer was working at a company with such a gimmicky premise to begin with.

hisfraudulencyon Mark Zuckerberg grilled on usage goals and underage users at California trial

There's an incredible cultural contempt for social media, everyone recognizes the harms, but we collectively spend more and more time on social media apps.

Wat mean?