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johnsimer··on OpenAI to become for-profit company
Is there a sizable focus on safety? Last time I heard there was only like one safety person left on the team
johnsimer··on CO2 helps viruses stay alive longer in the air
IIRC you need ~300 plants to offset every one human in a house
johnsimer··on GPT-4o
Did they mention this in the gpt4o announcement video? I must have missed this
johnsimer··on The Class Struggle in Silicon Valley
If worker leverage has dissipated then IMO that’s because they’re providing less relative value. If you can provide your employer more value they will pay you more
johnsimer··on The Class Struggle in Silicon Valley
I don’t want seniority based pay. I want value based pay.

If I join a company and day one I’m the top performer I’d want to negotiate a better package for myself and I don’t want other people meddling in my negotiation unless I explicitly hire them to

johnsimer··on The Class Struggle in Silicon Valley
If I decide to improve my skills and negotiate a 2x raise with my employer or another employer I don’t want to have to be limited by some additional bureaucracy trying to tell me what my employment contract should be
johnsimer··on Neuralink patient controls games by thinking during interview
That is very likely neuralink’s plan

IIRC they are doing that test in pigs right now

johnsimer··on SpaceX discloses cause of Starship anomalies as it clears an FAA hurdle
but also skin in the game and supply/demand

Should be much more accurate than a simple poll, because people with the belief that the odds are undervalued will put money in the game to hopefully profit off their belief

It's more like the Efficient Market Hypothesis

johnsimer··on Famous Solopreneurs Who Accomplished Nothing by Age 30
Sam Altman
johnsimer··on The housing shortage is larger than you think
Communism creates an even worse underclass every time it has been tried.
johnsimer··on The housing shortage is larger than you think
exactly. Not everyone wants to own their own home. This actual increases rental supply.

if you want more housing, build more houses.

Changing % ownership of houses between individuals/companies via government mandates does not actually build more houses.

johnsimer··on X is now licensed for payment processing in a dozen U.S. states
There are hordes of people on Twitter criticizing Elon, Tesla, Elon's twitter purchase, Elon's political comments, etc. Last time I checked, they still have their accounts.
johnsimer··on GPT-4 Can Almost Perfectly Handle Unnatural Scrambled Text
Or at the very least would you have to finetune some 3B or 7B model to do this?

I want to create some locally hosted model that can do this in real time with a low memory footprint

Let people mash the keyboard at 2x-3x their typing speed and the unscramble it for them in real time to enable typing at 200-300wpm

johnsimer··on GPT-4 Can Almost Perfectly Handle Unnatural Scrambled Text
Do you need an LLM to do this? How much do a word or language model is necessary to do the unscrambling?

Could you simply train a raw network on a bunch of scrambled and unscrambled text pairs that are representative of the English language? Something with a few hundred million parameters or less?

johnsimer··on Early-life stress changes more genes in the brain than a head injury in rats
Evolutionarily speaking, social isolation is more stressful than violence

Soldiers develop mental health issues more often when they return home and become socially isolated than when they are at war, surrounded by their brothers

johnsimer··on Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft
Not true

Sama on X said as of late 2022 they were single digit pennies per query and dropping

johnsimer··on The case against AI everything, everywhere, all at once
False, because you could always go to a different forum
johnsimer··on Launch HN: Stellar Sleep (YC S23) – An app that helps people with insomnia
These are the same forms a sleep doc putting you on CBD-I will have you fill out.

Except they will charge you a lot more money, have you come to the office and have you fill out the same form 3 times a row (online, then at the office, then verbally while talking to doctor) in typical doctor’s office fashion

johnsimer··on The underground world of credit card network exploitation
What do you recommend as an alternative to stripe?
johnsimer··on Making $10k/m from a French learning app
A dollar you earn from your own business feels as good as 5 you earn from a W2
johnsimer··on TaxyAI: Open-source browser automation with GPT-4
Build your own tool then
johnsimer··on 30% of YC companies exposed through SVB can’t make payroll in the next 30 days
This isn’t “creative” destruction though. Purely destructive destruction
johnsimer··on For Chat-Based AI, We Are All Once Again Tech Companies’ Guinea Pigs
Right but the eventual discussion is that we need to be able to understand and control the generated bytecode, if possible at all.

Eventually smarter than human AIs will exist and we currently do not have real interperability into dumber than human AIs

johnsimer··on How to Beat Stress and Anxiety
It is if you meditate

Mindfulness meditation can increase the connection between your prefrontal cortex and your amyglada

johnsimer··on Association vigorous intermittent lifestyle physical activity with mortality
If your arteries are calcified and you have high blood pressure I would think not . . .
johnsimer··on FTX used corporate funds to purchase employee homes, new filing shows
Altruism is overrated?

If you were poor or otherwise suffering would you not want help from someone richer than you?

johnsimer··on What happened when my wife died
When my sister was sick the best thing we had was an entire church community helping us out - people taking turns babysitting, various people bringing food to us, people I barely knew and friends of people I barely knew offering help, people simply hanging out and being there for us, tons of people who had been thru similar things telling me I could call them at any time (I never did because I had trouble asking for help and acknowledging my emotions back then)

What I’m getting at is I’d assume the more of a community you can get around the situation, the better - and the greater the variety of needs that can be serviced (emotional or time-based) and the longer lasting that help can last. In a similar way to how constructing an org can be a lot more robust and capable than trying to solo a project

Sometimes just having someone(s) do some PM work to manage funeral arrangements, life insurance arrangements, closing down accounts, manage beneficiary distributions etc can be very helpful if motivation/discipline is hard or stressful to come by

Food for thought: after my sister and dad passed I had tons of people ask me how I was doing / “please you can talk to me anytime” and I’d say “I’m good” even though I was plagued with burnout, depression, anxiety for a few years etc. I’m in a much better spot now, but what I’m getting at is there can be a problem of that it may be near impossible to actually know how the person is doing, especially if they’re the type of person who doesn’t like sharing emotions or being a burden on others. Not exactly sure what you can do to fix it, just pointing it out

johnsimer··on What happened when my wife died
It’s hard man. What you’re doing for him is good <3
johnsimer··on Fast-stable-diffusion colabs, +25% speed increase and memory efficient
Run it on a burner Gmail account
johnsimer··on Tesla’s Dojo Microarchitecture
Dojo’s D1 chip for training AFAIK is not being used yet. Tesla still trains with their ~7000 cluster of A100s

And the D1 is for their training machine anyways. Not their inference chip in the cars

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