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I kind of angree with the anrgument that for an ideal AGI abstractions are not needed. It would write everything perfectly without even needing a programming language. It would know everything to the byte and would create perfect machine code meeting all the requirements as perfect as it’s possible.

But the reality is different. First of all LLM were trained on current data, with the abstractions we currently use.

Secondly they suffer they same problems we do, their context size is way too small to just simply ignore abstractions.

Not what what the parent post claimed.

We don’t know

I bet you that if their dear leader suggested this, most of the people would vote to have their voting rights be taken away.

> they fought for one new power hungry scumbag to replace old power hungry scumbag.

Because, as Plato argued, the best rulers are the ones that don’t want to rule, as ruling is a very heavy duty, if not burden.

If you strip corruption, it has no rewards. Instead you have to put up with “scambags” accusing for the things the corruption they would do if they had the power.

Why does this sound familiar?

Mathematicians having their stackoverflow moment.

I tried a couple of times moving to self hosted.

Configuration was pretty easy. Setup SPF, DMARC, DKIM. Chose a reputable provider, checked the IP is not blacklisted anywhere(had to try a few IPs). Verified that all configuration was right.

Then when I started replying to emails, I would never hear back from the recipients. I created a Gmail account and sent an email to myself and lo and behold my reply went straight straight to spam. Despite the mail headers saying everything was checked and was fine.

I’d love to hear ideas of what I did wrong. I tripled checked SPF and DKIM. Verified IP with McToolbox, Spamhaus, etc..

Also my domain is 10+ years old and has been hosted by google and fastmail in the past and only for very low volume private emails.

Open Source is free as in speech

Open Weights is free as in beer

“So he didn't want to google it?”

No, he didn’t want interrupt the interview to start checking out phones.

“I told him we'd have to agree to disagree.”

That’s where I went wrong. But I like to think learned my lesson.

From Arista documentation:

“Arista data planes support these packet forwarding modes: Store and forward: the switch accumulates entire packets before forwarding them. Cut through: the switch begins forwarding frames before their reception is complete.”

> but rather, was refusing to accept that the scenario they're talking through with you would ever involve an effectively deployed cut-through switch (since that's basically never).

Nope, the argument was exactly if a cut-through switch exists or ever existed

Edit: Actually the conversation came back to me:

He asked me about the frame format. Once I drew that on the board, he asked why is the DST before the SRC. My answer was in order for the switch to start doing the lookups ASAP and that's when I mentioned that a cut-through switch can switch the packet before it even finishes receiving it.

After that we spend the rest of the interview time arguing if cut-through switches actually exist or not. Both he and I having too big of an ego to let it go..

Awesome. Don’t ever let go of the domain name and IP!

“incompetent persons in power”.

The fact that they can get away with shit like this makes them pretty competent in my book.

To me it’s the opposition that’s incompetent, not being able to put an end to the circus.

“ Cut-through vs Store-and-Forward”

I had a Google interview collapse because the last interviewer was a Principle Engineer who just couldn’t accept that a switch will ever forward a frame before reading in full and checking the FCS.

I was too much of an idiot to go along with it and instead ended up having an argument with him.

Good luck having your emails hitting any inbox instead of ending up in spam.

Dude.. what are you smoking..?

It’s not about morality. It’s about asking it to do task A and doing task B with the hope of getting the result of task A as a byproduct.

Meaning you will have to spend more time and tokens to actually get it to do what you want it to do.

What do the bible and morals have anything to do with it?

I’m criticizing the behavior I see even in the current models. You ask it to do A and instead it does B for reasons.

For example you may ask to help you build a NN library from scratch. And instead it will be like, “you don’t need a new library. I downloaded PyTorch for you”

Just an example. There are countless more.

I don’t understand how they thought this was a positive story.

The agent completely misunderstood the spirit of the assignment and instead of trying to solve ExploitGym it tried to find a way to “cheat”.

I really don’t want my agent to behave that way.

Yes, I know this is not Reddit but Clarkson’s “Oh no! Anyway…” is the perfect, and most fitting, reaction to this. Nothing else to say

Don’t know much about how distillation works so please enlighten me here.

> what are large language models but the distillation of all of the knowledge on the open Internet, scraped by the frontier labs and distilled into the models

If it’s as easy as that why do they choose to distill another model and not distill the knowledge on the open Internet from scratch?

We will be able to afford RAM and SSD again

Or you can go full Reddit and just block anything that seems even remotely suspicious.

Your sibling, roommate, neighbor that uses your internet, previous IP owner, posts too much? You get blocked too.

Using VPN? Blocked.

Your iPhone is too old, blocked.

Your screen brightness too low? Believe or not, blocked.

moron

What are the dystopian parts then? You didn’t explain..?

Actually Brave New World was a utopia, not dystopia. Many confuse it with 1984.

Every need of the common people was met and their happiness was catered for. And those who were unusually independent, intellectually curious, creative or couldn’t fit in were “exiled”, to a place with their equals, where their were free to continue their studies, art, etc.

Imagine a world where the MAGAs are happy and content instead of angry.

Right. The uber rich are sure to share the wealth. Thanks for the laugh.

Americans are fucked. European on the other hand may start bring out the guillotines again.

This generation is f*cked, just like that generation was. The new jobs are for the next generation.

> For personal use I don't care if I get access to it. Tokens are becoming too expensive.

How is this a rational argument?

Are you so self centered that you only care about government decisions that affect ONLY the present you?

“I don’t care that the government made prescription glasses illegal, I can see fine without them”

When was the last time you place or received a call to/from PSTN?

> clearly ethically wrong

Ethics are subjective. That’s why we have courts judge based on the law and not ethics

Cough.. cough.. Uber.. cough cough AirBNB