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I suspect a few high level departures more and it'd be dead.
Do you mean he's going to continue working on it or just that he had been for the past 8 or 9 years?
I've stopped caring about anyone who uses the word "safety". It's vague and a hand-waive-y way to paint your opponents as dangerous without any sort of proof or agreed upon standard for who/what/why makes something "safety".
Notice anyone talking that phrase or "AI safety" have no ability to qualify or quantify it?
It's become such an eye roll at this point.
It's an interesting saga though and as a payer of ChatGPT+ I feel staked in it.
At this point that coming from Elon may not be the endorsement you think it is.
Also maybe Elon sees that Ilya is going to be ousted and wants to extend a hand to him before others do.
To be frank, they need to really spell out what "benefitting mankind" is. How is it measured? Or is it measured? Or is it just "the board says this isn't doing that so it's not doing that"?
It's honestly a silly slogan.
Agreed. Unfortunately those people who leveled accusations will face no consequences. Even if you were to bring up that they wrong, naive, selfish, you'll just get a shrug from them and a "get over it". Like the results and end-game don't matter to them now, when before they swore with their life that it mattered and anyone in opposition was a xenophobic piece of crap.
"The standard for bad here isn't bad" because it was worse elsewhere. Where I live in the US we have this too where migrants who have come here don't see anything bad because where they are from was worse.
They don't see what those of us that have been here from birth have seen. That standards are sliding. Yes, for you the migrant coming from a poorer place, this place is richer. But for me the native this place has become poorer.
And talking about and suggesting we need to stop the backslide gets an eye-roll from the enablers.
And I'm actually legitimately afraid to actually voice that opinion in-person. I can vent here anonymously. But in the circles I'm in in San Francisco, I wouldn't dare suggest that certain migrants may not be compatible. There could personal, social, career impacts. You're automatically branded a xenophobe of some kind.
Probably both things are true.
When countries take in large amounts of immigration, their generous welfare systems can become stressed.
Sweden didn't balance the concerns.
I would definitely say the board screwed up.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2023/11/17/openai-in...
Ilya was apparently instrumental in this, and he didn't have to pursue this?
It didn't have to be a "you're with me or you're with them!"
It's becoming a bit of a weasel word in these discussions. I keep hearing it thrown around with nobody specifying how rolling out ChatGPT to more people makes the world "less safe". It's a laugh line at this point.
What exactly do YOU mean by safety? That they go at the pace YOU decide? Does it mean they make a "safe space" for YOU?
I've seen nothing to suggest they aren't "being safe". Actually ChatGPT has become known for censoring users "for their own good" [0].
The argument I've seen is: one "side" thinks things are moving too fast, therefore the side that wants to move slower is the "safe" side.
And that's it.
Those seems like implementation details, really strange.
It was just posted but was filmed on November 1st.
My most recent thing is for a game I'm working on. I got a bunch of free sound FX from freesound.org, but they were AIFF format. I googled and found an online converter, then asked ChatGPT to use ffmpeg to write a script that goes through the directory converting the AIFFs to MP3s.
In the past if I would have written such a script it would have required me to "look into how to do it" and then I would have saved the script somewhere on my machine or online. Now I just deleted it right away. If I ever need to do it again or something similar I'll just ask ChatGPT and get it from scratch again.
He then posted something like "<Company(Google?)>, where they reject you for not knowing <X> algorithm, even though they use and depend on your open source software".
I think Blow said something along the lines of "well the dumbest comp sci 101 student would know that algo, so I'm not sure what kind of coder you are?"
This is vaguely from memory ~10 years ago but is what I remember about Jon Blow too.
Education is fucked everywhere and the West Coast is no better.
In San Francisco we got rid of algebra and it didn't help: - https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/san-francisco-insis...
In Seattle the math is racist crowd has done some work: - https://www.newsweek.com/math-racist-crowd-runs-rampant-seat...
And similarly in Oregon, can right answers be wrong, all to fix equity? - https://www.the74million.org/article/can-right-answers-be-wr...
:(
I don't have a lot of hope for early education in this country.
Is there a comparable experience elsewhere (in Iceland or not) that's not overpriced, overcrowded, or out of the way? (a lot to ask I know)
I specified my issue (aspergers) for a reason. I would need legal and competent representation if I were accused of something.
We know from people that have actually consented to be in the public sphere (politicians, performers, etc) that even denying an accusation against you still leaves you a pariah with the scarlet letter, to be ostracized in some cases.
Smearing and destroying a person extra-judicially with no "burden of proof" to convict isn't something I'm okay with.
If there is legitimate wrongdoing of some kind, an investigation, carried out by the designated representatives (police, detectives, prosecutors) who are paid by our tax dollars and not by advertisers or the wealthy is what's preferable and actually representative.
I'm not a fan of this journalist "ambushing" the founder at his property and staying outside of it until he gets some answers. "He has all the blinds closed" - right.
Let a judge determine whether the founder is in the wrong and needs to provide answers.
Sorry maybe it's the aspergers in me but I'm generally not a fan of these self-anointed judge, jury, and executioners performing public shaming rituals.
I don't have high hopes for this.
> Of course if you have developers that don't do that and instead merge dozens of commits that just say wip, wip, wip, lol, fml, wip, wip, lol, yolo and you can't fire them or get them to change, then squash merges ftw.
Yes, any large organization has plenty of devs who all have their own style and preferences, for better or worse.
Whoever demands they all bend to the one true way is a fascist (lol not really but you know).
Just set up your CI/CD in such a way that PRs with weird git logs get squashed into one pretty message, preferably the PR description since other devs have to review the PR it's often given more effort. Set it up so that if things weren't formatted the "right way" they get auto-formatted or a test fails and the dev says "ah, I have to run that one task and then update the PR".
I don't think a big organization is going to scale with developer "evangelists" demanding people write their commits a certain way either.
conventionalcommits.org was the worst. I worked at one "big co" that tried to get devs to do this. Even after we had been doing it for a while, nobody ever went back to look at the history in such a way that it was worth it. We ended up throwing in the towel rather than the company trying to get all other teams to do it.
But at many of the coffee shops I go to I can use Xfinity, their city-wide solution for their customers.
Often times I don't even need to ask for the coffeeshop's wifi password since the Xfinity connection may be good enough.
Quite often it isn't, more often than not actually. But the main shop I go to near my apartment it's reliable.
The problem with this is enforcement.
People have become antisocial and angrier, an effect of COVID isolation? I don't know.
But putting retail workers in the position of having to even ask people to leave is too uncomfortable and potentially even risky.