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Hey it's the character.ai guy, a.k.a. first confirmed AI assisted kid suicide guy.

I do not believe G-d puts people in the wrong bodies.

Shazeer also said people who criticized the removal of the AI Principles were anti-Semitic.

Kind of feel the transphobia is barely scratching the surface of all the things wrong with this person.

So if a company does want to use LLM, it is best done using local servers, such as Mac Studios or Nvidia DGX Sparks: relatively low-cost systems with lots of memory and accelerators optimized for processing ML tasks.

Eh, Local LLMs don't really scale, you can't do much better than one person per one computer, unless it's really sparse usage, and buying everyone a top-of-the-line GPU only works if they aren't currently on work laptops and VMs.

Sparks type machines will do better eventually but for now they're supposedly geared more towards training than inference, it says here that running a 70b model there returns around one word per second (three tokens) which is snail's pace.

It definitely feels like the first draft said for the longest time we had to use AI in secret because of Woke.

only have 12-days of puzzles

Obligatory oh good I might actually get something job-related done this December comment.

What's a government backstop, and does it happen often? It sounds like they're asking for a preemptive bail-out.

I checked the rest of Zitron's feed before posting and its weirder in context:

Interview:

She also hinted at a role for the US government "to backstop the guarantee that allows the financing to happen", but did not elaborate on how this would work.

Later at the jobsite:

I want to clarify my comments earlier today. OpenAI is not seeking a government backstop for our infrastructure commitments. I used the word "backstop" and it mudlled the point.

She then proceeds to explain she just meant that the government 'should play its part'.

Zitron says she might have been testing the waters, or its just the cherry on top of an interview where she said plenty of bizzare shit

it often obfuscates from the real problems that exist and are harming people now.

I am firmly on the side of it's possible to pay attention to more than one problem at a time, but the AI doomers are in fact actively downplaying stuff like climate change and even nuclear war, so them trying to suck all the oxygen out of the room is a legitimate problem.

Yudkowsky and his ilk are cranks.

That Yud is the Neil Breen of AI is the best thing ever written ~~about rationalism~~ in a youtube comment.

this seems counterintuitive but... comments are the best, name of the function but longer are the worst. Plain text summary of a huge chunk of code that I really should have taken the time to break up instead of writing a novella about it are somewhere in the middle.

I feel a lot of bad comment practices are downstream of javascript relying on jsdoc to act like a real language.

Managers gonna manage, but having a term for bad code that works that is more palatable than 'amateur hour' isn't inherently bad imo.

Worst i've heard is some company forbidding LINQ in C#, which in python terms is forcing you to always use for-loops in place of filter/map/reduce and comprehensions and other stuff like pandas.groupby

My impression from reading the stuff posted here is that omarchy is a nothing project that's being aggressively astroturfed so a series of increasingly fashy contributors can gain clout and influence in the foss ecosystem.

Definitely, it's just code for I'm ok with nazis at this point.

pro-AI but only self hosted

Like being pro-corporatism but only with regard to the breadcrumbs that fall off the oligarchs' tables.

We should start calling so-called open source models trickle-down AI.

This improved my mood considerably, thank you.