but in actuality, its all about how you use it.

you can dump your thoughts and constraints you can think of, and have it work through untangling, or use it as a summarizing notepad, or yo prototype what you are thinking about in different variations.

its no replacement for pen and paper, but no typed or drawn on tablet picture comes close to a real notebook to scribble on its entirely a thinking tool, as much as a skip-thinking tool

sounds like an easy buy, if it wasnt already way expensive.

i guess we'll actually find out if he gave away useful nvidia secrets in years from now, but by then the tech might not matter all that much to Nvidia.

he was cheating on his wife before now, and Nvidia was doing just fine

A forward PE of 11 ain't expensive. It's the cheapest it has been in a decade.

kinda bad economica though - the ai bubble eating all the RAM is bad for many industries worth of useful production, including the infrastructure that makes gaming and movie industries possible nowadays

do you have a count on how many times claude has committed that file?

i bet most of the commited ones were done by claude because nobody else us gonna care to make it

so i guess the main safety aspect of anthropic with regards to ai is that theyre trying to speedrun some other disaster instead?

I suspect the rational calculus is that if you abscond with billions while destroying the planet, the billions will protect your for the remaining 80 or so years of your life. Which is of course safer than not having the billions in the theoretically inevitably destroyed planet.

This is how you get concrete poured down your doomsday bunker air ducts...

i don't know how much of it has been thrown out/superceded, but Thinking Fast and Slow would suggest it actually makes you slow down to think about the material, rather than jumping past.

"Force you to think" as long as the meaning isnt changed, isnt a bad thing

It is when the forcing results from negligence rather than deliberation. In those cases, you're not being confronted with an alien, difficult, or profound concept? You're being given a broken version of a boringly ordinary concept, and wasting your brainpower on papering over an orthographic or grammatical crack that should have been cleaned up by the author, or the editor, or one of the test readers.

In these cases, you're not thinking about the material; you're thinking about carelessly it's been put together, and how little regard the author appears to have for the audience.

The piece makes the point that a novel is about immersion in the text. Slowing down to think about the material is the opposite of the goal

Spelling errors (especially in professionally published text) break my suspension of disbelief or train of thought and make me question both the author and editor’s language abilities. That’s not the kind of thinking I set out to do when reading.

Not sure about that. I mean, you misspelled “superseded” and this prompted me to take some time to write this reply. Maybe I will remember your point better for so doing, but is it really the best way to reflect on the topic?

youve missed the joke, that the descriptions used to be swapped

Well, I mean, they still are for most of the public.

Sorry - I think you're right. I had a hard time telling with several of the early comments in this thread. (The new ones are more serious) What's that rule about it being tough to tell on the internet?

the most obvious example was counting the Rs in strawberry.

figuring out what is and isnt in distribution is quite difficult though given that theres so much data passed in, and transformers have some amount of combining it together

theres some really obvious things though, like picking nonsense tokens together, or things outside of the tokenspace entirely

you could also construct a string that is a series of the least likely tokens in a row. you wont get it to output the next token, despite it being quite clear how you did it

what about a house cat?

they clearly outhink the sparrow at sparrowing in order to predict what the sparrow will and wont react to, and how theyll try to escape the cat

Avoiding predation is a pretty small part of the life of a house sparrow. There is no reason to believe a cat brain would do a good job with handling the demands of flight (avian brains process visual stimuli roughly twice as fast as mammalian brains, for one thing).

But even if we focus on avoiding predation: would a cat brain in a sparrow body (a silly premise, I'll admit!) do better at avoiding cat predation than a sparrow brain in a sparrow body? I doubt it!

It's not clear to me that a house cat is better at out-thinking a sparrow than a sparrow is at out-thinking a house cat.

that would imply the learning of what the weights mean can be done unsupervised which is really cool.

it probably has however been trained on papers talking about ways they extracted subsets of LLMs as say, the part that knows chess, and would be able to then use similar commands to process the weights