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z7
·vor 3 Tagen·discuss
"Hey Leibniz, how do you live with yourself knowing that your binary system helped eventually replace human conversations?"
z7
·vor 23 Tagen·discuss
"I just tested my hand in a mini version of this scanner. Images that are higher quality than MRI, whole body captured in <1 minute, virtually free to run. This is going to change medicine."

https://x.com/SebastianCaliri/status/2067452733356122303
z7
·vor 5 Monaten·discuss
"As Alexander predicted in 'AI 2027,' OpenAI did release a major new model in 2025; unlike in his forecast, it’s been a damp squib. Advances seem to be plateauing; the conversation in tech circles is now less about superintelligence and more about the possibility of an AI bubble."

I'm not sure how many AI researchers would find this accurate. It seems to me that under conditions of ambiguity people often default to describing their preferred version of reality.
z7
·vor 5 Monaten·discuss
The comparison isn't really like-for-like. NHTSA SGO AV reports can include very minor, low-speed contact events that would often never show up as police-reported crashes for human drivers, meaning the Tesla crash count may be drawing from a broader category than the human baseline it's being compared to.

There's also a denominator problem. The mileage figure appears to be cumulative miles "as of November," while the crashes are drawn from a specific July-November window in Austin. It's not clear that those miles line up with the same geography and time period.

The sample size is tiny (nine crashes), uncertainty is huge, and the analysis doesn't distinguish between at-fault and not-at-fault incidents, or between preventable and non-preventable ones.

Also, the comparison to Waymo is stated without harmonizing crash definitions and reporting practices.
z7
·vor 6 Monaten·discuss
> The West is not complicit in the actions of the Iranian regime

What about the 1953 CIA/MI6 coup that overthrew Iran's elected prime minister?
z7
·vor 6 Monaten·discuss
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z7
·vor 8 Monaten·discuss
"You only live once."

Why state this as absolute fact? Seems a bit lacking in epistemic humility.
z7
·vor 9 Monaten·discuss
Here's the Grokipedia submission (currently censored / flagged):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45726459
z7
·vor 9 Monaten·discuss
Hypothetically, what if the AI-generated blog post were better than what the human author of the blog would have written?
z7
·vor 10 Monaten·discuss
List of dates predicted for apocalyptic events:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dates_predicted_for_ap...
z7
·vor 10 Monaten·discuss
Current cope collection:

- It's not a fair match, these models have more compute and memory than humans

- Contestants weren't really elite, they're just college level programmers, not the world's best

- This doesn't matter for the real world, competitive programming is very different from regular software engineering

- It's marketing, they're just cranking up the compute to unrealistic levels to gain PR points

- It's brute force, not intelligence
z7
·vor 10 Monaten·discuss
An encyclopaedia is a lossy representation of reality.
z7
·vor 2 Jahren·discuss
His predictions:

>AGI by 2027 is strikingly plausible. GPT-2 to GPT-4 took us from ~preschooler to ~smart high-schooler abilities in 4 years. Tracing trendlines in compute (~0.5 orders of magnitude or OOMs/year), algorithmic efficiencies (~0.5 OOMs/year), and “unhobbling” gains (from chatbot to agent), we should expect another preschooler-to-high-schooler-sized qualitative jump by 2027.

>I make the following claim: it is strikingly plausible that by 2027, models will be able to do the work of an AI researcher/engineer. That doesn’t require believing in sci-fi; it just requires believing in straight lines on a graph.