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Posts by Alex Becker

question is whether the next era is "unleaded" or "organomercury"

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shortage of artificial goods is the natural state of the world? only continuous human intervention can make it otherwise

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This is very funny to me because I would consider myself ETTA except their definition of "late" is so early as to be outside of my social circle's Overton window.

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I am once again asking that my microblogging site allow me to search my likes

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This is true at the individual level but very false at the group level unfortunately

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In the future if you want to sell it you can’t reveal you know how cache is pronounced

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…does it not cache the emails it already saw??

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Ah I never trusted anyone else’s agent framework with much access so idk. But how many emails can these people get?? Ignoring promotions which are never worth reading I get maybe 10/day

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I would expect coding users use more tokens on average though, so it doesn’t make sense unless they are selling subscriptions at a massive loss to gain coding market share (plausible)

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Are they training on subscriber data and worried about data quality?

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This alone has to put him pretty deep in utilitarian hell

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Every now and then I remember Milton Friedman's main political legacy is Prop 13 and I get sad, confused and angry.

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Just checked up on tanky twitter and was surprised to see it still going strong, but I guess they see no difference between Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk.

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Fun fact it is actually so much better than it used to be. 10 years ago I exclusively used it to listen to instrumental music and wouldn’t open YouTube in public because the recommendations were so bad.

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Ah yeah that’s a beautiful stretch. Drove down there moving from Seattle to SF a couple months ago.

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NorCal? Oregon?

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I actually found it unwatchable because it was too close to my life

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Fair, but there might be more damaging or more subtle opportunities. (Ofc we will have to deal with this info being very accessible soon anyway)

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I think Western models have generally tokenized non Latin alphabets less efficiently than Chinese models for the reasons you’d expect

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This seems dangerous in the wrong hands!

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I would think of this more as no longer paying a penalty for non Latin scripts

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(this is on Opus fwiw, her writing is far better)

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Imagine if Opus thought your writing might be Yud's

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tempted to make TrumpBench

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contrast with a fake

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They are really good at picking up on style cues in text

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It’s a safety problem unfortunately. Pre filling a compliant response to a harmful user message can get around model safety training.

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As in why do model providers not allow it?

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I am very confused, I swear this was auto-translated for me back in September?

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