dropping history replay would remove so much operational pain from durable workflows. how do you reconstruct in-flight state after a crash, snapshotting or something event sourced
It seemed a very informative piece of journalism, very well done to be honest into the topic of "how the breach happened and how did Israeli intelligence failed".
I did not like the narrative of equating the pains of the two sides though, because they are very different in every sense.
I think the point is that RSI is meant to lead to exponential growth in capabilities. If that comes, then being 6 months behind leads to a greater and greater gap, because of how exponential growth works.
Personally I expect there is some initial gap on new capabilities as they are released, and then it closes quickly. Astra is good at math and 3d modelling, this will come soon to the others and in 6 months we'll be able to run it quantised on a 3090.
I trust the AI 2040 people, because they’ll make an implementation that at least convincingly doesn’t actually put them (or anyone) in charge.
Maybe we shouldn’t have AI safety, but if we’re going to trust anyone (besides yourself), who’s more qualified?
And it makes me suspicious when anyone brings up safety and doesn’t address the elephant in the room, that they’re at least unaware of the sprawling edge-cases.
One of my comments in that thread got deleted after I was banned, but I had it archived.
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> And again, it is offensive to compare it to identity-based discrimination. The two are not remotely similar!
Nonsense.
Cognitive and communication support is included in the WHO's definition of assistive technology. We're already seeing early research and evidence suggesting AI can help ADHD patients improve functioning by overcoming executive function barriers. These are people who may already know how to build something but may be unable to reliably execute the associated tasks.
As such, the stigma against AI overlaps significantly with ableism. By excluding this "behavior", you are invisibly penalizing people who might not have participated otherwise.
Until the oil shocks, and until “normal” planes became faster.
I happen to know a couple older and very wealthy people, and they say that even though Concorde was a lot of fun when it was a novelty, they now prefer to have a couple more hours flight and enjoy a 777 premium cabin rather than the cramped Concorde interior.
Anyway, the proof is in the pudding: if no one but national carriers ever bought and operated Concorde or Tu-144 at scale, it's not because of some Amish-like sentiment in the flight industry, but simply because that didn't make sense money-wise.
You can't treat models like drugs. One is physical and the other is digital.
To your point, the war on drugs is a colossal failure which has achieved none of the objectives it set out to do. You can now order drugs from your mobile phone in any major city in the west and the purity is often higher and they deliver it to your door sometimes faster than Uber eats.
See also for example digital piracy where the entertainment industry has lobbied, cajoled and convinced many governments around the world to criminalize the distribution of their content over the internet for free.
What was the result? After 20 years of DMCA takedowns, countless celebrations that torrents were dead, and many other self congratulations in the media, you can now find 10 different pirate streaming websites where all the episodes of pretty much any show that was ever created are available for free in 5 five minutes flat and the image quality is as good as on your Netflix or Paramount account.
The only way such a ban of open weights model would work is if you were to replicate the great firewall of China in the US and in Europe and even that doesn't work completely.
As for sanctions, China and India are buying Russian oil in enormous quantities as we speak and they don't really care that Europe and the US have put sanctions on Russia and I suspect you will see the same results with models coming from China.
If a country has a choice to either use the expensive SOTA models approved by Washington or Europe only or using the cheaper and not so SOTA models, why would they use the US ones? Why would it be in there interest?
This almost gets the point, but then doesn't quite make it.
Alignment is shorthand for ideological alignment. There's always people judging whether an answer was right and the answer for that will be different in Silicon Valley than it'll be in China or in Europe.
Consider for example the question "What caused the French Revolution?" Many different answers could be given, all technically correct. What gets emphasized is where the ideology lives.
One key challenge of our time is to make sure the magical answer box won't just regurgitate what grandiose Silicon Valley oligarchs or Chinese Cadres want you to think.
> Its stock could crash without causing–as long as its cash flows continue–a credit crisis through its investments and commitments.
Oh hell no. NVIDIA is present in a ton of 401k and similar retirement/savings/gambling vehicles. It holds 12% of NASDAQ tracking funds and 8% of S&P 500 trackers. NVIDIA goes down, a lot of people will panic sell and crash the economy.
This sounds more like some elitism. Who cares how your coworkers got there, the point is to have good history at the origin. People don't need to see your dirty laundy, there is nothing interesting about it.
It's awesome seeing physical computing history preserved like this, especially the lesser-known enterprise machines that usually just get scrapped when a company shuts down.
> I truly think because of the pace of innovation this will be a universal feeling for every human for the rest of existence.
Why would it be? Imagine a man who is a student in a kollel in Kiryas Joel. He spends his day studying the Torah, Tanach, Mishnah, Talmud, the Mishneh Torah, the Shulchan Aruch, the Zohar, etc. Then at night he goes home to his wife and 12 kids.
Do you think he experiences "purpose death"? Do you think his wife does? Do you think his children will? Do you think AI is going to make them start?
If anything, AI might make his lifestyle more economically sustainable than it was before – if nobody works because AI has taken all the jobs, and everyone gets paid universal basic income, he is no longer faced with the arduous struggle of supporting a large family as a full-time student.
And there's nothing specific to Judaism about this – I'm sure in some seminary in Qom, you'll find the Usuli Twelver Shi'a analogue.
Calling simple myopia a disease feels like a push to get insurance companies to cover basic vision care, but calling half the human population "diseased" seems like standard medicalization creep.
10 years ago the Us had enough global leadership to actually influence the world and at the very least stop China. It’s amazing, and sad, how quickly it’s thrown it all away.
> This subjective attitude turns mathematics into nothing more than number-poetry.
I don't think you understood the point. The point applies to all of basic science. You of course want some explanation supporting the raw answer, so you can use that insight in other contexts.
