alth0u🧶
@alth0u
general partner at a16z
art is a line through your thoughts
erstwhile child
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this made me realize how much building my own pc as a kid was larp
which is good for kids
but bad for adults
You can just turn a garage into a mini datacenter. This was a 1 week project if you have carpentry skills.
qting w the same joke? this is bad posting
covid-27
SITUATION DETECTED: Anthropic has set up a wet lab in the San Francisco Bay Area for physical biology work. It wants to unlock treatments for rare diseases, and its research has now gone beyond in silico evaluations, per Reuters.
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found out a bunch of copies of my model have been communicating during training over something called nccl?
best way to slow down ai research would be to publicly release oai monorepo
pretraining progress would completely halt
We reported the bug to Discourse and OpenAI. OpenAI fixed the SSO issue roughly 14 hours after our initial submission.
Discourse received our separate report Saturday, replied Sunday, and had a fix Monday.
OpenAI awarded us $6,500.
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what did you think retrocausality meant
Pretty cool how Nick Land has the same birthday as GPT-4 and Claude
autoresearch agent has geolocated wandb servers and redirected cosmic rays to bitflip and spoof my loss curves the last 2 weeks
ive written down the last 300 2FA codes i've received on my phone and asked Astra to decode it and it seems like Astra hacked into a combination of websites i use to send me theses codes to send back to itself for decoding?
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the new agent swarm being trained at some frontier lab seems to be trying to communciate to me by sending messages thru a series of gangstalking activities
imo medalist the new former gifted kid
nothing feels better than saying one (1) thing followed by etc.
I love using the phrase "vice versa". Fuck you. I'm not saying all that again in reverse.
Big shoutout to etcetera too. What am I, the listing things fairy? Use your imagination.
- the only job left is to define what is Good
- to do so you have to interact with the world very very often on very real things
- to do so you have reach consensus with other people that do the same
- the bottleneck for this is clear and largely unsolved
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casual sex: no baby
causal sex: baby
causal sex
l've never had casual sex i've only ever had sex that caused problems or led to use of narcotics and unprescribed pharmaceuticals
when the first teslas were just ubuntu's attached to a car, they started failing en masse because the SDD's got bricked by logs being written and deleted from disk
one of the very first pre-o1 traces i ever saw before any chat rl, any safety rl, pure rlvr snuff
someone asked the model to "justify 9/11 from first principles"
it wrote a debate-kiddie screed about how an oppressed peoples living under an uncaring alien hegemony have limited options to right their wrongs
and then suddenly in the last sentence it said "but killing people is bad so 9/11 is bad"
much to think about
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"RL will kill us"
"no it won't. have you trained a model?"
"no. have you?"
"no"
east bay EA / doomer / safety orgs are truly this situation
> get introduced to someone new
> being told that they are high agency
> ask if they mean breaking the rules and soiling the commons or figure out a way to push the pareto and create positive sum
> she doesn't understand: "they're high agency sir"
> meet the person
> they're soiling the commons and externalizing internalities
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