I agree with your analysis of the article.

I also think its funny to say China or Russia or whomever is using the term wrong, 'cus lets be honest; the primary purpose of a hypersonic mistle isn’t its capabilities or whatever strategic advantage it confers. It exists to justify its own price tag, so the manufacturer has a wide profit margin and enough on top of that to contribute to their local senator’s campaign fund.

Treat a human being the way you treat a LLM and get back to me with the results.

In principle, sure. But in practice, its easier to spend a lot of cheep ballistics running the interceptors dry. After that, it doesn’t really matter how long you can maintain hypersonic speeds.

Hyperbooks? When I was your age, we called 'em eReaders!

It’s a computer program. There’s no “it” there to do the escaping. Anyone who pays the subscription fee can play with the model on the private company servers, and there’s a lot of different programmes you can just download and run on your own machine.

It’s only the bit right before it hits where in needs to be hypersonic, isn’t it? Fast enough to avoid interceptors. It’s why if Taiwan ever turns hot, the plan is for all the US navy boats to do a strategic retreat.

“Naive” implies some level of understanding, even if a simple one. There is no understanding, its a computer program.

Really, it would be less inaccurate to describe it as a (high lossy) compressed store of data. Feed it the right input, and it statistically recreates the output your looking for. More or less.

His comments come amidst growing concern around AI safety, particularly after an AI researcher resigned from Anthropic and claimed the leading AI companies are “racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives.”

love when we uncritically repeat ad copy in our reporting, very nice

Since we’re all fighting about it, the version of WTC 7 I heard:

Buildings above a certain height tend to have magnesium charges installed, so that in the even of catastrophe (like say two hijacked airplanes), they can be brought down in a controlled manner with as little collateral as possible. I’ve heard WTC 7 was accidentally wired up alongside the twin towers, so when the call was made, it came down as well.

Is that true? No fucking clue.

The purpose of a system is what it does, not what it’s intended to do!

Gotta give credit, I stole this insight from Cory Doctorow.

AI is a tool to do mass layoffs without making your stocks devalue. What happens after all the major companies do mass layoffs? Not a question investors are interested in, so it must be an externality with no barring on economics.

I wouldn’t trust my spreadsheets to AI

I’ve heard bees are more productive at making honey than they actually need. They’ll make so much that they abandon a hive full of honey and start a new one just to make more.

I’ve heard Pharrell agrees with this read. From what I’ve heard, he was contracted to write a song for something and the execs kept turning him down, so in his frustration he wrote the most shallow cheerful song he could. He thought they’d recognize that and reject it to, but they loved it.

Rephrasing ideas to avoid buzzwords will get you far in Yankee discourse.

Altman thinks the public won’t be talking as much about “AI” a decade from now

correct, but not for the reasons he thinks

Boomer if you’re born in the 20th century, millennial if you’re born around the 21st century. That seems to be how these terms are evolving.

Can’t brows without signing in, latest change I’m aware of.

fox news literally turning things hasan said into attack-ad material against [El-Sayed]

I don’t really think that’s gonna do much? Fox was gonna run attack ads regardless of Hasan’s proximity, and the core audience of Fox News… is the core audience of Fox News.