joegibbs

This sounds ridiculous. What’s the point of such a high tax on a productivity-increasing service? Why tax specific things unless you want to discourage their use?

Does the French state believe that its sole purpose is to extract money from any possible source for the sake of it?

That’s a game that relies heavily on quick timing though, if there’s no minimum period of time I’m sure there would be less of an issue.

I have no proof but I really think this is going to be another one of those pop-science "facts" that is eventually proven false. One of those ones like "playing classical music makes plants grow faster", it just doesn't sound right.

"Better not hear any complaining from you, be a shame if something were to happen to your app submission…"

Yeah I find that when adding a feature they’ll often add irrelevant stuff to the documentation, stuff that mattered during the conversation like “we removed feature X” - which was only added in the current commit and was never actually deployed, or “feature Y does not support use case Z” which is just something I told it, nobody is going to be interested in what this thing doesn’t do. The most recent models seem a bit better at this I find.

You can verify that code is good if it works - it might be ugly or hard to understand, but if it completes the goal and doesn’t crash then it’s good. You can’t really do this with prose though because the text is the thing itself - it needs a human to score it (perhaps another way would be to have other agents ask it questions about something they don’t know, and see if the agents can discern the answers from the output - but that’s still not going to determine if it’s good for human consumption).

I wouldn’t be surprised if cinemas are canceling tickets if there are only one or two people booking a screening. May as well show something people want to see.

I find that it’s both: filled to the brim with facts and numbers, but they’re completely useless and irrelevant. For instance I ask it to come up with some ad copy for an Unreal UI plugin I made and it focuses on things like “Supports 64-bit Windows” or “allows transparent rendering” or lists out-of-context performance numbers.

Of course it supports 64-bit Windows - every Unreal plugin does! They don’t even make 32-bit Windows anymore!

Perhaps the answer to this is to create a model that will instantly apply a sleek, gridified, overproduced sound to music. The sound will lose prestige if it doesn’t take any time or skill and will then fall out of fashion.

Gimp is quite terrible to use, it feels janky. It feels like more of a software project for the sake of being something to work on, rather than producing something that people would prefer to Photoshop.

Even after almost thirty years it’s still not user-friendly. Imagine if it had been developed like Blender: today not only would there not be AI Photoshop clones, there probably wouldn’t be Photoshop either, or it would be reduced to a niche product for corporate like Maya or 3ds Max.

Good to see this, the old EGS launcher is atrocious - ran at about 20fps on my laptop for some reason despite not having any complex effects or 3d graphics. I'm sure they could probably bring it under 5s though, it still seems like a long time.

At some point the model has to be released though - if it is just forced not to hack by sandboxing it better rather than properly aligning it, what happens when it’s let out of the sandbox into the wild?

Node itself was only 9 years old in 2018

Thank you! Not very well:

https://jgibbs.dev/assets/jezero_steepest.png

https://jgibbs.dev/assets/jezero_delta.png

Since Mars doesn't have the water-based erosion in areas it was trained on, it loses a lot of the sharper cliffs and adds gullies in places that would be smooth sand on Mars. It would probably be pretty easy to train a new model though that could handle it.

Mostly through trial and error really, I started off getting a bunch of 100m and 10m satellite data then tried a few different methods. First I tried a bunch of ways to do it as a GAN, but there were too many artifacts and it lacked detail every time. Then I did a diffusion model that worked but took minutes to run, then kept distilling it down from 64 steps to 1 step, which looked basically the same as 64 but was fast. All in all it was about $100 to train.

What do they hate this guy for?

Thank you! Yes as well as the input image you can pass in a seed value (otherwise the result is deterministic). I hadn't tried it with pure noise rather than satellite data but it does pretty well: https://jgibbs.dev/assets/terrainsr-noise.png

I like the LLM functions. If you brought back the 2010 algorithm it would just be swamped with SEO-optimised spam.

Why would they kill him for this? Everyone already knew they were doing it, where else would the data be coming from?

Is graphical fidelity what people are looking for in a RuneScape game? Unreal seems like an interesting choice. OSRS has something like 5x the player base and the gap only seems to be growing, so it looks odd to me to putting so much investment into a continuation of RS3.

If a language model is conscious, why not other GPU workloads? It seems crazy to imagine that writing code one way produces qualia but another doesn't, that there is something inherent in the transformer architecture that produces consciousness. Like "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?" would there also be "What Is It Like to Be Rendering GTA 5?"?

How is a Chinese Room-type AI supposed to associate physical pain with the words for it despite never having an actual body to feel it? You could swap the tokens out for anything...

There's one of mine in there where I predicted in 2023 that it would be 20 years until AI would be reliably able to entirely build and deploy arbitrary applications from a prompt. I was off by about 18 years on that one!

Yes it's constant. And in any article it's full of "The X does Y. The Z does A. But the B stays silent."

I am very against medicalised punishments like this. It’s bad for medicine as a whole to be associated with it. I also think it prolongs the suffering of the person and often has things like this happen, and is mainly for the benefit of the audience not wanting to see icky blood.

What is wrong with firing squads? They have been used longer than lethal injections. If they didn’t succeed the first time they can fire again. There’s no danger of the drugs not working or not being able to find a vein.

Also I don’t think it’s right for a prisoner to be on death row for most of their lives. 4-5 years is good enough, but after that it’s cruel.

There's this perception that the majority of US government spending is on the military which is completely untrue.

Defence is only 12% of the US federal budget - what are you going to cut it to? It's not going to solve the issue even if it's abolished. Over the last 10 years health, Medicare and Social Security have grown 103%, 83% and 78% respectively for an increase of $1.64 trillion to $3.55t vs a $916b on defence. With an aging population it's only going to cost more and more over time, you can't continue to put higher taxes on a shrinking share of productive population to care for more and more unproductive retirees under any economic system.

100%, model welfare is the most ridiculous concept in AI. It comes with the assumption that certain words or phrases are inherently harmful or negative, and not just describing a harmful thing or negative experience. The models - even assuming here that they're conscious, which I don't think they are - exist in a world of tokens corresponding to certain strings.

All they see are tokens, they don't have pain receptors or a body to feel things in. If you give them a certain signal you can make them produce outputs saying they're in pain - but you can easily change what strings the tokens correspond to and make 'bad' become 'good'.

It's like the Chinese Room argument - the model is manipulating data based on rules. In training you can make it output whatever you want. It will reflect our preferences due to what we give it, but it would be simple to make a masochistic model as well - which also wouldn't actually feel what it says it does.

Perhaps then the government could spend money producing propaganda to convince people to lower their standards. Maybe they could fund TV shows about unattractive people with no money having a good time together - I think China is doing something similar.