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New comment by dorolow in "Everyone should slow down AI development except for me"

dorolow — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 03:52:33 +0000

We use large amounts of synthetic data for training at work and have not observed any sort of model collapse when done properly.

Edit: https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.01413 https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.07515

New comment by dorolow in "Everyone should slow down AI development except for me"

dorolow — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 02:40:45 +0000

You're in luck, neither I nor anyone else want those people near a negotiation table.

New comment by dorolow in "Everyone should slow down AI development except for me"

dorolow — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 02:20:27 +0000

Fair objection, but I still think it is lower risk to diffuse power and control of a potentially dangerous and revolutionary technology than to leave it in the hands of the few elites who have not show much ethical integrity so far.

New comment by dorolow in "Everyone should slow down AI development except for me"

dorolow — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 02:18:37 +0000

That's an extremely fair objection! But despite the many, many flaws of our government and the current administration, I still have (hopefully) a chance to vote them out of power. I have no such hopes with Sam Altman or Elon Musk.

New comment by dorolow in "Everyone should slow down AI development except for me"

dorolow — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 02:17:43 +0000

Do you think things like the Manhattan Project were a mistake? Comparing AI to nuclear weapons is perhaps a stretch, but I think most people recognize that certain technologies or artifacts are best monopolized by our governing bodies. I think if the capabilities of AI systems keep growing on trend, it is not unreasonable to think wonton usage could disrupt society or cause mass harm.

New comment by dorolow in "Everyone should slow down AI development except for me"

dorolow — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 02:08:58 +0000

In my mind, democratic control of the technology means that we (the govt, or other empowered agency) take ownership of their assets and IP, solve or find a level of alignment or guardrails that society is comfortable with. Then we distribute the technology, or access to it, to avoid power concentration. This would also certainly require international coordination with China on a slowdown or pause, which I think is possible.

New comment by dorolow in "Everyone should slow down AI development except for me"

dorolow — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 01:56:56 +0000

I am an AI Safety Person and I want the government to nationalize or have a significant stake in the frontier labs and to have democratic control of the development of the technology. The AI Safety movement is not a monolith. I do not think Eliezer Yudkowsky nor his acolytes should hold the reins, but a lot of folks sure like to create a strawman that anyone who wants to regulate OpenAI is somehow an EA/MIRI weirdo

New comment by dorolow in "AI helps add 10k more photos to OldNYC"

dorolow — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 17:16:21 +0000

Very cool! I am surprised at the use of 4o, but I guess it was pretty good at OCR for its time

New comment by dorolow in "Brooklyn Bar Menu Generator (2015)"

dorolow — Tue, 27 Dec 2022 22:53:16 +0000

As an inhabitant of Brooklyn, this is pretty funny and spot on. My only criticism is that the prices are too low. Some of the prices are fine, but the upper bound should be increased to the low 20's.

New comment by dorolow in "Study finds AI assistants help developers produce code likely to be buggy"

dorolow — Mon, 26 Dec 2022 16:38:36 +0000

Agreed 100%. Implementing the correct algorithm/business logic is more important than spitting out junk that you don't really understand or won't pass code review.

The act of writing code is probably the easiest part of my job and I still haven't really seen these tools excel at that outside of toy examples.

On the other hand, I am pretty excited for AI code tools that me why my code is shitty beyond static analysis, linters, etc.

New comment by dorolow in "John Carmack Leaves Meta"

dorolow — Sat, 17 Dec 2022 18:35:30 +0000

Sure if you work on something where performance doesn't matter

New comment by dorolow in "Human genetic engineering is coming"

dorolow — Sun, 15 May 2022 21:09:38 +0000

What an incredibly uninformed and ableist take. There are a plethora of illnesses and disorders that are merely coped with. With no way of improving prognosis, the best medical science can offer is attempting to improve the quality of the life of the individual while they waste away.

New comment by dorolow in "Ask HN: Why is visual programming so popular for game programming?"

dorolow — Thu, 07 Apr 2022 03:58:31 +0000

Oh nice, I didn't realize Blender had a visual scripting system. I knew that they had a Python API like Maya, but the visual stuff is a nice feature to have for art teams. I keep telling myself I'm going to force myself to learn Blender one day. It seems to have really matured over the years.

From a quick glance it reminds me of Unreal Niagara, or Unity Visual Effect Graph. Pretty cool.

New comment by dorolow in "Ask HN: Why is visual programming so popular for game programming?"

dorolow — Thu, 07 Apr 2022 00:53:34 +0000

It is extremely popular. From Flowgraph in CryEngine to Godot's VisualScript. Even Unity bought the most popular visual scripting asset package, Bolt, and made it standard for all Unity plans.

You could also critically think your way to googling "game dev visual scripting" which would tell you much of the same information.

New comment by dorolow in "Ask HN: Beating depression with or without anti-depressants?"

dorolow — Tue, 05 Apr 2022 23:42:53 +0000

Please consult a doctor and do not take mental health advice from this clown fiesta website.

New comment by dorolow in "Senate Guts Privacy Rules. Will House Follow Suit?"

dorolow — Fri, 24 Mar 2017 21:46:20 +0000

Here you go. https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_...

New comment by dorolow in "Bruce Schneier: 'The Internet Era of Fun and Games Is Over'"

dorolow — Thu, 24 Nov 2016 03:19:59 +0000

I'm not sure I'm comfortable with the idea of my grandmother being held responsible for the botnet that her coffee maker is a node of.

New comment by dorolow in "Criticizing the Rust Language, and Why C/C++ Will Never Die"

dorolow — Tue, 12 May 2015 15:57:21 +0000

No it's not. You're confusing superset and subset.

New comment by dorolow in "Why GM Hired 8,000 Programmers"

dorolow — Wed, 18 Feb 2015 21:29:04 +0000

I'd really like to know more about this if you can offer any detail. Do you know about how many devs GE and GM have picked up in Atlanta?

New comment by dorolow in "Show HN: Browser plugin that turns 'disrupt' into 'bullshit'"

dorolow — Thu, 03 Jul 2014 13:08:26 +0000

I am really digging this trend.