Hacker News: ftxbro

New comment by ftxbro in "12,000-year-old realistic human statue was unearthed"

ftxbro — Sun, 01 Oct 2023 21:45:17 +0000

On hacker news everything is 0% or 100%.

New comment by ftxbro in "DALL-E 3 is now publicly available inside Bing"

ftxbro — Sun, 01 Oct 2023 17:34:43 +0000

Those tickets are only in companies that haven't learned the bitter lesson.

New comment by ftxbro in "DALL-E 3 is now publicly available inside Bing"

ftxbro — Sun, 01 Oct 2023 17:33:13 +0000

least cyberpunk 2023 shit

New comment by ftxbro in "Cats Can't Taste Sweetness, Study Finds"

ftxbro — Sun, 01 Oct 2023 16:54:25 +0000

> It's not even clear whether two humans are experiencing the same flavor or taste when they agree that a food is "sweet"

OK but that's like criticizing every science result by saying "how did they control for the possibility that I'm a vat brain and nothing they did was real"

New comment by ftxbro in "Cats Can't Taste Sweetness, Study Finds"

ftxbro — Sun, 01 Oct 2023 15:21:39 +0000

What if freshly caught songbirds taste sweet to them? Are we saying we know their qualia?

New comment by ftxbro in "Most demographers now predict that human population will plateau"

ftxbro — Sun, 01 Oct 2023 01:55:42 +0000

> The choice to have children is usually not an economic consideration.

This is obviously the nicer sounding position but I wonder if it's the true one.

New comment by ftxbro in "Can FTX Be Revived–Without Sam Bankman-Fried?"

ftxbro — Sun, 01 Oct 2023 00:19:11 +0000

We can do it my FTX brothers.

New comment by ftxbro in "PoW gets his life back after 55 years (2000)"

ftxbro — Sat, 30 Sep 2023 23:55:52 +0000

he just like me fr fr

New comment by ftxbro in "Pharmacokinetics: Drug development's broken stair"

ftxbro — Sat, 30 Sep 2023 23:04:46 +0000

Maybe there could be a publicly funded virtual liver project.

New comment by ftxbro in "'Counterfeit people': The danger posed by Meta’s AI celebrity lookalike chatbots"

ftxbro — Sat, 30 Sep 2023 19:21:58 +0000

Is this AI safety?

New comment by ftxbro in "Ask HN: Is “AI Safety” a Grift?"

ftxbro — Sat, 30 Sep 2023 19:20:52 +0000

> "AI" doesn't work reliably enough to be used for most stuff. Safety from that perspective is real.

    -: AI is unsafe because it isn't capable enough
    +: AI is unsafe because it's too capable

New comment by ftxbro in "Drinking diet sodas daily during pregnancy linked to autism in male offspring"

ftxbro — Sat, 30 Sep 2023 16:52:40 +0000

If someone wants the data but doesn't want to read a pdf wall, here are the important numbers:

The mothers of 54 non-autistic boys were surveyed, and 7.4% of them had at least one diet soda per day.

The mothers of 67 non-autistic girls were surveyed, and 17.9% of them had at least one diet soda per day.

The mothers of 140 autistic boys were surveyed, and 19.3% of them had at least one diet soda per day.

The mothers of 28 autistic girls were surveyed, and 10.7% of them had at least one diet soda per day.

They did some analysis that was supposed to control for income, education, ethnicity, and geographical location to get the odds ratios and confidence intervals that other people are commenting.

New comment by ftxbro in "Ask HN: Is “AI Safety” a Grift?"

ftxbro — Sat, 30 Sep 2023 13:56:38 +0000

> I wanna know: where's the AI advocates? The people who are speaking in favor of AI now are just doing so because they think it will make them rich. Where's the people welcoming the bot overlords? Why aren't they working to make our future be the shape they think it should be?

The call themselves e/acc. Chad effective accelerationists, making fun of the virgin effective altruism movement. They encompass a wide variety of degrees of irony like early flat earth society or early donald trump fans and they will probably end up similarly, where the movement becomes completely unironic and the ones who participated ironically get bored and do other things.

New comment by ftxbro in "Parasitic plant with shrunken genome convinces hosts to grow into its own flesh"

ftxbro — Sat, 30 Sep 2023 13:41:55 +0000

Parasites in general have shrunken genomes.

New comment by ftxbro in "Ask HN: Is “AI Safety” a Grift?"

ftxbro — Sat, 30 Sep 2023 13:39:19 +0000

AI safety is some different things. One are the grifters trying to make money from fear. Others actually think that capable enough AI will irreversibly change our way of life in a bad way. For corporations AI safety just means brand risk and PR like not making another "Tay". For yet another group of people AI safety means the continuation of culture war stuff in the AI space.

New comment by ftxbro in "ChatGPT-4 significantly increased performance of business consultants"

ftxbro — Sat, 30 Sep 2023 13:25:03 +0000

> I’m starting to think there’s an LLM equivalent to the old saying about how everything the media writes is accurate except on the topics you’re an expert in.

This is true for media articles but for LLMs I feel like it's the opposite. Like people who aren't specialists don't fully appreciate how great it is at those tasks.

New comment by ftxbro in "ChatGPT-4 significantly increased performance of business consultants"

ftxbro — Sat, 30 Sep 2023 12:50:59 +0000

So when AI is better at humans at everything, the takeaway will be that humans weren't so great after all?

New comment by ftxbro in "Why AI is everything and nothing"

ftxbro — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 18:46:30 +0000

high effort blogpost

New comment by ftxbro in "Ask HN: What Is “Fractal Programming”?"

ftxbro — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 15:18:48 +0000

put a mandelbrot on your cover letter

New comment by ftxbro in "RZK: Experimental proof assistant for synthetic ∞-categories"

ftxbro — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 20:01:00 +0000

My theory is that it's a kind of math that LLMs can do. Not that LLMs are necessarily doing it, but the same thing that makes it easy for LLMs also makes it easy for certain people. They can repeat words and phrases that they hear, and sometimes even rearrange them into new forms! One time some category theory guys were struggling with something and it was equivalent to topological sort in computer science. But the way they were failing at solving it sounded much more impressive!