Zach Nichols
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Zach Nichols
@CallmeZmoney
the detail of the pattern is movement
PHL Katılım Eylül 2012
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@Brian_A_Hackel @NIH Aren't you worried about precipitating benzo withdrawal and seizures with it?
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This is just like being alive in the 1600s when they got good at making complicated clocks and deduced that every complicated thing in the universe probably functioned exactly like a clock
Dwarkesh Patel@dwarkesh_sp
There's a quadrillion-dollar question at the heart of AI: Why are humans so much more sample efficient compared to LLM? There are three possible answers: 1. Architecture and hyperparameters (aka transformer vs whatever ‘algo’ cortical columns are implementing) 2. Learning rule (backprop vs whatever brain is doing) 3. Reward function @AdamMarblestone believes the answer is the reward function. ML likes to use pretty simple loss functions, like cross-entropy. These are easy to work with. But they might be too simple for sample-efficient learning. Adam thinks that, in humans, the large number of highly specialised cells in the ‘lizard brain’ might actually be encoding information for sophisticated loss functions, used for ‘training’ in the more sophisticated areas like the cortex and amygdala. Like: the human genome is barely 3 gigabytes (compare that to the TBs of parameters that encode frontier LLM weights). So how can it include all the information necessary to build highly intelligent learners? Well, if the key to sample-efficient learning resides in the loss function, even very complicated loss functions can still be expressed in a couple hundred lines of Python code.
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@wydna777 Yeah KB what are you using LLMs for? Shizz/gigs or other stuff?
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reminder that a guy who ran delta force was killed by a regular lawnmower seven years ago
Fugs 🇵🇸🇾🇪🇱🇧🔻@FugeusRedux
Fort Bragg guy whose bloodstream is 90% methamphetamine exploded by a flying lawnmower dispatched by the philosopher-warrior class of a theocratic society….we are approaching the “real life Warhammer 40K” territory
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I have not been able to stop thinking about Lipoprotein petite a
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I would liken Tor to putting on Sauron's ring. The wearer is invisible to ordinary beings, like Men, but highly visible to the Nazgûl.
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Cybernetics Group—Margaret Mead, Gregory Bateson & Frankfurt School dir. Max Horkheimer—gathered under CIA Macy Foundation to devise experiments in social control, launching the WFMH to position mental health as the core of world order, w/ eugenicist Julian Huxley leading UNESCO.
RJ Moreau 🇧🇹@toxictiramisu
Margaret Mead’s account of Samoan free love sparked the sexual revolution. Her husband, Gregory Bateson, ran OSS black propaganda & used anthropology as a CIA culture-cracking tool. He helped seed the '60s counterculture & influenced MKULTRA. Mead's ideas were turned into psywar.
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@HostileSpectrum NVM found it
atlanticcouncil.org/in-depth-resea…
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Shortly after major changes to US cyber operations policy in 2018, I worked on an unclassified academic futures intelligence effort looking at the decade to come that would define the operating environment. It highlighted the risk of AI firms attempts at asserting control over military and intelligence applications, after having taken government money when they much needed it and been granted legitimacy over other peers. Anticipated long before firms in current matters were even founded.
Sadly too close on the mark as we look back from today’s perspective.
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@naturaporia My first thought. Have you been able to find a source for the quote?
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"Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating."
—Simone Weil
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“Decay” is a word that shows up often in science. 🧵
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