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Ed Zitron AI pundit both-sides profile

Ed Zitron Gets Paid to Love AI. He Also Gets Paid to Hate AI

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rev. howard arson Adverb

“v good reporting www.wired.com/story/ai-pr-...”

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rev. howard arson: yes. he is a PR flack for the worst companies in Silicon Valley whose newsletter is more or less a protection racket.
Ryan Moulton: yes. bsky.app/profile/moul...
Eli Sennesh: it is 100% defensible to think "ai bad", but I do wish there weren't so many leading figures in the "ai bad" movement (eg Bender on tech, Zitron on econ) who are wrong all the time
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defeating LLM nondeterminism essay

Defeating Nondeterminism in LLM Inference

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Andrea Lathrop Adverb

“And since this thread is likely to attract some "well, actually..." I will also park, here, this article from Murati's "Thinky Machines" group on (while deterministic in theory) what it actually takes to get deterministic output, in practice, involving cont…”

“thinkingmachines.ai/blog/defeati... from Horace He”

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Adverb: Yeah, he's a fraud. Could pick apart predictions, arguments, technical knowledge but his repping for the companies he supposedly hates is the cleanest of giveaways.
Adverb: He thinks LLMs can't be deterministic which like, listening to someone who knows their subject -- even if not with terms like greedy sampling & batch invariant kernels -- could save people's time.
Adverb: I actually took like 5 minutes to look over one of his posts & stopped after the first embarrassing technical inaccuracy.
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SE Gyges Marco Z Singularity's Bounty e/cc Adverb
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SE Gyges: part of why it's important to loudly reject obvious moral abominations like "curing cancer is less important than my job satisfaction" is that well meaning and intelligent non-specialists are at ri…
SE Gyges: real short pipeline between this being said at NeurIPS and widely lauded by the "ethicists" in AI and it becoming a canard that people, including otherwise very smart and good people, were willing …
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