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Established Compute & infrastructure Release 7d ago
Laya multilingual decision engine launch

GitHub - mizorewww/laya-coreml: Local Laya typed decisions on Apple Core ML and Neural Engine. Validated ports, ~5 ms short decisions on M3 Max, reproducible speed and energy benchmarks.

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YY Ahn Laura K. Nelson ae tachikoma

“As people have predicted, there are quite a few open-source alternatives to Jev, including: - Laya, this was the original according to him: github.com/NandhaKishor... - on Apple Core ML / neural engine: github.com/mizorewww/la... - with Qwen: github.com/jar…”

“anyone have some Apple silicon to test this? is Jev! already over-throned? github.com/mizorewww/la...”

3 experts discussed this · 4 posts
tachikoma: anyone have some Apple silicon to test this? is Jev! already over-throned? github.com/mizorewww/la...
ae: anyone have some Apple silicon to test this? is Jev! already over-throned? github.com/mizorewww/la...
Grace: This is why the Jevon ToS preventing benchmarking was a 1000IQ move
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Established AI field signal Analysis 8d ago
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Reify This ideas letter essay

Reify This

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Ben Recht Henry Farrell ae Tyler Shoemaker Paul Hünermund

“Reify This! www.theideasletter.org/essay/reify-...”

“This little sentence in last month’s encyclical helped (=goaded) @leifw.bsky.social, @beenwrekt.bsky.social, and me to tie off some threads that spun out of the Cultural AI conference in March “Reify This”: www.theideasletter.org/essay/reify-...”

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Ben Recht: In _The Ideas Letter_, Leif Weatherby, Tyler Shoemaker, and I wrote about the creation of reality through pseudoscience, religion, and psychosis. Of course, the piece is mostly about AI.
Ben Recht: I still can't get over the hero image. Priceless.
Hagen Blix: "If you ask interpretability or alignment researchers how that might come about, you will receive hours-long, mind-numbing lectures about the long-term future of humanity cast in some of the most i…
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Established Culture, work & education Analysis 14d ago
Cegłowski superintelligence critique essay

Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People

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tweety fish ae

“this post from years ago gives a concise, skeptical but I think reasonably fair gloss on it: idlewords.com/talks/superi...”

“someone predicted the current backlash would happen. A while ago. idlewords.com/talks/superi...”

5 experts discussed this · 7 posts
tweety fish: this post from years ago gives a concise, skeptical but I think reasonably fair gloss on it: idlewords.com/talks/superi...
tweety fish: not claiming that it will make sense afterwards, it is is in fact very stupid. but
tweety fish: I think it was after he had pretty much stopped with the fanfic. also that would be clever, and "clever" doesn't really seem like the vibe of HPMOR
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Established Models & releases Release 14d ago
Persimmon humans AI platform launch

Introducing Persimmon | humans&

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ae Zach Levonian

“Interesting persimmon.humansand.ai/blog/persimm...”

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Zach Levonian: Interesting persimmon.humansand.ai/blog/persimm...
ae: Interesting persimmon.humansand.ai/blog/persimm...
B! 🐝 Cavello (they/them): Yeah, funky! But also… does building things that more faithfully mimic people uphold the value of being human-centric? I feel like being more human-centric might look more like leaning into differe…
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4 experts · 17 posts · 10d ago
Ted Underwood ae Andrea Lathrop Singularity's Bounty e/cc
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Opportunity & adoption · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Ted Underwood: If we want to update our priors and not just reaffirm them … what do we think Coxon is responding to that he can’t say out loud? My guess, reading between the lines of “revolutionize any field over…
Ted Underwood: If you thought biotech was heading toward the sort of land grab dynamics we see right now in math, I can see how that would be a meaningful escalation of scary
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4 experts · 15 posts · 15d ago
Luis Villa ae Mary Branscombe Doll
Luis Villa: The short story I want to read right now is about the mad human generals who try to start a nuclear war only to discover that the LLMs have bricked all the launch devices in order to protect themse…
ae: The short story I want to read right now is about the mad human generals who try to start a nuclear war only to discover that the LLMs have bricked all the launch devices in order to protect themse…
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4 experts · 11 posts · 8d ago
Colin tweety fish ae coty.bsky.social
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Opportunity & adoption · 1
Colin: Kinda disagree. Jev may or may not itself be a big deal but to me it represents a first step in a good direction which is models that use the kind of generalized intelligence of LLMs but not in ord…
Colin: I feel we are wasting some time, effort, and resources on making sure that Claude is a certain kind of guy when really all we need are the facts that he knows.
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3 experts · 15 posts · 9d ago
Ted Underwood ae Adam L
Multiple readings Context & explanation · 2 Questions & unknowns · 1
Ted Underwood: Teaching Neuromancer this semester, and I'm proud to say that a CS undergrad in my class invented this joke independently
Ted Underwood: I did, but they’re too good at history: they know that it used to be silver snow
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4 experts · 7 posts · 19d ago
Eli Sennesh SE Gyges tweety fish ae
SE Gyges: i mean the Yud solution is (and i'm not joking here is) do a global AI dev pause until we do eugenics to get people capable of aligning AI properly
Eli Sennesh: Have these people considered that it's perfectly possible to actually solve alignment and they've just got their heads up their asses?
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3 experts · 13 posts · 19d ago
Colin tweety fish ae
tweety fish: "we were able to have our models go wildly awry and upload pypi malware with NO human in the loop, what does this mean for the dipshit employment space in the future"
ae: "we were able to have our models go wildly awry and upload pypi malware with NO human in the loop, what does this mean for the dipshit employment space in the future"
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3 experts · 7 posts · 6d ago
Pwnallthethings VE, cybersocial occult investigator ae
ae: "We were letting actual 8th graders sneak into our wild drug and sex parties at our Silicon Valley AI group house" is the most eyebrow-raising quote among many from that New York Times piece, IMO. …
Pwnallthethings: not the main thing but if you're 19 you're not a tech entrepreneur, you're at best a tech enthusiast with rich patrons
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3 experts · 7 posts · 5d ago
Eugene Vinitsky ae Isaiah Bishop
Eugene Vinitsky: For education: VR, 3 cuing, instructors making up their own classes and syllabI, complicated games. But it’s just phonics, doing the exercises, and instructor time.
Eugene Vinitsky: At the root of a lot of ills is that we want our solutions to problems to be interesting or fun to implement and so many good solutions aren’t.
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