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Faster fourier transforms

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“OpenAI’s faster Fourier transform is less a mathematical breakthrough and more a malicious exploit of mathematical traditions.”

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Ben Recht: OpenAI’s faster Fourier transform is less a mathematical breakthrough and more a malicious exploit of mathematical traditions.
Suresh Venkatasubramanian: Good analysis, but man why you gotta hate on O() notation. It's such a beautiful tool
Ben Recht: Agree to disagree! Compute your constants, my friend!
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3 experts · 12 posts · 1d ago
Ben Recht Pwnallthethings tweety fish
Multiple readings Policy & governance · 1 Markets & investment · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
tweety fish: I wonder if it's a, like, "well, if that doesn't happen everything's fucked anyhow, it's all correlated" thing
tweety fish: right the latter has always been my assumption about where we're headed, especially with things like "oh yeah google released a competitive frontier model, nothing was stopping them, they just hadn…
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2 experts · 2 posts · 2d ago
Ted Underwood Ben Recht
Ben Recht: Let's do it here in your replies. I find it quite hard to pin down what the capabilities are, what the predicted capabilities were, and what the predicted consequences were.
Ted Underwood: "AI as Normal Technology" (Naranayan and Kapoor) is one place where this argument is being made. Economists have also tended to coalesce around a view like this, and a lot of people I know were say…
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