the reason airplanes need speed is basically because their propeller/jet blades are too small to be efficient at slow speed. You need a certain amount of force to lift off, and the more air you push off of at once the more force you get per energy. The airplanes go sideways so that their wings, which are very big, can provide the lift instead of their engines. Also this means that if you want to go fast and hover efficiently, you need multiple mechanisms because the low volume high speed engine won’t also be efficient at low speed
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yeah learning from distant near misses is important! Feels that way in risky electric unicycling.
No, the mi300x is not superior to nvidias chips, largely because It costs >2x to manufacture as nvidias chips
This makes a much worse lesswrong post than twitter thread, it’s just a very rudimentary rehashing of very long standing debates
for reference, just last week i rented 3 8xh100 boxes without any KYC
I don’t think slaughtering billions of people would be very useful. As a reference point, wars between countries almost never result in slaughtering that large a fraction of people
lol Paul is a very non-disparaging person. He always makes his criticism constructive, i don’t know if there’s any public evidence of him disparaging anyone regardless of NDAs
I’ve recently gotten into partner dancing and I think it’s a pretty superior activity
One lesson you could take away from this is “pay attention to the data, not the process”—this happened because the data had longer successes than failures. If successes were more numerous than failures, many algorithms would have imitated those as well with null reward.
I think the “fraction of Training compute” going towards agency vs nkn agency will be lower in video models than llms, and llms will likely continue to be bigger, so video models will stay behind llms in overall agency
Helpfullness finetuning might make these models more capable when they’re on the correct side of the debate. Sometimes RLHF(like) models simply perform worse on tasks they’re finetuned to avoid even when they don’t refuse or give up. Would be nice to try base model debaters
A core advantage of bandwidth limiting over other cybersec interventions is its a simple system we can make stronger arguments about, implemented on a simple processor, without the complexity and uncertainty of modern processors and OSes
no clock speed stays the same, but clock cycle latency of communication between regions increases. Just like CPUs require more clock cycles to access memory than they used to.
do we have any reason to believe that particular election won’t be close
I’d expect artificial sweeteners are already very cheap, and most people want more tested chemicals.
There exists an Effective Altruism VR discord group. It used to have regular VRChat meetups in like 2021 but doesn’t have much activity now i think
I’d be interested in experiments with more diverse data. Maybe this only works because the passages are very short and simple and uniform, and are using very superposition-y information that wouldn’t exist in longer and more diverse text
i thought about this for a minute and landed on no counting for lorentz factor. Things hitting on the side have about the same relative velocity as things hitting from the front . Because they’re hitting the side they could either bounce off or dump all their tangent kinetic energy into each other. like because all the relative velocity is tangent, they could in principle interact without exchanging significant energy. But probably the side impacts are just as dangerous. Which might make them more dangerous because you have less armor on the side
probes probably want a very skinny aspect ratio. If cosmic dust travels at 20km/s, that’s 15k times slower than the probe is travelling, so maybe that means the probe should be eg 10cm wide and 1.5km long
the reason why etched was less bandwidth limited is they traded latency for throughput by batching prompts and completions together. Gpus could also do that but they don’t to improve latency