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I am so busy baby sitting the robots and adding new projects on that I don't really have any time to find new customers right now?

That statement seems to somewhat fly against the statement you have unparalleled productivity.

I feel like the way LLMs work involves them allowing you to do things you previously simply couldn't do but doing those tasks involves really a lot of effort at controlling the things. It's compressing "one kind of hard part" (actually writing code is another a hard part that's taken care but articulate/evaluate).

Which is to say, it seems like you're "working harder than you say"


I'd source for where the signals are first, and do whatever it takes to stay there.

I'd say that I am the main problem. If I was a bit cleverer, or better at time management, I'd be better at finding customers? I don't think that's an AI thing, that's a "me" thing.

Still, I'm making a living doing this, working less, and have way more control over my own life. My life kind of rules now compared to what it was a year ago.


I personally am doing some LLM work right now where, if successful, I will have accomplished what was years worth of effort in a couple of weeks.

But I feel "totally disorganized" in the way I'm doing it. I think that may be inevitable since becoming organized is a natural part of doing a project the slow, "old fashioned way" and just orienting oneself to the process can be a significant and inevitable part of the effort.


Note, it's not literally a duplicate but a related article on the same topic

Nothing is literal. It's a duplicate discussion. No need to split it up. It's over there on the source.

No other human activity poses this level of danger

I'd say that's an unfortunate choice of words since it invites debate between which very problematic situation is worst rather than on ways to deal with each of them. Of course, it's also unfortunate to latch onto those particular words as the most important part of the statement.



I wouldn't ever use an LLM for my own writing. But I'd use, after edits, for letters to bureaucrats, landlords and other types I'm forced to deal with.

The thing is, the author may care about Linkedin but the relationship that many people have with linkedin is as a place they have to be. "Hmm, I need a blog to enhance my career but writing, urg. I know just the thing...". Which is to say, it's not strange Linkedin is going to be filled with crap. None of my actual friends on Facebook post crap 'cause there's no incentive.


I don't think it's solely a matter of raw strength, but as Shin said, a willingness not to play to the program's strengths. I mean, one thing that rankled me about original Lee Sedol match was that Lee had no access to the program's "record" while the machine by the nature of the AI training process had effectively studied Lee's games in great detail.

I recall a while back someone came up with a set of "anti-computer" strategies that allowed even an amateur to defeat a strong go program. These moves weren't anything like ordinary go moves (and perhaps the "loophole" has been closed now) but imo, their existence suggests that a study of programs may reveal other unexpected weakness.


In a march 2026 interview David Wu (lightvector, Katago’s creator at Jane Street) noted that he doesn’t have a systematic solution for the cyclic group problem, but adding examples to the training set mostly ensures Katago during MCT rollout figures it out. I don’t think there has been a post mid 2024 verified exploit.

https://gomagic.org/david-wu-on-building-katago/


I saw the same things when the OpenAI Dota bots could eviscerate humans 1v1 - even pros lost!

Until a more average player confuses the AI with an unseen behaviour (pulling creeps between the towers etc) to get an advantage.


We saw this with AlphaStar too, but ultimately it feels like simply an exploit. I expect even a relatively simple modern LLM/model working with the custom transformer would have been able to address these exploits after a game.

I don't think exploit is the right term?

Anyway. Yes if you throw examples into training it will be able to handle the situation - but handling unseen things for me is a key goal.


I don't know where you got "forcing" here. The author is arguing for guis that give the option of keyboard use. Unless you think having hot keys underlined nonconsensually imposes visual complexity and confusion on the hapless non-power-user, I don't see where your argument makes sense here.

I think the gp found a viable counter to the ggp's version of the bitter lesson, which seems so extreme as to certainly exceptions. IE, they seem to say nothing but the latest frontier model is ultimately viable as an AI business.

The actual argument of the Bitter Lesson essay is pretty limited but people's interpretation of it has gradually drifted until it's seen as prediction that current LLM will reach AGI at a large enough scale.


I think this line of argument is very important. Essentially, there's no reason to think "alignment" even makes any sense. But existence of the term comforts people - unjustifiedly.


it’ll give you an article on “Hotels for Chickens” if you search “Hotels” because the word matches

What if I fricken want fricken "Hotels for Chickens", what about that, huh?

I mean, page rank was useful but it was also a step in the direction of "search give you what it think you, not what you asked for" and I think now we can how far and dubious progress in that direction has been.


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