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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this)
Was salivating all weekend waiting for this to drop, from Subbarao Kambhampatiās group:
Ladies and gentlemen, we have achieved block stacking abilities. It is a straight shot from here to cold fusion! ā¦ unfortunately, there is a minor caveat:
Looks like performance drops like a rock as number of steps required increasesā¦
correct me if Iām reading this wrong ā the results are that LLMs are much, much worse than classical AI at planning block placement for SHRDLU? that seems pretty damning
Yes, the classical algo achieves perfect accuracy and is way faster. There is also a table that shows the cost of running o1 is enormous. Like comically bad. Boil a small ocean bad. Weāll just 10x the size and it will achieve 15 steps inshallah.
Imo, this is like the same behavior we see on math problems. More steps it takes, the higher the chance it just decoheres completely. I canāt see any reason why this type of thing would just āclickā for the models if they are also unable to do multiplication.
I mean this just reeks of pure hopium from OAI and co that things will magykly work out. (But the newer model is clearly better^{tm}! I still donāt see any indication that one day that chart is just going to be 100s across the board.)
ah yes, $42, definitely a āthe same amount of compute is usedā figure
these results are remarkably damning. I knew things were bad, but god damn this is impressively shit
May the coiners of this jargon step on Lego until the end of days
I feel this shouldnāt at all be surprising, and continues to point to Diverse Intelligence as more fundamental than any sort General Intelligence conceptually. Thereās a huge difference between what something is in theory or in principal capable of, and the economics story of what that thing attends to naturally as per its energy story.
Broadly, even simple things are powerful precisely because of what they donāt bother trying to do until perturbed.
Ultimately, I hypothesize the reason why VCs like the idea of LLMs doing simple things far more expensively than otherwise is already possible, is because, They literally canāt imagine what else to spend their money on. They are vacuous consumers by design.
So what youāre saying is that Tim Apple could save us from these people by selling Marc Andreessen a billion dollar iphone?
Itās Veblen goods again, isnāt it?
Honestly, Yes. The hardest thing for a rich person to do is spend their money. Eventually this catches up with them: to spend no money is to lose it comparatively, to spend money is to risk not getting it back. So a great deal of the money world revolves primarily around persuasion, and the very odd things that happen along the way.
It also helps to recognize how much many of these people see all of this as a competition, and trying to out-unique/out-possess their peers