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you were asked if you tried to have a level discussion, to which you should have answered “no”


Even in an alt-right delusional doublethink universe, answering "no" would have been false.

A level discussion means one where criticism is allowed. It doesn't mean a discussion in which everyone gives a white-glove treatment to yet another useless chatbot, while ignoring the alt-right elephant in the room out of an abundance of courtesy.


>We need an alt-right version of AI like we need a pumpkin spice sushiccino. No thanks but no thanks.

darn muskovites downvoting deeply thought provoking, critical comments


You won't find me flagging this deeply thought-provoking critical comment of your own.


the difference is you really won’t find me crying about it


You've done nothing but mock and decry a stranger's answer to someone else's provocative question. I don't actually care about your opinion, but the tactics certainly smack of alt-right projection. Decry perceived MSM censorship, only to pursue it and justify it for themselves.

Buy Twitter, make yet another chatbot, then "massage" moderation systems when people point out that it's not only crappy and redundant, it's also alt-right.


or it’s you wearing shiny new thing glasses


>no u


you think john carmack has fewer responsibilites than you? while you’ve wasted enough time on here to rack up 15k karma?


Yes. His kid is an adult now and he is reportedly single now too so that makes it a lot easier to do this. The daily life of a family is a large time-consuming responsibility and many can’t lock themselves into a hotel for a week for that simple reason.


>academic

there’s your problem, academia skews overwhelmingly leftist


I have a theory that highly intelligent conservatives are much more competitive than cooperative and so choose careers with access to the most money/power/respect. So you'll see a lot of conservative bankers, financiers, doctors, executives, lawyers, etc. This group has an outsized desire to see lower taxes on high earners, so they are big supporters of low taxes (aka small government).

This theory explains why there are not a lot of conservative academics or scientists. Those careers are often low earning and more for the public good, so are more cooperative overall (even if they might be quite cutthroat in their own way).

It also begs the question that perhaps studying something deeply enough to get a PhD leaves a person with a perspective that is less compatible with certain viewpoints. Also, lower taxes for a college professor probably would be a net negative, as their college would be getting less government funding.


That's not an outlandish hypothesis. I'm from a family of medical doctors and entrepreneurs. They are all very conservative, while I'm more of a classical liberal.

I gave up working in the tech industry to pursue a PhD with the hopes of becoming a professor. Considering I research NLP, I could be making top dollar in industry, but have opted for the academia route. My family mostly don't understand and view the PhD as a diversion. Despite securing a postdoc at Cornell, they still ask me to reconsider working in industry so I can become rich and powerful, which they equate with fulfillment in life.


What you have here is actually only a hypothesis since to be a theory it has to have passed at least some means testing. A more probable reality is that as with Mr. Berliner, all the conservative or even skeptical liberal voices have been suspended, deplatformed, shunned, systematically lied about, fact cked by the woke mob and found wanting. They’re denied equal opportunity by the DEI committee, ostracized or outright fired for daring to question “the narrative”, exercise their constitutional right to free speech or actually tell the truth. Twenty yeas ago I was a A regular contribution to NPR. I considered it a factual though left leaning arbiter of real news. Now it is little different than MSNBC or CNN as a mouthpiece for democratic party woke-ism that will never admit the truth of their complicity in pushing Hillary’s package deal with the DNC, 50 pseudo-intelligence officials, Adam Schiff’s perjured testimony to the US public and all the other dirty tricks performed by those tasked with taking down a president. The shenanigans have only accelerated and NPR is at the vanguard of providing suppressive fire for perhaps the least competent, most dangerous, unliked and least accountable President in our history. If our federally subsidized organizations fail to recognize their part in this progressive destruction of our social fabric this nation will soon cease to exist.


Where were you on January 6th, sir?


You have lost me. I cannot find a connection between your post and the op description of how NPR reported the events mentioned. Can you enlighten me?


Being more educated makes you more progressive...

Says a lot about modern conservatisme doesnt it?


There is a big difference between academic diploma / position and being educated. The gap was clearly demonstrated recently by Claudine Gay.


maybe it’s really saying something about modern education


>Hacker News


however, if you need to swap experts on each token, you might as well run on cpu.


> Presumably, the same expert would frequently be selected for a number of tokens in a row

In other words, assuming you ask a coding question and there's a coding expert in the mix, it would answer it completely.


See my poorly educated answer above. I don’t think that’s how MoE actually works. A new mixture of experts is chosen for every new context.


yes I read that. do you think it's reasonable to assume that the same expert will be selected so consistently that model swapping times won't dominate total runtime?


No idea TBH, we'll have to wait and see. Some say it might be possible to efficiently swap the expert weights if you can fit everything in RAM: https://x.com/brandnarb/status/1733163321036075368?s=20


rules for thee but not for me is not a western invention


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Exploitation good!


Exploitation bad. Socialism good!


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