"Altman is no physicist. He is a serial entrepreneur, and quite clearly a talented one"
Not sure the record supports that if you remove OpenAi which is a work-in-progress and supposedly not going too great at the moment. A talented 'tech whisperer' maybe?
Sam Altman is only 39 years old. Like it or not, it would be a fallacy to assume he's shown everything he's capable of. He likely has much more to contribute in his lifetime.
I feel I read that sentence a lot when Sam Bankman Fried was still the darling of the tech intelligentsia, but the closer you are to the huckster and moneyman corner of the spectrum rather than the actual research side the less true that statement is.
>100% due to them having no interest
I wouldn't go that far. Nobody willingly has no interest in being fed. There are logistical and other issues with the distribution of food and ensuring it gets to who needs it the most. It's a microcosm of what's happening in the world: there is more than enough food to feed every hungry person on the planet yet people starve (not because they don't have interest in acquiring food).
I don't think you understood the severity or the noobiness of the error. This is a browser not a crud app or electron app. A browser is a complex system level piece of software not a hacky mvp and this kind of error shows that maybe they don't have the competence to be building something like this. It makes you wonder what other basic flaws are there just waiting to be exploited, even if its built on top of chromium. Would you fly in an mvp airplane built by bicycle engineers? (maybe not the best analogy since the first airplane was built by bicycle engineers)
Agreed, I wouldn’t have hopped on the first airplane with some bicyclist named Wilbur. That would involve risk of immediate physical harm.
On the other hand, we’re talking about a 2 year old browser leaking what websites you visit. Do you also think Firefox in 2006 was bulletproof? The entire internet and every single OS & browser was a leaky bucket back then.
The current safety-ism, paranoia and risk-aversion around consumer software on this forum is hilarious to me. Maybe they shouldn’t have called this place “Hacker” news, because it’s now full of people LARPing as international intelligence agency targets from a 90s movie. If the prying Five Eyes are such a concern for you, maybe use a fake email when signing up for stuff and your browser history is instantly anonymized.
Yes, startups involve lots of risk (to everyone involved, users/employees/founders/investors). But risk is the only way we get new things. If you those risks are too scary for you, stay far away startups.
You're speaking in bland hand-wavy generalities and like I said before I'm not sure you understood the issue or even read the write-up since you're not really addressing it specifically (it's a whole lot more than 'leaking'). To extend the analogy, this is like having bike engineers build an mvp supersonic jet and you find out they are using bike brakes to stop the thing. Its not even just merely an error its about some very questionable architecture. This is not a mozilla innovating the browser and making the mistakes you get when you're experimenting-and-innovating-something-new type situation at all and it has nothing to do with paranoia or five-eyes lol.
>The left and the right both agree 100% on protecting Israel
Sorry I call bull on this. In the first part of your comment you say 'agree 100%' and in the latter part you yourself say 'how low support has plummeted' and imply social media is to blame. In what way is 'low support' == 'agree 100%' ? It sounds like you're calling for some form of censorship to enforce 100% agreement.
This. This and the recent trend to hold parents of juvenile mass shooters to account if they enabled the kid gives me hope that there our still functioning parts of our collective brains not completely rotted by the culture wars and twitter/x/facebook
Agree but I want to see this enforced not just on kids that walk into a school and opens fire. I want it enforced in large urban areas. Any minor that opens fire, their parents need to be arrested. The law is currently only being applied to kids that get their hands on so called assault rifles. It needs to be applied to handguns in urban areas that comprise the majority of shootings by minors.
I only support this if the minor is determined to have obtained the weapon from a parent that was negligent in preventing access to that weapon. E.g. when a parent fails to lock the weapons in a safe or purchases weapons for the child. I do not support this in instances where the minor unknowingly gets access to weapons behind the parent's back (illegally through telegram for example or through their friends).
As someone with a troubled teen and a witness to numerous other parents dealing with troubled teens, it's virtually impossible to prevent them from doing whatever they want these days unless you literally lock them up 24/7. Even then they will weaponize reporting you to CPS with lies about abuse. Many of these kids are growing up in perfectly decent homes and taught well by their parents, but they get influenced by their peers to cause trouble.
If your kid is that problematic and wants to get CPS involved then throw them to CPS and let them ruin their lives. You clearly failed earlier on and can’t course correct any further.
You should’ve been more involved earlier on if your kid is getting involved in gang violence, getting weapons, and is going to be out there shooting people. You failed big time.
A lot of these kids don’t grow up in good homes - the parents are negligent and incompetent. They play dumb just like you are doing.
Yes, anytime a parent is directly responsible or deliberately negligent and it leads to deaths, whether school or urban area. I mentioned mass shooting because that is the most visible instance where it has been applied so far. Let's not make it about politics (sigh, maybe I'm hoping for too much)
I follow your blog and read almost everything you write about Llms. Just curious (if you havent already written about it somewhere and I missed it), how much do you spend monthly, exploring all the various Llms and their features? (I think its a useful context for having a grasp of how much I would have to spend to keep up to date with the models out there and the latest features)
Most months I spend less than $10 total across the OpenAI, Anthropic and Google APIs - for the kind of stuff I do I’m just not racking up really high token counts.
I spend $20/month on ChatGPT plus and $20/month on Claude Pro. I get GitHub Copilot for free as an open source maintainer.
Nope. AI will not push the envelope in any way. People will still have to do that, because people are the only entities that care about these things, and "care" is not only fundamentally motivating but fundamentally measuring.
Interesting. I too see many parallels with present-day United States. Especially with all the current political turmoil and cultural ferment. History doesn't repeat perfectly but reading about Vienna and Austro-Hungary before the war and knowing what came after out of this melange- Nazism, Communism, Fascism, it feels somewhat portentous.
Not sure the record supports that if you remove OpenAi which is a work-in-progress and supposedly not going too great at the moment. A talented 'tech whisperer' maybe?