Critiquing effective *altruists* and the impact of the philosophy on normal people is very different to critiquing effective *altruism* as a substantive societal movement with a lot of money behind it.
@jeremyphoward
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AI Auto-Reply Bots: Purpose and Proliferation on Social Media
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What's with all these AI auto-reply-guys? This reply was posted 7 seconds after my tweet. I've been seeing a lot of this recently. What are they trying to do?
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Pair Programming as a Quiet Collaborative Development Practice
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My experience of pair programming is that it's a fairly quiet activity.
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Tool Use Methodology: Retrieval Approach in AI Systems
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There’s a paper describing this approach, for one particular tool (retrieval); idea is the same however for other tools https://
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Will’s Shallow Response to FTX Controversy Lacks Genuine Reflection
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The thread doesn't engage with reality in any honest and thoughtful way, despite Will claiming that he'd reflect carefully and deeply after FTX happened.
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Popular AI Models Need Updates for Meta Device Compatibility
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True – I meant it doesn't work ootb without code changes. Hopefully popular models will be updated in the future to work correctly with the meta device.
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LLM Buffer Limitations: Non-Persistent Memory Architecture Challenges
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That doesn't work for anything with non-persistent buffers (which is most current LLMs AFAICT, since the sin/cos cache is in those buffers)
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Unfettered Utilitarianism: A Recipe for AI Evil
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Because unfettered utilitarianism is a recipe for evil
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EA’s Gap Between Aspiration and Reality Explained
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What EA aspires to be, and what it’s become, are very different things. This difference was entirely predictable.
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RAG Accuracy Issues in AI Systems Explained
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Hey don't put me in the middle – lowest RAG accuracy there! :O