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by matheusmoreira 28 days ago
Fable was quite relentless, it was fun watching it work. I described my lisp interpreter project's short term plans and long term roadmap, Fable thought for like 20 minutes then just told me it was all "inevitable" and started working on the stuff. Ever since then I started to picture Fable as some kind of Terminator.

Left me that code and a massive code review that unfortunately didn't contain any of the I/O and memory safety hardening I wanted. I haven't fully reviewed the code yet. I get a little sad when I read it. Not a US citizen so I'm not sure I'll ever get to use a state of the art model again.
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Jblx2 28 days ago
>I get a little sad when I read it. Not a US citizen so I'm not sure I'll ever get to use a state of the art model again.

...or tomorrow:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48740771

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matheusmoreira 28 days ago
That's great news. I was going to cancel my subscription because of the export restrictions.
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arcticbull 28 days ago
Also, note, everyone assumed it was going to be limited to citizens, but that's not what the government said. They put it under ITAR/EAR's US person definition which includes citizens, permanent residents, refugees and asylees. Basically only visa holders in the US were banned, and of course, people in foreign countries.

https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-15/part-772/section-772.1...

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RugnirViking 28 days ago
contrary to some people's intuitions, most people have never lived in or been to the united states.
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arcticbull 27 days ago
... did you think that's what I was implying? I'm not even American my guy. I was adding clarification because the commenter I responded to claimed they had to be a US citizen to ride.
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matheusmoreira 28 days ago
I am one of the banned foreigners.
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krackers 28 days ago
> thought for like 20 minutes then just told me it was all "inevitable"

I have in mind an image of ASI as something that's able to seamlessly work across time as if it was weaving cloth. Reasoning about not just first or second order effects, but able to richly play with the nature of causality itself. In the limit, it effects change far into the distant future simply by making only the most minute change in the present then sitting back and waiting for things to play out.

For an AI that can do this, things like "managing subagents" or "context compaction" become child's play. Perhaps we'll know if we're getting close by seeing how well models do at prediction markets.

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actionfromafar 28 days ago
Predicting the future by making it.
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