Post B5QzhuGWpjtbfwSVH6 by aparrish@friend.camp
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 (DIR) Post #B5QzhpAJnOxPrEVyOu by aparrish@friend.camp
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       i guess fundamentally i'm not convinced that whatever amount useful functionality has emerged from generative AI (and i think the jury's still out on whether that amount is non-zero) couldn't have been achieved in more cost-effective, equitable and sustainable ways by having taken the money and resources we've shoveled into gen AI and investing them elsewhere("sustainable" in the sense of environmentally sustainable but also "can we keep this in a working state" sustainable)
       
 (DIR) Post #B5Qzht5rBvlW2YST0C by aparrish@friend.camp
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       like... the cost of a single "state-of-the-art" llm training run would be a permanently institution-changing amount of money for your average computer science department (to say nothing of depts in CS-adjacent fields, especially in the arts and humanities). the claude mythos result, even if you take anthropopo's claims at face value (which: don't) seems indicative of this, like, yeah if you toss nine figures at security research, you're gonna find some exploits?
       
 (DIR) Post #B5QzhuGWpjtbfwSVH6 by aparrish@friend.camp
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       hard for me to believe that people would independently come up with generative AI as a serious method for solving problems if the entire field of practice wasn't subsidized by investment ponzi schemes, real estate scams, and shovel sellers