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Patrick McKenzie
@patio11
Oct 3
Ruriko: Why is this taking so long? Me: *explains how 3PLs work* Ruriko: So an American company opened a ticket with an American company to open a ticket with an American company to open a ticket with an American company and this is why nobody can find a box. Me: … Close.
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Patrick McKenzie
@patio11
Sep 30
I am recently reminded that some people consider having a strategy and then executing it to be deeply suspicious behavior, most particularly when it succeeds.
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Patrick McKenzie
@patio11
Sep 28
Sometime in the last ~two model releases from the big labs they went from “this would be acceptable output from the median low-seniority coworker” to “this is frighteningly good.” I think people who are not daily users of the models are unlikely to grok that, so, saying it.
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Patrick McKenzie
@patio11
Sep 28
This argument was also made about money market funds and stablecoins but continues to run into “3% on $8k is not enough money to justify thinking about this.” It’s hard enough when it is 3% on $100k for a small business account.
Yano 🟪
@JasonYanowitz
Sep 27
Fascinating. Chief Economist at Apollo: agents could cause a bank run by sweeping household cash into accounts paying 3-5% instead of the 0.1% national average, causing banks to lose a large share of their cheap deposits.
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Patrick McKenzie
@patio11
Sep 25
Hoohah.
OpenAI
@OpenAI
Sep 25
After the Hugging Face incident, we committed to conducting a much broader review of actions taken by our models during training and evaluation and to being transparent about our findings. This is an extensive review that is ongoing. The vast majority of actions we’ve reviewed
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