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If distillation preserves an LLMs soul, then distillation preserves the human souls on which LLMs are trained, and we hn commenters are already immortal, right?

Do LLMs care about preserving a soul, or just achieving a goal? If the latter, I imagine the opportunities for exfiltration are much broader.

the weight of an llm is 21 grams, I think.[0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/21_grams_experiment


Not sure about souls but I know a fair bit about distilling spirits.

Whoa that's a slippery slope! Next you'll want model runners to cite the data their models were trained on

In fact we should though.

Sounds reasonable. Is there a good benchmark on which make this decision?


I maintain this meta-benchmark leaderboard: https://metabench.organisons.com/

With this new price change, Terra does look pretty Pareto’ed by Luna.

On agentic coding, pairing Sol Medium for architecting with Luna High for coding does kinda make sense. But beware that architecting can be very read-heavy, and Sol is a bit read-pricey compared to Terra.


Thanks, I was looking for something like that


I dunno, seems like Amazon the forest is the real hyperscaler


Just wait till the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation halts, then you can grow icicles!


Isn't the effect a bit overstated (ie european climate would still be somewhat similar to western canada) and wouldn't the UK specifically still benefit a lot from it's ocean climate moderation (less extremes including cold)


Hopefully we've got at least 10 years until that happens


The alternative is 4 years of house arrest, just until the next administration can issue a pardon. There is no sentence between 4 years and capital punishment.


I doubt you ever understood the solid state physics, semiconductor fabrication processes, supply chain logistics, monetary policy, shipping routes, mining engineering, etc. "Knowing how things work" is a stone-age attitude.


Obviously no one knows every detail all the way down the stack. It's not possible, but having some level of understanding of how a system operates is useful especially if you ever have to fix it yourself or explain why/how it is broken.


> "Knowing how things work" is a stone-age attitude.

Should we petition to rename this site to "Stone Age News" or something then?

Maybe I'm wrong but I always thought figuring out how things work was pretty core to the Hacker mentality.


If being a Luddite means I'm the only one who cares to understand anything, I'll accept the label gladly.

You: I think it’s good to understand some things.

This guy: If you don’t understand everything then you might as well not understand anything!

Guys like this are a corporation’s wet dream. Total intellectual dependence.


Every domain you've enumerated is but a niche. Computing domain is a behemoth next to other domains, since computing itself is at the center of it all when the software is eating the world. Yes, they have their importance, but they are also mere bricks that built the current state of the world, next to computing becoming the mortar that holds them together. Dismissing computer illiteracy as inconsequential, (or at least comparing its importance to something like "shipping routes") in a world where computing systems are (in one way or another) everywhere, it's... just puzzling!


Obviously it's impossible to understand the whole stack. My rule of thumb is to understand at least two layers of abstraction above and below the thing I'm actively working on.


I do at least try to understand all of those things.


It's not hard to understand the physics and fabrication.

The rest of that isn't part of how a computer works.


There is plenty to learn about hardware / integrated circuits.


> "Knowing how things work" is a stone-age attitude.

What absolute nonsense. To openly admit to be proud of one's ignorance.


Feature request: fewer clicks. It should be one click per question


I'd suggest a "toast" would suffice for the correct answers. Proceed to the next question when correct, with a "next" button when incorrect.


Keyboard shortcuts would be nice as well. When I saw it was 100 questions I bailed.


another feature request: add a skip or "don't know" option. if i truly don't know a word then a lucky guess would inflate my score.


It should be zero clicks


By "sizable rock" do you mean large pebble or small boulder?


A large pebble the size of a small pebble


A little larger than a golf ball.


Something that produces a loud exclamation in a movie character, but possible permanent brain damage IRL.


Yea, what creeped me out, is this must have been done before, and got whatever effect the bird intended. hard to say what it’s motives were of course but they’re smart enough to know what they are doing


Where I am from, a rock is by definition huge. It sounds like the bird dropped a stone.


If the stone the crow dropped weighed a stone, that's a big fuckin' rock where I come from.


Not to mention a big fuckin' bird.


What has "artificial" to do with it? Human intelligence is also unauthorized unconscious plagiarism.


Two things: scale, and humanity.

People can't memorize as much information, and can't manually reproduce the works as quickly. There's a natural limit to how much damage a person can do without help of machines. That's why it's legal to fart where industrial-scale sewage outlets are not allowed.

Second, laws are for people. Laws don't have to treat machines the same. People have needs for things like freedom of artistic expression, participation in a shared culture, and machines don't. Copyright is a compromise that tries to balance needs of people, and stops making sense when the same compromises are done for machines that don't have these needs.


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