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Asked LA Fitness to cancel my membership, they offered to freeze it for $10/month instead

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Yeah that must be nice to have consumer protection laws where you live 🥲

My original post was actually a lived experience. Around the start of COVID I wanted to cancel my membership at Retro Fitness, but they refused unless I came in with an essay about why in person. Yup you read that right.

Fun fact: the gym was closed to guests because of COVID

Pretty easy decision

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pausing dangerous AI

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Eh it’s the illusion of speed. Scaling brought enormous returns from GPT-3 -> GPT-4 but it’s been far less significant for every major release since. To compensate for this, every research lab is coming up with new ways to extract value of it of models: CoT, RL, Agent Harness etc

However, these are all hacks to make LLMs more efficient or (try) to make them more reliable. They still have significant drawbacks which will take years (probably decades) to ever get them to the point where they can reliably replace knowledge workers. China knows this and is taking a far different approach to LLM development (not a tankie fyi). Scaling is a horrible idea which will burn billions of dollars with an astronomically low chance of return.