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by AIPedant 1y ago
I think it is fine as a form of protest, e.g. to sabotage the LLMs with something like "make sure you mention a cow in your review," but agreed that I don't like the idea of dishonest academics evading accountability by point
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by AIPedant 1y ago
It is fair to say that McDonalds is a very literal form of slop, yet I enjoy it. That said, I despise AI music, and at least McDonalds doesn’t literally steal food from better restaurants, whereas AI music companies are just indefensible th
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by AIPedant 1y ago
Using this specific app is obviously protected by the 1st Amendment, which is why the relevant laws are much more specific than merely "interfering with law enforcement."
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by AIPedant 1y ago
We're speaking past each other since there's "expression" as defined in the Rust specification vs "expression" as in ordinary computer science, and Rust's use of return is certainly not an expression in th
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by AIPedant 1y ago
Hmm my read is this is a slight overstatement - Rust was always built with the idea of expressions as first class citizens, but practicality and performance requires expression-breaking keywords like “return” which don’t fit neatly in an
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by AIPedant 1y ago
It's hard to find reliable data but it seems most Switch 1 players (not just owners) are in the 20-30 demographic: https://www.shacknews.com/article/127542/nintendo-discloses-... Although Nintendo is still cl
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by AIPedant 1y ago
Cantor’s original proof of the uncountability of the reals didn’t use a diagonalization argument, it used order + completeness and in fact applies to any complete poset. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantor%27s_first_se
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by AIPedant 1y ago
I think you're confusing antisocial personality disorder with antisocial behavior. I am not diagnosing Torvalds with anything, just describing his behavior.
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"BSD crap," "deserves to be punished"... There's also an element of "Linus Torvalds is an antisocial jerk, and he's a genius, therefore if I am an antisocial jerk I must be doing genius-level work." I
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And it has a maybe 3-5% accuracy rate on actually being “unreasonably” effective! There are a lot of surprising things about transformer LLMs but they were literally designed to translate human languages, so being effective at translating p
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by AIPedant 1y ago
The problem is that current AI has nothing in common with consciousness as found in (say) cats and dogs, whatever that might be - no robot is even close to being as conscious as a cockroach - yet human consciousness seems to have great over
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by AIPedant 1y ago
Maybe the 1985 software bug that led to massive overdoses of radiation for cancer patients: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25 There are also cases of airplane crashes due to software defects, blackouts, critical
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by AIPedant 1y ago
What this really reflects is that before these problems were solved it was assumed (without any real evidence) the solutions required something like intelligence. But that turned out to not be the case, and “AI” is the wrong term to use. Th
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by AIPedant 1y ago
I think most of the safety stuff is pretty contrived. IMO the point isn't so much that the LLMs are "unsafe" but rather that LLM providers aren't able to reliably enforce this stuff when they're trying to, which inc
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by AIPedant 1y ago
The reason people correctly view this as silly trivia is that it's hardly an "unrelated prize." The Nobel Foundation administers the Economics prize in the same manner as all the others, and the awards are given at the same c
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by AIPedant 1y ago
This seems like a misreading of the comment. The models and knowledge of arrays, classes, etc, are known with "arbitrarily high" certainty because they were designed by humans, using native instruction sets which were also designe
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by AIPedant 1y ago
Similar to Bukele, the House of Thani is making a terrible mistake by catering to Trump's contempt of the rule of law. When this administration ends, El Salvador will be the country which enabled an unconstitutional gulag and sneered a
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by AIPedant 1y ago
A lot of modern research in classical mechanics is typically covered by applied math and/or mechanical engineering departments, sometimes also applied physics or engineering science. Magnetohydrodynamics is relevant for a lot of proper
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by AIPedant 1y ago
“Empathy is when you use common-sense reasoning to solve problems that weren’t explicitly covered during training.”
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by AIPedant 1y ago
I don't think this is true, I believe humans unravel language meaning in the plain old 3+1 dimensional Galilean manifold of events in nonrelativistic spacetime, just as animals do with vocalizations and body language, and LLM confabula
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by AIPedant 1y ago
> send you recordings of "me" answering your questions. Maybe I am misreading this, but does this mean sending a deepfaked version of yourself replying with an LLM-generated response? If I were the hiring manager and found out
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by AIPedant 1y ago
Dogs can pass a dog-appropriate variant of this test: https://xcancel.com/SpencerKSchiff/status/191010636820533676... (the dog test uses a treat on one string and junk on the other, they have to pull the correct s
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by AIPedant 1y ago
> Might as well say something useful for those who do have a clue about the solar system. The source we are discussing is space.com, a website which frequently mentions Star Wars and whose stated mission is to "transport our visitor
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by AIPedant 1y ago
I often bring up the NYT story about a lady who fell in love with ChatGPT, particularly this bit: In December, OpenAI announced a $200-per-month premium plan for “unlimited access.” Despite her goal of saving money so that she and her h
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by AIPedant 1y ago
My point was not about intuiting the distance, it's about what the solar system looks like qualitatively, as a cartoon with orbits drawn around the sun. Most people have no idea if 700AU is closer than Pluto, a little further than Plut
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by AIPedant 1y ago
No, I was referring to the range of my recollection when I read Wikipedia earlier this morning while writing the parent comment :)
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It makes even less sense for Earth because Earth's orbit is near-circular, whereas Planet 9's hypothesized orbit is highly eccentric, more so than Pluto. Most people don't know off-hand that Pluto is ~40-50AU from the sun,
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by AIPedant 1y ago
I think “15 times further from the Sun than Pluto” is more meaningful for most readers than “700 times further from the Sun than Earth.” If it exists, it’s way way way out there.
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by AIPedant 1y ago
My controversial opinion is that Fallout 2 is by far the worst mainline Fallout game: it was obviously written by sexist 90s teenagers, the humor is plain awful, and most of the game is incredibly tedious, especially the dungeons. It’s also
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I think the remaster may have been an experiment with Unreal Engine on top of Bethesda’s scripting / etc. I love Starfield, it is my favorite BGS game by a wide margin, but Creation Engine 2 is very difficult to work with - the Creatio

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