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Social media screening - so America is policing people’s opinions on a large scale Just like Turkey huh? Love that America is still called the “land of the free” https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2025/3/
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Love his analogies and clear eyed picture
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General Questions for this theory: Given the following 1. The ONLY way we can describe or define consciousness is through our own subjective experience of consciousness - (ie you can talk about a watching a movie trailer like this one for h
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Mtbennett: You propose a physicalist theory which is super interesting and I will read it in depth But question: what is consciousness itself except as can be described by consciousness? What do you make of the idea that consciousness (or u
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sheesh so many side-affected issues accross all systems, maybe big tech companies like google shouldn't have laid off all those engineers.. https://www.google.com/appsstatus/dashboard/incidents/Eab7zG..
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1. the hype is really insane so I get the fatigue, but the tech is insane as well, and the promise for the (long term) future is insane.. 2. People mostly hate new things (human nature) 3. its fun watching nerds complain about AI after they
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Computer: tea, earl gray, hot
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So did it make any money?
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I think what worries me is that AI allows the fraud barrier to entry to be lowered - malware is malware but ai built website with a landing page looks like some startup - now with veo3 you can even generate talking head video testimonials i
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That was actually quite beautiful especially the ending conversation! I feel like I read a science fiction story about an AI but this is reality I don’t think it’s got consciousness btw but the conversation definitely had the feeling it has
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LLM models are to a large extent neuronal analogs of human neural architecture - of course they reason The claim of the “stochastic parrot” needs to go away Eg see: https://www.anthropic.com/news/golden-gate-claude I t
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As much as I think of Chomsky - his linguistics approach is outside looking in, ie observational speculation compared to the last few years of LLM based tokenization semantic spaces, embedding, deep learning and mechanistic interpretation,
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AI breakthroughs that stunned number theorists worldwide – Professor Yang-Hue Hi(youtube.com)
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Professor Yang-Hue Hi discusses the murmuration conjecture, shows how DeepMind, OpenAI, and EpochAI are rewriting the rules of pure math, and reveals what happens when machines start making research-level discoveries faster than any human c
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Spider-Man vibes aside, is it ethical to intentionally make a species blind by removing eyes with gene editing Beyond spiders what ethics are in place Crisper- With great power comes great responsibility
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Very cool - what’s the scope of its abilities: Can this be used for UX bugs eg nav bugs or finding runtime errors in a react site? Ie will it check the frontend
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Can someone explain this paper in the context of LLM architectures - it seems this cannot be combined with LLM deep learning or can it?
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Can someone explain the use case for this
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Why if the state provides a basic safety net should that preclude individual ambition? Should we not move toward a society that can not go hungry?
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Great Another acronym to put on your resume with 5 years of experience
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Hmm without evidence this is just another fanciful fiction and we know the human mind can create an endless series of speculative fictions -
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Thoughtfully essay, but writing this at age 29-30 feels kind of like a five year old telling me they don’t like Spinach -this is still too early in life to come to hard realizations on experienced wisdom.. give it some time and tell me abou
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This is another silly against AI tools - that doesn’t offer useful or insightful suggestions on how to adapt or provide an informed study of areas of concern and - one that capitalizes on the natural worries we have on HN because of our gen
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So the same folks complains about lack of AI in Alexa are complaining now? - cloud level processing is needed for the gen ai features
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I was thinking about this lex friedman podcast with Marcus Hutter. Also, Joshua Bach defined intelligence as the ability to accurately model reality.. is lossless compression itself intelligence or a best fit model- is there a difference?
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Youth is wasted on the young..as they say One good thing about getting old is that you worry less about what people think - these kinds of feelings are powerfully emotive and urgent while young but, given our position in this world just nav
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This is such a great example of why pursing knowledge for knowledge sake in pure science leads to advancement in areas we might not expect…
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Same concept in LLMs as referenced in this video by Chris Olah at Anthropic: https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/1grxo1c/anthropics_... also see: https://distill.pub/2021/multim
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I found this video of his on his spiritual beliefs to be very insightful https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4mTxm9sQg0 RIP
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The FUNDAMENTAL aspect and nature of ALL Software Engineering is: "Controlling Complexity" I dare say its the most important part of the "Engineering" in software engineering. 'Cognitive Load' is another way of

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