Alchemista

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by Alchemista 3mo ago
How many people who are that invested in their Steam library don't already have a mid to upper range PC?
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by Alchemista 9mo ago
So you are really going with the unreasonably optimistic take that wealth will actually be redistributed to those that don't have it? Take a look at the slums in India and other periods of history where the lower classes lived in squal
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by Alchemista 1y ago
I firmly believe that we are not even close and that it is pretty presumptuous to start "preparing" when such metal energy could be much better spent on the welfare of our fellow humans.
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by Alchemista 1y ago
Honestly, I think some of these tech bro types are seriously drinking way too much of their own koolaid if they actually think these word calculators are conscious/need welfare.
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by Alchemista 3y ago
Efficiency has everything to do with it. To run your original thought experiment would likely take more computing capacity than humanity will ever produce with current silicon based processors. It could be that we can "get there"
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by Alchemista 3y ago
Why not respond to the comments you feel are poorly constructed directly rather than posting what looks like a copy pasta. Some of the items in your list seem like strawmen, because I cannot even find these arguments in this thread as you s
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by Alchemista 3y ago
I feel like you are being deliberately obtuse here. They said "Give it a few years" and linked https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_development_stages . How is this not strongly implying that in a "few yea
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by Alchemista 3y ago
> You are the first to suggest any such thing, in this comment chain. I'm sorry, did you miss the original post: "Because they are at a child level of development. Give it a few years." I extrapolated a little bit, but not
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by Alchemista 3y ago
Don't you think the onus should be on the people making the fantastical claims to prove it? If human cognition is ill-defined, then define it before making grand claims like ML models being on some path of childhood development and is
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by Alchemista 3y ago
LLMs aren't designed to emulate human cognition, they are a statistical model designed to predict the next word in a sentence. It happens that they seem to exhibit some similarities to human cognition as a side effect, but that does no
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by Alchemista 3y ago
This is silly, that's like talking about building a fusion reactor modeled after the sun. It is easy to propose something like that, but we always seem to be 10 years away from realizing it. In fact it could be easier to solve the fusi
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by Alchemista 3y ago
I don't think anthropomorphizing ML models is very useful
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by Alchemista 3y ago
Yeah, I don't get it. It doesn't look very good to me. It is also obviously AI generated, with the telltale signs of deformed limbs and hands.
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by Alchemista 4y ago
This is a pretty extreme stance. There is a fine line between "learning from" proprietary code and outright stealing some of the key insights and IP. Sometimes it takes a very difficult conceptual leap to solve some of the more di
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by Alchemista 11y ago
Thanks for your personal anecdote. Unfortunately, it is fallacious to try and generalize it to the entire population.
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by Alchemista 11y ago
I understand how any trip to the hospital might lead to a reflection on your health. However, I fail to see how appendicitis is related to a lack of sleep.