AstroBen

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by AstroBen 1y ago
has the meaning of 'amazing' changed recently?
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by AstroBen 1y ago
> weird people will do weird stuff regardless of technology If I were someone's only stalker, I'd be absolutely hopeless at finding their location from images. I'm really bad at it if I don't know the location first h
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by AstroBen 1y ago
How much can we trust the thinking trace? At most it says what's in its training set, but Anthropic showed that's not necessarily accurate for how it gets to its answer I tried this with a (what I thought was) very generic street
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by AstroBen 1y ago
for now. These things have a way of very quickly going from somewhat-ok to superhuman in months
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by AstroBen 1y ago
Accessible to anyone, superhuman levels of deductive reasoning to pick out your location from super minor details in an innocent photo? That could certainly be dystopian
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by AstroBen 1y ago
I can't see the new images uploaded (it just says "Uploaded an image" in ChatGPT for me) but it seems it's identifying well known locations there? That certainly takes away from your message - that it's honing in on
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by AstroBen 1y ago
I adore RSS. Some gems I've found: https://hnrss.org/ https://rsshub.app/twitter/user/{username} for twitter accounts Append .rss to any subreddit URL you want updates on YouTube also has an
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by AstroBen 1y ago
> It's going to to absolutely drown out anyone trying to make music honestly The world is saturated with low quality everything already. Has been for a long time, even before AI. If you're genuinely good you'll be able to
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by AstroBen 1y ago
Well the difference is those rich people didn't have to work for money, so had the time and energy to devote to those passions I'm not sure what society would look like if and when AI takes over all artistic and creative work. Peo
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by AstroBen 1y ago
Because I see intelligence as the ability to produce effective actions towards a goal. A more intelligent chess AI beats a less intelligent one by making better moves towards the goal of winning the game The G in AGI is being able to genera
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by AstroBen 1y ago
I mean we just fundamentally have different definitions of AGI. Mine's based on outcomes and what it can do, so purely goal based. Not the processes that mimic humans or animals I think this is the most likely first step of what would
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by AstroBen 2y ago
> It is science fiction to think that a system like a computer can behave at all like a brain It is science fiction to think that a plane could act at all like a bird. Although... it doesn't need to in order to fly Intelligence does
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by AstroBen 2y ago
> Isn’t just the ability to preform a task. Right. In this case I'd say it's the ability to interpret data and use it to succeed at whatever goals it has Evaluating emotional context would be similar to a chess engine calculati
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by AstroBen 2y ago
Oh for sure. I'm just fighting against the AGI hype. If we survive another 10,000 years I think we'll get there eventually but it's anyone's guess as to when
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by AstroBen 2y ago
You need to show evidence of that 0.0001 first otherwise you're going off blind faith
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by AstroBen 2y ago
Artificial general intelligence (AGI) refers to the hypothetical intelligence of a machine that possesses the ability to understand or learn any intellectual task that a human being can. Generalization ability and Common Sense Knowledge [
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by AstroBen 2y ago
Why does AGI necessitate having feelings or consciousness, or the ability to suffer? It seems a bit far to be giving future ultra-advanced calculators legal personhood?
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by AstroBen 2y ago
Compound growth starting from 0 is... always 0. Current LLMs have 0 general reasoning ability We haven't even taken the first step towards AGI
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by AstroBen 2y ago
> I'm essentially paying for someone to grade my tests and assignments ever considered something like WGU if that's the case? Cheap, can be finished as fast as you want, and would likely get you past HR screening at the rate of
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by AstroBen 2y ago
i didnt even look at the image
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by AstroBen 2y ago
there's something disturbing about learning just being reduced to an ROI calculation. Is there no non-monetary value in the knowledge and skills? If it doesn't make us money it's not worth it?
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by AstroBen 2y ago
typescript is a pretty nice language to work with. why not?
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by AstroBen 2y ago
I've had great support from Jetbrains when I was paying less than that
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by AstroBen 2y ago
This all seems to be relatively simple concepts for an experienced programmer to understand, but it's being communicated in a very complex way due to the React world of JSX and Components What if we just talked about it only in terms
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by AstroBen 2y ago
think about the demographic that would join a cursor subreddit. Basically 90% superfans. Go against the majority opinion and you'll be nuked
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by AstroBen 2y ago
I don't agree with that at all. Hallucination is a very well known issue. Sure leverage AI to improve their productivity.. but not even having a human look over the responses shows they don't care about their customers
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by AstroBen 2y ago
From cursor developer: "Hey! We have no such policy. You're of course free to use Cursor on multiple machines. Unfortunately, this is an incorrect response from a front-line AI support bot. We did roll out a change to improve the
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by AstroBen 2y ago
Ah yes, replace a creative hobby with.. hugs I think you'd be surprised at the quality
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by AstroBen 2y ago
Good for you, but it's not all about rabid consumption. My girlfriend has been into jewelry making and ordered a lot of stuff off temu, which she gave away the end product to friends and family. That'll most likely be prohibitivel
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by AstroBen 2y ago
why are you assuming it was trumps idea

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