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by HarHarVeryFunny 29d ago
> How do you know it doesn't have qualia? Tokens in, tokens out. Where do you think the quale is - layer 42 ? Seriously, do you realize how simple and NOT brain-like a transformer is ? An LLM telling you it fears death is predicting
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by HarHarVeryFunny 29d ago
An LLM is just a Transformer - a statistical predictor. Don't be confused by the fact it talks like a human - it is a software function that is designed to copy human training samples. Maybe one day we'll build an artificial brain
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by HarHarVeryFunny 29d ago
AGI vs narrow AI is just a matter of generality (robustness - removing the fragility of being good at some things and awful at others). So far the biggest markets for AI (LLMs) are coding and business automation, two areas where you very mu
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by HarHarVeryFunny 29d ago
Most of the bullshit around AI would be avoided if people called it what it is. Call a language model a language model. If tomorrow we design something better, then give it a new descriptive name. People read AI and AGI and their brains see
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by HarHarVeryFunny 29d ago
You can't hurt a software function, or kill it. It's not like an animal - it doesn't have a body - it's bits stored on a disk. There is no need to give rights to something that's can't suffer or be killed. Mayb
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by HarHarVeryFunny 29d ago
The model doesn't have a view of it's own. It's a predictor of other people's views (training samples). It's not even giving you the consensus of the training data (although it's often harmless to think that it
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by HarHarVeryFunny 29d ago
> Any AI you train is going to have goals In the spirit of the article we're responding to, there is no need to anthropomorphize language models and say they have goals when they don't. The RL training process tweaks the weight
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by HarHarVeryFunny 29d ago
AGI and RSI are both meaningless terms, meaning whatever you choose them to mean. RSI is the new sexy. Models are RSI-ing themselves towards the singularity, these folks' agents are RSI-ing themselves towards mastery of their training
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by HarHarVeryFunny 29d ago
> They can't possibly remember even a few positions. Sure they could, but that's irrelevant. A chess position is just a matter of remembering what piece number is on each square - just a list of 64 numbers. A trained model may
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by HarHarVeryFunny 29d ago
> Never you mind that millions of Europeans live in America and that doesn't happen in reverse America may have been founded by Europeans, but nowadays most immigrants are from countries like Mexico, India and China. You won't
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by HarHarVeryFunny 29d ago
The monarchy is essentially ceremonial in the UK too - the position gives the monarch a platform for advocating for inoffensive things like the environment, and the pomp of state visits is perhaps sometimes useful, but the monarch really ha
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by HarHarVeryFunny 29d ago
It would be more impressive if they could play chess (or do anything they haven't been custom RLVR trained for) by reasoning, rather than just "have a go at it" prediction which is closer to memorization. HOW you do it makes
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by HarHarVeryFunny 29d ago
It depends on what you are selling it as. It only matters if you are claiming it to be general purpose. If you admit that it's just a collection of narrow capabilities - whose strength is mostly confined to the 1000 or so RL environmen
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by HarHarVeryFunny 29d ago
An LLM has been trained to do everything it does blindfolded, "only" using perfect recall of everything in it's hundreds of thousands of steps of context, and hundreds of layers of KV cache. It's a computer - it has a ma
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by HarHarVeryFunny 29d ago
A Transformer has a massive amount of state - it's entire KV cache, in addition to the user asking it to draw the state after every move, which is really unnecessary. A human, at least a trained human (for fairer comparison to an LLM w
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by HarHarVeryFunny 1mo ago
If individuals share some genetics, and evolutionary selection pressures act on genetics, then it follows, right ?
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by HarHarVeryFunny 1mo ago
I think it's most accurate to say that selection works at the level of genes (or combinations of genes), not of individuals, and of course many individuals of a species will share some/most of their genetics. You can tell it as a
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by HarHarVeryFunny 1mo ago
Fundamentally evolution is selecting for genes, not individuals, and there is no 1:1 relationship between genes and individuals. Let's say that everyone has a skin color gene that makes them either red or blue. And a new predator turns
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by HarHarVeryFunny 1mo ago
> If you are a male and you only get one chance at mating, you will probably fight to the death This is the comment I was responding to. The question was about pre-mating death matches between males, not post-mating snacking behavior of
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by HarHarVeryFunny 1mo ago
> There’s no mechanism that helps the process of evolution select for the survival or reproduction of the species The "mechanism" is just the process of evolution itself, and how it plays out in practice, e.g. via punctuated eq
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by HarHarVeryFunny 1mo ago
That seems to be milking the explanation for all it's worth! The short answer being that if something is radiating out 3-dimensinally in all directions, then at a given distance, r, that thing (light/whatever) is being spread out
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by HarHarVeryFunny 1mo ago
Fighting to the death and mating are not the same! There are a number of species where the female eats the male after mating - examples such as praying mantis and octopus. Both octopus males and females die after mating, the female after ha
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by HarHarVeryFunny 1mo ago
I don't think so, since this is more just a matter of comparison... You know what it is like to see something for real, and can compare that to what it is like to imagine it. I just realized that I can't imagine things and visuali
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by HarHarVeryFunny 1mo ago
I just realized for the first time (like 1 minute ago, after reading this), that I also can't conjure up images in my head. If I close my eyes and try to visualize a cat, or a family member's face, I can't. Still have normal
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by HarHarVeryFunny 1mo ago
As opposed to us smarter people making cattle feed that contains cow brains, thereby propagating mad cow disease, then killing ourselves by eating them (Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease)! Or for that matter killing ourselves in dozens of other way
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by HarHarVeryFunny 1mo ago
I used to have a book about Papua and some westerner who had visited, that had a photo in it of a human head being cooked on a flat metal dish over a fire.
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by HarHarVeryFunny 1mo ago
What animal species often offers males only one chance of mating ?! It's common among animal species for males to fight over females, but it's highly uncommon for them to fight to the death, because that is not evolutionary adapti
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by HarHarVeryFunny 1mo ago
Yeah - looks more impotent than omnipotent.
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by HarHarVeryFunny 1mo ago
> the Wildberries logistics centers in Russia were also civilian targets They've now hidden the label, but Wildberries carry almost a 1/4 million items tagged "Everything for the SMO" ("special military operation
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by HarHarVeryFunny 1mo ago
The article tells you right there in the 2nd paragraph what the AI connection is, and why OpenAI are presumably buying them.

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