Isamu

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by Isamu 1y ago
You are right, I am being casual in asserting what “people prefer”. You assert that people prefer to be right, I agree but in practice “being right” requires having to accept changes in your beliefs, and that’s painful. Also “being right” r
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by Isamu 1y ago
This is about journalism, in an age when journalism is being bulldozed by cheap content, AI hallucinations and other clickbait tactics. Journalism still has the idea of finding facts, things that correspond to something in reality. It’s bee
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by Isamu 1y ago
You can compare the current state of LLMs to the days of chess machines when they first approached grandmaster level play. The machine approach was very brute force, and there was a lot of work done to improve the sheer amount of look ahead
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by Isamu 1y ago
No, I think the thesis is that people perceive falsely that agents are highly human, and as a result assimilate downward toward the agent’s bias and conclusions. That is the dehumanization process they are describing.
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by Isamu 1y ago
So I like Steven Pinker’s book Rationality, to me it seems quite straightforward. But I have never been able to get into the Rationalist stuff, to me it’s all very meandering and peripheral and focused on… I don’t know what. Is it just me?
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by Isamu 1y ago
OMG, pollsters may be treated like spammers. Truly the greatest threat to democracy today.
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by Isamu 1y ago
Right, in particular Asimov is not presenting a detailed framework of any kind. His laws are constraints, they don’t talk about how to proceed. It’s assumed that robots will work toward goals given them, but what are the constraints? People
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by Isamu 1y ago
This has been happening for a long time. I first noticed this with the hand waving dismissals of older concepts like Asimov’s laws. Not a carefully reasoned argument why “not causing harm to a human” is outmoded, but just pushing it aside.
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by Isamu 1y ago
That smells like a help for filling free returns, so no, we don’t seem to want that. But based on my experience with AI-generated code reviews, the IRS could definitely generate all kinds of “problems” for you to address in your return. May
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by Isamu 1y ago
Looks like just cubes for this simulator, I think the focus is on the two-finger gripper integrated with this arm kinematic. Planning a gripper strategy for a complex object would be a another layer but definitely could be incorporated.
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by Isamu 1y ago
Thanks for sharing this here, it’s always good to see some robot projects here.
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by Isamu 1y ago
Don’t they mean to say “replacing the entire U.S. federal workforce with ChatGPT”? Surely that is the future everyone is looking to.
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by Isamu 1y ago
Part of the problem understanding this is how much the leadership of Japan was strongly split into factions with opposite goals and views. There was no unified decision to start the war. Instead the army unilaterally precipitated the war. T
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by Isamu 1y ago
>By many measures the Roman and British empires were 'more successful'. With the Roman Empire you are overlooking their slavery, genocide, etc, most of your critique applies. Britain at least outlawed slavery at home, but not i
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by Isamu 1y ago
Yes, dominant smartphones before iPhone were BlackBerry inspired, full physical keyboard with small screen. When the iPhone launched, the Android project changed direction toward a full screen phone and that form became much more dominant a
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by Isamu 1y ago
This substack is the best rabbit hole of references I come across in a long while. Thanks!
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by Isamu 1y ago
>Otherwise you run into Borges’ map problem—if you want a map that contains all the details of the territory that it’s supposed to represent, then the map has to be the size of the territory itself. Is this what everyone describes as “th
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by Isamu 1y ago
>It occurs to me that this is Trump's way of trying to get back to "the good old days" when the Federal Government was almost entirely funded by tariffs (aka import taxes/duties). That’s exactly it, he wants to elimin
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by Isamu 1y ago
Haha yes! Thanks for that!
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by Isamu 1y ago
>I'm puzzled (but not surprised) by the standard HN resistance & skepticism The good: it can objectively help you to zoom forward in areas where you don’t have a quick way forward. The bad: it can objectively give you terrible a
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by Isamu 1y ago
Plus to prove the lead connection you have to discount the centuries of Roman dominance and growth during which lead exposure was common.
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by Isamu 1y ago
Someone should add citations to the Evidence section.
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by Isamu 1y ago
>US didn't want Europe to import cheap gas from its natural neigbour continent. You can say Russia. And there are also EU citizens who are not happy about the war in Europe and want to sanction Russia, but sure nobody wants to pay f
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by Isamu 1y ago
Engineering is gross? Or the idea of promoting engineering is gross? Please explain. Engineering was my ticket for my transition from farm boy to lifelong steady employment with good pay and benefits. I chose the engineering path because I
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by Isamu 1y ago
You seem to be responding to the reverse, “thinking is writing”, which I agree is not true, you can think without writing. They are making the point that writing is more than dumping a completed thought. The act of doing that helps you to c
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by Isamu 1y ago
LLMs should definitely be used for brute force searches especially of branching spaces. Use them for what they do best. “Pattern matching” is thought of as linear but LLMs are doing something more complex, it should be appreciated as such.
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by Isamu 1y ago
Yes it is absolutely rude in many contexts. In a team context you are looking for common understanding and being “on the same page”. If someone needs to consult AI to get up to speed that’s fine, then their interaction with you should refle
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by Isamu 1y ago
If we had a sufficiently large corpus of lion-speech we could build an LLM (Lion Language Model) that would “understand” as well as any model could. Which isn’t saying much, it still couldn’t explain Lion Language to us, it could just gener
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by Isamu 1y ago
It’s not the brakes on the rear car, it’s doing an emergency brake of the entire train from the last car. It dumps the brake line that runs through the length of the train. This is part of the train safety system, if the brake line is brok
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by Isamu 1y ago
>Also one of the things AI is likely the least suited for. I agree, if we are using the current idea of AI as language models. But that’s very limiting. I’m old enough to remember when AI meant everything a human could do. Not just some

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