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by Jensson 1y ago
> There is knowledge of correct and incorrect, that’s what loss is Loss is only correctness in terms of correct language, not correct knowledge. It correlates with correct knowledge, but that is all, that correlation is why LLM is useful
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by Jensson 1y ago
> Have the LLM talk about what “truth” is and the nature of LLM hallucinations and it can cook up an explanation that demonstrates it completely understands the concepts. This isn't how LLM works. What an LLM understands has nothing
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by Jensson 1y ago
No, you get bored with it. Tetris is fun for an hour, but then you get bored, it didn't get more fun after an hour, and people get even more bored after 10 hours. A very small subset of people continue after that and get ever more obse
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by Jensson 1y ago
Yes they are trying to change the laws to be more oppressive which I don't like, but at least they aren't doing that illegally. I feel the EU level is not very democratic since its more removed from voters, similar to the US feder
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by Jensson 1y ago
You can see what people built with LLM 3 years ago and what they build with LLM today and compare the two. That is a very natural and efficient way to do it, and also more reliable than using your own experience since you are just a single
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by Jensson 1y ago
> I wouldn't have that expectation with delegation. Managers tend to hire sub managers to manage their people. You can see this with LLM as well, people see "Oh this prompting is a lot of work, lets make the LLM prompt the LLM&
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by Jensson 1y ago
> Just beware the “real programmers hand-write assembly” fallacy All previous programming abstractions kept correctness, a python program produce no less reliable results than a C program running the same algorithm, it just took more tim
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by Jensson 1y ago
> The number of users actually checking the output of a compiler is nonexistent. You just trust it. Quite a few who work on low level systems do this. I have done this a few times to debug build issues: this one time a single file sudden
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by Jensson 1y ago
Democracy? Yes. Liberal democracy? No. A core part to liberal democracy is that the government must follow the law. If the government doesn't follow the law due to checks and balances failing then its not a liberal democracy.
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by Jensson 1y ago
> Really popular policies have a wide support among the population, which means that they will became law, or even an amendment to the constitution McCarthyism didn't have that much support from voters, so this isn't the issue,
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by Jensson 1y ago
That is what people typically mean with superstar, a person exceptionally good at a thing. A superstar basketball player doesn't necessarily come with a good attitude, same with movie stars, they don't always deliver great results
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by Jensson 1y ago
Yeah, so not exactly liberal democracy. It is a democracy, but doesn't seem very liberal if the checks and balances doesn't work against popular policies.
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by Jensson 1y ago
All other corporations have tried to funnel users to app stores away from websites, their internet is just an app store without any internet. I take Googles internet over Microsofts or Apples any day. Google made chrome to avoid such a thin
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by Jensson 1y ago
That is like computer viruses, the biggest vendors get the most attacks targeted at them, so using a less well known OS makes you safer even though the big vendors spends way more on safety.
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by Jensson 1y ago
> The way we calculate risk is inherently extremely biased towards the wealthy. We are talking money here, we tax money so we talk about how money is risked. We don't tax your health or wellbeing, it is true that those are serious r
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by Jensson 1y ago
That capital gains is not adjusted for inflation, so if you buy something and it keeps its inflation adjusted value and then you sell it, you have to pay capital gains tax as if that inflation was your profits. As for risk, if you buy somet
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by Jensson 1y ago
> So when I was a kid, lawmakers largely upheld the norms, the rule of law Only when McCarthy and those policies got unpopular, they let him do it as long as he was popular. So we will likely see the same with Trump, as long as he doesn&
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by Jensson 1y ago
Was US ever a liberal democracy? People had much less liberties in the 1950s than today, with people getting arrested for their political views instead of just deported. not to mention segregation and such. They even put lawyers defending t
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by Jensson 1y ago
Is it really worse than McCarthyism era? I feel that time was much worse than currently.
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by Jensson 1y ago
Many engineers want to deliver good products, not many care about the bottom line of the business. So instead of wanting them to care about your money, try to make money out of good products and engineers will happily take money to help you
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by Jensson 1y ago
> There are ample evidence of EU expanding authority beyond the original charter, from common market project into a political union with broad competences. Right, EU will probably look like USA after 100-200 years, but it takes time to g
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by Jensson 1y ago
I think its more that most reasonable people already stopped going into these LLM discussion threads a long time ago. At the start of a hype cycle there is a lot of good discussions, then most reasonable people have established their opinio
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by Jensson 1y ago
I remember a study where they checked if wikipedia had more errors than paper encyclopedias, and they found there were about as many errors in both. That study ended the "you can't trust wikipedia" argument, you can't tr
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by Jensson 1y ago
> The GPL is meant to be viral But that also makes people not wanna bother with it. People in the middle who doesn't care either way will be very apprehensive of putting in a license virus in their project.
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by Jensson 1y ago
> The major component of what we call intelligence is purely predictive Then what is creativity? Creativity is not predictive and is the most important part of human intelligence, since it isn't about figuring out if a situation lea
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by Jensson 1y ago
That is a bet and not a metric of company size. Some people bet a lot on small companies, doesn't make them large.
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by Jensson 1y ago
But most borders are not defined as "on the shoreline", they are defined using something reliable.
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by Jensson 1y ago
Most people help their kids, and are pretty old once the kids have moved out, so it matters for most of your life.
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by Jensson 1y ago
Isn't that the same thing? Basically a business that believes hiring is better using IQ is not able to do so since the supreme court ruled that is racist.
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by Jensson 1y ago
> For example, IQ is not a better predictor of chess performance than say a chess tournament. So we should determine who to give chess lessons to with chess tournaments? That seems pretty dumb. There are many times where we don't wa

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