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by Jensson 1y ago
You have tons of items in Sweden as well and you vote on 3 levels of government and you can even write down in text name of any candidate you want and those text votes do get counted. So no USA is not a special flower here, you can absolute
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by Jensson 1y ago
I know people who bought a computer and automated away a massive amount of work and thus paid it back in a single day in the 70s. Back then companies needed a massive amount of people to sit and do all the calculations to do their accountin
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by Jensson 1y ago
AI support never solves your issue, its just there to try to make you go away, but human support sometimes do even if they mostly just try to go away they can help now and then.
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by Jensson 1y ago
Do you think browsers should send to the server that it is in incognito mode? Because that is what you are asking for, that would just reduce privacy not increase it.
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by Jensson 1y ago
> we should appreciate the effort that people put into making HN a more positive space. Why should we? I don't want people to be more positive here, I want people to find more holes and argue more, why should I appreciate effort to
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by Jensson 1y ago
You don't think the people who invented the chain rule understood what it means?
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by Jensson 1y ago
> Why would it not be possible for a highly generalizing model to use next token prediction for its output? The issue is that it uses next token prediction for its training, it doesn't matter how it outputs things but it matters how
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by Jensson 1y ago
> For me it all made sense when I heard that IQ/g-factor basically vanishes in the absence of time pressure (heard if from Richard Haier on Lex). That cannot be true as there are valid IQ tests that doesn't have a time componen
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by Jensson 1y ago
The political leaning quiz is extremely biased though. Its basically all questions like "should stuff benefits humans or corporations", which doesn't represent what both sides actually thinks.
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by Jensson 1y ago
Ok, so saying race doesn't exist is like saying chairs doesn't exist, since you can't really say what is a chair, what is a shelf and what is a table, correct? Technically you could say that a chair is a table or a shelf, but
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by Jensson 1y ago
> A very simple example for height[1]: The Japanese grew 10 cm taller from mid-20th century to early 2000s. Originally people thought that the shortness of the Japanese was related to their genetics, but this rapid growth (which also cor
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by Jensson 1y ago
> Again, whose life has actually been improved from this research? IQ showed there were tons of poor people with high IQ and thus it was worth providing higher schooling to poor people, that is a big one. Without IQ research people would
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by Jensson 1y ago
> LLM's struggle with simple maths by nature of their architecture not due to a lack of logic. No, if it was good at logic it would have overcame that tiny architectural hurdle, its such a trivial process to convert tokens to number
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by Jensson 1y ago
> But the algorithms they teach humans in school to do long-hand arithmetic (which are liable to be the only algorithms demonstrated in the training data) require a single unique numeral for every digit. But humans don't see single
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by Jensson 1y ago
That the person go and get themselves. If a model could to that we wouldn't need you to drive them. Basically every human is self going that way, you don't need to go and pick them up since they got stuck in a loop of unknowns at
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by Jensson 1y ago
Prompting it to ask clarifying questions will make it ask questions it has seen before, not ask questions it needs you to clarify. So that doesn't solve the problem, it just causes other problems. If it actually did solve the problem t
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by Jensson 1y ago
UK also has that problem, but its even worse with a minority supported government getting majority power.
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by Jensson 1y ago
> But creative degrees focussed on actual creative output whether writing or film or theater or dance or music or photography or other visual art are a very big slice of the humanities. But the result doesn't seem to be very creativ
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by Jensson 1y ago
That just makes it even worse, they sell this as a child protection act but as you say most of what it affects has nothing to do with child safety.
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by Jensson 1y ago
When I'm confident something will work it almost always works, that is very different from these models. Sure sometimes I do stuff I am not confident about to learn but then I don't say "here I solved the problem for you&quot
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by Jensson 1y ago
Depends on how you define "try". If someone asks me to do something I don't come back with a buggy piece of garbage and say "here, I'm done!", the first deliverable will be a valid one, or I'll say I need
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by Jensson 1y ago
What do you mean? Most adult humans can learn to drive a car, book a plain ticket, get a passport, fly abroad, navigate in a foreign country etc. There is a variation in human intelligence, but almost all humans are very intelligent compare
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by Jensson 1y ago
> Everything built on AT Protocol would survive. Will it? How much of that doesn't run on investor backed servers today? People often say stuff like this but I haven't seen that work in practice.
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by Jensson 1y ago
EU representatives are not elected the same way, so that is unrelated.
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by Jensson 1y ago
> Even in our modern world where history is taught and movies and books are abundant, few people have any idea of who conquered whom in 1620 AD and what were the consequences for their distant ancestors. This is just wrong, people are ty
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by Jensson 1y ago
Do you understand what parallel means? Most LLM responds in seconds, there is no parallel work for you to do there. Or do you mean you are using long running agents to do tasks and then review those? I haven't seen such a workflow be p
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by Jensson 1y ago
> A correction: most humans. There are a few who like communism. Why not them live their lives as they want? Because those people then starting to kill all the problematic people, as we saw in Soviet and China. They put all the blame on
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by Jensson 1y ago
> They couldn't really fire you anyway They could do much worse, they could send you to prison camp.
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by Jensson 1y ago
Those are capitalist, not socialist.
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by Jensson 1y ago
Humans can explain how they arrived at the conclusion, an LLM fundamentally cannot do that since they don't remember why they picked the tokens they did, they just make up an explanation based on explanations it has seen before.

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