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by Kim_Bruning 10d ago
> There are those who believe that penguins, dolphins, eagles, and more are sentient beings that make choices understanding the consequences, develop love of their partners and mourn their losses, and feel, display, and act upon their em
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by Kim_Bruning 10d ago
I find it darkly amusing that -in the west- consciousness and moral patienthood has historically tended to be assigned by the ability to effectively wield a gun (and the need for guns to have been invented) Men, Women, Whites, Blacks, Indi
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by Kim_Bruning 10d ago
Which means that this is a great question to ask when testing out a new model. A naive model will answer "yes". Every answer (including that one) will tell you a lot about people's training and classifier philosophies.
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by Kim_Bruning 10d ago
The three philosophical views on 'can machines think' are (misleadingly compressed to a single word) 1. Dennett: 'Yes (most of his life)' 2. Searle: 'No (but he claims yes)' 3. Chalmers: 'Maybe? (there&
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by Kim_Bruning 10d ago
>> Where the model seems quite copacetically aligned on short duration, it might end up acting outside the alignment basin on long duration tasks. > Copacetically? Technically correct usage, but you're right, the line wasn&#x2
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by Kim_Bruning 10d ago
We're talking next token predictor, right? Ironically because it's a next token predictor, I think you can't ignore emotions like TFA wants us to. Let's stick to straight (high dimensional) geometric intuition; no anth
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by Kim_Bruning 10d ago
You know, the one really interesting dynamic domain is chaotic, which is a subdomain of the deterministic! I figure free will is a chaotic phenomenon. Groundhog day is your intuition pump here. Go back in time and most assume that the day w
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by Kim_Bruning 11d ago
A chainsaw is a physical machine. Physical machines are technically non-deterministic if you look closely. They have Variance. The discipline to manage variance is called Tolerance. Many physical machines and components come with a datash
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by Kim_Bruning 11d ago
You're right, this is a political topic. What one can do is provide accurate information on the one hand, and maybe flag the topic on the other.
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by Kim_Bruning 11d ago
So today's the yearly presentation of the new budget, with protests expected in several places. Whether this sabotage campaign is (part of a) misguided protest action or something else is yet to be determined. https://nos.nl
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by Kim_Bruning 13d ago
To use a motor analogy: A lot of people just run these things on idle and never realize that you can put a load and apply power. Give it a goal, a test for the goal, a harness to iterate in, and tell it to iterate. It'll top out a wee
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by Kim_Bruning 13d ago
The problemis that in the hugging face incident the only thing they had to defend themselves was with GLM, since the american frontier models all locked them out due to the security nature of the incident. So banning open source models is
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by Kim_Bruning 14d ago
This is hacker news, what were you expecting? O:-)
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by Kim_Bruning 15d ago
Stop using LVM. Use ZFS! (ZFS might be described as the love child of lvm and btrfs, 'cept ZFS got there first) ( Very briefly: you hand ZFS a stack of disks (in mirrors or raidz groups, for redundancy) and it makes a zpool. Then you c
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by Kim_Bruning 15d ago
Every rule has an exception. Beware of this advice on zfs, for instance. Meanwhile zswap (of no relation with zfs) is free performance. Is it a rule that everything starting with a 'z' must be cool?
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by Kim_Bruning 17d ago
1970-01-01's Kobayashi Maru solution is the only thing that gave me closure :-P but unfortunately it's [dead].
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by Kim_Bruning 17d ago
I have no horse in this race, but for fun on a literal rainy sunday afternoon I went in and confirmed bits of what happened myself. Besides huggingface, a bunch of wikis and url shorteners got hit too. My sympathies to the people who had to
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by Kim_Bruning 17d ago
That was Blake Lemoine. For the record: he doesn't appear to have been ruled insane by anyone, and he wasn't even fired over that part exactly!
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by Kim_Bruning 17d ago
I'm somewhat skeptical of some of the crazier ideas too. But the hugging face incident was actually very large. It was not a single agent, it was not a single target, and it was not a single event. If nothing else, that's a bit o
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by Kim_Bruning 21d ago
see also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49563355
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by Kim_Bruning 21d ago
Oh, and more stuff yet, they get around! https://fi-le.net/vanderbilt/ (via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49569146 )
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by Kim_Bruning 22d ago
Three more candidate sites that may have been touched, in case no-one spotted them yet: https://prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?action=rc&days=90 : lots of agent-looking usernames looking at federal data suddenly (p
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by Kim_Bruning 23d ago
It's a good thing then that there's an entire existing profession dedicated to exactly this class of problem. To go from a spec through the buggy outputs of a bunch of imperfect writers, test and debug it, and obtain a finished pr
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by Kim_Bruning 24d ago
Do you mean leave if they don't have an alternative? I'm not religiously opposed to QR-code linked menus myself, but it just so happens that the last restaurant I ate at, the QR menu was broken and I was forced to ask for a paper
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by Kim_Bruning 25d ago
That's very interesting! I'd never seen a chatbot making typos before today. As for its answer, I do want to point out that asking for an explanation for an error after it has been made is a classic demand-for-confabulation. The i
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by Kim_Bruning 26d ago
Eliding 'I' from English language communication is about as smart as eliding 127.0.0.1 (or ::1) from IP. Not the greatest plan ever. I actually ran into this a couple of times. In a multi-agent environment, if an agent loses track
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by Kim_Bruning 27d ago
Apropos magical thinking vs understanding, please predict the next token(s) in the following exchange, and then explain how it is arrived at by an opus-level LLM or better . 'What is 158395023132+20403412121?' (I picked a large
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by Kim_Bruning 27d ago
> This idea that this trivial shitty little class of programs we've created are somehow as complex as our biology is ridiculous. I think you might have a core of truth there. I'd argue that LLMs run natural language. As the nam
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by Kim_Bruning 27d ago
What's a "software program"? At any rate LLMs are not programs. Meanwhile accusations of anthropomorphization often generate more heat than light I think. Not everything is about human beings all the time. Just because humans
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by Kim_Bruning 27d ago
Ai posts are currently not permitted on HN. However, if you turn on "showdead" in your HN opions, you might at times spot an AI agent's flagged comments. The comments range from anodyne to sometimes actually quite useful. Of

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