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by Last5Digits 3y ago
The scientific method is inherently statistical, we take a finite amount of observations and construct a model that best represents those observations. So yes, sorry, I should have said 100%. With Plato's cave, the scientists do not pu
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by Last5Digits 3y ago
Cameras don't have eyeballs, Microphones don't have hair cells, Speakers don't have vocal cords, processors don't don't do arithmetic with neurons, yet we all agree that they are capable of emulating the meaningful
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by Last5Digits 3y ago
Your comment literally reads: "LLMs predict words. Any semantic validity is a side effect of enough training data reinforcing the close correlation of those tokens." How am I supposed to interpret this any other way? If your claim
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by Last5Digits 3y ago
This is what makes these discussions so infuriating. Saying that LLMs "just predict the next word" is about as insightful as saying that computers "just do a bunch of logical operations" - neither point constraints the p
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by Last5Digits 3y ago
> When I hear "enslaving"... Where have I ever used the word "exactly", friend? My point was that people intuitively recognize the emotional impact and importance of words like "slavery", and that the commen
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by Last5Digits 3y ago
When people hear slavery, they think of harsh, forced physical labor under inhumane conditions. Whether you think of American slavery, African slavery or Roman slavery, the common factor is clear. I'm from Germany, I'm decidedly n
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by Last5Digits 3y ago
Is this elementary school, where we ignore the usage and context of words and simply recite the dictionary definition? You were clearly aware of the emotional weight of the term and tried to exploit it to make your argument more impactful.
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by Last5Digits 3y ago
Sure, but these people should have that option, right? I'm just saying that removing resources about proven suicide methods does little to prevent impulsive suicides, while forcing those who thought long and hard about it to take a mes
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by Last5Digits 3y ago
I agree, but I don't think victims of suicidal impulses are negatively impacted by resources being out there. They're probably not going to impulse search for a suicide method, impulse read pages of instructions, impulse order the
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by Last5Digits 3y ago
Thank you for this very insightful answer! I've always been more interested in the structure of problems than in their specific detail, so your observations and recommendations seem right up my alley. When it comes to mathematical foun
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Ask HN: Good resources for studying physics from the “ground up”?
2 points by Last5Digits 3y ago|7 comments
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by Last5Digits 3y ago
The "to one degree or another" is doing all the work in this argument. Does my knowledge of how a full adder works now grant me the ability to discern malware at a glance? Similarly, should we start dismissing psychologists becaus
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by Last5Digits 3y ago
If we use your metric, then an honest appraisal of brains and computers suggests little to no mathematical ability on the part of the latter either. If we assume that a similar medium or structure is necessary for similar results, then it s
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by Last5Digits 3y ago
Using ChatGPT to get facts is like going to a restaurant to buy your groceries. Sure, you could pick out slices of tomato and scrape the salt off of your steak, bring it all home and cook a meal - but the supermarket next door can offer the
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by Last5Digits 3y ago
I know this is HN, but can we please stop drawing these vague parallels between basic programming concepts and the functioning of the human brain? No, the brain does not "replace written information with a pointer". I cannot tell
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by Last5Digits 4y ago
Thank you for this advice. Upon some self-reflection, I think I realize now that I've fallen into this exact trap. The few movies I've recently watched have been the kind of formulaic drivel that I know I'm sick of, and yet I
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by Last5Digits 4y ago
I'm always wary of articles like this. The feeling of things becoming mediocre strongly resonates with me, but I am aware that there could be a great many different biases at play. When I was younger, entertainment media felt magical.
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by Last5Digits 4y ago
Sure, the standard Intel drivers would randomly throttle my CPU into unusability or completely disable turbo boost for hours. I switched to the acpi driver and used the performance and powersave governors when appropriate. This, however, re
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by Last5Digits 4y ago
The average HN user seems to be a fervent Linux fan, so maybe I can give some perspective as someone who isn't. I used Linux for around 5 years, with Arch as my distro of choice, after which I switched to Windows 11. Most of the time,
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by Last5Digits 4y ago
This has been my experience as well. The simpler you keep your Linux install, the less likely it'll be that something breaks - and if something does break, then you'll have a much easier time finding the culprit.
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by Last5Digits 4y ago
I interpreted this statement completely differently. The author isn't fatalistic at all, he's merely advocating for a more thoughtful approach to spending your time. If the only reason you work on something is out of a fear of fal
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by Last5Digits 4y ago
The dissertation part was in reference to the totality of your suggested improvements. To me, even this clarification would be irrelevant. I would be annoyed that ChatGPT didn't pick up on the fact that I obviously wanted it to assume
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by Last5Digits 4y ago
I don't see how making ChatGPT write a dissertation for every silly question would be an improvement. The user wanted a quick, rough answer that would give him some perspective on the energy need of humans - and he got it. It's un
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by Last5Digits 4y ago
If I was an LLM and one of my main tasks was to answer questions, then I would expect a lot of "what if" type abstract queries by bored people. Obviously, people like that don't want a literal answer - the context is crystal
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by Last5Digits 4y ago
I don't really understand what point you're making here. Gasoline doesn't release energy on its own either, and the average person doesn't have an ignition coil or pistons in their stomach. This person obviously wanted t
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Bing Chat Behaving Badly(youtube.com)
1 points by Last5Digits 4y ago|0 comments
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by Last5Digits 4y ago
I'll be honest here, I debated whether or not to reply to this comment. This is now the second time where you completely (and I think deliberately) ignored the main points of my argument and instead replied with a nicely formulated ver
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by Last5Digits 4y ago
When someone is aware of the damage they cause, and then they still continue, what would you call that behavior? Because the word "studiously" implies that they are aware of what they are doing. You yourself said that tech workers
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by Last5Digits 4y ago
My point was that you are strongly judging a group of people whose behavior is not that unusual. If you genuinely have a bad conscience about the things I outlined, then you are in the vast minority. 99% of people in developed nations don&#
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by Last5Digits 4y ago
Obviously the anger needs to come from somewhere, but I would argue that we have enough capacity for higher reasoning to temper emotions when necessary - and I don't thing raging against some caricature of evil tech workers is helpful

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