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by RC_ITR 3y ago
I'm just saying that "thinking" is a well-defined class of related things that only animals do. I would argue expanding the definition to include the kind of things that semiconductors do really dilutes the meaning of "t
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by RC_ITR 3y ago
You can check my post history to see how unpopular this point of view is, but the big "reveal" that will come up is as follows: The way that LLMs and humans "think" is inherently different. Giving an LLM a test designed
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by RC_ITR 3y ago
Say what you will about over-engineering, but the Germans got it so so so right with their metal full black out shades.
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by RC_ITR 3y ago
I know that there are various strategies for picking pseudo random numbers, but what I mean by determinism is that as far as we can tell, the activation trigger for a neuron is highly dependent on outside signals like hormones. That means t
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by RC_ITR 3y ago
I do think nervous systems (the brain being the most complex example we know of) are the only things that do what we call thinking. What else does (please do not mention any deterministic counting machines like semiconductors - neurons are
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by RC_ITR 3y ago
One does deterministic matrix math and the other doesn’t. It’s a common experience that candy tasted sweeter to you as a child, right? How does that work in a transformer?
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by RC_ITR 3y ago
The endocrine system has a huge impact on your brain and thought process.
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by RC_ITR 3y ago
This comment is not in the spirit of Hacker News. I was trying to co-learn by discussing with you and you turned it into something very ugly. Please do that literally anywhere else on the Internet. We clearly disagree, but I know have no
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by RC_ITR 3y ago
No. We know exactly what "text generators" do and we also know that is not what the brain does. That can be true even if you don't fully understand what the brain does. An easy way to prove the two are different is 'Wha
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by RC_ITR 3y ago
Again, we are discussing “a common pre-prompt” that you say has probability 1 of showing the system prompt… You are saying there’s some feature of this model that deterministically returns the system prompt and then you pivot to saying that
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by RC_ITR 3y ago
Ok then explain why RL can’t be used to prevent certain behaviors please. Why can’t a reward function be used to stop a model from saying something you know you don’t want it to say? Also you share a screenshot of a chat asking to repeat th
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by RC_ITR 3y ago
I am prone to believe that OpenAI, and organization who’s lead is centered on RL more than anything else, is quite good at getting it’s models not to spit out competitively sensitive information. Can you get yours to give you the same verba
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by RC_ITR 3y ago
Everyone understands that these are machines that make convincing answers to questions without following any symbolic rules Until The convincing answer is something you want to believe follows symbolic rules. Posts like these really foresha
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by RC_ITR 3y ago
In a resource constrained world, we have to make trade-offs. That is not indicative of poor functioning. It's like saying 'a well functioning human has a six pack and reads 20 books a week.' Like sure one can do those thing
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by RC_ITR 3y ago
It is important to note that US Defense spending is at an all time high (even though the US has exited Iraq), so calling this 'The price tag for Iraq' instead of the 'Price tag of the US's overall military strategy'
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by RC_ITR 3y ago
Yes, and plenty of people write criticisms of entire song lyrics or poems, effectively republishing the entire thing. This is actually a huge area of debate on Youtube as Google often errs on your side of the argument (they can choose to de
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by RC_ITR 3y ago
Sure, but also as much as it may make you feel old, those polls were of people over 18 in 2003, and about half of the current US population does not fit that bill. The effect is even more dramatic when you presume polls always skew older.
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by RC_ITR 3y ago
Have you heard of 'quotations'? Plenty of works quote and cite other copywritten works and it's considered transformative because usually the work is building upon or commenting on the quote.
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by RC_ITR 3y ago
It's so weird to me that people can claim to fully understand the concept of inflation and still expect prices to go down rather than the rate of growth to decrease. Rents will go down vs. where it would be otherwise. Almost nothi
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by RC_ITR 3y ago
This is always such a weird argument to me, because you know who else adds to an economy? People who live and work there. Forcing people to commute in from Jersey City is a huge net drain on NYC's economy.
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by RC_ITR 3y ago
>D-D requires a higher triple product than D-T fusion and produces less energy, so most companies go with D-T, and don't attempt to use D-D to produce the tritium. Yes, because again, all the ways we know how to make Tritium are imp
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by RC_ITR 3y ago
And the supply of apartments for living in will go up by exactly the same amount. Supply and demand works in both directions.
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by RC_ITR 3y ago
Yeah and on the flipside the price of rent will go down. A weird quirk of America is that we are so obsessed with tourism that we are willing to sacrifice quality of life for people who live in one place, for the benefit of a bunch of peo
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by RC_ITR 3y ago
>It's just temperature, density, and confinement time. I know what a triple product is (even a Lawson criterion), but what you're saying is like saying curing cancer is just "figuring out how to turn off uncontrolled cell
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by RC_ITR 3y ago
These kind of arguments have sort of eaten their tail in recent years as work culture has shifted. We (as has happened with a lot of things) basically have two camps of people and a culture that makes us believe we are only allowed to make
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by RC_ITR 3y ago
My biggest criticism of this and most of the discourse you see on here is everything always has to be left vs. right. Do you think people shouldn’t go to jail for being homeless? Ok left extremist. Do you feel uncomfortable with outdoor d
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by RC_ITR 3y ago
In your first paragraph what are you even saying? If you make one complex fusion reaction work then a different one is cake? I don't think helions “smash the plasma linearly” design even works for D-D. Their quartz containment chamber
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by RC_ITR 3y ago
The absolute value of the stock market is related to annual dividends. >that number will only rise with interest rates. Not if nominal GDP/the tax base grows faster. The thing most people miss (and I'm amazed at this given t
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by RC_ITR 3y ago
What is the value of ignoring the endocrine system? There are plenty of inputs to the brain outside of neural signals and implying otherwise isn't even at the level of basic biology textbooks. I'll put it this way - what are the
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by RC_ITR 3y ago
It is a problem unless I can borrow your Tokamak that can do D-D fusion at 300mn degrees C without insane energy losses. And as for breeding tritium - I think you're skipping a few steps. D-T fusion gives you 1 neutron, which is enoug

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