SanderNL

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by SanderNL 3y ago
ZiiS told us all our approaches to this problem are fruitless and will never result in anything resembling AGI. How exactly he knows this is unknown to us, because we are still researching the basic properties of the systems we are currentl
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by SanderNL 3y ago
So your team does basically, let’s say, 10 gold stars a week. Your epic and VeryNecessaryFeature(c) takes 30 gold stars. Pointy hair boss: this takes 3 weeks. (and make it 2) How is this different from skipping the proxy and just using time
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by SanderNL 3y ago
Yeah I think you are right to add the “depending on your environment” caveat. I have no experience in the Windows domain.
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by SanderNL 3y ago
I'm curious if you actually ever interacted with IQ 80 humans. They are definitely not on this scale.
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by SanderNL 3y ago
Yes, that's actually a good point. UI widgets map nicely to objects, at least usually.
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It's an incredibly basic algorithm. What do you expect? A soul? The fact that these incredibly stupid machines are beginning to even show signs of human-like ability is IMO reason for concern. These things are comparable to the first s
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by SanderNL 3y ago
I don't think you are wrong and that's the actual cause of the problems, not the tools. But that's for another day..
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by SanderNL 3y ago
I don't the "everyone uses it" argument works here. Sure, it has a lot of momentum, but I'm just not seeing the proposed productivity enhancements. I actually just spent a significant chunk of time to de-ORM a system to
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by SanderNL 3y ago
I think it's more about being more confident that GPT is working with at least a base of semi-accurate knowledge. You can ask it to "combine" knowledge in "novel" ways that are not discussed verbatim on the web. It&
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by SanderNL 3y ago
> It's a next-word prediction model, why would it be? If you want to make accurate predictions, you'll need reasoning or at least some process that approximates it. "There a no bananas. Max is looking for bananas. Will he
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by SanderNL 3y ago
I think ORMs fit that bill. For some reason they were (are?) incredibly popular, but I don't think they stood the test of time. In the case of SQL, it's already an abstraction. No need for elaborate wizardry to hide the fact you&#
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by SanderNL 3y ago
Good for you I guess. NL is different. Long queues, bad psychologists, expensive.
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I get the reflex, but this becomes increasingly untenable as their complexity balloons. (Our "biology" is some sort of code for "it's complex".)
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by SanderNL 3y ago
The word has a slightly different meaning here (confabulation) and more akin to the witness example: confidently telling what you think is true, but it turned out to be complete shit. It’s not about humans intentionally lying or truly hallu
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by SanderNL 3y ago
LLM wrong => unredeemable and fatally flawed human wrong => no problem, mistakes happen
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by SanderNL 3y ago
Have you actually tried using these tools beyond starting it up and swinging your fist in frustration? I have thousands upon thousands of beautiful images, each one more inspiring than the other and I did nothing or very close to nothing. Y
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by SanderNL 3y ago
It sounds magic to you because you are unskilled. Like people using the mouse for the first time. The things he talks about are very basic, very easy.
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by SanderNL 3y ago
I’d say keep quiet and even join them in their incessant whining, meanwhile building your skills. Use this advantage.
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by SanderNL 3y ago
Only decades? That seems quite optimistic.
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by SanderNL 3y ago
Age is less a concern than you think. I have many young people around me that are completely in the dark too. It’s just that this job attracts certain types which are not predisposed to operational knowledge of any kind.
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by SanderNL 3y ago
If you take a step back and look at computing in general as some amorphous evolving entity, it can be said the Machines are getting better and I would be surprised if it wasn’t exponential. Talking out of my ass here, but my point is that I
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by SanderNL 3y ago
I’d save my mom over you. No hard feelings. My point is your composition or substrate or whatever is irrelevant.
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by SanderNL 3y ago
I agree they are not true general purpose computers anymore, but I think the point was that this passive consumption machine can still be used for consumption of educational material. It has never been easier to get access to learning mat
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Please do, I’m curious.
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The largest models like GPT4 have the interesting property to really, really finish what you started. If you start with flaws of any kind, it will continue to produce them. The inverse is true as well. This is an actual thing[1] and it’s
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by SanderNL 3y ago
Good luck keeping that up with a partner and/or actual responsibilities like taking care of aging family. Don’t want a partner? Sure.. we’ll hear from you in a few years. Probably complaining how they are hard to find. I say go for it.
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by SanderNL 3y ago
This makes me think of Wittgensteins language games. I’m used to the word abstraction in a different context and it’s not linguistic to me at all. I’m not the greatest communicator so that doesn’t help either. The definition “disassociated
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by SanderNL 3y ago
If clustering has worked on what amounts to basically the entire world of information things get a bit fuzzy though. I don't suppose you are technically incorrect, it's just that these words lose practical meaning when we talk abo
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> Do you think it's fair to say a crow learns how to crack a nut via compression and abstraction? Well, yes. Do you know another way? Edit: oh I forgot your second part (I’m Ugh). You say a crow alone does not learn this. How do you
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You used a lot of fancy words, so Ugh had to think a lot. Ugh is now tired. Let me try this. Ugh uses stupid words because he is not as clever. If an athlete catches a ball, does he remember, somewhere, somehow, every possible trajectory of

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