Sharlin

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by Sharlin 8mo ago
It's "surprising" because there's supposed to be this thing called "alignment" which in general is supposed to make AIs not do such things. If the headline were the less interesting "AIs never recommend nu
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by Sharlin 8mo ago
No, human mediocrity being replaced by AI. Mediocrity meaning papers that exist only to increment the magic "num_citations" variable.
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by Sharlin 8mo ago
The end of mediocrity, optimistically speaking. Getting so flooded in mediocrity that the gems are lost in the noise, pessimistically speaking.
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by Sharlin 8mo ago
Learning by immersion is still a very different process from learning by being tutored. One is something that young childrens' brains do almost entirely subconsciously, the other is conscious academic work.
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by Sharlin 8mo ago
Learning by immersion is a completely different process from learning by being tutored, never mind learning by oneself from books.
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by Sharlin 8mo ago
It was a reply to what the GP said about running local generation 24/7 for no good reason, just because it's possible (and electricity is too cheap, apparently). There are many more threats, but those are beside the point in this
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by Sharlin 8mo ago
Obviously "useful" doesn't just involve making money. Code that will be used for education and all of these things is clearly not useless. But let's be honest to ourselves, the sort of useless code the GP meant will neve
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by Sharlin 8mo ago
At least you (hopefully) get hours of entertainment from firing up an AAA game. Whereas generating vast amounts of code that you're never going to use has… some novelty value, I suppose. Luckily the novelty is going to wear off soon, I
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by Sharlin 8mo ago
Not necessarily a nothingburger, but I agree that being able to complete individual sentences is rather less groundbreaking than completing even whole pages, never mind chapters.
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by Sharlin 8mo ago
That's not how it works… They aren't able to literally regurgitate everything they've read, no matter how you prompt them. That would obviously violate the pigeonhole principle. LLMs are, of course, a lossy compression format
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by Sharlin 8mo ago
Wasting electricity to "generate tens of thousands of lines of useless code" at will? Why is that in any way a desirable future?
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by Sharlin 8mo ago
"The need to be observed and understood was once satisfied by God. Now we can implement the same functionality with data-mining algorithms." "God and the gods were apparitions of observation, judgment and punishment. Other se
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by Sharlin 8mo ago
Impossible to know if this is a serious case of "i am very smart" or sarcastic.
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by Sharlin 8mo ago
Anyone with a spare 60K who would use it to clone a cat rather than to improve the lifes of existing cats (donating to local shelters, TNR programs, etc) hardly deserves to have a cat.
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by Sharlin 8mo ago
Even the newtype-based "parse, don't validate" is tremendously useful in practice, though. The big thing is that if you have a bare string, you don't know "where it's been". It doesn't carry with it i
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by Sharlin 8mo ago
> nothing you can do can prevent the information being handed over I'm being a bit flippant here, but thermite typically works fine.
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by Sharlin 8mo ago
In 1500 a lot of pronunciation would've been different too, it was in the middle of the Great Vowel Shift [1]. And of course while the UK is still (in)famous for its many accents and dialects, some nigh mutually unintelligible, the sit
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by Sharlin 8mo ago
I wonder if the politics issue is just much worse in certain parts of the world. Nobody bothers to spend money trying to influence the population of a small Nordic country. As an experiment, I disabled Ghostery and uBlock, and the feed beca
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by Sharlin 8mo ago
Many people unfortunately think that depression is like somatic diseases such as influenza, where we deduce the presence of a pathogen, a root cause, based on presented symptoms. But for depression (and many other mental health issues) we
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by Sharlin 8mo ago
My FB experience is still fine after all these years. I can't find anything in my feed that isn't either a post a) to a group I'm in, b) by a page I follow, or c) by a friend. These days, a) and b) make up the majority of p
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by Sharlin 8mo ago
Exactly. Depression is defined in part as being the inability to effectively do those things.
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by Sharlin 8mo ago
The problem is that depression by definition makes it 100x harder to do any of those things.
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by Sharlin 8mo ago
Let me guess, you’re American?
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by Sharlin 8mo ago
Sure, if that’s your problem with my comment, feel free to rephrase it in your mind to something like "to promote fringe-right and anti-immigration parties and movements that any sane observer recognizes as authoritarian and racist b
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by Sharlin 8mo ago
> I think there are people who want to use software to accomplish a goal, and there are people who are forced to use software. Typically people feel they're "forced" to use software for entirely valid reasons, such as said
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by Sharlin 8mo ago
I think sähköaivo "electric brain" was also one of the words used in Finnish back in the 50s, before there was a standard word for computers. But my favorite neologism for "computer" is probably the Icelandic tölva ,
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by Sharlin 8mo ago
But there are no self-titled experts here?! The phrase was chosen by the author or editor at FT. Presumably because you can’t fit everything in the headline. "Experts" is an entirely standard word to use in a headline.
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by Sharlin 8mo ago
The sensitivity of S cones is also simply much lower than that of the M cones. It's clear that pure (0, 0, 1) blue is perceived as vastly darker than pure (0, 1, 0) green. Blue light must be about 10x brighter (in linear intensity) tha
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by Sharlin 8mo ago
I'm sure in the future there will be technology to evaluate simple Lisp expressions in only milliseconds of time, spending mere joules of energy.
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by Sharlin 8mo ago
Would you be equally sceptical if the heading of a similar lay article referred to "computer experts"? That's also a made-up title and there's no such a degree.

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