TeMPOraL

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by TeMPOraL 7mo ago
Also doctors go to conferences and usually like doing it.
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by TeMPOraL 7mo ago
Everything is a carcinogen. Even water. Dose matters , and most of the "omg zomg causes cancer if you eat it!" dietary nonsense purposefully omits absolute amounts or base rates, lest you realize it's actually as likely to g
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by TeMPOraL 7mo ago
So I am to assume you're not using LLMs yourself, or any technology employing those models in the pipeline (which at this point includes many features in smartphones made in the last 3 years)? If that's not the case, then you are
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by TeMPOraL 7mo ago
Would you ask that your starving great-n-grandparents worried about whether they're able to feed the infant that would later become your ancestor?
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by TeMPOraL 7mo ago
Same is true about science as well. Taxpayer money is spent on research, but the outcomes of that research primarily benefits the corporate interests. I'm the last person to cheer for unrestrained capitalism, but this anti-billionaire
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by TeMPOraL 7mo ago
You must not be serious. Every single person using LLMs, whether paid or free tiers or open models, whether using them for chat or as part of some kind of data pipeline - so possibly without even knowing they're using them - benefits.
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by TeMPOraL 7mo ago
Right. It's similar to Windows and Android experience. Thing is, for the latter, I don't want to "pin files I always want to keep available" - I want them to actually exist as files in the shared storage, so other apps
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by TeMPOraL 7mo ago
It's worth questioning the underlying assumptions. It's humans - all humans - that benefit from LLMs. I see a lot of people having this attitude, but I can't help but see it as really being about seeking credit instead of gen
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by TeMPOraL 7mo ago
You're talking about system altering the environment. GP was talking about the system altering itself. The system is a massive self-stabilizing collection of feedback loops. Unlike the static environment[0], it's incredibly hard t
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by TeMPOraL 7mo ago
> but that there's app for mobile and desktop operating systems which deeply integrates it in the OS so it's just like a local folder that's magically synced Which mobile OS would that be? The big reason I stopped being
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by TeMPOraL 7mo ago
We already left the land of reason far behind by the time OP implied hamburgers and milkshakes give people cancer.
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by TeMPOraL 7mo ago
Nutrition is run on fads - see whole fitness and healthy food bullshit. Nutrition supplements ended up being a loophole that allows pharmacies and pharma companies to sell all kinds of random stuff that they can't or don't want to
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by TeMPOraL 7mo ago
> It’s also alarming what’s possible when reassembling photons en masse becomes commoditized. Photons Be Free?
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by TeMPOraL 7mo ago
Ah, the magic times when screen resolutions were large enough to display lots of information, in proper 4:3 aspect ratio, just before they got flattened and the industry started treating them as short view distance TVs.
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by TeMPOraL 7mo ago
Right. I'm saying that living for a week without any notification bar at all made me realize that even my usual well-curated notification bar is impacting me much more than I realized.
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by TeMPOraL 7mo ago
If you look at the failure modes, they very closely resemble the failure modes of humans in equivalent situations. I'd say that, in practice, anthropomorphic view is actually the most informative we have about failure modes.
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by TeMPOraL 7mo ago
They are if you are, in fact, holding it wrong. As was the usual case in most of the few years LLMs existed in this world. Think not of iPhone antennas - think of a humble hammer. A hammer has three ends to hold by, and no amount of UI&#x2
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by TeMPOraL 7mo ago
I wasn't even thinking social. Problem is, the actual operation being done is one of: - Give the other app a temporary/transient copy of a document or a file - Give the other app the actual file (R/W) - Give the other app the
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by TeMPOraL 7mo ago
> Many friends of mine send occasional nonsense in the middle of a text message, and it becomes obvious they're using voice to text. I do that, but only sometimes, because of those dictation mistakes. If not for that, I'd use
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by TeMPOraL 7mo ago
That's not just interruptions. It's the notifications bar itself. I noticed this only recently - I switched the default phone launcher to a scifi theme built on Total Launcher (there's legit personal research project reason
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by TeMPOraL 7mo ago
> I saw a tweet recently that perfectly encapsulates this: for most people over 30, certain things are "big screen tasks". I use my phone for a lot, but for some things I put the phone down and use my computer instead. I am mo
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by TeMPOraL 7mo ago
Yes, and observe that people do that too. It gives them more time to notice their own confusion and go "but wait, that's not right" on you.
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by TeMPOraL 7mo ago
I'm going to guess Chinese and English is going to come out about the same, when someone invents the right metric to compare them. I recall reading about a study somewhere that compared speech in multiple languages wrt. amount of infor
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by TeMPOraL 7mo ago
FWIW, they also wrote down something that's so obvious you don't have to know much about LLMs to know that it's true. Even the "stochastic parrot" / "glorified Markov chain" / "regurgitation
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by TeMPOraL 7mo ago
This. It's just another form of hidden inflation at play. Smartphones, appification, and self-service is usually a downgrade from immediately preceding solutions for everyone except young folks who are money-poor and time-rich, so thin
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by TeMPOraL 7mo ago
"Share" is one of the worst inventions of all. What it does in phones is random across apps and platforms, and usually has nothing to do with what the word "share" means in any other context.
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by TeMPOraL 7mo ago
Using an example with even more shady pricing practices isn't going to help much here.
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by TeMPOraL 7mo ago
Do you? I have the same knee-jerk reaction, but if you think about for more than 2 seconds, LLMs at this point have, through training, read much more research about LLMs than any human, so actually, it's not a dumb thing to do. It ma
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by TeMPOraL 7mo ago
I don't agree with GP's take on anthropomorphising[0], but in this particular discussion, I meant something even simpler by "thinking" - imagine it more like manually stepping a CPU, or powering a machine by turning a cr
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by TeMPOraL 7mo ago
That's the correct impression though. I think what's causing a lot of damage is not attributing more of human attributes (though carefully). It's not the LLM marketing you have to worry about - that's just noise. All m

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