Timwi

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by Timwi 1y ago
Wikipedia is not a company, it's a website. The organization that runs the website, the Wikimedia Foundation, is also not a company. It's a nonprofit. And the Wikimedia Foundation have not “spent years trying to get things right”,
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by Timwi 1y ago
The proposed approach has a large number of drawbacks: * It's not reliable, the project’s own readme mentions false positives. * It adds a source of confusion where an AI agent tells the user that the CLI tool said X, but running it ma
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by Timwi 1y ago
Why do you assume it's easier to know what article(s) to read than what question to ask?
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by Timwi 1y ago
I'm not surprised, given the depiction of artificial intelligence in science fiction. Characters like Data in TNG, Number 5 in Short Circuit, etc., are invariably depicted as having perfect memory, infallible logic, super speed of info
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by Timwi 1y ago
You'd have to go many generations after the doomsday before language evolves enough for that to be a problem.
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by Timwi 1y ago
But chainmail was a thing, so how did they manufacture it without knitting? Maybe “knitting” is just a way of describing this, while the knitting you're thinking of is specifically knitting involving textiles.
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by Timwi 1y ago
Yes, I do think that people usually mean AHI even they say AGI, although they don't realize it because when asked to define AGI they talk about generality and not about mimicking humans. (Meanwhile, when they talk about sentience and c
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by Timwi 1y ago
I haven't read the article, but it sounds to me you're conflating “how much do regular users trust LLMs to produce good/correct output” with “how much do capitalists trust LLMs to become (and remain) profitable”.
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by Timwi 1y ago
I also believe that AGI is not a thing, but for different reasons. I notice that almost everybody seems to implicitly assume, without justification, that humans are a GI (general intelligence). I think it's easy to see that if we are
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by Timwi 1y ago
> everyone I met there is actually trying to do the right thing" - yes! That's true at almost every company that ends up making morally questionable decisions! The operative word is “trying”. You can “try” to do the right thing
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by Timwi 1y ago
The government already decides how much to invest into public infrastructure such as water pipes and water reclamation plants; roads, bridges, traffic lights etc.; air traffic control; the emergency services and coast guard... the list goes
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by Timwi 1y ago
Just use an AST if it parses, and fall back to plain text diffs if it doesn't.
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by Timwi 1y ago
I don't understand why it can't just use an AST if it parses, and fall back to plain text diffs if it doesn't.
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by Timwi 1y ago
How about a download button so I can run it locally and not cause you any costs?
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by Timwi 1y ago
What would you propose as an alternative to regexes that provides the same functionality without the unreadable syntax? I wrote something like that in C# once [0] but I'm not getting the impression that there's a lot of demand for
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by Timwi 1y ago
I know I'm being pedantic, but I just want to point out that even U+200E/U+200F are generally not needed. If you put a Hebrew word in the middle of an English sentence, it displays correctly all by itself. This is due to the Unico
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by Timwi 1y ago
It would indeed be nice if everything were just freely available to everyone, but barring that, a good first step is to let everyone partake in a fair share of everything, which is what UBI enables. Again, you're still thinking in term
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by Timwi 1y ago
If you read the literature on AI safety carefully (which uses the word “goal”), you'll find they're not talking about LLMs either.
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by Timwi 1y ago
I can't speak for every UBI supporter, but singling out food, and talking about “the food they want me to have”, suggests an authoritarian top-down structure that nobody wants. The whole point of UBI is to enable autonomy. People sho
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by Timwi 1y ago
> > It is similar to how human brains operate. > Is it? This is just a semantic debate on what counts as “similar”. It's possible to disagree on this point despite agreeing on everything relating to how LLMs and human brains w
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by Timwi 1y ago
The real challenge is not to see it as a binary (the machine either has feelings or it has none). It's possible for the machine to have emergent processes or properties that resemble human feelings in their function and their complexit
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by Timwi 1y ago
The author seems to want to label any discourse as “anthropomorphizing”. The word “goal” stood out to me: the author wants us to assume that we're anthropomorphizing as soon as we even so much as use the word “goal”. A simple breadth-f
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by Timwi 1y ago
> What we need is a way to make money off of local first software. No, what we need is a way for people to not starve so that they don't have to make money at all and can focus instead on their passion project(s). Cough UBI cough
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by Timwi 1y ago
The term is a little ambiguous. They're not referring to a website that is served from static files that never change (which would exclude forums like Hacker News). They're referring to websites that still work if you disable Java
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by Timwi 1y ago
Why would JIT be more likely to have such a vulnerability than a JavaScript engine without JIT?
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by Timwi 1y ago
> if site owners can't easily assess the performance of their site I would be more than happy to opt in to performance metrics or other reports if only I could have some level of trust that improving the UX is all it's gonna be
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by Timwi 1y ago
It might remove it from your local repo, but not from GitHub, that's the point.
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by Timwi 1y ago
Or JoeScript, substituting one slang term for “coffee” for another. TypeScript is now called DecafScript.
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by Timwi 1y ago
But it stops you from getting an equivalent coke from any other vendor, even if you might want to (because it might be cheaper). You're assuming that everyone finds it as important as you do that your “Coke” comes from a specific manuf
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by Timwi 1y ago
The same is true if `return` is a statement, so this doesn't seem to have anything to do with `return` being an expression.

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