Towaway69

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by Towaway69 5d ago
> ‘Sceptic’ comes from the Greek skeptikos, meaning enquirer, and has a long and serious pedigree in philosophy. Yet, since the 1990s, the term has been hijacked by science-denial movements, giving us oxymorons like ‘climate sceptic’, ‘v
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He was probably right: we should be confident in our beliefs, but never certain(aeon.co)
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by Towaway69 8d ago
Back then it was called “the truth” only later did it become something else. Perhaps an untruth.
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by Towaway69 8d ago
Howabout: lied. The LLM lied indirectly (perhaps) but it made a claim that was false. Which is a lie. Humans lie and LLMs “hallucinate”? What gives. It’s an untruth that the LLM is selling for a truth, that’s lying in my books. And since we
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by Towaway69 10d ago
> experience the curvature of the earth I'm not an historian but the curvature of the world was probably explained away by some other phenomenon because, after all, the world is flat (for those experience curvature in times of fla
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by Towaway69 11d ago
> is to force companies to stick with their brand Punishment is never a good long term solution. Because punishment is related to revenge. And revenge reinforces the punishment - but on the other side. Perhaps questioning the underlying
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by Towaway69 11d ago
There's also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49648775 which points to https://shan.mp/decorrelation_stretch/
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by Towaway69 12d ago
But you can hack your neighbours. Hm sounds like the LLMs haven’t explored all possible avenues. Much as the hack against HF, let the LLM explore and find its own approach. It might be surprising what it finds. Also define what decrypt mean
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by Towaway69 12d ago
Howabout getting an LLM to decipher the password of wallet containing those coins. Surely the point must have come where the required compute would be paid off by the value of the coins. But that’s a wild speculation on my part.
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by Towaway69 13d ago
I think what you say is right but it’s also a further example of the zero responsibility of silicon valley tech. For the last 20 odd years this excuse-o-rama that covers anything from data leaks to broken software to dystopian social media
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by Towaway69 13d ago
Philosophical speaking, I wonder what the folks will think of our theories of light, time and space in the not too distant future. Much as the flat earth theories or the universe rotates around the earth, I suspect we don’t really get it ye
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by Towaway69 13d ago
What blows my mind is that 20 million light years also means that what we're observing something that happened 20 million years ago . We're looking into the very distant past, at something that might well no longer exist. Turn th
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by Towaway69 13d ago
LegacySurvey deep link[1]. Zooming out from there and one gets an appreciation for how (in)significant we really are. [1] https://www.legacysurvey.org/viewer?ra=195.8160&dec=-17.4268...
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by Towaway69 13d ago
It’s then up to a judge to decide whether thats evidence and whether it’s incriminating. I assume OAI published those details after checking with their legal department. So there’s a good chance that there isn’t a chance for prosecution. Pl
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by Towaway69 13d ago
NAL but I assume that if both sides aren’t interested in a prosecution, it’s an uphill battle for a prosecutor.
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by Towaway69 13d ago
Howabout favourite editors or tab v. Space indentation. That should keep them busy for a while. /s
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by Towaway69 13d ago
Who got hacked? Hugging faces Who now owns HF? Nvidia Who supplies hardware to OpenAI? Nvidia Who is now not pressing charges? … This incident is a long way under the carpet.
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by Towaway69 14d ago
The new Moore’s Law? Every X months a new complexity level is reached. Or perhaps AGI is reached and suddenly AI solves this all by itself.
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by Towaway69 14d ago
It will be interesting to see what happens when human developers become cheaper than token maxxing AIs. Interesting because by then codebases might have become so complex that these can no longer be modified, maintained nor understood by hu
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by Towaway69 14d ago
Hm “Bullshit Jobs” terminology by David Graeber seems appropriate here. Of course, “produce value” is slightly different from meaningful jobs that Bullshit Jobs was referring to. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_J
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by Towaway69 14d ago
And i thought it was profit.
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by Towaway69 15d ago
Not to be confused with NetLogo ;) https://www.netlogo.org/
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by Towaway69 15d ago
Nobel prize for economics perhaps?
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by Towaway69 15d ago
What’s the other half? ;)
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by Towaway69 15d ago
> Feeds shouldn't be infinitely scrollable Folks would just continue on page 2, like in the good old days! Pls take that with a pinch of salt. There is just so much that can be banned and infinite scroll isn’t one of those things. A
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by Towaway69 17d ago
Why do we need humans in the loop, what exactly can’t be replaced by an AI in your workflow? It sounds like having another AI telling the first AI not to “drift” away from the fundamentals would do the trick? Does this activity require some
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by Towaway69 18d ago
> and the agents) did not see any of their Are those the same agents that a week ago escaped their sandboxes? How can OAI (the humans) vouch for agents they don’t - seemingly - have fully under control?
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by Towaway69 18d ago
> unclear immigration status, had their funding cut off, or don't care about money. Ah ok, thanks for the clarification. I thought this would be more to do with politics. So we’ll end up with ex-US folks starting up those European c
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by Towaway69 18d ago
> Don't make your addiction my problem > "I think I use screens too much so everyone should use screens less" is silly. From my perspective, I see both statements fulfilling what you're saying with: > I judge th
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by Towaway69 18d ago
> researchers may be looking for greener pastures. Is that still a thing? Or have those would leave have left, after all, it's been ~6 years of Trump already.

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