Vegenoid

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by Vegenoid 2y ago
I feel like I must be missing something, because I don’t understand why representing data in an s-expression is better than representing it as nested arrays (lists of lists) and hashtables/dictionaries. I also don’t see why representin
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
> 72% of combat-aged fatalities they have recorded were men I don’t think this is the point in your favor that you think it is. “Combat-aged” excludes children and elderly, which are the most reprehensible deaths. And this means that o
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
I’m not sure if you wanted it shorter for tonal reasons rather than simply for length of time to read, but I think it was pretty concise.
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
Unfortunately, those people have a lot of practice worshipping a text that they have not read.
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
Getting laid off sucks, but this comment isn't about that. What I noticed when I read the post is that the website isn't very good. It's laggy, as in slow to load, scroll, and for the mouse-hover stuff to respond, and this is
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
> This guy seems good, but he faces a worse landscape for finding new employment than your fictional Joe Everyman. Maybe this is true, I don't actually know. But I'm quite skeptical that someone who worked at Google for a long
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
I’m having trouble understanding what you mean, if you could provide or link to an example I’d appreciate it.
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
Agreed that a GUI can be just as keyboard-friendly as a good TUI, but it would seem natural that restricting things to a grid of characters encourages keyboard interaction, whereas allowing arbitrary placement of elements at the pixel level
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
I don’t really trust you on that. Why is the government workforce not more capable if there are lots of skilled people who want to work for them?
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
Even if this is the case, “process” is immensely more important in government and military than in companies because government has the authority, the prerogative even, to use violence, ruin lives, and kill people. The onerous processes are
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
Why the poor look at the people sitting on giant piles of money, and believe them when they say that China took the money, is another story.
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
Shaking the economy like a snowglobe is sure to make businesses conservative and fearful of spending. There is no path to this being a good thing for the United States.
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
I don't mean that the primary (or only) way that it interacts with a human can't be just text. Right now, the only way it interacts with anything is by generating a stream of tokens. To make any API calls, to use any tool, to
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
I am from the future, and the answer is yes, this happened.
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
This is an interesting question, but it seems at least possible that as long as the fundamental operation is simply "generate tokens", that it can't go beyond being just a form of next-token prediction. I don't think p
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
Because opposing Trump risks becoming an outcast, which is the thing that humans want least, and losing their job. There is not yet the sign that their voting base actually wants them to do anything to oppose Trump.
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
Attempting to overturn an election, putting tariffs on the entire world, deporting legal US residents without due process, passing a record-breaking number of executive orders, ending birthright citizenship, removing a pillar of the free pr
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
Only if he tries to get a 3rd term by a fair election. The more realistic way to it happening is by hijacking the electoral process. There are a number of ways to do this, such as by claiming there was fraud and thereby having the justifica
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
We have repeatedly seen Trump say something that sounds ridiculous, and his supporters say "that won't actually happen, and if it does I won't support it", and then he does it and his supporters support it. He has recent
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
> Are you saying autoregressive LLMs won't qualify as AGI, by definition? No, I am speculating that they will not reach capabilities that qualify them as AGI.
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
> Moore's law is exponential, which is where the "simulate a brain" predictions have come from. To address only one thing out of your comment, Moore's law is not a law, it is a trend. It just gets called a law because
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
At the risk of coming off like a dolt and being super incorrect: I don't put much stock into these metrics when it comes to predicting AGI. Even if the trend of "length of task an AI can reliably do doubles every 7 months" co
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
I think we've actually had capable AIs for long enough now to see that this kind of exponential advance to AGI in 2 years is extremely unlikely. The AI we have today isn't radically different from the AI we had in 2023. They are m
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
I have what I believe is "decent" employer-sponsored health insurance, but using the healthcare system is still an enormous pain in the ass, as is getting insurance to pay for the things that they are supposed to. I'm pretty
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
“Yeah, sucks, but what are you supposed to do? Have to pay the president so he doesn’t use the government to harm my business out of retribution” No. Reject this.
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
Did you read the whole article? I don’t think he’s making that kind of argument. This is what he said: > I only have one image in mind when I hear “an archeologist adventurer who wears a hat and uses a bullwhip”. > It would be unexpec
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
I see what you mean, but I don't think this is super accurate. There are similarly large (and larger) patches of blue in many paintings by Vermeer and others from the Dutch Golden Age. Ultramarine was as expensive as you, but it was de
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
We're also the only species that can use abstraction to assign meaning to and relations between symbols in any way we choose. The humanities and the sciences are both extremely important to what makes us human, and saying that only one
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
Again, the law of preservation of energy only makes things zero sum between entities if all the energy is already being used at maximum efficiency, which it isn't. For a simple example, consider farming, where plants are used to harnes
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
The idea being that you wield so much more power than your enemies, and have so much knowledge of their movements, that they are not an actual threat to you, and their knowledge of this prevents them from actually committing violence? And t

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