Yizahi

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by Yizahi 1y ago
Opinion answer - no, judging by the votes and contents of the majority of the comments about politically charged topics, I'm pretty sure that most of the people here are approximately center-left leaning, and more libertarian than auth
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by Yizahi 1y ago
Wait, there was computing 2.0? Damn, I missed whole revolution again...
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by Yizahi 1y ago
Considering that the only purpose of chat-bots is to bullshit customers and filter out as much as they can before redirecting to the human support, then yeah - LLM chat-bots are good. Just not good for the the customers. I recently had to c
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by Yizahi 1y ago
against incompetent politicians (corruption is also a sign of incompetence)
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by Yizahi 1y ago
No, it's slander, they just "believe in technology" :)
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by Yizahi 1y ago
I assume not that LLM would be isolated, I assume that LLM would be incapable of interacting in any meaningful way on its own (i.e. not triggered by direct input from a programmer).
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by Yizahi 1y ago
Increasing productivity is nice and commendable, but it is NOT an LLM making a breakthrough on its own, which is the topic of the Gwern's article.
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by Yizahi 1y ago
You are contradicting yourself. Either LLM programs can do breakthrough on their own, or they don't have that capacity in a meaningful way based on how they work.
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by Yizahi 1y ago
Nobody argues that LLMs aren't useful for some bulk processing of billion datapoints or looking for obscure correlations in the unedited data. But the premise of the Gwern's article is that to be considered thinking, LLM must init
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by Yizahi 1y ago
This is bordering conspiracy theory. Thousands of people are getting novel breakthroughs generated purely by LLM an not a single person discloses such result? Not even one of the countless LLM corporation engineers who depend on the billion
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by Yizahi 1y ago
Your proposed approach to science would result in the extremely tiny subset of math, probably theorems being proven by automation. And it is questionable if those theorems would be even useful. A good mathematician with CS experience can pr
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by Yizahi 1y ago
Generated code only works because "test" part (compile/validate/analyze etc.) is completely external and written before any mass-market LLMs. There is no such external validator for new theorems, books, pictures, text gu
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by Yizahi 1y ago
War, duh. No, really, the only reason for that happening was a total war. War caused devastated countries to collectively sign Bretton-Woods which affirmed USD as a reference currency and allowed USA to externalize a lot of it's issue,
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by Yizahi 1y ago
LLM programs can't describe what they are doing. The tech doesn't allow this. LLM can generate you a text which will resemble what LLM would be doing if that was hypothetically possible. A good example has been published by Anthro
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by Yizahi 1y ago
Luddites weren't stopping industrial revolution. They were fighting against mass layoffs, against dramatic lowering of wages and against replacement of skilled workers with unskilled ones. Now this reminds me of something, hmmm...
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by Yizahi 1y ago
That was a joke, mostly unrelated to the main point - about LLM corporations' finances.
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by Yizahi 1y ago
Yeah, only those evolved a lot from the initial products everyone hyped and products people hyped in 2000 are extinct or free. And I still don't understand where Facebook makes money. :) Regarding LLMs there are two concerns - current
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by Yizahi 1y ago
A hypothesis is approximately this, paraphrasing - human society rewards sociopathic humans, who filter to the top of politics, corporation control, figures of influence etc. Watts goes even further and throws in a hypothesis that even cons
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by Yizahi 1y ago
Maybe empathy is a dead end evolutionary trait and humanity will just self select people without it altogether? :) . Kinda like implied in Blindsight.
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by Yizahi 1y ago
Unfortunately WSL and Terminal have high friction cost, even despite being made by the same company as OS. So if you have a new VM (or 10, or god forbid 100+) you likely wouldn't either of those installed by default. Though I'm no
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by Yizahi 1y ago
Proper (most) of the facilities which do this require people to stop drinking for at least few days before procedure, and some offer paid service isolating patient for a few days under supervision, and then do a block. In cases when patient
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by Yizahi 1y ago
This is why ex-USSR countries have so many programmers - we did a lot of coding :)
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by Yizahi 1y ago
It work for cats, but not equally for all, some are less responsive. Also, maybe I will say obvious things, but - cats require bigger dose per kilo than dogs, vet doctor can calculate it for you; and it is advised that you start giving it t
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by Yizahi 1y ago
It's like a car whose engine randomly shuts down with a very low reproduction rate. Except with cars when this happened GM has recalled 30 million cars and paid billions of fines. Emails to email client is an engine to the car. It is p
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by Yizahi 1y ago
Yeah, everyone who is against creepto are missing out. You should skip divining on the TA graphs for 5 minutes, and read about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_projection Bonus question - not yet born people
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by Yizahi 1y ago
Sequels were made even worse because of the original movie ending, showing that "real" world was also a simulation. Watching 2 and 3 felt kinda pointless after that.
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by Yizahi 1y ago
My comment was directed to the GP's comment on top before it was deleted: I'm one of the "left" crowd, and I despise accelerationism in general as a concept, which is what you've described (the GP). But over last de
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by Yizahi 1y ago
I didn't mean it like that, certainly nothing unfair about Valve. It's just that GOG tries to differentiate by being slightly more consumer oriented than all other competitors - no DRM as a principle, much longer refund window, ab
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by Yizahi 1y ago
More like GOG. Valve was an outlier due to first mover advantage. GOG is what people are describing here - company tries to compete in the already established market by providing a "fair" service. If I remember correctly GOG is st
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by Yizahi 1y ago
You can't "decarbonize" anything on this planet, it is not possible by definition. Even green electrical production emits a lot of GH gasses out of the whole production cycle. I'm all for the green tech of course, I just

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