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by _dain_ 4y ago
By that standard, how do you know another human being understands anything? All you see is their behaviour. You don't have access to their internals, you don't really know what "process" is going on in there. This road l
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by _dain_ 4y ago
What would convince you? Give an example of something that would show beyond a shadow of a doubt that it understands.
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by _dain_ 4y ago
No, you're the one who's begging the question. Why can't a "purely statistical" process have an understanding? If you a priori assume it can't, then nothing could ever persuade you GPT understood anything, no m
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by _dain_ 4y ago
Show me a pre-GPT machine translation model that can do what I've described.
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by _dain_ 4y ago
At the scale/complexity GPT operates at, how is that different from "understanding"? It seems like you've just rephrased it but with more words.
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by _dain_ 4y ago
the "intelligent design advocates" doesn't refer to creationists in this context, it refers to GOFAI people.
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by _dain_ 4y ago
The point isn't that it can translate between languages. It's not translating the instructions, at least not explicitly. Here's what they did: - They found a task that GPT wasn't very good at, because examples of that ta
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by _dain_ 4y ago
they tend to happen concurrently in my experience. here for example: https://www.greytogreen.org.uk/background barriers/bollards: they're meant to stop cars from hitting people or driving in bike lanes or parking
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by _dain_ 4y ago
>Am I missing something? Yes, the article misses what fzf actually is by focusing too much on the shell integrations. I hardly ever use those features, except for fzf-tab (which partially subsumes them). Fundamentally, fzf is a well-be
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by _dain_ 4y ago
There's a better way: type vim $(fzf) but don't press enter. Press tab instead. The shell will expand the $(), which will run fzf and let you choose a file. When you've made your choice, fzf will exit, and your choic
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by _dain_ 4y ago
For me the killer feature is fuzzy tab completion. https://github.com/Aloxaf/fzf-tab Install this, get an instant improvement to anything you do on the terminal. It works with any existing program with tab completion.
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by _dain_ 4y ago
Most (or at least, a plurality of) people who cycle or take the tube in London also drive a car sometimes; it's not like you have to be wedded to one particular transport mode. Drivers aren't drivers 100% of the time. Reducing mot
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by _dain_ 4y ago
A lot of grocery deliveries are done by bike or moped.
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by _dain_ 4y ago
Yeah that's the thing, you're not meant to need "mass transit" to get groceries . It shouldn't even be a single "stop" away, it should be even closer. Are you saying you don't have a single decen
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by _dain_ 4y ago
"but how do you get groceries???" is such a common bad objection it's become something of a meme to make fun of it. don't want to pick on you but getting food is really not that hard to do. you just do smaller shopping t
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by _dain_ 4y ago
First, the City of London hardly has any residents; almost all traffic demand comes from outside. I imagine the few residents it has welcomes these measures, since they suffer the bad effects of commuter traffic, while generating little of
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by _dain_ 4y ago
>cyclists (as motorcyclists) need to change (at each side) and shower etc; Excuse me? I have literally never done that in my life. I just bike in my normal clothes. It's light exercise, you don't have to shower afterwards.
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by _dain_ 4y ago
> When these LLMs get normalized probably 5 years from now I'm going go back to these old threads and contact these people who are in self denial and throw it in their face. I'll just link this comment and be like I TOLD YOU,
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Linked article: https://archive.is/67F2v
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Elizabeth Line now carries 1 in 6 UK rail journeys(twitter.com)
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>Is there any justifiable explanation for this hiring strategy? yes. but you can only obliquely hint at it.
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by _dain_ 4y ago
Nobody lives in Antarctica for its own sake, and that's a lot closer to home. You can breathe the air there. If we could replace McMurdo base with robots, nobody would weep.
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by _dain_ 4y ago
Yes you're right, I didn't think it through properly
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by _dain_ 4y ago
Gravity I'll grant you, but heatsinks are not difficult technology, and Venus has its own problems with pressure. It's not the overall pressure you worry about; each component of the gas has its own partial pressure. The outside i
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by _dain_ 4y ago
>But maybe our standards are high. No, our standards are too low. People just have this fatalist attitude, "oh yeah it's London, of course it's expensive". It's how they make you feel like it's you're
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by _dain_ 4y ago
it has a population over million and doesn't even have a metro. and it's ugly as fuck. I don't know how it works out for startup economics but I wouldn't move there. there's also our sad little "Silicon Fen&quo
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by _dain_ 4y ago
London is a really unattractive place when you consider salary vs housing affordability. Most of the high tech salary goes straight into the pocket of landlords. And you can forget buying. But London is where most of the innovative high-pay
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by _dain_ 4y ago
Are you really expected to spread out all your day-to-day business cash around tons of different accounts just to stay under the FDIC limit? How is that meant to work, logistically? Let's say you're a company with like 50 well-pai
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by _dain_ 4y ago
are you referring to precolumbian chinese contact? there was none fyi.
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by _dain_ 4y ago
what are you going to do with all the precipitated oceans of sulphuric acid? and then there's the 96% carbon dioxide atmosphere ... that'll take a lot of carbon credits!

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