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by abalashov 3mo ago
You would think it would be that straightforward. However, accurate synchronisation on GPS or temporal attributes would be required. Judging by the paucity of software to do this, historically, it is not a straightforward problem, or all th
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by abalashov 3mo ago
As a cyclist (and former racer), I still want to know how to capture videos with telemetry overlays (speed, power, HR, etc) from my head unit in a straightforward way. NorCal Cycling's videos - https://www.youtube.com/@
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by abalashov 3mo ago
My use of "worldly knowledge" might have been sloppy. I really meant "real-time worldly knowledge". The American chatbot apps are just very polished on live web search and tool use, and the models are very eager to do it
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by abalashov 3mo ago
I switched to exclusively Chinese models, mostly Kimi, many months ago. I'll still ask Claude questions that require ambitious real-time web search / worldly knowledge, but for just about anything else, the Chinese models have bee
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by abalashov 3mo ago
> the concepts just don't stick because I don't actually do the work Yes! And this is the part of the de-skilling puzzle that is completely unaddressed by AI boosters. Maybe LLMs are a force multiplier, but there still has to b
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by abalashov 3mo ago
Underrated and paradoxical element of this, to which, as far as I can tell, LLM boosters offer no solution: > And without my knowledge I would have no clue if what it's trying do is correct, or safe. I would contend you got the know
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by abalashov 3mo ago
Okay, that's genuinely funny. Sadly, it might be a little subtle for the folks who need to feel the mockery most.
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by abalashov 3mo ago
This is exactly the right answer. The supposed "rationality" of capitalism can ruin us before we get a chance to dazzle the world with our contrarian insights.
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by abalashov 3mo ago
It's almost like it's inherent in the definition of LLMs. It's really, _really_ high time we dispensed with the idea that this is "AI". Nobody said they're not useful, but "AI" they are not.
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by abalashov 3mo ago
One hardly needs to soar to the exalted heights of "mysticism" or any sort of "ineffable qualities" to come into contact with the limitations of LLMs. 1) Models do not perform the functional equivalent of reasoning at al
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by abalashov 3mo ago
Although I agree with you, in fairness, there are some lively controversies in the world of cognitive science and philosophy of mind about whether this meaningfully differs from human thinking at sufficient scale. The general idea is that t
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by abalashov 3mo ago
This is an astute observation. I think it reflects a larger and longer-running strain in the relationship between technocracy and the humanities, though, of which this latest iteration is just even more choleric and rote. The plumbers of ca
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by abalashov 3mo ago
Fair enough, but I'm not sure this is how the general population uses LLM chatbots, nor how the highly qualified always use LLMs. On the contrary, I believe most people use them precisely to find out more about topics of which they kno
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by abalashov 3mo ago
This is my position, as well, and I have switched exclusively to Chinese models in support of this view (and cost and because they're pretty awesome).
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by abalashov 3mo ago
It's quite trivial to show that an LLM doesn't have underlying intent, and that it can only emit direct textual convolutions of its training and not combine tokens in truly novel ways. This is the very thesis of the world-model fo
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by abalashov 3mo ago
I do think it's easy, in this technology discussion bubble in which we dwell, to overestimate the centrality of LLMs to the arc of developments in our time. They'll be important, but I don't think they'll be _that_ impor
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by abalashov 3mo ago
Fine, but my point was that releasing open source software implies contributing to that, virtually by definition, and then to be met with a déluge of slop PRs and GH issues. Who can blame a developer for saying, "screw that?"
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by abalashov 3mo ago
I don't think we're going to agree about many things, but we definitely agree on that!
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by abalashov 3mo ago
Well, lots of ways. One is some degree of model collapse, as the slop-enshittified Internet itself is ingested as training data--despite the AI companies' best efforts to prevent this, they won't be altogether successful. But the
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by abalashov 3mo ago
I suppose countries like KSA and DPRK would ask the same question about us.
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by abalashov 3mo ago
I suppose valid grounds for both perceptions can coexist. Opposition to AI here is more than understandable; it takes much of the joy out of programming as a craft, while leaving one with so much much more of what is hateable about it as a
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by abalashov 3mo ago
Thank you in turn, I have circulated your piece to thoughtful friends. My immediate, from-the-hip thought is that we are slowly lumbering toward the idea that LLMs ("AI") should be a public utility. It may take us quite a while to
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by abalashov 3mo ago
It was a brilliant article, and it succinctly captured the offenses to ethics and humanism posed by LLMs. I'm not sure it'll get a lot of reception in the technocracy here on HN, whether of the AI booster or AI nihilist sort. Howe
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by abalashov 3mo ago
Yes, but human errors are based on genuine and elaborate misconceptions (or propagandistic intent), not squishy, facile "you're right to push back on that, I straight up made that up" type stuff.
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by abalashov 3mo ago
My love life has seen hockey stick growth since I spawned subagents to hang out with women for me.
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by abalashov 3mo ago
The only way I ever learned anything or built anything of value (one of those things still accounts for most of my revenue, 10-15 years later) was by blowing off doing what I was supposed to be doing at that moment, in the classic sense des
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by abalashov 3mo ago
Yeah, but this is like saying that one needn't focus so much on LLMs making mistakes because humans also mistakes. They do, but the shape of the way LLMs will confidently mislead you is quite different to the way misinformed humans, or
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by abalashov 3mo ago
It is helpful in such cases to look up, touch grass, and realise that "do it for you" is doing a lot of work there. The technology still can only emit a convolution of its training, and this is an ontological, conceptual limit on
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by abalashov 3mo ago
I know, right? Have the AI go to the gym and work out for you.
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by abalashov 3mo ago
Приятно слышать, а то иногда народ говорит, что это мертвый язык...

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