advael

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by advael 1y ago
I mean I guess mildly harder. Web ascii converters were not hard to find, and given the audience here it's like a one-liner in almost any pl
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by advael 2y ago
The bitter lesson is a good demonstration of how people have really short memories and distributed work loses information Every AI "breakthrough" comes at a lag because the people who invent a new architecture or method aren'
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by advael 2y ago
Some people got a career path like this, and in fact I either personally have or know someone who has experienced all of the things you're listing here as perks. I'd even say you likely get all that if you're in the 95th perc
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by advael 2y ago
I get why someone would want to tell people this, but I think it fails to be advice, as it describes the current state of affairs without much actual guidance for how to do better in it Which, to be fair, no one really seems to be able to a
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by advael 2y ago
It's sad that all I can think about this is that it's just another creep forward of the surveillance oligarchy I really used to get excited about ML in the wild and while there are much bigger problems right now it still makes me
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by advael 2y ago
The problem described here is a fundamental mismatch between the structure of our economy and the conditions that facilitate human thriving I have no reason at this stage to believe that this will get better instead of worse
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by advael 2y ago
I think that a mythology about where the difficulty in working with computers lies has made the relationship between businesses and the people they hire to do this stuff miserable for quite some time "Coding", as in writing stuff
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by advael 2y ago
It's clear you're missing what point it is that I'm making from these responses, but I'm unsure how to explain it better and you're not really giving me much to work with in terms of seeming to engage with the subst
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by advael 2y ago
I mean by the same logic the only difference between a diffusion model and a VLM is that you put the spatial transformer on the other end. Yes, one of the powerful things about every kind of neural network is that they're a very genera
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by advael 2y ago
Yeah so like, this is a cool result, and it uses a transformer architecture. I actually do think that it's fair to say that transformers have proven widely useful, especially in tasks that look like sequence modeling. It's a step
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by advael 2y ago
Okay so because of the ambiguity of the other reply I'm just gonna say, I don't think we should be surprised that someone is trying to use LLMs to do basically anything. That's basically what prints funding money right now,
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by advael 2y ago
Huh. I mean it makes sense to train end-to-end on all the interrelated tasks involved in driving but putting a whole-ass language model in the middle of that seems like a stunt. I wonder if it does better than like, any random transformer n
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by advael 2y ago
I swear no matter how many times people say it people will still conflate all ML with LLMs. No, chatGPT is not driving advances in self-driving or weather prediction
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by advael 2y ago
Yea TBH you're not gonna sell me on a president past Kennedy looking out for the US taxpayer or the economy in aggregate. Neoliberalism is one of the worst kinds of parasitic meme
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by advael 2y ago
Here are some easy ones off the cuff: Kill a massive amount of wasteful private contracts. Remove the entire means-testing bureaucracy from every social program. Put more funding into stuff that actually gets ROI, like the IRS, the FTC, and
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by advael 2y ago
Sure, but also hypocrisy only makes sense when applied to a single person or an actual organization that actually collectively takes positions. "Progressives" is an amorphous category that can seemingly include anyone we want to d
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by advael 2y ago
Wait so you're saying that anyone who criticizes Musk is in this bucket of "progressive" and therefore is accountable for the supposed hypocrisy of all "progressives"? Actually this argument makes no sense. I know t
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by advael 2y ago
Actually freedom of speech is a principle, which Musk and his ilk claim to care about, despite using their power to censor people through either direct control of information streams or threats. The first amendment to the US constitution sp
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by advael 2y ago
This whole framing is nonsense. The US is the reserve currency of the world, and its influence in both economic and soft power has had massive ROI for the entire economy for decades. There is no other government that plays this role in the
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by advael 2y ago
Not even remotely. Same line since at least Reagan, never been honest, never will be. It doesn't even make sense. It's relying on laypeople not understanding the economics at play. Hell, going after stuff like the CFPB that are de
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by advael 2y ago
I'm not even really seeing the short term gains here. It seems like despite making grandiose claims, the administration and the "broligarchs" are relying on cheap political wins ("owning the libs/woke") to plac
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by advael 2y ago
Baking in the assumption that cognition is equivalent to computation will tautologically lead you to this result, but this assumption itself is unjustified. Of course if you start with the premise that the brain is a computer you will come
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by advael 2y ago
Weird how when the rapacious whims of capitalists destroy things people value the economists posit that "those things weren't viable in the market, we have to be realistic" but when business models that capital finds valuable
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by advael 2y ago
I think a lot of this is because the economic pressure is weak right now both on the side of labor and consumers, due to decades of severe upward wealth transfer. A lot of these companies are not improving or even maintaining their producti
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by advael 2y ago
Anthropic pivoting to doing economics? Seems about as legit as most economics Probably an overall smart move, since claiming to be doing economics sometimes leads to being positioned to make policy favorable to oneself
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by advael 2y ago
I love this approach. I already like doing this in systems above a certain complexity made with programming languages too. I think the functional programming community calls this "holes"? Interface "not implemented" erro
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by advael 2y ago
My days of not trusting a single thing microsoft controls are certainly coming to a middle
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by advael 2y ago
Yea I'll give you that. But many people seem to have the argument you've made - which is dubious on its own terms, by the way, as we don't really have a complete picture of human learning and the assumption that it simply fol
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by advael 2y ago
This argument, by now a common refrain from defenders of companies like OpenAI, misses the entire putative point of intellectual property, and the point of law in general. It is a distraction of a common sort - an attempt to reframe a moral
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by advael 2y ago
The investment thrown at OpenAI seems deeply inflated for how much meaningful progress they're able to make with it I think it's clear that innovative breakthroughs in bleeding-edge research are not just a matter of blindly hurlin

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