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by andy99 1y ago
Is the internet today better than it's ever been? I can easily imagine LLMs becoming ad-riden, propagandized, cloudlfare intermediated, enshittified crap the way most of the internet has.
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by andy99 1y ago
I agree with the substance, but would argue the author fails to "understand how AI works" in an important way: LLMs are impressive probability gadgets that have been fed nearly the entire internet, and produce writing not by t
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What is nihilism? Teen in shooting plot, car bomber subscribed to same ideology(cnn.com)
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by andy99 1y ago
I wonder if there's every been a study if the air quality in the montreal metro vs comparable cities. Or even within Montreal... does the blue line use tires? (Edit, yes, for some reason I thought one line didn't have them, appare
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The Illusion of Thinking(machinelearning.apple.com)
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Man who considered assisted death after bedsore: you have to fight for care(cbc.ca)
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by andy99 1y ago
I probably agree with much of the article, but I find this kind of statement really weird: we should pursue approaches to intelligence that treat embodiment and interaction with the environment as primary So pursue it. What does argu
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by andy99 1y ago
From the top level post: Please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no recruiting firms or job boards
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by andy99 1y ago
The real answer is that administrative overhead will expand to fill any jobs displaced by AI. There's no danger of net job loss, just a higher percentage of bullshit jobs. > he had to take a job in the patent office Do you have any
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by andy99 1y ago
AC is a sinusoid at 60/50 Hz. In principle, adding a DC current is just an offset, so e.g. if you had 1 Amp of AC current it would look like a sine wave 1 Amp high (actually sqrt(2)=1.414 high using the usual convention but that&#x27
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An AI bot might be asking the questions at your next job interview(cbc.ca)
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by andy99 1y ago
I am conscious, I can act as a nand gate. If you set up a billion people and had them act as a computer (was that in 3 Body Problem?) it would not be conscious of what it was doing.
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by andy99 1y ago
I've read a (untestable) theory that consciousness is a property of matter, so everything has it, and we're just sort of the sum of the desires and feelings of our constituent matter. In that construct, a computer program would ne
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by andy99 1y ago
I think the burden of proof is on showing that they are. Since we have no idea what consciousness is or how it works, I don't see how we could assume it clearly follows from anything.
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by andy99 1y ago
When I read comments like this (and I've read seemingly hundreds of them), I wonder if some other people aren't conscious / sentient? I don't know how anyone who experiences consciousness (as I experience it) could think
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by andy99 1y ago
I can't tell if your comment is intentionally ironic, as in you're saying we need to enforce your view on others that enforcing their view on others is bad. If this person was vandalizing cultural treasures or something to pressur
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Takeaways from Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's CNN Interview(cnn.com)
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by andy99 1y ago
The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent
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by andy99 1y ago
A couple comments on an earlier post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44097390
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GitHub MCP exploited: Accessing private repositories via MCP(invariantlabs.ai)
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by andy99 1y ago
Cool, thanks! Cette licence permet d'utiliser, reproduire, modifier et distribuer librement le code avec attribution, mais impose des restrictions pour les opérations dépassant 700 millions d'utilisateurs mensuels. Interest
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by andy99 1y ago
I didn't call the data the source and in the past have explicitly argued that training data is not necessary to exercise the freedoms normally associated with open source. Llama models have usage restrictions that go against any mainst
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by andy99 1y ago
Curious to know if this extends to LLMs and if so how they would define open source. Specifically it would be nice to see repudiation of Meta's "Open" BS by a nation state.
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Cut the BS: why GenAI systems are neither collaborators nor tutors(tandfonline.com)
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by andy99 1y ago
It's interesting to think about the parallels. Social networks hijacked the natural reward system people have regarding interpersonal interaction. What's the analogy for LLMs? Outsourcing thought (which used to be required to acco
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by andy99 1y ago
I know I've regularly seen a flight attendant go into the cockpit while one of the pilots steps out for the bathroom or whatever. Did not realize this wasn't the norm in Europe.
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Mysterious Morel Mushrooms at Center of Food Poisoning Outbreak (2023)(kffhealthnews.org)
2 points by andy99 1y ago|1 comments
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by andy99 1y ago
I agree with this, it's actually a good reminder not to trust a preprint server. Arxiv already has an inappropriate air of validity, moderation will only make it worse. (Incidentally, I don't think misplaced trust in preprints is
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by andy99 1y ago
You might want to read the story of F. D. C. Willard https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/F._D._C._Willard#Background
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by andy99 1y ago
This makes me think of eternal September which I'd say the author would argue we've reached with respect to coding.

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