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by andy99 4mo ago
This seems to come up in every discussion, in practice it’s irrelevant both because it’s too complicated for normal people to understand, and because the point of all this nonsense really is identification so anything that defeats that will
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by andy99 4mo ago
Unfortunately I don’t think it has the public’s attention, it’s still very niche. Nowhere near enough to change anything yet.
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by andy99 4mo ago
I generally agree with the post but also don’t see a problem with what it claims is going on. It could be summarized as “kids don’t have any respect anymore” or whatever other lament by someone entrenched about new ways of doing things. I t
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by andy99 4mo ago
It’s supervised learning rather than RL, you’re just training to labels. It doesn’t work (doesn’t generalize) because there is no guarantee or even expectation that any causal relationship is learned, it’s just whatever convenient pattern g
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by andy99 4mo ago
At least in my academic experience, there are academics that are uniquely suited to academia (for better or worse) and there are “academics” that know what to say to be the business version of whatever the discipline is. Neither is necessar
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by andy99 4mo ago
I wonder what it is they feel LLMs can’t do for them and they need a human for? I’d like to see the spec, like are they expecting the philosophers to use Claude all day, maybe in a philosophy harness and will be judged by their token use? O
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by andy99 4mo ago
That sounds like providing context rather than anything philosophical, and it stands to reason that it would lead to better decision making.
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by andy99 4mo ago
In a world where everyone is using LLMs, the only way to differentiate oneself is to actually think. I don’t know if this is part of the idea behind having some in-house philosophers but it would be interesting. If I was a big lab I’d defin
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by andy99 4mo ago
If we start letting trees communicate by underground signalling though a network of mycorrhizal fungus, it’s going to be the death of French. It’s important that every living being learns to adopt the culture.
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by andy99 4mo ago
You don’t learn anything from LLMs. They are good as a reference, not teaching. They are likely actually worse than other electronic learning (which is already bad) because of how human preference optimized they are, same as eating ultra pr
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by andy99 4mo ago
Could you please share which coding agent you are using with it?
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by andy99 4mo ago
For context, it’s a seasonal flu vaccine, the title is a bit unclear.
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Jonathan Blow on why LLMs cannot program [video](youtube.com)
14 points by andy99 4mo ago|5 comments
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by andy99 4mo ago
I’m pretty conservative with books and usually only read things based on recommendations anyway. I would rarely read a book published in the last few years just because news of it hasn’t travelled to me yet. I think worrying about AI genera
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by andy99 4mo ago
Meh, you might technically be right but the world is better if everyone can have a bit of fun, even police. I’m not super sympathetic to the “I was minding my own business driving a giant banana when the police pulled me over to ask me abou
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by andy99 4mo ago
Maybe I’m just lucky but I’ve lived in Ontario (in cities and the country) and have never seen a rat here. I know they exist but it’s not like we’re inundated by them. Maybe some specific businesses have problems with them, but it’s not som
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by andy99 4mo ago
On the “we don’t know what to do”, I think it’s cool that they are trying something medical with it. Success obviously isn’t assured, probably it isn’t even probable, but I’m happy to see companies try this rather than launch yet another wh
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by andy99 4mo ago
Personally I think writing with an LLM is at least as bad as stitching together phrases from others. The article doesn’t really expand upon what having fragments copied from others means. Even if it fits the letter of the definition, on a p
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by andy99 4mo ago
I once saw an ad on LinkedIn made up to look like the CBC (Canadian news) linking to a fake video of the Canadian prime minister announcing a crypto investment plan for all Canadians, with a link to sign up. I reported the ad to LinkedIn an
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Missing American student found dead in Japan after dayslong search(cnn.com)
3 points by andy99 4mo ago|0 comments
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by andy99 4mo ago
Are there people who think college education is a shortcut to generic employment? This seems like a very misleading statistic. Average earnings (including those unemployed), etc might be better. Telling me that it’s harder to get a professi
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by andy99 4mo ago
“In the training data” isn’t really relevant for a modern LLM. The better question would be are they solvable using known techniques that have been fine-tuned in. A simple example, as a non-mathematician: I’d expect a well trained LLM to be
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by andy99 4mo ago
Don’t buy it then?
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by andy99 4mo ago
I’m curious, do writers and authors still really care about AI? I think by now most people are completely put off by AI slop, the value of AI writing or image generation is basically zero So I suspect that the cloud will pass on math too, i
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by andy99 4mo ago
Not replying to the above comment specifically as I obviously don’t know individual circumstances. But I find it ironic that people working in basically surveillance tech, who would gladly get paid to strip mine users’ privacy in order to m
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by andy99 4mo ago
It’s unlikely this is true. LLMs are way more mad-libs / templates than we like to admit, that’s (ironically) not a judgement about their capability, it’s primarily just an observation. But it’s also what plain old SFT, which I believe
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by andy99 4mo ago
The best remote jobs I’ve had included many hours a week of no-agenda calls with colleagues, just catching up and talking about what we’re up to. This is very hard to make happen. Most people don’t want to, don’t see it as work, or more lik
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by andy99 4mo ago
I’ve never encountered a captcha on HN, do you guys use less aggressive settings? The reason captchas bother me so much is they always seem to happen in the course of legitimate activities. Like I had one when trying to make a charity donat
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by andy99 4mo ago
Captchas are primarily to punish users for not allowing tracking, or using the “right” services, they may prevent some bots as a side effect (or a pretence from the provider) but it’s mostly for google and cloudflare to abuse their monopoli
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by andy99 5mo ago
I've never seen a company punished for doing the right thing, caring for humans and providing a good work environment. We’ll see how this goes over but I disagree. You don’t have to look hard in tech, especially a few years ago

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