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by anonymous908213 8mo ago
Microsoft employee (VP of something or other, for whatever Microsoft uses "VP" to mean) doing damage control on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/scott.hanselman.com/post/3mez4yxty2... > looks li
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by anonymous908213 8mo ago
> I am a skeptic that one more Coke Cola ad aired at the Super Bowl meaningfully changes sales It actually might. Coca Cola had $48b revenue last year, or in other words, 4800 millions. Spending 7 of those millions to put your product in
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by anonymous908213 8mo ago
It has nothing to do with "pride". Anonymity is about being able to speak freely without having to feel the need to self-censor one's views. I don't want to feel hesitant to make a comment on a controversial subject out
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by anonymous908213 8mo ago
> You have given no argument for why an LLM cannot be intelligent. I literally did provide a definition and my argument for it already: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47051523 If you want to argue with that defin
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by anonymous908213 8mo ago
> Repeating yourself doesn't make you right, just repetitive. Good thing I didn't make that claim! > Ignoring refutations you don't like doesn't make them wrong. They didn't make a refutation of my points. The
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by anonymous908213 8mo ago
> One of the most irritating things about these discussions is proclamations that make it pretty clear you've not used these tools in a while or ever. Really, when was the last time you had LLMs try long multi-digit arithmetic on ra
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by anonymous908213 8mo ago
The frontier LLMs have the same overall architecture as earlier models. I absolutely understand how they operate. I have worked in a startup wherein we heavily finetuned Deepseek, among other smaller models, running on our own hardware. Bot
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by anonymous908213 8mo ago
There is an element of rudeness to completely ignoring what I've already written and saying "you know [basic principle that was already covered at length], right?". If you want to talk about contributing to the discussion rat
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by anonymous908213 8mo ago
At least read the other replies that pre-emptively refuted this drivel before spamming it.
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by anonymous908213 8mo ago
That is not an off-by-one error in a computer science sense, nor is it "one of the hardest problems in computer science".
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by anonymous908213 8mo ago
You are making a point that is in favor of my argument, not against it. I make the same argument as you do routinely against people trying to over-simplify things. LLM hypists frequently suggest that because brain activity is "just&quo
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by anonymous908213 8mo ago
Quoting an older comment of mine... Intelligence is the ability to reason about logic. If 1 + 1 is 2, and 1 + 2 is 3, then 1 + 3 must be 4. This is deterministic, and it is why LLMs are not intelligent and can never be intelligent no ma
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by anonymous908213 8mo ago
Are you trying to suppose that an LLM is more intelligent than a small child with simple thought processes, almost no language capability, little long-term planning, and minimal ability to form long-term memory? Even with all of those quali
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by anonymous908213 8mo ago
It would filter out some people who lurk but still have interesting things to contribute, but despite the drawbacks that threshold is probably the most immediately impactful solution. Of course, it strongly incentivizes the purchase/se
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by anonymous908213 8mo ago
The worst part of the death of Show HN is that most of these people are so allergic to putting any effort in that they can't even write the description themselves. The repo's readme, the ShowHN post, and often even their comment
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by anonymous908213 8mo ago
I certainly don't think it's a bad thing to try to refine the information into a more digestible form. I think, for example, the dedicated "People", "Places", "Events", and "Map" sections ar
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by anonymous908213 8mo ago
Addendum: After further consideration, I would like to offer two specific suggestions regarding the first point. Low effort, minimal change suggestion: a link or table of contents header at the top of each month's page to jump to the d
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by anonymous908213 8mo ago
Very cool. Some feedback: - I think it would be a very large improvement if the actual diary pages/transcriptions were more accessible. I found the LLM summaries completely uncompelling, and did not particularly appreciate having to sc
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by anonymous908213 8mo ago
The situation in the US is significantly worse, and probably numerous other countries I haven't experience with. Rather than asking if you've committed a crime, American employers/landlords will do a background check and are
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by anonymous908213 8mo ago
> on attacks against journalism and free speech. "Free speech" is some kind of terminal brain worm that begs itself to be invoked to browbeat most anybody into submission, I suppose. Now we're apparently extending "f
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by anonymous908213 8mo ago
> (who doesn’t these days) Absolutely fucking crazy that you typed this out as a legitimate defense of allowing extremely sensitive personal information to be scraped. > only system that could tell journalists what was actually happen
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by anonymous908213 8mo ago
The author of the blog post hypothesised that the fabrication happened as a result of measures blocking LLMs from scraping their blog. If that is the case, adding more LLMs would not in fact accomplish anything at all.
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by anonymous908213 8mo ago
What I'm saying is that I believe they do not care about the truth, and intentionally chose to offload their work to LLMs, knowing that LLMs do not produce truth, because it does not matter to them. Is there any indication that this ha
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by anonymous908213 8mo ago
I don't believe there is any greater journalistic malpractice than fabrication. Sure, there are worse cases of such malpractice in the world given the low importance of the topic, but journalists should be reporting the truth on anyt
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by anonymous908213 8mo ago
Billions of dollars of revenue on trillions of dollars of investment is not a revolutionary feat. I promise you I could turn trillions into billions too. Neither of those software are primarily responsible for the revenue, either. The actua
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by anonymous908213 8mo ago
Even if it didn't fabricate quotes wholesale, taking an LLM's output and claiming it as your own writing is textbook plagiarism, which is malicious intent. Then, if you know that LLMs are next-token-prediction-engines that have
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by anonymous908213 8mo ago
we are fucking doomed holy shit we're really at the point where people are just writing off a journalist passing off their job to a chatgpt prompt as though that's a normal and defensible thing to be doing
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by anonymous908213 8mo ago
Outsourcing your job as a journalist to a chatbot that you know for a fact falsifies quotes (and everything else it generates) is absolutely intentional.
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by anonymous908213 8mo ago
Yes. This is being treated as thought it were a mistake, and oh, humans make mistakes! But it was no mistake. Possibly it was a mistake on the part of whoever was responsible for reviewing the article before publication didn't catch
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by anonymous908213 8mo ago
> Greatly appreciate this direct statement clarifying your standards, and yet another reason that I hope Ars can remain a strong example of quality journalism in a world where that is becoming hard to find > Kudos to ARS for catching

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