anthonyrstevens

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by anthonyrstevens 22d ago
This. People treat "token prediction" dismissively, as if it were a limit and not a foundational skill. Human brains do "token prediction" in all sorts of contexts.
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by anthonyrstevens 23d ago
"Truth can be complicated and difficult, so I like to listen to people who tell me comforting distortions." This attitude is at the root of many of the world's problems, IMHO
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by anthonyrstevens 23d ago
Oh my goodness. Is this really a good-faith question?
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by anthonyrstevens 23d ago
The point of this thread/discussion is not simply to render a snap uninformed judgement on the (made-up, reductionist) premise of "technology bad, old things good".
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by anthonyrstevens 24d ago
That 63 score is for Max. The OP specified medium.
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by anthonyrstevens 25d ago
Aren't you so clever. Go to Reddit.
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by anthonyrstevens 25d ago
How is it a lie?
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by anthonyrstevens 25d ago
People love to complain, particularly if being anti-AI is a big part of their identity.
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by anthonyrstevens 25d ago
Are you going to post the same comment on every AI article on HN? How is this useful to the discussion?
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by anthonyrstevens 25d ago
Yes, some people will complain about anything (and everything) related to AI. And relentlessly push the most negative interpretation of any datum.
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by anthonyrstevens 25d ago
>> LLMs will always produce slop Such a low-quality comment
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by anthonyrstevens 25d ago
This is ... unnecessarily pedantic. Anybody in my social universe who asked me that question would undoubtedly expect "they make cars". If you're picking nits, why not focus on the word "do" and (wrongly) expect an
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by anthonyrstevens 25d ago
I've been using the same agent for 15 months. I think this statement is laughably wrong.
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by anthonyrstevens 25d ago
Good point. There is too much inflammatory rhetoric on here about AI, too many opinions masquerading as facts, too much black-or-white thinking.
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by anthonyrstevens 25d ago
Maybe instead of throwing around ideas of "institutional rot" we can realize that there are hundreds of thousands of people doing "science" in the right way, are not out for material gain, do not engage in fraud, and are
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by anthonyrstevens 25d ago
How do you square your position with all the ... self corrections ... that have happened in science in the last, oh, 500 years or so?
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by anthonyrstevens 26d ago
So instead of "informed and intelligent blogger posts about topics they are interested in and knowledgable about", you think a simpler explanation is "nefarious, undetectable astroturfing campaign that distorts reality"?
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by anthonyrstevens 1mo ago
>> many corporate AI projects are spectacular failures. Citation needed
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by anthonyrstevens 1mo ago
A curse upon you and your descendants
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by anthonyrstevens 1mo ago
That's a technical distinction over which the original jurors have no control. I think the scenario described in GP exactly meets the spirit of nullification.
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by anthonyrstevens 1mo ago
High-Rise and The Drowned World are both excellent IMHO
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by anthonyrstevens 1mo ago
>> A better solution might be to make a showing of selective enforcement a means to strike down a law. If you can show that someone else was doing the same thing without being charged then the prosecution either has to charge them too
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by anthonyrstevens 1mo ago
>> What woul[d] it mean for an LLM to feel hungry or cold? What would it mean for a human to feel the passing through our bodies of 100 trillion neutrinos every second? My point is that there are things we cannot "feel" eith
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by anthonyrstevens 1mo ago
Don't fall into Descartes' trap.
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by anthonyrstevens 2mo ago
Haven't you ever written tests that assert that certain things happen or do not happen along the way? We use mocks all the time to, say, make sure that the code doesn't load the entire db in memory. Then it's there as a regre
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by anthonyrstevens 2mo ago
It's you that is (intentionally?) missing the forest for the trees (wordplay intentional). The overall pattern of worsening fires is clear and well-documented, and disingenously asking "Why Landes & Medoc specifically?" i
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by anthonyrstevens 2mo ago
>> LLM technology doesn't work very well for software development This comment is so obviously false (in my experience) I'm wondering what sort of niche environment you're working in
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by anthonyrstevens 2mo ago
So because some optimistic wacko said something implausible in the past you dismiss the entire topic and have nothing to contribute to the conversation. Gotcha.
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by anthonyrstevens 3mo ago
It's almost like there are multiple different people commenting on HN.
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by anthonyrstevens 3mo ago
The conclusions do not follow from the premise. Show actual examples of what you are afraid of?

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