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by antics 2y ago
Oh, I could imagine many things that would demonstrate this. The simplest evidence would be that the model is mechanically-plausibly forming thoughts before (or even in conjunction with) the language to represent them. This is the opposite
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by antics 2y ago
I think what you are saying is that language is deeply and perhaps inextricably tied to human thought. And, I think it's fair to say this is basically uniformly regarded as a fact. The reason I (and others) say that language is almost
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by antics 2y ago
I would consider an experiment like this in conjunction with strong evidence that language in the models is a consequence of high-order cognitive thought to be good enough to take it very seriously, yes. I do not think it is structurally
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by antics 2y ago
[EDIT: this reply was written when the parent post was a single line, "I straight-up don't believe this. Can you link to the claim so I can understand?"] In the case of Yann, he said so himself[1]. In the case of people gener
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by antics 2y ago
Because there people (like Yann LeCun) who do not hear language in their head when they think, at all. Language is the last-mile delivery mechanism for what they are thinking. If you'd like a more detailed and in-depth summary of langu
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by antics 2y ago
I dunno man, I think the term "alignment faking" is vastly overstates the claim they can support here. Help me understand where I'm wrong. So we have trained a model. When we ask it to participate in the training process it
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by antics 2y ago
> # Exactly-once execution > DBOS has a special @DBOS.Transaction decorator. This runs the entire step inside a Postgres transaction. This guarantees exactly-once execution for databases transactional steps. Totally awesome, great wor
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by antics 2y ago
Hi Joseph! I am sorry, I was not trying to say your work sucks. I was trying to (1) help practitioners understand what they can expect, and (2) motivate problems like the one you mention at the end. (1) might seem stupid but I think just e
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by antics 2y ago
Author here! Just chiming in to say this is a very underrated comment which I fully cosign. :)
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by antics 2y ago
Author here! We have experimented with building this, see my comment elsewhere here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42348651 One of the surprising things is that LLMs regularly "fix" things that no other sys
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by antics 2y ago
Author here! I think you're going to like one of the upcoming posts in this series. :)
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by antics 2y ago
Author here! This comment is kind of getting dragged here and elsewhere but I actually think it's not completely ridiculous. You can (and we have) presented git-style merge conflicts to an LLM and it will mostly fix them in ways that n
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by antics 2y ago
Author here, thanks for the kind words! I think one reason we ended up here is that it is a genuinely difficult technical problem even to analyze the solutions. One of my hopes for this series of posts is that it makes the evaluation proc
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by antics 2y ago
[Author here] I am sorry, I think I phrased the automatic merging point confusingly. I was trying to say that when multiple commits change a file, git will attempt to merge them together, but it MUST flag direct conflicts. Sounds like we ag
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by antics 2y ago
Hi Jake! Long time no chat! I hope everything is going well. Yep, those are exactly the kinds of cases we seek to give people more control over. It's like you read my mind. :)
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by antics 2y ago
I'm not sure I understand the question fully, but yes, I am a big fan of the diff/review/patch-style tools like git for offline editing, and that is exactly why I call them out in the final paragraphs. The reason I don't
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by antics 2y ago
Hi Peter! Thanks so much for the kind words. I hope you noticed that a lot of the article ends up being a motivation for Ink & Switch's work, which we call out directly at the end. I am a big fan! :) EDIT: Oh, also I meant to link
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by antics 2y ago
Hi folks! Author here. Happy to answer questions or take feedback. I'll be in meetings for an hour or two but I love talking about this stuff. :) Here or over email if you prefer, alex@moment.dev
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Lies I was told about collab editing, Part 1: Algorithms for offline editing(moment.dev)
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by antics 2y ago
> He has no relevant tech experience, except when it comes to preparing a company to be sold in the next 2-3 years. I think a lot of people would say this is not true. I worked with Bill a little at Microsoft, where he ran an x,000-perso
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by antics 4y ago
Ok, I see a lot of points here but reading them I do not get the sense that you really understood what I wrote, and they don't seem to be connected to what you wrote before. So I guess the best option forward is to just go back to what
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by antics 4y ago
Ok, I'm not sure where this is going. You previously argued that the first movers might be able to get more money out, and nonzero transactions might be processed during the run. Both are very plainly factually incorrect, even for the
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by antics 4y ago
Ok let's play that out. FF is the prime mover in this bank run, and the most important investment in this generation of their portfolio is Rippling. But not only did Rippling get stuck in this mess, all of the customers of their flagsh
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by antics 4y ago
During a bank run, 0 withdrawals will complete. So if you warn portcos to withdraw _during_ the run, you save 0 treasuries. If you warn portcos to withdraw _before_ the run, you might trigger the run in which case you'd almost certainl
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by antics 4y ago
I am a founder who had assets tied up in SVB. As someone with something to lose, I'm going to be honest that I think the people on this list mostly look incredibly stupid—both at the time and in retrospect. And I think it's wort
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by antics 4y ago
I think the "neutrality" framing is pretty interesting, because this basically confirms that the CF policy is not actually ideological, but instead a direct reflection of what they think the worst-case scenarios are. Broadly, to t
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by antics 4y ago
This reminds me of SnapchatFS[1], a side project I made about 8 years ago (see also HN thread[2] at that time). From the README.md: > Since Snapchat imposes few restrictions on what data can be uploaded (i.e., not just images), I've
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by antics 6y ago
This is true, kind of. The original source is Peter Norvig's speech to Berkeley's graduating CS students in 2006. > Before I answer that, let me return for the moment to Dewey Decimal 663: beverage technology. It turns out that
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by antics 6y ago
They do not. I address this in my answer: > They did not decide things like: Do the tribes get the taxes from people living in Tulsa? Do non-natives have to abide by rules of the respective nations? Does the tribal government have the
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by antics 6y ago
Just a couple notes here from a person of tribal descent (I am Wasq'u, a tribe in the PNW), for those trying to make sense of it. This ruling, as I understand it, resolves a narrow technicality—but that technicality has potentially eno

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