ben_w

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by ben_w 3mo ago
A curious choice of quote on a tech forum attached to a VC firm :P
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by ben_w 3mo ago
Yes, but also. Right now GenAI content a bad thing, cringe, a sign of low-value or lack of attention to detail. I don't want to play even a free game if I think it was made by someone else prompting an AI, and that's despite lik
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by ben_w 3mo ago
Thanks :) > The tokens are inherently missing some extremely vital pieces of sensory experience, namely the ones that establish the narrative of a self. Hmm. While I agree LLMs are missing many pieces of sensory experience, it is unclear
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by ben_w 3mo ago
Whispering earrings. If you don't get the reference, 14 year old short story; how AI fits this (and also backlinks to the original story) here: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cQkSh9b48WbTaiu2a/sadly-the-... )
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by ben_w 3mo ago
> If you made a website and you said "To view the private content on my website, you have to either pay me, or sign a name, any name you wish, in my guestbook" what business is it of the government to say "No, this random
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by ben_w 3mo ago
> achieved great success with ad-based business models because of the ability to target ads better There's an old saying in advertising, "Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted, and the trouble is I don’t know which ha
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by ben_w 3mo ago
Fair, but I do wonder how much share prices will matter if the thing claimed is true. More from the Tesla/SpaceX perspective, given the former has been propping up prices against the widely ridiculed P/E ratios they have had for y
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by ben_w 3mo ago
My point here is that regardless of how you view the entire system of [human + room + books], the human themselves in that system are still just a cog. The human themselves doesn't know Chinese, they are literally writing down Chinese
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by ben_w 3mo ago
I can't tell if this is a joke like Sokal, a philosophy student, an LLM, or something serious. But the colour scheme screams Claude.
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by ben_w 3mo ago
"Fancy logistic regressors" are, in fact, a modelling tool. You can tell LLMs model human behaviour because they're doing things that until a few years ago only humans could do, like cheat in exams.
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by ben_w 3mo ago
What a pity the customer doesn't know how to do that, and is instead talking directly to the LLM which can write code for them, instead of hiring me to turn their English (or German) into code for them. Of course, if the customer did
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by ben_w 3mo ago
> And I rather disagree that mathematics is language, when I did maths there was a distinct difference from understanding a thing and then writing it down. It is generally the case that there's a difference between "understandi
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by ben_w 3mo ago
> A plate moving one centimeter per year would move over 10,000 km (6000 miles) over a million year, isn't? No, 10,000 km is 10e6 meters, or 1e9 cm, so at 1cm/year it would take a billion years, not a million.
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by ben_w 3mo ago
> Elon got overly excited in 2016 Yes. He was before and remains so to this day, but he did so then, too. > I need it to safely drive my family on my daily errands or weekend trips, which I now consider solved. This is probably unwise
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by ben_w 3mo ago
A few acquaintances were present, which makes this rather surreal for me. They're all physically fine, but as you would expect in a bit of shock.
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by ben_w 3mo ago
I've been following JumpCrisscross's comments for years, either he's real or he's gone to the trouble of fine-tuning the LLM to sound like himself. (Myself, I've been doing em-dashes since about 2012, I think I foun
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by ben_w 3mo ago
> Sorry, have we solved aging? My question seems well phrased: Why don't we? Examples of absolutes in your question: "everyone" "impossible" "nobody seems to care" "Nobody wants to talk" &quot
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by ben_w 3mo ago
Disagree on the timeline of the past, agree that we need to figure out new structures and that this will hurt. Pre-industrialisation, most labour was the peasantry, whose main contribution was growing enough crops to keep themselves healthy
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by ben_w 3mo ago
> I’m probably illustrating your point but as a FSD fan Half-and-half. I'm not denying that self driving cars (and LLMs) are improving, I'm comparing it against the standards set by the biggest proponents. But yes, I have heard
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by ben_w 3mo ago
> We do a lot of different things but we typically don't make an organized effort to eradicate them unless they are actively doing us harm. Intent to eradicate is not necessary for the fact of eradication: https://en.wiki
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by ben_w 3mo ago
Agreed on Starship. Orbital rings… I think are more like a century or two. Physical possibility and affordability will I think take only 25-100 years[0], the rest being politics getting to the point nobody shoots it up. [0] if you believe A
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by ben_w 3mo ago
> People will get fed up of AI posters and art. I think they already are Agreed, but will this look like a meme/fashion cycle? If so, re-prompt each year with a different look. Yes, there are still issues here, a friend found an ima
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by ben_w 3mo ago
Norway is more complicated, but yes, they did put their resource wealth into a nice untouchable-by-the-power-of-democracy sovereign wealth fund. As I understand it, that fund's returns are about 17%-ish of government spending. This is
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by ben_w 3mo ago
Useful, yes, sometimes, but it wasn't fully automated "Here's our JIRA board URL, fix everything that's rated 1-3 story points and in the current sprint". Now it is.
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by ben_w 3mo ago
I get the point having read much the same from Tesla (and fans) regarding self driving cars that still haven't done half the things that Musk said was just around the corner pending regulators a decade ago and repeatedly since then. An
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by ben_w 3mo ago
It is *a* natural endpoint, not *the* natural endpoint. We don't much care for the ant colony in the way of the highway we're building, but for some reason we do care about the rare bats in the way of the railway. https:/&#x
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by ben_w 3mo ago
> Even not being able to significantly update a model that is burned on a chip the performance gains are immense. You also don't need the latest chip fabs to make them drastically reducing the cost. Yeeeees but the models are in som
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by ben_w 3mo ago
> Thanks for the history corrections and clarifications. Now I'll never forget that Mme. curie isolated polonium (another nearly-useless factoid). History is important but not as important as science. Still you're looking more
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by ben_w 3mo ago
> In the west "we" forgot how unions and strong labor parties gave us weekends, sick leave, holidays, etc. Now we pay the price. Unions have power for one reason alone: the powerful need to keep the labour force on-board. When
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by ben_w 3mo ago
Much of the history of industrial automation has had a dichotomy between the benefit to the general economy (good) vs. the people working in specific industries that were automated (bad); only a subset of goods see total demand rise as a re

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