bonoboTP

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by bonoboTP 2mo ago
You're the live stereotype of that middle-of-bell-curve meme thing. Using thesaurus words is no longer impressive. And that academic world you refer to is a navel gazing self referential nothingburger. It's like a jumbled up strin
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by bonoboTP 2mo ago
Where is the causal model of how the human brain works (on the level you're requesting)? If a causal model is needed before calling it intelligence, then humans are not intelligent.
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by bonoboTP 2mo ago
Nowhere close. Claude can be overly compact and use a lot of neologisms, but if you unpack the dense language, it actually means something fairly concrete. In obscurantist academic writings, there is often no referent. It's just text,
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by bonoboTP 2mo ago
> it makes me think about how people engage with movies and television - as passive, plot-and-character driven consumption (eg I hope Walter White survives) with no critical analysis of how and why the writers added ABC thematic element
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by bonoboTP 2mo ago
Well, it is a data point but AI R&D at a frontier lab is not really a representative stand-in for a regular workplace.
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by bonoboTP 2mo ago
The vast majority of users are not sophisticated enough to try to erase the traces, so this will be effective for the vast majority of AI generated text that regular people are upset about. Eg. lazy student essays.
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by bonoboTP 2mo ago
This particular watermark doesn't live in the weights, but in the sampling process, so you can turn this one off in an open source LLM.
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by bonoboTP 2mo ago
> What else would you want them to do? Retest on benchmarks whether it accomplishes tasks with the same success rates. Prose is only one thing. Messing with the randomness may make the problem solving capabilities weaker. Probably it doe
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by bonoboTP 2mo ago
"But you see, this guy wears a quirky costume! Finally a non-politician politician! This is so random, haha, guys, he's just like a regular funny guy finally! It's a funny caricature of the state of the world right now. You k
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by bonoboTP 2mo ago
It's not automatically horrible. But it's not a feature and it's suspicious. Hiding behind irony is very easy. It lets you puff platitudes and get cheap wins with the audience. If you have real proposals, it will be interesti
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by bonoboTP 2mo ago
If he was so, why is the spectacle needed? It's pandering to a certain preconceived notion that the bad thing about politicians is that they are that politician sort of people, wearing suits and doing politician things, instead of like
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by bonoboTP 2mo ago
Thing is, this is just another type of populism. The thought that if only we'd put normal people in charge, everything would be easy. All problems are simple, the elites just choose to press the big red button every day when the big gr
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by bonoboTP 2mo ago
Fable has the same issues, but it's also smarter so I put up with it. Opus is not smart enough for me to tolerate this style. I wonder if putting Opus 4.6 as a frontend communicator that rephrases the blabber of Opus 5 (or Fable) is wo
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by bonoboTP 2mo ago
Be careful with joke parties. It may seem fun and may seem like they are obvious "good guys", but you really can't know. It's easy to hide behind irony. In Hungary, we had the Two-Tailed Dog party which essentially turne
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by bonoboTP 2mo ago
What does it mean that an "embedding model supports queries"? An embedding model maps text to embedding vectors. You can always perform queries with such embedding vectors against a stored set of embeddings.
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by bonoboTP 2mo ago
Is "valedictorian" a good signal? I'm from Europe so we don't have the concept, but it seems to me that being the exact single topmost student in a cohort would set a perverse incentive to game the rules and hyperfocus
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by bonoboTP 2mo ago
You can try to put the blame on the grunts, like trying to focus on the engineers in the VW Dieselgate, etc, but that is very weak leverage. You have to intervene at the root cause of the incentive. But of course the higher you go, the more
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by bonoboTP 2mo ago
I don't care about this. I explained why for an individual business trying to project seriousness, it makes sense to adopt a banner in the current environment. I didn't say it's nice of the EU or anything of the sort. It&#x27
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by bonoboTP 2mo ago
That reasoning isn't wrong, though it seems ridiculous when looked at with techie-brain. But if there is a standard expectation of what serious company websites are like, it makes business sense to look like that too. It's like dr
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by bonoboTP 2mo ago
Claude refuses to translate lyrics of songs even if it's just for your own understanding. ChatGPT allows it. Also, Suno is so restrictive that it won't make songs of public domain 19th century poems because someone else already ma
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by bonoboTP 2mo ago
Also it seems to me that modern borrowings and loan words are more faithful to the original version, while before widespread writing it was more butchered and twisted into the target language's phonology and only approximately imitated
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by bonoboTP 2mo ago
> I mean, installing packages and type checking can surely be slow. But, at least in my career, I've never seen a galactic blow-up. I have, it's called conda.
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by bonoboTP 2mo ago
Languages, cultures and genetic populations are all separate concepts that have to be distinguished. There can be and there often is correlation, but it's not the same thing. They don't have to move together.
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by bonoboTP 2mo ago
Sprachbund is a key term.
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by bonoboTP 2mo ago
I think it's very hard to imagine what others imagine because these things aren't verbalized. It's assumptions about fundamental "how the world works" things. You can see a figure and form an assumption that you nev
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by bonoboTP 2mo ago
No, I understand that people would know that Chinese existed far away. My point is that locally, PIE had neighbors, had variants, dialects, it had earlier forms, it was like a living language in a normal human context. Maybe your brain work
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by bonoboTP 2mo ago
The tree appearance just makes it too inviting to imagine PIE as some pristine ur-language, the kind of original language of Babel. I'm not saying that people explicitly think these thoughts, just that it's easy to get this impres
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by bonoboTP 2mo ago
I mean, it's enough to look at French vs Spanish or other Romance language which separated just 1500 years ago. Or just look at Old English.
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by bonoboTP 2mo ago
Great project. One thing that is masked by the tree view though is that there were indeed countless other languages being spoken besides Proto-Indo-European. It's just the one that gave rise to today's Indo-European languages. But
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by bonoboTP 2mo ago
> AI companies already store all prompts and responses for future training. They claim to only do this when you agree to this in your personal settings. Though Google does say they will train on it, unless you disable history and only us

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