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by calf 2y ago
Your version is called jingoism. It's funny, everyone on Hacker News at least completed high school in principle. But there's so much brave conservatism that high school education should have infused students with enough critical
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by calf 2y ago
Where in aforementioned international humanitarian law, step (c), is it preordained that one child's collateral death is negligible? See, therein lies the crux of the issue. The definition itself is wise enough that you can't just
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by calf 2y ago
It is a dirty (i.e. collateral civilians, maim instead of kill or deter, etc.) tactic and should be the sort of thing banned by Geneva Conventions.
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by calf 2y ago
You just replaced 'normal' with 'common' to do the heavy lifting, the value judgment remains in the threshold you pick. Whereas OP said that "hallucinations are part of the normal functioning" of the LLM. I con
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by calf 2y ago
Your argument makes several mistakes. First, you have just punted the validation problem of what a Normal LLM Model ought to be doing. You rhetorically declared hallucinations to be part of the normal functioning (i.e., the word "Norma
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by calf 2y ago
But OP and Horza's viewpoints are the same strawman argument. The sci-fi premise is that superhuman AIs coexist with humans which are essentially ants. The correct question is, then what ought to be the best outcome for humans? And a b
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by calf 2y ago
Could it be argued that transformers are only possible because of Moore's law and the amount of processing power that could do these computations in a reasonable time? How complex is the transformer network really, every lay explanatio
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by calf 2y ago
Do we know that? I've seem some articles and lectures this year that kind of almost loosely argue and reach for the notion that "human backprop" happens when we sleep and dream, etc. I know that's handwavy and not rigoro
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by calf 2y ago
You've read the abstract wrong. The authors argue that neural networks can learn online and a necessary condition is random information. That's the thesis, their thesis is not that neural networks are the wrong paradigm.
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by calf 2y ago
Based on what I've heard I'd love to visit there and even have a chance to intern there. I'd like to see for myself firsthand what life would be like. Would it be boring? Would it be bureaucratic or unmeritocratic? Would that
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by calf 2y ago
Last I checked the theory of wave function collapse is still unresolved, with competing explanations. We don't know the answer and should not talk like we pretend we do. Unless you are personally one of those scientists or researchers
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by calf 2y ago
Yeah did everything forget about the double slit experiment? Why are fields any more real than particles? Is the updated science now resolved on wave particle duality then?
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by calf 2y ago
How does something not physical give rise to physical properties? Saying that way makes it sounds like a logical conceit is being used.
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by calf 2y ago
Why does it have to be an either-or? Maybe LLMs are doing a bit of both, in a weird hybrid way; it is both doing a statistical calculation and yet the network is parameterized to do some very rudimentary (and nonhuman) reasoning computation
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by calf 2y ago
I see it not as a consequence of policy but a bigger picture consequence of hegemony, a sociopolitical and technological phenomenon over human societies. More concretely, I'd argue the neighboring Canadian brain drain is dual to the Me
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by calf 2y ago
The Canadian brain drain, it fundamentally affects the Canadian culture and economy by the constant loss of talent and aptitude. The gravitational pull of the U.S. is too powerful. Even I studied at two elite US schools, which put me on a p
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by calf 2y ago
It's not so much obtuseness as different assumptions about what is "normal" law: most young American computer-science trained programmers probably believe that ISPs or even Pirate Bay websites are not responsible for online c
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by calf 2y ago
Wait what, it has an app that will convert a picture into a 3d environment? That's amazing.
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by calf 2y ago
It's not a "real" problem unless 7 billion people really need a net positive replacement rate.
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by calf 2y ago
You are so confidently wrong it's embarrassing. Any grad student--who does the grunt work in academia--will tell you they would not be allowed to put up their research online without their lab's permission. And grad students sign
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by calf 2y ago
They did? Is there any alternative nowadays?
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by calf 2y ago
The mainstream info is predominantly that dreams are basically nonsense content (e.g. people dream they can fly) when executive functions are turned off and brain is doing garbage collection and memory consolidation, whereas this title argu
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by calf 2y ago
Then it must be really efficient amount of data since we only get like 7 dreams a night
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by calf 2y ago
The alternative is to ground it in philosophy and theoretical mathematics which would be even more abstruse...
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by calf 2y ago
Assuming it is true that NB politics is elite-captured by wealthy interests it is an omission of investigative journalism to at least raise the issue. The Irvings are likely "talk of the town" regarding this controversy, it would
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by calf 2y ago
Online comments / older articles also mention that New Brunswick is basically owned by the Irving family, which has lots of money and deep industrial connections, and unsurprisingly there is strong skepticism that they would be the one
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OpenAI expert Scott Aaronson on consciousness, quantum physics, AI safety [YT](youtube.com)
4 points by calf 2y ago|2 comments
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by calf 2y ago
Aaronson wrote a blog entry today about the interview: https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=8200 (He recommends viewing the interview at 2x speed.)
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by calf 2y ago
Except that commenter had construed my sarcastic point and made it about academia. It is an irrelevant reading of the remark. They had a reading comprehension problem. Without sarcasm, my point was/is not that you need to know all the
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by calf 2y ago
There absolutely is a need for fact checking and basic scientific literacy and you're helping foment the opposite by suddenly making this about academia and scientific journals. What's the harm of that? Snake oil promotion and cre

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