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by calf 8mo ago
My Sunday morning speculation is that LLMs, and sufficiently complex neural nets in general, are a kind of Frankenstein phenomenon, they are heavily statistical, yet also partly, subtly doing novel computational and cognitive-like processes
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by calf 9mo ago
You seem to be confusing/overgeneralizing the understandable resentment of "some Cantonese" who likely had bad experiences of postcolonialism and/or authoritarian-revanchist state policies. If Hong Kong diaspora has a po
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by calf 9mo ago
Yours is the first comment I strongly agree with; as a multilingual/bicultural Asian American, children don't have this supposed difficulty hearing tones. Most of it is passively paying attention. It should not be a struggle, it&#
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by calf 9mo ago
Yes but Regular Mandarin has different tones, Beijing Mandarin is not Hong Kong-style Mandarin is not Taiwanese Mandarin and so when a foreigner chooses "Reference Mandarin", they are choosing what, exactly? Point being, this idea
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by calf 9mo ago
But you could if you wanted to, probably.
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by calf 9mo ago
It is fundamentally different because with an API that other person understands it, but with an LLM neither you nor the LLM understand it
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by calf 9mo ago
This is all eloquent and game-theoretic, but who is this being said too? Other davos attendees, and it will be the small people who must pay for this shift, through rising prices, worse labor conditions, austerity, etc. His astute observati
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by calf 9mo ago
For a second I thought it meant the novel sheets UI Steve Jobs showed off in the original Mac OS X.
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by calf 9mo ago
The problem with Taiwanese (I am one) is ideological, they see themselves as too socially different than mainland China. Reliance on US support, or TSMC as another popular absurd copium, for security guarantee, is not realistic, and any Tai
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by calf 9mo ago
Is that what they learn at Symbolics Systems.
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by calf 9mo ago
I think your take is unhelpful, demanding, and damaging to engineering ethics. If you want to live in a 90s corporate workplace hierarchy model, that's your value system. But it is untenable and harms people in the long run.
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by calf 9mo ago
Americans may lack theory of mind of Venezuelans, but that doesn't invalidate thethe concerns of outsiders, as you yourself says it's TBD how things play out, especially with global ramifications and in the long run for all nation
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by calf 9mo ago
It's run of the mill conservativism. I wonder if it is just an age group thing or what.
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by calf 9mo ago
No serious person actually argued the category error of respecting the sovereignty of a dictator but rather respecting the autonomy of a a nation and a people. And the empirical historic reasons are WHY this principle/heuristic ought t
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by calf 9mo ago
This is a lot of rationalization to justify conservative worldview, America playing world police, and other such shortsighted political talking point fallacies.
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by calf 9mo ago
This is abusing the concept of lived experience (which by the way is an ivory tower privileged term)
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by calf 9mo ago
Recklessness is immoral, and look how the discourse normalizes it so cleverly.
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by calf 9mo ago
That just shows that popular will is not a justification for something. If the popular will was self destructive would a powerful entity be justified in giving them what they desire?
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by calf 9mo ago
Correct me if I'm wrong but the bulk of human history shows that interventions has largely been disastrous in terms of long-term effects.
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by calf 9mo ago
How much of this is if Hong Kong "friends" abroad hypothetically backed the UK invasion of Hong Kong, I just have no respect for this "my friends from that country validate simplistic politics" type of ad hominem. Victim
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by calf 9mo ago
Countries are not like IID random variables which is the basis of this sort of center-liberal argument.
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by calf 9mo ago
Chomsky's argument was never that "no regime deserves to be changed", so maybe academic skills come in useful when comprehending arguments, books, and hills.
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by calf 10mo ago
There is a deep irony in an argument that pushes a pro-socializing view in a black-and-white, authoritarian way, "shoulding" statements, shaming tactics. It's actually anti-social, and the authors of the cited paper probably
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by calf 10mo ago
Slopbrain is interesting because Karpathy's fallacious argumentation mirrors the glib argument of an LLM/AI, it's like cognitively recursive, one feeding the other in a self-selecting manner.
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by calf 10mo ago
IP is a loaded and prejudiced term. That said, copyright could allow for an author to place a work in public but not allow the audience to copy it.
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by calf 10mo ago
It's a very prevalent form of cynicism, which I find ironic because in high school every student learned to write persuasive essays, but "adults" like to tell each other not to change people's minds. It's a subtle m
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by calf 10mo ago
Sure but this was prompted by the absurdly self-congratulatory "city on a hill" comment which shows how out of touch the West is with critical thought from the global south.
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by calf 10mo ago
There's different ways to define "related", here what does Quanta explicitly claim is "related", plausibly without looking maybe they meant historically related but not conceptually related.
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by calf 11mo ago
I feel like statins are harder to accept than vaccines. With vaccines we can say it is just training our existing immune system to recognize and fight something. So how would you straightforwardly explain statins to a scientifically literat
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by calf 1y ago
The idea of reducing language to mere bits, in general, sounds like it would violate the Godel/Turing theorems about computability.

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