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by cjbprime 3y ago
> This is assuming a hypothetical AGI even understands what a human being is. If it has no body, can it ever understand what the world is? Can you tell us a question which requires "knowing what a human is" or "knowing wha
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by cjbprime 3y ago
> thus history is irrelevant Then stop appealing to it as a reason that everything will be fine! We don't know what's going to happen and have no precedent, and that is why this is a scary situation that requires thought. >
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by cjbprime 3y ago
> I understood the point just fine, but the hypothetical AGI does not exist, and any hypothetical AGI is unlike anything else in history. This is an argument of "you are proposing that something different might happen, and I don&#x2
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by cjbprime 3y ago
> effects on poorer countries For what it's worth, I would predict these effects to be dramatically positive: because LLMs basically immediately counter the effects of being a non-native speaker of your business language, and becaus
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by cjbprime 3y ago
Which algorithms are trivial and which are non-trivial? Is sorting trivial? base64-encoding? Can you provide a set of small scripts that you expect GPT-4 to be unable to correctly simulate execution of? It is weird that you seem to agree
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by cjbprime 3y ago
"distribute the Work [..] in Source [..] form"
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by cjbprime 3y ago
> Isn't real? > I have engineering degree in computer science For the record, I also have bad news about our shared degree's use of the word "science".
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by cjbprime 3y ago
Me: While this is amusing, come on, they're sixth in the Premier League, this is not in any way what a masochistic relationship with a sports team looks like. Also me, Googling: > Tottenham Hotspur's performance against Newcast
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by cjbprime 3y ago
Obviously I wouldn't have been impressed by hallucinated output. I'm talking about correctly modeling a variable's state through its conception of what a Python interpreter does, which requires building a model of that inter
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by cjbprime 3y ago
Especially since they would have had to do it in 2021! The MIT Mystery Hunt has occasionally managed to get the NYT crossword on the day of the hunt to contain a clue answer or two.
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by cjbprime 3y ago
Neat! My mind-blown moment with GPT-4 was realizing that it will often be able to tell you the output of the (unique, not available in training data) scripts it writes for you.
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by cjbprime 3y ago
> Ubuntu has a really persistent update mechaism built in. The OP doesn't object to updates, but to unexpected breaking changes, where th change is caused by different design decisions rather than bugs. LTS releases should not have
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by cjbprime 3y ago
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS will receive security updates until April 2027. (So, if you're upgrading to new Ubuntu releases every six months, it sounds like that you're not following the upgrade strategy that would be suggested by your requi
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by cjbprime 3y ago
https://hn.algolia.com/?type=story&query=Faraday
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by cjbprime 4y ago
> Trivially explained as "even a broken clock is right twice a day." Trivial, vacuous, and wrong. It is not plausible to correctly predict the output of a serious Python program by coincidence. See the detailed examples in the
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by cjbprime 4y ago
The Microsoft Research "Sparks of AGI" paper spends 154 pages describing behaviors of GPT-4 that are inconsistent with the understanding of it being a "fancy Markov chain": https://arxiv.org/abs/2303
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by cjbprime 4y ago
TSMC's fabs are entire cities of manufacturing most of the necessary components right next to each other, along with millions of resident workers. You would have to replicate all of that, not just the assembly line.
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by cjbprime 4y ago
This was probably not true many years ago, or at least was a simplification. Even with some automated routing, there are many subtleties like high frequency electronics; not trying to have your radio equipment routing through your power sup
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by cjbprime 4y ago
Are you saying that software engineers in Canada are P. Eng licensed? (If not, then your example is one where software engineers are misusing the protected term, but as they usually do not set up shop and mislead the general public into thi
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by cjbprime 4y ago
This is a contractual SLA, which is certainly not the same thing as legal liability, and your contract might (obviously I haven't seen it) shield yourself from financial liability on top of your lack of legal liability. (Saying that y
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by cjbprime 4y ago
It's okay; software engineering isn't real either. (In many countries, the word "engineer" is regulated -- you can't call yourself an engineer without professional qualifications and oversight.) https://e
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by cjbprime 4y ago
> This gargantuan tabulation causes the system to intrinsically approximate many grammar patterns, along with aspects of what might be called authorial style. Yet another super disappointing article from an "AI luminary" being
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by cjbprime 4y ago
I meant the >20fps of continuous motion image input that would be required to drive safely in real-time.
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by cjbprime 4y ago
Because we haven't hooked it up to visual input yet?
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by cjbprime 4y ago
The lookup table says I should tell you that quantum mechanics applies to subatomic particles, not very large objects like neurons. (Would it bother you to be corrected by a lookup table?)
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by cjbprime 4y ago
I don't agree that a human obviously experiences less learning stimulus than an LLM. For one thing, the human has direct and mutating access to the physical world through many senses. The LLM gets to experience written words, and if it
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by cjbprime 4y ago
GPT-4 thinks you should provide a citation: == Me: Is it true that, in humans, one neuron has an infinite number of possible states (as far as we know)? GPT-4: It is not accurate to say that a single neuron in humans has an infinite number
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by cjbprime 4y ago
And what, humans are made out of an infinite number of neurons?
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by cjbprime 4y ago
GPT-4 does fine with a reply prompt of "keep the rest as-is but fix this part". I imagine Midjourney would too if it supported conversational prompting.
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by cjbprime 4y ago
(I agree with you.)

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