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by ctoth 1y ago
You should at least put the whole context of Bowling Alone and maybe some Emily Bender (for spice) in the window before clicking the generate button -- you're a lot more likely to get something approximating insights out of the resulti
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by ctoth 1y ago
> I sent three boats!
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by ctoth 1y ago
Check out GPD. I am typing this from a GPD Win Max and it's a lovely little x64 machine with 64 GB of RAM and a 7840U CPU (8 cores at 3.3 GHz) and ... it fits in a coat pocket. The battery life is okayish (~5 hours after 2 years?), but
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Research Notes: Running Claude, Gemini, and O3 on PokémonRed(lesswrong.com)
1 points by ctoth 1y ago|0 comments
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Questions about the Future of AI(dwarkesh.com)
5 points by ctoth 1y ago|0 comments
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by ctoth 1y ago
Have you seen this? https://github.com/jehna/humanify What they do is ground the LLM to the AST with Babel to ensure you still get the same shape of AST out of your deobfuscation pass. Probably this tool could be clean
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by ctoth 1y ago
> I can't think of anything where you require vision that having a tool (a sighted person) you protocol with (speak) wouldn't suffice. Okay, are you volunteering to be the guide passenger while I drive?
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by ctoth 1y ago
So I am a blind human. I cannot drive a car or use a camera/robot to do housework (I need my hands to see!) Am I not a general intelligence?
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by ctoth 1y ago
> It's optimal for beings that have general purpose inteligence [Sic]. Hi. I'm blind. I would like to think I have general-purpose intelligence thanks. And I can state that interfacing with vision would, in fact, be suboptimal
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Jagged AGI: o3, Gemini 2.5, and everything after(oneusefulthing.org)
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by ctoth 1y ago
Funny how easy it is to s/dishwasher/llm in this subthread. > > The entire concept is flawed and can't possibly work and wastes more time than it will ever save. > List of tips for proper usage
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Freaky Tales and Johnny Canuck(aiascendant.com)
1 points by ctoth 1y ago|0 comments
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by ctoth 2y ago
Surely a few more nines if the base rate is already Sturgeon.
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You have to monetize people's nostalgia(theunderline.substack.com)
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by ctoth 2y ago
We're all gonna die but come on, who wants to stop that!
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by ctoth 2y ago
I love this pattern, the oldest pattern. There is nothing happening! The thing that is happening is not important! The thing that is happening is important, but it's too late to do anything about it! Well, maybe if you had done somethi
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by ctoth 2y ago
How will this thing which is connected to the Internet ... get data?
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by ctoth 2y ago
I invite anyone who postulates humans are more than just "spicy autocomplete" to examine this thread. The level of actual reasoning/engaging with the article is ... quite something.
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by ctoth 2y ago
Can you share your detailed projection of what you expect the future to look like so I can compare?
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Why Smartfood Popcorn Doesn't Hit Like It Used To(eater.com)
5 points by ctoth 2y ago|0 comments
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Mysterious Answers to Mysterious Questions(lesswrong.com)
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AI Is Worse Is Better(aiascendant.com)
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by ctoth 2y ago
Reward hacking, as predicted over and over again. You hate to see it. Let him with ears &c.
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by ctoth 2y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42208383 > Show HN: Llama 3.2 Interpretability with Sparse Autoencoders > 579 points by PaulPauls 4 months ago | hide | past | favorite | 100 comments > I spent a lot of time an
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by ctoth 2y ago
This "practice-first, theory-later" pattern has been the norm rather than the exception. The steam engine predated thermodynamics. People bred plants and animals for thousands of years before Darwin or Mendel. The few "top-do
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by ctoth 2y ago
> What's the point of this - That similar interpretability tools might be useful to the open source community? - That this is a fruitful area to research?
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by ctoth 2y ago
And DNA? You are running on an instruction set of four symbols at the end of the day but that's the wrong level of abstraction to talk about your humanity, isn't it?
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Welcome to the Semantic Apocalypse(theintrinsicperspective.com)
7 points by ctoth 2y ago|1 comments
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by ctoth 2y ago
Whereas this comment, seen fifteen thousand plus times on this very website, is evidence of ... your human creativity?
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by ctoth 2y ago
> Similarly, Rubino says web apps in Firefox will not use a minimal browser frame and will continue to show a main toolbar with address bar, extensions, bookmarks... Why is this so hard to understand? Why are they so against just making

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