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811.
by ctoth 3y ago
> Our Cosori air fryer has a toast setting that works beautifully. If you're not aware, they had a recall on a bunch of models recently, you should check to see if yours was one of them!
812.
by ctoth 3y ago
I can interpret this in a couple different ways, and I want to make sure I am engaging with what you said, and not with what I thought you said. > I think better LLMs won’t lead to AGI. Does this mean you believe that the Transformer arc
813.
by ctoth 3y ago
> I think there’s a huge assumption here that more LLM will lead to AGI. I'm not sure you realize this, but that is literally what this article was written to explore! I feel like you just autocompleted what you believe about large
814.
Finding and Fixing an AudioWorkletProcessor Performance Pitfall(cprimozic.net)
1 points by ctoth 3y ago|0 comments
815.
by ctoth 3y ago
This is literally a joke. A callback to an article called The Demiurge's Older Brother written many, many years before the current AI hype. Also, Scott has been beating the drum of surprisal minimization for years and years now, see ar
816.
by ctoth 3y ago
> I’m simply saying that factors unrelated to driving skill should be excluded. Things like being inebriated, purposely breaking driving laws, looking at a cell phone. What is driving skill if not knowing not to do these things?
817.
by ctoth 3y ago
Right. He talks about hypothetical outcomes as if they have happened, which dramatically reduces his credibility. For instance, in Denver, we still have several (I think even more than when I moved here in 2011) Taxi companies. Those Taxi c
818.
by ctoth 3y ago
This idea is just so fundamentally weird that I didn't think it could have been what he meant. Why does surplus only matter if you capture it after the bubble pops? Does the money I saved on Uber not carry forward? Does the cheap trip
819.
by ctoth 3y ago
Email notifications to replies? Actually, this is a terrible idea don't do it. Edit: I think there are bookmarks if you just click a comment timestamp and then click Favorite.
820.
by ctoth 3y ago
The thing that bugs me about this is how he just dismisses Uber as providing nothing. I guess the thousands of rides I've taken so far were just... nothing? I'll tell you what. I remember the world before Uber. It fundamentally im
821.
RecreAIting DemocrAIcy(aiascendant.substack.com)
1 points by ctoth 3y ago|0 comments
822.
Ants in the Server Racks: 21st-Century AntiTech Terrorism in Theory and Practice(freddiedeboer.substack.com)
2 points by ctoth 3y ago|0 comments
823.
by ctoth 3y ago
Look up the history of biotechnology, and the intentional way that it has been treated and one might reasonably say suppressed for some examples of how this has been managed previously. Yes, sometimes you can just decide, "we're n
824.
by ctoth 3y ago
The other thing you people are missing is how technology compounds. You don't need to have people come in to the police station to have their thoughts reviewed when everyone is assigned an LLM at birth to watch over their thoughts in l
825.
by ctoth 3y ago
DWIM does in fact mean Do what I mean, a DWIM gun is basically like the Imperius curse. Can't remember if I got it from @cstross or Vinge.
826.
by ctoth 3y ago
How many people in the whole world are paralyzed or locked in? Ten thousand? Less? How many people in the whole world are tinpot authoritarian despots just looking for an excuse who would just love to be able to look inside your mind? Som
827.
by ctoth 3y ago
"Seriously, what were these researchers thinking? This 'BrainGPT' thing is a disaster waiting to happen. Ching-Ten Lin and his team of potential civilization destroyers at the University of Technology Sydney might be patting
828.
by ctoth 3y ago
This is pretty old so you probably won't see it, but the book was fantastic, would recommend. I write, in another indelible mark
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San Francisco, You'll Miss Your Tech Bros If They Flee (2018)(bloomberg.com)
3 points by ctoth 3y ago|0 comments
830.
by ctoth 3y ago
> There's an upper bound in computation (actually in nature), that a creation of something is capped by that thing's sophistication. The Lorenz attractor, Conway's Game of Life, fractals, and of course... The humble Turing
831.
by ctoth 3y ago
> as critical thinking is a key component of intelligence. When I evaluate this statement, my brain raises a type error. Intelligence is a lot of things -- compression among them, and yes possibly an RL-based AI would use an actor-critic
832.
Something Was Wrong(thezvi.wordpress.com)
4 points by ctoth 3y ago|0 comments
833.
by ctoth 3y ago
> They didn’t suggest a Council of the Elect. Instead, they proposed that we should “make AI work for eight billion people, not eight billionaires”. It might be nice to hear from some of those 8bn voices. Good sloganizing, A+++ would slo
834.
by ctoth 3y ago
There really isn't a respectful way I can say this. Please reach out and speak to a therapist or similar professional. This stream of consciousness where you talk about personally reaching out to random CEOs and expecting them to do th
835.
by ctoth 3y ago
So if I show you an LLM implementing concurrency, will you concede the point? Is this your true objection? https://chat.openai.com/share/7c41f59a-c21c-4abd-876c-c95647...
836.
by ctoth 3y ago
Ah, we're having some classic goalpost moving! > Because refactoring requires understanding, which LLMs completely lack. <demonstration that an LLM can refactor code> > Cleaning up code also follows some well established pa
837.
by ctoth 3y ago
> Because refactoring requires understanding, which LLMs completely lack. Interesting. Here's a sample question I just asked the AI: We are working on a React mapping application. I am going to give you two components from this appl
838.
by ctoth 3y ago
Just as your human intelligence lead to you writing the same darn comment as another human above you, AI can often write the same code as a human would, without having to even bring creativity into it! For those of us who write code, this c
839.
by ctoth 3y ago
Lots of luck with Typescript and Python, far less with obscure languages like LambdaMOO :)
840.
A Camera, Not an Engine(studio.ribbonfarm.com)
61 points by ctoth 3y ago|17 comments

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