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by dTal 4y ago
>Pure syntax, no matter how advanced, is insufficient to represent the world in any meaningful way. By definition, in fact, because pure syntax is divorced from meaning. Then "by definition" LMMs transcend "pure syntax&quo
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by dTal 4y ago
It's not entirely clear what precisely IQ is measuring. It's not a stretch that averaging the output of a bunch of 100 IQ people yields something better than what any one of them could have produced. Perhaps "there's onl
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by dTal 4y ago
What exactly is the difference? It's clearly managed to abstract the training data to a ludicrously deep degree, such that it's capable of solving semantically non-trivial problems it's never seen before. It can make metaphor
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by dTal 4y ago
It clearly does have an internal representation of the world, implicitly encoded in its network weights. Quite an accurate one too, for most general knowledge, and one that can be updated in-context - it handily solves "blocks world[0]
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by dTal 4y ago
>So did the source code leak out of OpenAI into the wild, or are they saying that OpenAI itself is "the wild"? The second one. OpenAI is now in possession of Samsung trade secrets. To Samsung, that's "in the wild&quot
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by dTal 4y ago
It's both - statistically the next word depends on the world model established by the previous words, so it's devoted some of its neurons to that.
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by dTal 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
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by dTal 4y ago
The trouble is, you are describing different points on a scale with no clear boundary. As anyone into BDSM can tell you, an open handed slap on a bare buttocks is quite capable of inflicting severe pain - and therefore, psychological trauma
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by dTal 4y ago
>biking on the sidewalk in front of the house should be a low risk activity for a 2nd and 4th grader if done together This is still a conservative view compared to 30 years ago, when it was acceptable for a lone 5 year old to learn to
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by dTal 4y ago
>Something happened during the initial stages of the pandemic. People lost their absolute minds and aggressive and reckless driving got way, way worst than I've ever seen. That's easy enough. People who were socially minded sta
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by dTal 4y ago
"Alignment is unsolved for humans, too."
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by dTal 4y ago
>but there's very strong interest right now in analog, non-digital, non-consumer-tech, non-tracked-and-data-collection sound I appreciate your attempt to explain the phenomenon, but unpicking your words I don't find myself much
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by dTal 4y ago
I wish this viewpoint were more common. It's frightening to see how rapidly the "AI safety / alignment" discourse is being co-opted into arguments that AI should follow the whims of large centralized corporations. We hav
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by dTal 4y ago
Have you tried Anthropic LLC's "Claude"? Between it and ChatGPT I'm hard pressed to say which is better, though I'm tempted to give the edge to Claude.
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by dTal 4y ago
Sure, but surely you'd rather not? I imagine you want the network encoding the details of the specific image, not wasting weights to learn about easy wins that apply to every image. You could burn a whole layer converting to YCbCr, a
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by dTal 4y ago
Perhaps. Extrapolating the idea that .tar.gz application packages should be standalone, a better system than an external updater might be that the aforementioned build tooling includes an "update" script inside the .tar.gz. Then t
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by dTal 4y ago
Not sure how you figure that. Containers are completely orthogonal to both of my requirements, which again are 1) a globally canonical package namespace, and 2) tooling to convert some standard recipe file format into distro-specific recipe
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by dTal 4y ago
Automatically, on boot? That's rather naughty. I've never encountered this but I boot into Windows with a frequency approaching "never", and I would certainly never intentionally permit it to install updates. I would be
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by dTal 4y ago
Indeed. This seems like a tooling issue, and one that strikes me as more worthy of community attention than reinventing the package manager for the nth time.
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by dTal 4y ago
I find the pragmatic, if ideologically galling, choice is to leave Windows around permanently, shrinking its partition as small as it will go. This preserves the ability to run any vendor-supplied utilities in perpetuity, as well as leaving
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by dTal 4y ago
You're going to need to provide some justification for your unpopular opinion.
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by dTal 4y ago
That's oxymoronic - if there are no proven medical effects, definitionally they do not work wonderfully.
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by dTal 4y ago
I can't make out what you're disagreeing with - you seem to be arguing against something I didn't say? The point is that the contents of an AppImage - "a dynamically linked executable + lots of dynamically linked librari
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by dTal 4y ago
What I would like to see is: 1) a unified database for package names (it's all unnecessarily ad-hoc right now, with different distros having different policies for capital letters, whether libraries are prefixed with "lib", w
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by dTal 4y ago
AppImage is not like the other two, it is fundamentally just a way to make a self-contained binary directory into a single runnable file - a way to avoid having to tell the user to extract a tarball and run a particular file inside. Conveni
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by dTal 4y ago
Setting aside that those developers are not good team players / open source citizens, they always have the option to ship a regular tarball with everything inside, a la Blender / Firefox / VSCode / Arduino etc... I resen
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by dTal 4y ago
You might enjoy Void Linux - its package management story is similar to Arch, except that updates invariably work.
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by dTal 4y ago
>But just how good are the new AIs at approximating human consciousness? Consider the bar that recently advertised a drink special with the following terms: “Buy one beer for the price of two and receive a second beer absolutely free!” T
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by dTal 4y ago
I get a sinking feeling from that response, and it took a bit of thought to deduce why: It is not outside of its capabilities. "As an AI language model", it could easily do it, but has been programmed to refuse - not just refuse
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by dTal 4y ago
How is it incompatible? You can use code under all of those licenses in a GPLd work.

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