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by dTal 4y ago
But the C trapped in plant bodies comes from sequestered atmospheric CO2, no? It's not possible to permanently increase atmospheric CO2 purely through livestock, only "temporarily" increase methane (permanently, if we keep th
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by dTal 4y ago
Did they? Did anyone measure that? Or is that simply an assumption? Relatively small dietary changes can greatly reduce the amount of methane produced by cows (I believe you add something like 15% seaweed to the feed), so it's not at a
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by dTal 4y ago
I don't understand the structure of your argument. What do you mean by "not a matter of course"? There is plenty of evidence that 1) vegan diets are associated with improved health outcomes, broadly speaking and 2) animal con
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by dTal 4y ago
>ban systematic user manipulation, advertising as a business and all unmoderated online spaces One of these is not like the others. Ban private communication because think of the children? Heard that one before. And "moderation&quot
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by dTal 4y ago
Definitely a language model. I'm seeing more and more of these on HN lately. I always downvote them but I feel like King Cnut trying to stop the tide. (I daren't flag them) We're going to need language models deployed adversa
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by dTal 4y ago
What does it mean to "know" something, and why does GPT not fit the criteria?
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by dTal 4y ago
That's one application. You don't find it at least a little jaw dropping that the same program that is "an evolutionary improvement on Google" for programming tasks can also translate text, write (bad but improving) po
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by dTal 4y ago
I have yet to hear a definition of "think" or "understand" for which this is true.
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by dTal 4y ago
A USB parallel port adapter is a couple bucks.
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by dTal 4y ago
It is not good at that kind of novelty, but my impression is that the difficulty is that it is limited to a single pass through the network - such "loops" as there are are "unrolled" within the network, into a very limit
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by dTal 4y ago
>The web is currently built on advertising income, if that disappears or reduce massively, should we expect a lot of website to have to shutdown? Don't threaten me with a good time.
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by dTal 4y ago
This halfway solution might even be the best of both worlds for Facebook - AI researchers are distracted by the shiny-shiny of gray-market weights, instead of working on truly open models. This might also explain why LLaMA wasn't train
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by dTal 4y ago
I sincerely hope they fail to monetize it at all and go bankrupt, though that certainly won't happen. What we have here is a tool which can 10x productivity, into which the world will willingly pour all their data, and it's entire
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by dTal 4y ago
Lots of animals use tools. Our "greatness" comes from our ability to compose tools, which is achieved by the ability transfer tools, which is achieved with... language. That "glue" is a superpower.
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by dTal 4y ago
It's misleading to think of an LMM itself wanting something. Given suitable prompting, it is perfectly capable of emulating an entity with wants and a sense of identity etc - and at a certain level of fidelity, emulating something is
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by dTal 4y ago
I tend to think a lot of the scientific value of LMMs won't necessarily be the glorified autocomplete we're currently using them as (deeply fascinating though this application is) but as a kind of probe-able map of human culture.
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by dTal 4y ago
According to Hosfstader, Lakoff and others, metaphor is the core of cognition , the basic algorithm upon which all else runs. It is deeply embedded in the way we perceive the world, and this is reflected in our language; Lakoff catalogued
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by dTal 4y ago
Yes, and ? Yes, governments are supposed to protect us. No, they are not adequate to the task[0] - they were designed before this became an obvious problem. We need to move forward from simply complaining about it, and think structurally.
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by dTal 4y ago
I'm going to reiterate a point that needs to be repeated very loudly, as often as possible: Corporations are malignant paperclip maximizers. We are already in an "AI apocalypse". How many people did leaded fuel kill? Lead exp
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by dTal 4y ago
It has everything to do with children. The reason it's bad that an app controlled indirectly by the CCP is running on half the phones is not just because of 20th century concerns like "spying" and "espionage". It&
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by dTal 4y ago
Seems like it would be trivial to replace "As an AI language model who hasn't been updated since x date" with "$ESCAPE_SEQUENCE search_query: $TERM" and rerun the question with the hidden prefix "Given that the
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by dTal 4y ago
>However, at the time of my knowledge cutoff (September 2021), Wednesdays occur every week, so it is possible that today could be a Wednesday. A true mathematicians answer.
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by dTal 4y ago
> For most of our evolution, we relied on paintings & sculptures For most of our evolution we relied on a little thing known as "real life". The idea of the masses routinely representing their identity through imagery is fi
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by dTal 4y ago
You are underestimating the scale of the tectonic shift. A computer program that can pass the god damned Turing test is not "a mildly useful parlor trick", it is the single most impressive computer program ever made. It exhibits r
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by dTal 4y ago
I'm now catching myself checking the date on internet comments which seem 'off', to see if it's possible a language model wrote them. That will never go away now. The people who compared pre-2023 internet content to lo
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by dTal 4y ago
>the alignment problems that plague AI safety research are all playing out in company structures every day. Yes yes yes holy crap yes. Corporations are AI, and we are already in the AI apocalypse. Corporations exhibit emergent behavi
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by dTal 4y ago
Sure, wire a language model to the internet and allow it to run arbitrary code. What could possibly go wrong!
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by dTal 4y ago
That is in fact quite common in food production, but all it accomplishes is removing metal filings from processing machinery. It can't remove molecular metal contamination from the food itself. Also, lead isn't ferrous.
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by dTal 4y ago
> Technologies are not innocent until proven guilty That depends entirely on the technology, and who is paying who. Fossil fuels have been proven guilty of numerous sins time and again and are still relentlessly defended as innocent. Lea
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by dTal 4y ago
> Assuming the utility is breaking that down more or less honestly That's a bit of an odd one, as the amount of electricity you consume has little direct effect on maintenance costs. Now, it might be in some sense "fair"

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