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by dTal 6mo ago
I'm afraid you are misremembering. The movie is explicitly eugenicist. The people of the future are explicitly biologically stupid. The opening transcript is unambiguous: [Man Narrating] As the 21st century began… human evolution was a
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by dTal 6mo ago
Huh okay, there was a major gap in my mental model. Thanks for helping to clear it up.
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by dTal 6mo ago
Hmm... this sounds a lot like the old RISC vs CISC argument all over again. RISC won because simplicity scales better and you can always define complex instructions in terms of simple ones. So while I would relish experiencing the timeline
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by dTal 6mo ago
Low entropy is low entropy. You can prove it by viewing the logits of the output stream. The LLM itself will tell you how much information is encoded in each token. Or if you prefer, here's a Galilean thought experiment: gin up a scrip
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by dTal 6mo ago
I am quite certain. The output is "just tokens"; the "position encodings" and "context" are inputs to the LLM function, not outputs. The information that a token can carry is bounded by the entropy of tha
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by dTal 6mo ago
The LLM has no accessible state beyond its own output tokens; each pass generates a single token and does not otherwise communicate with subsequent passes. Therefore all information calculated in a pass must be encoded into the entropy of t
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by dTal 6mo ago
Yeah but not all tokens are created equal. Some tokens are hard to predict and thus encode useful information; some are highly predictable and therefore don't. Spending an entire forward pass through the token-generation machine just t
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by dTal 6mo ago
You don't need to compile it yourself though? Unless you want CUDA support on Linux I guess, dunno why you'd need such a silly thing though: https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/releases
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by dTal 6mo ago
>Consider that if ending a relationship causes noticeable problems to external observers, it’s almost by definition because you were in it “too long”. That is you developed a strong attachment, shared assets, or had kids with what was in
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by dTal 6mo ago
That's quite the false dichotomy. You wouldn't hook people in with such a simple script, the problem with LLMs is that they appear to be rather good at getting inside people's heads. I rather think it would be a security co
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by dTal 7mo ago
Because it's an outmoded cliche that never held much philosophical weight to begin with and doesn't advance the discussion usefully. "It's a stochastic parrot" is not a useful predictor of actual LLM capabilities an
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by dTal 7mo ago
Aka the Red Hat business model. It's all you have when access to the product itself is free. Gotta keep yourself in the loop somehow .
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by dTal 7mo ago
You just reinvented the IM-ME, a device famous for being used aftermarket to hack garage doors (in the days before Flipper Zero).
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by dTal 7mo ago
I have a hard time believing that, sorry. joe_mamba literally quoted the same use of the word "diversity" that I did, and concurred with the sentiment - that it "leads to division". And went on to add that Germany was
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by dTal 7mo ago
The comment that started all this was explicitly about race. Here's a quote: > England doesn't want to be a land for the English, because to do so would make them racist. They have strength in their diversity. Blah blah blah.
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by dTal 7mo ago
Firstly, I don't appreciate, at all, being told what "team" I'm on, or the smug tone that I'm now "learning a lesson". When you come on HN, leave that sort of thing at the door, please. I'm being poli
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by dTal 7mo ago
In case it wasn't clear, my comment was sarcastic. To be absolutely clear, I don't agree with racial discrimination. So that we don't talk past each other, here is a summary of my perspective of the discussion so far: NoMoreN
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by dTal 7mo ago
But not diversity of race, apparently.
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by dTal 7mo ago
It used to be widely known that tech nerds are socially impaired. Then they built the future and earned a lot of money and status, and now Silicon Valley is a hotbed of neofascist thought. Turns out that if you give enough power to people w
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The quiet obsolescence of generosity, and a commercial alternative(malus.sh)
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by dTal 7mo ago
What exactly is the difference between "a machine-readable contract for what the output has to be" and "source code"? What is the difference between an "agent" and a "compiler"? For that matter, what
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by dTal 7mo ago
My pleasure! We are talking about a hypothetical universe in which nearly all software is GPL, such that it is almost impossible to write useful software without building upon other GPL code. In such a universe, licensing "your" c
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by dTal 7mo ago
But you're not actually restricted from doing anything, are you? What is it exactly you want to do that other people's choice of GPL prevents? Steal their work and sell it? Oh how unfair!
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by dTal 7mo ago
Libraries or executables, it makes no difference. You are incentivized to use GPL because you wish to build on top of work that is GPL. Obviously in large part that didn't happen, because of a cultural tendency to use more permissive l
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by dTal 7mo ago
Which "individual freedom" do you feel the GPL denies you? As far as I can tell, it only prevents you from piggybacking on other people's work, and adding unfair stipulations to the resulting product. It is a very symmetrical
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by dTal 7mo ago
That's funny, because the "network effect" of the GPL was always extremely obvious to me as part of the point. The idea being that the more that GPL software forms a cohesive ecosystem, the less financially viable it becomes
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by dTal 7mo ago
Couldn't make it work with a friend sitting next to me. The QR codes led to the website but didn't add a contact. Manually adding the ID resulted in the number abruptly disappearing with no feedback and no effect.
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by dTal 7mo ago
This shouldn't be surprising. They are ultimately trained on human generated text! Or on text that was generated by something trained on human-generated text, or some even deeper recursion. In the end, all "intelligence" is a
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by dTal 7mo ago
I'm not following - are you implying that handing a contact card to someone is a sexual pass? Or is it only considered sexual when the recipient is underage?
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by dTal 7mo ago
On the basis of what I've seen so far I find it unlikely that Epstein actually cared much about establishing a "behavioral engineering institute". Baiting "thought leaders" by emailing them about big ideas and grand

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