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by digging 2y ago
Comparing "bug flying"/"bug survival" to "memorizing tokens" is disingenuous. They're not in the same category of task at all. You're essentially comparing the output of one system to the input o
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by digging 2y ago
Ok so just to be clear, that's an entirely different and unrelated argument from the one I responded to. Second, it's wrong. LLMs can learn within their context window. The main issue now is the limited size of their context win
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by digging 2y ago
> In 1910 there were 240,000 carriage manufactures in the U.S, only 4 years later, there were 5. This makes no sense. Carriages weren't invented in the 1900s. They were displaced by a new technology. LLMs are not the carriages of ou
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by digging 2y ago
Getting bored of it isn't the same as having no use for it. This stuff is 2 years old; we haven't figured it all out. Even if all development on the actual models stopped now, we'd still be seeing new uses of LLMs emerging fo
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by digging 2y ago
They lived so long ago, my understanding is such artifacts would be extremely unlikely to survive. We also haven't looked in that many places at that depth. I mean it's still quite unlikely though.
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by digging 2y ago
> I think calling it intelligent is being extremely generous ... can't properly recognize that GitHub is capitalized. Wouldn't this make chimpanzees and ravens and dolphins unintelligent too? You're asking it to do a task
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by digging 2y ago
Seems likely. That exact setup is also a (mediocre) fruit fly trap.
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by digging 2y ago
That's... a much less clever sentiment than it thinks. > No matter what you say, you will look like a fool That's because the question is nonsense, not because it's about the future. If the question is "What is the mo
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by digging 2y ago
I don't think you've interpreted that quite right. Modern wars aren't funded by the bank accounts of the people profiting from them. War is a wealth transfer to the top.
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by digging 2y ago
Just as you say, it's a matter of it just being comparatively very easy to make games. These questions have easy answers: > Like who made too many games? Everybody. > Who should stop making games? Nobody. It's simply that mo
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by digging 2y ago
> To my mind, calling them Greek is a bit like calling people in, say, Belize "English". Those situations are nothing alike. The Byzantines lived in Greece . Byzantium was founded by Greeks. Others in Europe called them "
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by digging 2y ago
If they're Byzantine, calling them "Greek" is not wrong. Byzantine = specific, inaccurate. Romans = accurate, nonspecific. Greek = a bit of both
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by digging 2y ago
> some people dying early while everyone else went about their business So, evolution - just framed correctly.
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by digging 2y ago
> They are simply following the market. This is badly misinformed. They make the market. When you buy a car, do you have it custom made, or do you select one that actually exists? That's exactly what happened with SUVs. SUVs didn&
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by digging 2y ago
When you put it that way, the answer seems obvious. You're not paying taxes to the country you're residing in. You're not paying taxes for the infrastructure you're using. Why is it ok for pure tourism? Because tourism i
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by digging 2y ago
I feel like everyone is missing "in 2011".
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by digging 2y ago
> As a resident of Oakland, California, I find this kind of technology a decent middle-ground. I'd like to be able to catch a decent percentage of criminals so as to make crime statistically pointless. That's not at all what&#x
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by digging 2y ago
The results of this election will not be knowable the night of the election anyway. There are way too many people currently preparing too many different ways to challenge the results regardless of what actually happens.
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by digging 2y ago
> Versions change: UI elements move, change their title slightly Not randomly, I'd hope. I think you may be misunderstanding what deterministic means - or I am.
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by digging 2y ago
They're not going to try to do the job, they're going to hire cheaper, worse SWEs to manipulate AI... and then things will come apart pretty quickly :) But they'll still have someone else to blame. > LLMs are a tool, not
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by digging 2y ago
I read it as "attributed to people who ... are generated by artificial intelligence.' Insurance against the argument that "This person who wrote the review does exist, just not in a flesh body, they're an AI creation.&
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by digging 2y ago
I think we're largely in agreement then, actually. I'm seeing "world models" as a spectrum. World models aren't even consistent among adult humans. I claim LLMs are moving up that ladder, and whether or not they&#x2
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by digging 2y ago
Well I actually read Neel Nanda's writings on it which acknowledge weaknesses and potential gaps. Because I'm not qualified to judge it myself. But that's hardly the point. The question is whether or not "general intelli
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by digging 2y ago
Actually, that's a quite good analogy. It's just weird how prolific the view is in my circles compared to climate-change denial. I suppose I'm really writing for lurkers though, not for the people I'm responding to.
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by digging 2y ago
> If you have nothing to contribute to the meeting, and nothing you need to hear from the meeting, just don't go. Unless you're working for one of those companies who care about meeting attendance from uninvolved people (which
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by digging 2y ago
> pure probabilistic sampling of words that anybody with a half a brain who doesn't drink the Kool-Aid can easily identify. Your confidence is inspiring! I'm just a moron, a true dimwit. I can't understand how strictly non
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by digging 2y ago
I do not think this is a case of that happening like with other big tech names treating customers like shit until they make it onto HN. Vlad's super active (like, is he ok?) on the Orion browser bugs/feedback forums so I have to
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by digging 2y ago
I don't feel I have enough ground truth to know how good Kagi's search is in absolute terms (eg. there are plenty of searches where I still just "fail to find" and I don't know if it's my fault or theirs), I ju
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by digging 2y ago
As a big advocate of remote work, over the years I'm coming to agree with this less and less. Done well, remote work is great. Done poorly, it's killing me. It often saps me of energy even more than office work did somehow.
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by digging 2y ago
I have a strong inverse relationship between talking and fatigue in meetings. If I'm talking, it's generally because there's something for me to say, which means I'm engaged. I guess it does hit a limit where I've t

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