dingnuts

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by dingnuts 1y ago
cogito ergo sum
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by dingnuts 1y ago
even in first world countries grandparents are reading the print version of The Epoch Times lol
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by dingnuts 1y ago
What's the incentive to keep using the headset in your dystopia? if Meta sold the product you're describing, why would anyone buy it? Are you imagining a world with government mandated AR goggles? Why wouldn't I just take the
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by dingnuts 1y ago
If LLMs are the new compilers, enabling software to be built with natural language, why can't LLMs just generate bytecode directly? Why generate HLL code at all?
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by dingnuts 1y ago
is it still sad if it's just a younger version of your wife instead of a different person? that's basically just make-up, as the GP said
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by dingnuts 1y ago
they've been saying that for three years and the performance improvement has been asymptotic (logarithmic) for a decade, if you've been following the state of the art that long.
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by dingnuts 1y ago
This is completely absurd. If generating code is reliable, you can have one generator make the change, and then merge and release it with traditional software. If it's not reliable, how can you rely on the written issue to be correct,
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by dingnuts 1y ago
I'm familiar with Texas gov. given the amount of power the Lt Gov has in Texas, since he has the ability to unilaterally set the legislative agenda, it's really more like: Lt Gov Dan Patrick is obviously dogmatic given just the qu
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by dingnuts 1y ago
that would require actually curating the training data and eliminating sources that contain casual conversation too expensive since those are all licensed sources, much easier to train on Reddit data
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by dingnuts 1y ago
since models can't reason, as you just pointed out, and need examples to do anything, and the LLM companies are abusing everyone's websites with crawlers, why aren't we generating plausible looking but non working code for th
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by dingnuts 1y ago
They can't reason at all. The language specification for Tcl 9 is in the training data of the SOTA models but there exist almost no examples, only documentation. Go ahead, try to get a model to write Tcl 9 instead of 8.5 code and see f
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by dingnuts 1y ago
I've thought about this a lot in the context of "why do I need to learn facts when I can just look them up?" Understanding a concept means you are able to use it in higher order reasoning. Think about the rote practice necess
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by dingnuts 1y ago
do I get a refund if I spend a grand and I'm still not convinced? at some point I'm going to start lying to myself to justify the cost and I don't know how much y'all earn but $1k is getting close
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by dingnuts 1y ago
> You might prefer manual coding, but you might just be bad at AI coding and you might prefer it if you improved at it. ok but how much am I supposed to spend before I supposedly just "get good"? Because based on the free tria
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by dingnuts 1y ago
I can't help but notice you haven't actually said the name of the One Big Beautiful Bill. Why could that be? Why can't we have bills that do one thing?
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by dingnuts 1y ago
The difference is that humans learn. I got bit by this behavior of CombinedOutput once ten years ago, and no longer make this mistake.
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by dingnuts 1y ago
You're misunderstanding the point of structural analysis. Comparing AI to divination isn't about making everything equivalent, but about highlighting specific shared structures that reveal how humans interact with these systems. T
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by dingnuts 1y ago
This is a great example because the LLM answer was insufficiently complete but if you didn't look up the result you wouldn't know. I think I remain an AI skeptic because I keep looking up the results and this kind of omission is m
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by dingnuts 1y ago
lumberjacks didn't go away when chainsaws were invented; demand for wood rose to meet the falling cost of wood and lumberjacks kept cutting down trees. don't see why it won't be any different for programmers.
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by dingnuts 1y ago
so the problem is actually allowing renters to vote? that's a wild take I didn't expect to see on the orange site today but points for honesty and boldness I guess
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by dingnuts 1y ago
No, the view that "everyone should be on disability" is just socialism..
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by dingnuts 1y ago
We have a national space agency that has had plenty of time and money to do the stuff SpaceX is doing. Why wouldn't SpaceX turn into the funding and political football that NASA is, if it were nationalized? Like, this isn't a hypo
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by dingnuts 1y ago
5 years ago GPT2 was already outputting largely coherent speech, there's been progress but it's not all that shocking
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by dingnuts 1y ago
Attacking individual privacy and security is still authoritarianism when done by a democratically elected government. That's why it's important to be a Republic founded on a rule of law that limits what the majority may do; eg in
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by dingnuts 1y ago
> I asked how would the victim feel A lot of the kinds of crimes we're discussing here are things like being homosexual in the Middle East, where there is no victim, only a transgression imagined by religious nuts. Yes, it's g
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by dingnuts 1y ago
Your comments tell me you're pretty obnoxious in general
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by dingnuts 1y ago
the author is grandstanding from an unprincipled stance. Israel can choose which families are harboring Hamas members and decide which houses to bomb or just bomb everything. Hamas could also surrender after losing the war they started, at
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by dingnuts 1y ago
I think the people who are in denial about the uselessness of these tools are in for a bad time. I've been playing with language models for seven years now. I've even trained them from scratch. I'm playing with aider and I us
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by dingnuts 1y ago
> it’s clearly an inevitable part of society now. this won't be true until the financials are squared up. Right now there is a lot of funky math propping up these companies. If the bet doesn't pay off with real productivity gai
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by dingnuts 1y ago
Simple, I bother to subtract all the time LLMs have wasted by giving me fake leads and lying to me from the time it saves when it successfully generates a few lines of code

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