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by dlkf 6y ago
In both the comments and in other discussions, I've seen a lot of trolley problem analogies. This is a spectacularly bad analogy. In the trolley problem, the people on the tracks have no choice! With regards to vaccines, we can give pe
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by dlkf 6y ago
> If the problem with GPT-3 is that it’s just being fed non-interactive data, why are robots still so primitive? I never said we understand the right architectures / algorithms that are necessary for robust machine intelligence. In
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So your claim is that if a human child was given a subset of the text GPT-3 was fed — with no audio, video, or reinforcement feedback from its environment — the child could learn English? The important point to observe here is that what a k
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by dlkf 6y ago
No. In machine learning, the word "learn" means that the function that maps inputs to outputs is learned from data. In the case of a rule-based parser, this function is crafted by humans rather than learned from data, so it&#x27
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by dlkf 6y ago
Your first point is spot-on. Neural nets aren't unrealistic in virtue of having too much data, the problem is they have too little. Your second point doesn't make sense though. Language models don't understand language in the
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by dlkf 6y ago
They do add punditry. They just slide it in subtly and don't acknowledge it, which is vastly more dangerous than having an opinion column beside your news articles. Consider this sentence: > Media outlets can continue to report rel
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by dlkf 6y ago
> Media outlets can continue to report reliable facts, but that won't turn the trend around on its own. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging_the_question
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by dlkf 6y ago
> It's essentially the same argument as "everything is philosophy" or "everything is politics", technically true but only in a vacuous sense. I'm not convinced that we need to reach for the everything-is-phi
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by dlkf 6y ago
>> Stating "there is no way to refute or evaluate philosophy" while then going on to do the same seems incongruent. >> Language vs. meta-language. > I do not understand what this is supposed to mean or demonstrate.
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by dlkf 6y ago
Obligating them would solve the problem without creating a bunch of new problems. Your suggestions would create more problems than they solve. A given company is typically not Capital-G-Good or Capital-E-Evil. They are probably doing some t
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by dlkf 6y ago
> I would be in favor of such regulations, and yet I'm also not against the project here, so i don't see your point The point is that FAANG companies are smart enough to elude a simple Hanlon's razor analysis. Put more exp
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Prima facie this comment enraged me, but on reflection it has a deep point; both parties here are just acting out of rational self interest. Google has decided that their bottom line won't suffer if they tell locked-out customers to ge
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by dlkf 6y ago
I interpreted it as tongue-in-cheek. On my reading, the point of the article is that titles and prestige are far less important than being excited about what you're working on. If having a more fulfilling job means a less fancy title (
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by dlkf 6y ago
As a user, I agree that features which give users control and agency are preferable to increasingly opaque ML. But as business decisions go, this argument is terrible. The subset of users who bother to post new ideas to the community forum
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by dlkf 6y ago
Q: How many programmers does it take to screw in a lightbulb? A: What you need is light. Why are you assuming the solution involves a lightbulb?
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by dlkf 6y ago
> What would really help on HN is the ability to collapse all of the children w/o collapsing the parent-post itself Is dang reading this thread?
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It's always telling when you see a lot of down votes and no counterarguments.
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You're just redefining "religion" so that the claim is a tautology. You could do this with anything: "Everyone has a God (where 'God' means 'favourite thing')" "Everyone believes in the exis
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by dlkf 6y ago
Here's the original paper [0]. The thesis is that language ability is better predictor of coding ability than numerical ability. The problem here—as in so many psychology studies—is that you need to substitute "____ ability"
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by dlkf 6y ago
You misread. You write: > 95% of the 50% who got the vaccine haven't contracted the virus. Much more than 95% of the 50% who got the vaccine haven't contracted the virus. They looked at the first 95 people in the entire test t
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by dlkf 6y ago
If every day trader is picking stocks at random, a small handful will beat the market.
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I'll raise you to extreme levels of both.
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Something the VR/AR/SR crowds don't always seem to understand: we have been manipulating tools with opposable thumbs longer than we been using language. A keyboard and mouse are not a shoddy stopgap for the utopian future in
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by dlkf 6y ago
> 1. I like big, big monitors. You can connect an external display to your laptop. That's what I'm doing right now. Similarly for 2 through 6. > 7. The desktop has lots of USB ports and they're all in use. The external
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This should be the top rated comment. Moreover, once you unpack the definition of "recognition," you see that it's largely an artificial exercise. A 0.5% improvement over a human baseline is not particularly meaningful, becau
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OOC: how did you create your initial random loop? This was a Kaggle problem about seven years ago. The competitive solutions found a good initial guess by breaking up the domain into a grid. They would solve TSP in each grid cell, and then
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by dlkf 6y ago
I've always meant to read Boethius simply to better understand Ignatius J. Reilly.
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> Corporations are people This is an interesting usage. The same sentence comes up a lot and normally it is intended to mean "corporations are (legally) people (though they are obviously not literally people)." But you seem to
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by dlkf 6y ago
> it was not about honing skills or becoming perfect, it was about learning and "building a kitchen" We must have different priors regarding OP's specific example. I think that "building a kitchen" would require

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