dontlikeyoueith

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by dontlikeyoueith 2y ago
> all the darkest holes of history are in situations that attempt to tell people how to live I sure hear a lot of faux-market fascists telling me how to live these days.
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by dontlikeyoueith 2y ago
Sounds like an empty dodge.
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by dontlikeyoueith 2y ago
> it's better for the cured, and not any worse for all others. Won't anyone think of the business owners who lost their steady stream of income from treatable but incurable illnesses?
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by dontlikeyoueith 2y ago
> United could provide you an API key to do so via an API, but in practice they won't, only some enterprisey travel software company can get that kind of access, for a steep fee. You could build a tool which automatically puts toget
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by dontlikeyoueith 2y ago
> I'm someone Asserting facts not in evidence, as they say.
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by dontlikeyoueith 2y ago
> On the other hand this thing got 83% on a test I got 47% on Easy to do when it can memorize the answers in its training data and didn't get drunk while reviewing the textbook (that last part might just be me).
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by dontlikeyoueith 2y ago
I still don't have a Mr. Fusion in my house, FYI. We always overestimate the future.
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by dontlikeyoueith 2y ago
That is not what anyone means when they talk about moats.
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by dontlikeyoueith 2y ago
That's a bit like saying there's no European civilization, just a bunch of different European civilizations sharing a broadly similar culture. Or maybe ancient Greece, with its city-state structure is the better comparison.
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by dontlikeyoueith 2y ago
More like drunk or hungover tourists. That's about the only time I can stomach Taco Bell.
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by dontlikeyoueith 2y ago
> Everything written is reasonable and logical So was Ptolemy's model of the solar system. That doesn't make it right or valuable.
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by dontlikeyoueith 2y ago
It's not even well thought-out speculation. It's basically "old man rants at clouds." I'm pretty negative about the LLM hype, but this is just a low-effort, low-value "back in my day" rant.
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by dontlikeyoueith 2y ago
> We train them for the ability to predict thr next word, which is a task that can only be performed satisfactorily by working at the level of concepts and their relationships, not at the level of words. This is just obviously, trivially
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by dontlikeyoueith 2y ago
This is just admitting you don't care about knowledge or truth.
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by dontlikeyoueith 2y ago
> In the limit of training on a diverse dataset (ie as val loss continues to go down), it will converge on the process (whatever that means) or a process sufficiently robust. This is just moving the goal posts from "learning the act
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by dontlikeyoueith 2y ago
> I think it's fair to call one process that can imitate a more complex one a representation of that process I think it's sloppy.
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by dontlikeyoueith 2y ago
> whether that looks like how humans do it or not. So you agree with me that there is no guarantee it learns any representation of the actual process that produced the training data.
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by dontlikeyoueith 2y ago
> But it turns out that to ‘just learn’ the statistical correlations in text, to compress them really well, what the neural network learns is some representation of the process that produced the text This is pretty sloppy thinking. The n
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by dontlikeyoueith 2y ago
That's because you don't understand what you're reading.
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by dontlikeyoueith 2y ago
Yes, bow down before your god. You people are so weird.
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by dontlikeyoueith 2y ago
> Small businesses and business with low profit margins will be forced out of business. Bad businesses that don't create enough value to justify their existence will be forced out of business. That's a good thing.
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by dontlikeyoueith 2y ago
> Just post the big bombshell thing and not express your opinion about stuff? Yes. > Often it's the expressing opinion part that's more important than the actual nits. Your opinions are not that valuable. Focus on the most
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by dontlikeyoueith 2y ago
> If they had taken all the radios and computers out of the system and just showed a random number as the minutes to arrival that would have been every bit as good as NextBus. Bold of you to assume they hadn't already done that. Rem
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by dontlikeyoueith 2y ago
Oh no, the rich will have the same experience as the poor!
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by dontlikeyoueith 2y ago
That's a cute tactic. Claim that $BAD_SIDE_EFFECT would be bad, even if it's better than the status quo. Nice way to prevent change.
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by dontlikeyoueith 2y ago
> Our legal system would grind to a halt. Because it isn't a system so much as a kafka-esque nightmare.
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by dontlikeyoueith 2y ago
> if you really optimize it to ad absurdum, everybody will pay according to damages they will cause, negating whole point of 'socialized' spread-across-variable-population insurance Except spread out over time, which is still a
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by dontlikeyoueith 2y ago
> Jail for executives who approve or have knowledge of illegal activities sounds good to me. But then who would write the campaign contribution checks on which our government depends to survive?
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by dontlikeyoueith 2y ago
Yes. If you have a problem with that, maybe it shouldn't be on the books.
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by dontlikeyoueith 2y ago
Like a fascist state?

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