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by drcwpl 2y ago
Very well said - "all people are not trained to avail of the mental tools that civilization has honed over millennia to fight stupidity."
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Stupidity(onepercentrule.substack.com)
41 points by drcwpl 2y ago|57 comments
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by drcwpl 2y ago
OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar says #AI isn't experimental anymore. She says banks, financial institutions and fintech's are using it everyday in their business. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCqFgVqWbEs
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by drcwpl 2y ago
Let's focus on LLMs because I think that is the gist of this article. Whilst Linus may not like the BS, as most of us don't, I disagree that LLMs are not useful. There are many companies now implementing LLMs, even the EU parliame
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Stupidity: Our Biggest Threat?(onepercentrule.substack.com)
2 points by drcwpl 2y ago|0 comments
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by drcwpl 2y ago
One of the best indications / talks on writing and thinking is Jordan Peterson - the best advice he gives anyone is to write - 5 minute video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kwjw2J6ByJo
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by drcwpl 2y ago
Just write - but in seriousness, On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction by William Zinsser and Dennett's Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking
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Could you pass this 8th grade test from 1912?(onepercentrule.substack.com)
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by drcwpl 2y ago
Agreed - the UK longitudinal study showed a 24% difference in IQ between job professions https://onepercentrule.substack.com/p/intelligence-and-the-o...
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by drcwpl 2y ago
...and that is a terrible thought for me.. 'thinking as the second best option." I guess we need to think through carefully many processes, and then allow the 'tools' to do the jobs for us... but then are we simply adopt
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by drcwpl 2y ago
I would say he is write about LinkedIn, TikTok, Snap, Meta and its associated gram's, threads and face... BUT - HN has a different vibe, this is a community with sharing knowledge and information - on HN, I never doom scroll - there is
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by drcwpl 2y ago
Agree-- The satisfaction from uncovering something by effortful research helps the subject stay in our memory, and build our IQ. I agree to a poin that "Technology has changed us from being doers into being more thinkers." However
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A 24% IQ differences between occupations(onepercentrule.substack.com)
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by drcwpl 2y ago
Regression to the mean?
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by drcwpl 2y ago
I agree "All of this seems to be dancing around the actual question: are people getting dumber? It's not possible to look at modern trends in the US and answer anything but, yes." Same in Europe too
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by drcwpl 2y ago
Science should seek to provide "good explanations" in the Deutsch sense, proof is rather questionable.
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by drcwpl 2y ago
Very well put, I agree with you wholeheartedly that "It feels like people above a certain point on the curve are just so much more vibrant and curious sometimes!" It's unfortunate some measures are deemed to be necessary, but
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The Rise and Fall of IQ: The Cognitive Divide(onepercentrule.substack.com)
27 points by drcwpl 2y ago|63 comments
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Dario Amodei on interpretability and Claude [video](youtube.com)
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Sam Altman Talks GPT-4o and Predicts the Future of AI [video](youtube.com)
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The Debate over "Understanding" in AI's Large Language Models [video](youtube.com)
2 points by drcwpl 2y ago|1 comments
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by drcwpl 2y ago
Insightful talk by Melanie Mitchell
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Sam Altman at Howard University (YouTube) [video](youtube.com)
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by drcwpl 3y ago
... agreed some decline for Nokia - but still Nokia revenue for the twelve months ending September 30, 2023 was $25.646B... SAP forecasted to range from €29.0 to €29.5 billion at constant currencies, up from €26.93 billion in 2023. Ericsson
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by drcwpl 3y ago
The article can be read here - https://archive.ph/ejx8K
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by drcwpl 3y ago
Ah, sorry - that was not the intent - my intent is raising the point that Nvidia did not even show any material impact from the EU - this is so sad and reflective of the incredible brain drain from the EU
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Nvidia did not even bother reporting its revenues in Europe(ft.com)
2 points by drcwpl 3y ago|12 comments
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AI Is Turning Social Media into the Next Frontier for Suicide Prevention(time.com)
2 points by drcwpl 3y ago|0 comments
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OpenAI talk on Weak-to-Strong Generalization [video](youtube.com)
2 points by drcwpl 3y ago|1 comments
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by drcwpl 3y ago
some key points... Tokenization is behind many of these issues • Why can't LLM spell words in images? • Why can't LLM do super simple string processing tasks like reversing a string? • Why is LLM worse at non-English languages (e.

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