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by dvt 4y ago
> I definitely disagree that Searle's conclusion in the Chinese room experiment applies to the kinds of AI systems we're building today. Unless you're trying to say that today's AI systems do anything but manipulate
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by dvt 4y ago
> My argument is that the underlying processes don’t matter as long as results are classified as output of an intelligence - because that’s the only way I can judge it. What it is under the hood is… less important. That view is called &q
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by dvt 4y ago
> we can just agree to disagree For what it's worth, Searle is a naturalist (so he thinks brains are "just" meaty machines) and he would also disagree with you. > For example, is there any specific, measurable thing tha
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by dvt 4y ago
> hard to describe as purely recombining I take issue with this; imo its output looks exactly like what a neural network being fed terrabytes and terrabytes of natural language then recombining it would look like. But either way, you&#
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by dvt 4y ago
You're putting the cart before the horse. Searle's Chinese Room thought experiment argues with great precision why (solely) symbol-manipulating systems don't (and will never) think. The process of cognition is deeply internal
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by dvt 4y ago
> Look at what I just did with ChatGPT in 30 seconds (and I did not cherry-pick, these were the first answers I got!): Weird flex, as that code is like 90% boilerplate[1]. Everyone was freaking out about Copilot and no one seriously ende
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by dvt 4y ago
This idea that ChatGPT is "intelligent" is so absurd it's getting tiring. You do realize that the code you see regurgitated is most likely some permuted variant of a question/answer on Stack Overflow or a pull request on
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by dvt 4y ago
I listened to that spaces, and Coffeezilla is the one exception. Btw, SBF quickly bailed just after Coffeezilla took the stage because he can't handle it when someone really brings the heat; he was around for like an hour+ prior
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by dvt 4y ago
> Asking him to explain himself There's nothing to explain, and more importantly, no one is challenging him on bullshit answers. He gets asked questions like "So what happened to the 8+ billion dollars FTX is missing?" to
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by dvt 4y ago
Giving narcissistic sociopaths like SBF an audience is absolutely disgusting—from "citizen journalists" like Tiffany Fong that are engagement farming this tragedy for clout, to Mario Nawfal's cringe-inducing Twitter spaces, t
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by dvt 4y ago
Screenshot for proof: https://i.imgur.com/nw6rstc.png Slightly different second answer this time around, but still equally wrong.
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It even fails at pretty rudimentary toy examples. The over-hyping here is absurd. > what doesn't fit: red, blue, green, dog The word "dog" does not fit with the other three words because they are colors, while "dog&qu
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by dvt 4y ago
> Where are we headed with all of this? We are heading nowhere. Hot take: WASM is a dead technology and has failed to displace vanilla JS. There are only a few very niche use cases, most of which have zero product-market fit (e.g., no on
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by dvt 4y ago
SEEKING WORK | Los Angeles | Remote I'm an expert engineer, data professional, web3 jockey, and technical leader. At Edmunds.com, I worked on a fairly successful ad-tech product and my team bootstrapped a data pipeline using Spark, Dat
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by dvt 4y ago
> they did nothing I know this is meant to be a bit of a swipe at the police, but I mean... what can they do? You'd have to subpoena at least 3 entities to find the creep, and then potentially have to extradite them. A guy I play
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by dvt 4y ago
> Is using the basic-ass I-V-VI-IV chord progression in music "plagiarism", since it has been (and is) used by countless other people before? This is not at all what's happening here. Complete red herring. > If GPT-3
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by dvt 4y ago
> "Ponzi scheme" has been thrown around flippantly lately, and I think your comment is perfect example of that. [...] It's not a 'box' that SBF would be proud of. Even SBF's magical box is not technically
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by dvt 4y ago
> No explicit content (that could be plagiarized or combined) is actually stored by GPT3: only statistical relationships between tokens are retained When people ask GPT-3 to write a rhyming poem, you see plenty of examples of GPT-3 poems
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by dvt 4y ago
I'm not going to downvote you because I think you're respectful and thoughtful, but I want to vociferously disagree. These clickbait blogs know what they're doing. There's been so much contention about what is and i
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by dvt 4y ago
Enron was also public, so was Lehman Brothers. The idea that public companies can't game their numbers or commit fraud is provably false. Why anyone would have large sums of crypto (5 or 6 figures+) on an exchange is beyond me.
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by dvt 4y ago
I'm a certified scuba diver, but to me freediving seems totally insane haha, props!
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by dvt 4y ago
Diving with a buddy (which you should absolutely always do) in good weather basically reduces risk to zero as long as you don't get too far away from each other. The chances of four regulators failing (two main, two octopuses) are cl
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by dvt 4y ago
Gergely Orosz has been engagement farming this ongoing saga for weeks now (I had to mute him on Twitter). Kind of makes him a bit hypocritical when taking advantage of this situation for his own enrichment, no? I wonder how many books he&#x
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by dvt 4y ago
It's absolutely an OKR which implies higher workloads, are you kidding me‽ I'm sure you can build some architectural rat's nest where you need 100 engineers to maintain systems that barely serve a dozen requests a second (kin
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by dvt 4y ago
You're not missing anything. WhatsApp had 14 million active users with 32 engineers. Instagram had 30 million active users with 13 employees. It's just delusional to think you need four-figure engineers to run Twitter—a product th
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by dvt 4y ago
> With Steam, the brand respect they have is five-stars! It's so funny how this works. I remember when Steam came out (I was in HS) and it was extremely controversial. Everyone, and I mean everyone, hated it. "I need to start
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by dvt 4y ago
> What bearing does the existence of fake liquidity have on the equivalence between real liquidity and adoption? I was just trying to elucidate the fact that it's hard to differentiate between real and fake liquidity (and therefore,
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by dvt 4y ago
> In finance, liquidity _is_ adoption. They’re the same thing. While this is true on the face of it, I think it's a bit more nuanced when looking at crypto where one can literally mint tokens out of nothing. Plenty of tokens have (o
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by dvt 4y ago
> I think you’ve more or less ceded that blockchain provides value. It just needs wider adoption This is a vacuous non-sequitur. It's like saying "my new social network provides value, it just needs wider adoption"—uh, yea
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by dvt 4y ago
> You can buy, sell, combine, or split their risk profiles in different manners to get properties that are useful in different scenarios. I would contend that the only reason things like options, futures, etc. are actually useful in ma

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