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by dvt 6mo ago
You're making an argument Descartes formalized in the 1600s (and folks have been making long before him). It's a cute philosophical puzzle, but we assume that there's no Descartes' Demon fiddling with our thoughts and th
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by dvt 6mo ago
> I feel confident enough to disregard duelists I'm a dualist , but I promise no to duel you :) We might just have some elementary disagreements, then. I feel like I'm pretty confident in my position, but I do know most phil
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by dvt 6mo ago
> Of course it knows what it output a token ago... It doesn't know anything. It has a bunch of weights that were updated by the previous stuff in the token stream. At least our brains, whatever they do, certainly don't functi
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by dvt 6mo ago
> If all the training data contains semantically-meaningful sentences it should be possible to build a network optimized for generating semantically-meaningful sentence primarily/only. Not necessarily. You can check this yourself by
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by dvt 6mo ago
> I don't really understand why this type of pattern occurs, where the later words in a sentence don't properly connect to the earlier ones in AI-generated text. Because AI is not intelligent, it doesn't "know" w
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by dvt 6mo ago
> I think Tim Cook took Steve Job's vision and really took it to the moon. I vehemently disagree with this. I think Cook's logistics and business-focused goals are, if not diametrically opposed to Job's product obsession,
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by dvt 6mo ago
Apple has Metal, which is already pretty well-integrated in llama.cpp, various Python libs, and mistral-rs & candle. Unpopular opinion, but Vulkan is hot garbage and the definition of "design by committee." There's a reas
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by dvt 6mo ago
This is what their argument is, and personally I think it's a pretty good one. But the main issue is that retail is getting fleeced and lives are being destroyed by gambling, so non-professional investors should not be able to use it.
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by dvt 6mo ago
Afaik, Polymarket removes predictions that break CFTC's regulations (this includes assassinations, etc., at least in the US). They basically provide no value unless you're an insider, but they do tend to be leading indicators so i
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by dvt 6mo ago
Maybe it's just me, but I think it looks kind of cool. I like how it tapers from the ultra-smooth front to the jagged back edges. Only suggestion would be to use better tools to do the filing, since it looks a bit uneven/rough.
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by dvt 6mo ago
For a Christian, a top maxim in their value hierarchy would be rooted in Jesus' famous commandment: "Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, and mind." Now, if you're an atheist, this might be nonsense to you.
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by dvt 6mo ago
> Not exactly. But then you go on to describe exactly what @Brendinooo described, just under the guise of your system of "value hierarchy." The problem is that you can always default to "our values are hierarchically misal
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by dvt 6mo ago
You're missing the forest for the trees. Per-token pricing is irrelevant when you're just trying to get shit done . I pay 20 bucks a month for OpenAI, but I use likely $200+ a month of tokens just on the coding (and I'm ju
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by dvt 6mo ago
I don't want to respond to 100 comments about the same thing, and this one happens to be on top, so, in my humble opinion: (1): You don't have to be an Ed Zitron disciple to infer that OpenAI and Anthropic are likely overvalued an
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by dvt 6mo ago
Every single day, three things are becoming more and more clear: (1) OpenAI & Anthropic are absolutely cooked; it's obvious they have no moat (2) Local/private inference is the future of AI (3) There's *stil
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by dvt 6mo ago
Solid work and great showcase, I've done a bunch of stuff with Kokoro and the latency is incredible. So crazy how badly Apple dropped the ball... feels like your demo should be a Siri demo (I mean that in the most complimentary way pos
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by dvt 6mo ago
> the user is immediately able to understand the constraints Nagel's point was quite literally the opposite [1] of this, though. We can't understand what it must "be like to be a bat" because their mental model is so
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by dvt 6mo ago
> moderately successful in academia and as far as I can tell Why not pay your debts then? I totally understand debt forgiveness for extenuating circumstances (and imo, it's a crime that student loan debt can't be forgiven, and
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by dvt 6mo ago
Running locally or privately (in the cloud) is the future. Anthropic/OAI will need to recoup (astronomical) training costs and I'm not going to be their bailout plan, especially considering training was done on torrented & cop
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by dvt 6mo ago
To me, what's super interesting about this is the fact that my brain instantly recognized it's AI coded (not sure why, it might be the spacing, the font, the text glow, etc.).
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by dvt 6mo ago
The easiest way to think about it is like this: We have these things called systems: a "system" is anything that follows rules: a board game, traffic, the English language, math, C++, etc. Some systems are smart and they can talk
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by dvt 6mo ago
This blog post gets way too caught up in Gödel numbers, which are merely a technical detail (specifically how the encoding is done is irrelevant). A clever detail, but a detail nonetheless. Author gets lost in the sauce and kind of misses
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by dvt 6mo ago
> the thing JAX was truly meant for: a graphics renderer I mean, just like ray-tracing, SDF (ray-marching) is neat, but basically everything useful is expensive or hard to do (collisions, meshes, texturing etc.). I mean mathy stuff is ea
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by dvt 7mo ago
> They're all slop when the complexity is higher than a mid-tech intermediate engineer though. This right here. Value prop quickly goes out the window when you're building anything novel or hard. I feel that I'm still spen
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by dvt 7mo ago
Why are you lying? From literally the first paragraph of the CFR article: > China is the world’s largest source of carbon emissions, and the air quality of many of its major cities fails to meet international health standards.
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by dvt 7mo ago
> incredible amounts of ... energy So tired of seeing this trope. Data center energy expenditure is like less than 1% of worldwide energy expenditure[1]. Have you heard of mining? Or agriculture? Or cars/airplanes/ships? It&#x2
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by dvt 7mo ago
I mean, you could say the same thing about Apple, but they're extremely protective of their ecosystem and native capabilities.
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by dvt 7mo ago
The weirdest thing about this (which is frankly bizarre) is Microsoft emphatically shilling React Native for MacOS[1] usage (???). Like, wtf? Why? Not only is it embarassing for MS to be using another competing company's (Facebook&#x27
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by dvt 7mo ago
Ok, so looking at the commit log[1], I was mostly interested in seeing what the "moonshot ideas" implementations looked like, but basically everything is just hyperparameter tuning. Which is nice, but likely not worth the $$$ spen
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by dvt 7mo ago
I genuinely feel disrespected if AI is used to write an article and it's not disclosed in the first paragraph. It's not really that big of a deal, tbh, it's like saying "I took a picture, I didn't paint it."

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