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by dwaltrip 2y ago
How many Olympic swimming pools is that?
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by dwaltrip 2y ago
Harsh and unmeasured criticism comes from ego, insecurity, and emotional immaturity. Something everyone has to deal with at times. We could all work on being less harsh. I leave you with a fun quote: "In the beginning the Universe was
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by dwaltrip 2y ago
Heh, a lot of snark to end up being wrong yourself. White dwarfs are stellar remnants. They are not performing fusion in their cores like active stars.
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by dwaltrip 2y ago
Comparison is the thief of joy.
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by dwaltrip 2y ago
There’s also the whole range from “it might be kinda bad but it’s not a top priority” to “it’s gonna be fine, someone will figure it out”, and so on. There are many ways to downplay or avoid taking action.
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by dwaltrip 2y ago
Here ya go: /s
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by dwaltrip 2y ago
Yes, I love books. They are awesome. But we are talking about machine intelligence, so that's not super relevant. Books aren't data/info-processing machines, by themselves. LLMs are.
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by dwaltrip 2y ago
I’m talking more about potential “Her”-like AI partners (the movie). Ones that would be a much more compelling replacement for actual human relationships. We might want to be a little cautious about blindly going down that path. The tech is
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by dwaltrip 2y ago
How do you know having an AI girlfriend is only mildly harmful? No one has ever had one before.
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by dwaltrip 2y ago
An algebra book is a collection of paper pages with ink on them. An LLM is... nothing like that at all. LLMs are complex machines that operate on data and produce data. Books are completely static. They don't do anything. Do you have a
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by dwaltrip 2y ago
GPT-4 launch was barely 1 year ago. Give the investments a few years to pay off. I've heard multiple reports that training runs costing ~$1 billion are in the the works at the major labs, and that the results will come in the next year
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by dwaltrip 2y ago
Pay attention to the signal, ignore the noise.
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by dwaltrip 2y ago
> They aren't moral or immoral. They are simply unfeeling lawnmowers that chew up anything in their way and produce money. They neither like nor dislike you--they don't even think about you. They just robotically do whatever th
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by dwaltrip 2y ago
What’s your reasoning for: “My subjective experience is outside of what math can describe”? If there was a perfect identical copy of you, down to the quantum level, would they have nearly the exact same subjective experience or not? If not,
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by dwaltrip 2y ago
To be fair, 3/4 billion is an unusual way to write that. Much more common is 750 million, or even 0.75 billion.
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by dwaltrip 2y ago
I misread it that way too. Fractions aren't commonly used for things like millions, billions, etc.
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by dwaltrip 2y ago
Scale up model —> big wow, wonder what happen if scale more
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by dwaltrip 2y ago
It’s a bit presumptuous to imply this personal choice is the default or expected norm, given the importance of peaceful protests and the like as part of the civil discourse. I’m sure are right about the numbers, most people won’t go to a pr
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by dwaltrip 2y ago
You would never go to a protest?
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by dwaltrip 2y ago
This is the entire point of a representative government.
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by dwaltrip 2y ago
Your main issue is that other people receive annoying phone calls yet are unwilling to take simple steps to address the problem?
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by dwaltrip 3y ago
> We already know it doesn't have to: https://forums.appleinsider.com/discussion/185051/judge-appr ... You argument is that this case demonstrates there isn't any problem and that companies don't
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by dwaltrip 3y ago
Interesting how you call it “stealing” to hire someone who worked at a competitor. They aren’t property, companies don’t own people. If you don’t want to them to leave, then entice them to stay. Getting rid of noncompetes puts workers and c
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by dwaltrip 3y ago
Much (most?) of the entire biosphere of earth comes from billions of years of life forms killing and eating other life forms. The universe is a rough place. Beautiful in many ways, but quite gnarly.
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by dwaltrip 3y ago
People aren’t all the same. It’s easy to forget this. And it totally makes sense to be wary! That will help you pick a better place next time. Although, to be fair, the average place probably closer to what you describe, meaning there is a
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by dwaltrip 3y ago
These models write code many orders of magnitude faster than an actual junior dev, so depending on one's "LLM foo" and tolerance for the process, it could definitely be worth it. LLM foo is very much a real thing. They are su
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by dwaltrip 3y ago
How do you the weigh the transportation rights of many against the property rights of one?
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by dwaltrip 3y ago
You believe in an actual free will? What’s your view on compatibilism?
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by dwaltrip 3y ago
All research makes assumptions. You can’t test everything about the universe in each experiment. The nice thing about science is that others can then challenge those assumptions, if they think it’s worthwhile.
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by dwaltrip 3y ago
Just finished this series literally an hour ago. Very fun reads! The second book was quite the page turner.

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