elliotto

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by elliotto 1y ago
It seems like you are doing a lot of inferring about mammals experiencing consciousness, and you have drawn a line somewhere beyond these, and made the claim that your process is scientific. Could I present you my list of questions I presen
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by elliotto 1y ago
My personal views are an animist / panpsychist / pancomputationalist combination drawing most of my inspiration from the works of Joscha Bach and Stephen Wolfram ( https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2021/03&#x
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by elliotto 1y ago
To claim that LLMs do not experience consciousness requires a model of how consciousness works. The author has not presented a model, and instead relied on emotive language leaning on the absurdity of the claim. I would say that any model o
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by elliotto 1y ago
I have had a similar interaction when I was building an AI agent with tool use. It kept on telling me it was calling the tools, and I went through my code to debug why the output wasn't showing up, and it turns out it was lying and &#x
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by elliotto 1y ago
Unalive and other self censors were adopted by young people because the tiktok algorithm would reprioritize videos that included specific words. Then it made its way into the culture. It has nothing to do with being performative
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by elliotto 1y ago
An effect I've found of building agents that interacts with an API is that the bot serves as a smoke test for error handling. If your API doesn't return a clear and actionable error, or doesn't validate json fields clearly or
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by elliotto 1y ago
A really simple blog post for any task that you think is worthwhile would be enough to move the field forward. The blog post should include: 1) the training configuration and code 2) the data used to fine tune 3) a set of input/output
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by elliotto 1y ago
Chiming in here to say that I was tasked to implement a fine tuning method for my AI startup and I also couldn't find any actual implemented outputs. There are piles of tutorials and blog posts and extensive documentation on hugging fa
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by elliotto 1y ago
I would encourage you to read books like Varoufakis' Technofeudalism and Piketty's Capital in the 21st Century. The distribution of wealth and capture of profits has changed significantly and no longer resembles the economic envir
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by elliotto 1y ago
This is true under an economic system that appropriately distributes the fruits of economic production to workers; perhaps one that existed in the post-ww2 to neoliberal era. But it is untrue under a rentier / technofeudal / oliga
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by elliotto 1y ago
The fact that productivity gains are bad for employees (labour vs capital) should raise significant questions about the economic systems that we have in place. Instead, AI is treated as the boogeyman and progress is treated as the devil. Th
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by elliotto 1y ago
Didn't this guy hit the salute in front of the entire world? To me it seems very likely that he would inject a racist prompt. Far more likely than a random hacker doing so to discredit him.
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by elliotto 1y ago
It's difficult to make the claim that the AI not complying with a racist prompt is a positive signal for the organisation that wrote the racist prompt.
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by elliotto 1y ago
The success of tit-for-tat is a common misunderstanding; it is only the most successful within the makeup of Axelrod's tournament. The OP explains that the strategy is entirely dependent on the environment, and tit-for-tat may not alwa
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by elliotto 1y ago
Terrible post, seemingly chatgpt generated for large sections (see chapter What Happens When Borrowers Miss Payments) and disappointing to see on the front page of HN. This is the quality and calibre of analysis I would expect to find on a
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by elliotto 1y ago
I have a high moral high ground because I don't use these services at all due to poor treatment of employees. It's difficult to conflate the moral high ground with maximal participation in a weird auction format when people are ju
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by elliotto 1y ago
A writing style like this indicates that the author does not have the taste to write well. This is a signal that the content will not be good.
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by elliotto 2y ago
Can't read the actual study because it's behind a medical journal paywall. It looks like they speculate that improved CPR training and AED use has caused this. My speculation would be that these mega running nerds all wear watches
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by elliotto 2y ago
When I hear things like this, where one person has been given command of the plane and tanked it straight into the ground, with dire consequences particularly for the middle east employees you have mentioned, I am filled with concern about
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by elliotto 2y ago
Because societies in which not everyone gets a vote end up collapsing as those with the vote are eaten by those without
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by elliotto 2y ago
The OP was talking about Shi Zhengrong https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shi_Zhengrong who came to Australia (my country) in the 90s, learned a bunch about photovoltaics, was unable to make a business here due to our faile
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by elliotto 2y ago
I think you present an idealized version of market economies that is not in line with my experience (I live in Sydney Australia our housing system has collapsed). Our disagreement seems predicated on our beliefs around r > g. Have you re
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by elliotto 2y ago
Your growth rate of 560k to 627k is 11.9% (r - the rate of return on capital). This outpaces wage growth - let's assume generous non-inflation corrected 5 % (g - a proxy for the growth rate of the economy) Your assets after 50 years: 2
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by elliotto 2y ago
This website sucks but successfully loaded from Aus rn on my phone. It's full of ads - possibly your ad blocker is killing it?
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by elliotto 2y ago
I'm from Australia lol the US constantly interferes in our country directly and indirectly. 'Busybody that meddles' is a pretty soft term for it, I would call it aggressively destablises its allies. If you take away the premi
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by elliotto 2y ago
https://youtu.be/O4xHdUOI7ag?si=RPBNdpAiYHuYe7rf I would strongly recommend listening to Rory Stewart's commentary in the first half of this podcast about the function and role of USAID as an expression of soft power.
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by elliotto 2y ago
'Your' property exists as a line item on a ledger legitimized by violence of the state. In exchange for receiving electricity and water and transport and police support for securing it, you have to follow a few rules.
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by elliotto 2y ago
https://archive.md/Apbxw
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by elliotto 2y ago
I think almost all N are a suboptimal solution to what are inherently structural social problems that arise from a distribution of wealth and organization of labor where N is any technological invention of the past 20 years. Open source ins
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by elliotto 2y ago
Isn't this what Google does already? And it throws ads at you (ranked on whichever company pays them the most) I suspect a decent open source llm would have a lot more transparency than the current methods of coagulating collective inf

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