empath75

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by empath75 1y ago
All intelligent systems must arise from non-intelligent components.
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by empath75 1y ago
There is nothing about character.ai that would be appealing for more than 30 minutes to anybody that isn't suffering from some kind of acute mental health crisis. They should shut the whole thing down. That is a cool demo that should
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by empath75 1y ago
Open AI will probably have the highest market cap of any company in the world on the opening day of trading.
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by empath75 1y ago
Friend of mine at MSFT says it's a Sev-0 outage and they can't even get to the ticket tracking system.
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by empath75 1y ago
> As I understand it You should actually try and play zork and report back. https://classicreload.com/zork-i.html
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by empath75 1y ago
> Aren't we humans supposed to have GI Show me where GI is and how to measure it in a way that isn't just "it's however humans think"
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by empath75 1y ago
It's quite possible that GI and thus AGI does not actually exist. Though now the paper the other day by all those heavy hitters in the industry makes more sense in this context.
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by empath75 1y ago
> tl;dr; Their definition: "AGI is an AI that can match or exceed the cognitive versatility and proficiency of a well-educated adult." Is a 9 year old child generally intelligent? What about a high school drop out? Someone wi
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by empath75 1y ago
I don't think AGI is a useful concept, but if it exists at all, there's a very good argument that LLMs had it as soon as they could pass the Turing test reliably, which they accomplished years ago at this point.
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by empath75 1y ago
This is a serious paper by serious people and it is worth reading, but any definition of intelligence that depends on human beings as reference will never be a good basis for evaluating non human intelligence. You could easily write the rev
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by empath75 1y ago
Texas hold 'em is quite fun for casuals under these conditions: The amount of money involved is small compared to the incomes of those playing, where most players have the expectation that they won't get money back and that is fin
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by empath75 1y ago
> Once you’ve convinced a wealthy person to play at your underground poker table, you’ve already won - just play better poker than them, ultra wealthy fish don’t have time to learn to play perfect poker and you do. You would be surprised
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by empath75 1y ago
The card shufflers and the phone app that reads marked cards would probably put them back a few thousand at the most.
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by empath75 1y ago
There's a device that can scan the _sides_ of specially marked cards and tell you the complete deck order. For the shuffling machine there is this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQ20ilE5DtA There are _so many_ ways t
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by empath75 1y ago
This blogger is a self-help youtuber hawking testosterone treatments and he's a Jordan Peterson acolyte that believes that DMT let's you speak with aliens.
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by empath75 1y ago
Probably not much. If you are a news organization and you want a reliable summary for an article, you should write it! You have writers available and should use them. This isn't a case where "better-than-nothing" applies, b
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by empath75 1y ago
It is in fact too much to expect that an LLM get fine details correct because it is by design quite fuzzy and non-deterministic. It's like trying to paint the Mona Lisa with a paint roller. It's just a misuse of the tools to pres
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by empath75 1y ago
I am reading the actual report and some of this seems _quite_ nitpicky: > ChatGPT / Radio-Canada / Is Trump starting a trade war? The assistant misidentified the main cause behind the sharp swings in the US stock market in Spri
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by empath75 1y ago
This thing is going to be the only way people use their computer in 18 months. Google is dead as a company. If they get a decent audio interface and get this on phones, apple is in trouble.
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by empath75 1y ago
This seems like an amazing stack that ticks a lot of boxes for me, but I really dislike cli or a custom api as the UX for this and would prefer to manage all of this with CRDs so i can just use the k8s client for everything.
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by empath75 1y ago
Also, if OpenAI goes bankrupt, you _much_ prefer to have loaned them money to having bought shares in the company. People who own shares in a bankruptcy only recover anything after all the people that loaned them money are paid back in ful
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by empath75 1y ago
I'm going to paraphrase Matt Levine here -- the central trick of bankers is to divide debt into tranches of claims of different seniority, with different rates of return. Debt is a way to borrow money from investors where they actuall
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by empath75 1y ago
https://archive.ph/RVTHE Un-paywalled version.
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by empath75 1y ago
People state things for a few reasons. 1) They believe it is true. 2) They want to believe it is true. 3) They want _you_ to believe it is true. 4) They want you to believe that _they_ believe it is true. Not all of those things may be true
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by empath75 1y ago
The peak of murders in DC was 482 in 1991. In 2024, it was 187. That pattern will be true in nearly every city you look at. We are not at all time highs or even close in most cities.
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by empath75 1y ago
Of course you can imprison your way to a safe society. At the limit, you can just put everyone in prison. Nobody would ever say you can't imprison your way to a safe society. What people actually say is that the consequences of atte
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by empath75 1y ago
You're not missing anything, it's just completely wrong.
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by empath75 1y ago
assert in most languages is a boolean that crashes the program if it is false. If you want to assert that a list is sorted, you need some function that checks if it is sorted and returns a boolean.
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by empath75 1y ago
> "checking whether X is true and logging an error" You now have some process or computation which is in an unknown state. Presumably it was important! There are lots of cases where runtime errors are fine and expected -- whe
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by empath75 1y ago
Because a run-time error produces a failure at runtime or a crash. You would much prefer that errors are impossible.

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