farts_mckensy

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by farts_mckensy 1y ago
And that's what's going to happen now. No amount of complaining about it online is going to stop it. They literally just passed a bill that prevents regulating AI. Rich people and their puppets in congress have some degree of agen
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by farts_mckensy 1y ago
You chuckled silently to yourself as you posted this.
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by farts_mckensy 1y ago
Whenever people claim that LLMs are not capable of reasoning, I put them into a category of people who are themselves not capable of reasoning.
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by farts_mckensy 1y ago
The discussion is completely useless without defining what thought is and then demostrating that LLMs are not capable of it. And I doubt any definition you come up with will be workable.
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by farts_mckensy 1y ago
AI is here to stay, and you do not have agency over that. You can choose not to use it, but that has zero impact on the broader adoption rate. Just like when the automobile was introduced and society as a whole evolved.
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by farts_mckensy 1y ago
Watch out, HN. The em dash police are here. Hands up
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by farts_mckensy 1y ago
If America's responsibility is deterrence, why do we invade countries that don't have nuclear capabilities? Don't you suppose that incentivizes every country watching this to develop nukes? They see that if they don't, e
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by farts_mckensy 1y ago
What planet have you been living on the past 25 years? Iran has a population of almost 100 million as well as a sizeable diaspora across the world. If even a small percentage of the population engages in terrorism, that translates into thou
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by farts_mckensy 1y ago
Orwell was not a good writer. 1984 in particular is a slog. His work was mostly popular because it conformed to anti soviet narratives, so schools naturally added them to the curriculum to stamp out any communist sympathies. Now that the so
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by farts_mckensy 1y ago
The idea that "power manufactures truth" sounds profound but it's ultimately a truism, and a somewhat unhelpful one due to the imprecise language of power and truth. Anyone who's worked at a small business with an author
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by farts_mckensy 1y ago
I'm saying there's a cost to that mentality. There's a personal cost, which is you giving up a part of yourself--not just your time, but your personality--to grow your net worth. And there's a societal cost to this level
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by farts_mckensy 1y ago
My preferred modality: "Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will."
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by farts_mckensy 1y ago
>CBT can definitely veer into gaslightning territory. But then, if it helps you cope, so what? That's myopic. There's only so much "reframing" you can do before the tension begins to rear its head. Serenity now, insan
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by farts_mckensy 1y ago
There's a mental cost to that. Essentially having to put on a mask and performatively "play their little games" is taxing. Some are better at it than others. But in those quiet moments, don't you ask yourself what percen
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by farts_mckensy 1y ago
The problem with these kinds of discussions is, we tend to get more abstract and further and further away from real-world examples. And it all hinges on what you actually value. I could come up with positive adjectives for every single nega
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by farts_mckensy 1y ago
It's not difficult to imagine a number of scenarios where that perspective could bite you in the ass. If you have a false impression of a person's character because you've jedi mindtricked yourself into not thinking the worst
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by farts_mckensy 1y ago
The idea that there are varying degrees of depression is not a difficult concept to grasp.
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by farts_mckensy 1y ago
On the other hand, some studies show that mildly depressed people have a more accurate model of the world. So what if you were right about your job initially, and the CBT is basically just gaslighting you into spinning things in a positive
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by farts_mckensy 1y ago
The premise of your question is incredibly dumb
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by farts_mckensy 1y ago
Great. What do you think that proves? That doesn't negate my inital argument. The data is largely useless, and often counterproductive. The evidence shows the vast majority of plots are foiled through conventional means, and ruling out
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by farts_mckensy 1y ago
The data is obfuscated and the cost to unlock the value of it is often not worth the effort.
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by farts_mckensy 1y ago
Well, at least someone does.
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by farts_mckensy 1y ago
There's skepticism and there's talking around the actual subject. The latter contributes nothing.
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by farts_mckensy 1y ago
Let's outsource it to your mothers house instead.
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by farts_mckensy 1y ago
Notice how nearly every comment is just dancing around the issue and nitpicking instead of just owning up to whether or not they think LLMs are capable of reasoning.
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by farts_mckensy 1y ago
You think because reasoning exists on a spectrum, therefore everything is conscious? You sound a bit too desperate to try to prove me wrong. Also you edited your comment post hoc to add sources. Who cares?
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by farts_mckensy 1y ago
What with this dingus coming at me with recursion? Hey, that's my move, bro. Seriously though, everything you said is totally unnecessary. All I'm saying is, in order to refute the claim that LLMs can't reason, you ought to h
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by farts_mckensy 1y ago
My tone is odd? Never heard that before in my life. Definitely wasn't an problem for me growing up.
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by farts_mckensy 1y ago
Oh my sweet summer child
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by farts_mckensy 1y ago
Reasoning exists on a spectrum, not as a binary property. I'm not claiming that LLMs reason identically to humans in all contexts. You act as if statistical processes can’t ever scale into reasoning, despite the fact that humans themse

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