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by fasterik 2mo ago
I would say that Nolan is no more grandiose and superficial than Kubrick. Their films aren't about characters and plot, they're about images and sound.
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by fasterik 2mo ago
Having constructible Cauchy sequences doesn't guarantee that we can construct unbounded operators. I'm no expert, but the little searching I've done suggests this is an open research question. I don't see the benefit of
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by fasterik 2mo ago
>What do "real" numbers buy you? That is, what do you get for the trouble of building your formalism around numbers that are not computable? I guess the naive answer is completeness. Every Cauchy sequence converges to a membe
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by fasterik 2mo ago
I watched Kiki's Delivery Service recently with my sisters and niece. I'm always amazed by the artistic vision when I watch a new (to me) Ghibli film. As a grown man, you'd be hard-pressed to get me to watch a cartoon about a
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by fasterik 2mo ago
I'm sure there are unwarranted attacks on Stephen Wolfram out there in the public discourse, but what I see is people criticizing his ideas, which is always fair game. I actually think criticism is especially important in the case of h
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by fasterik 2mo ago
What is the difference between programming and coding? In my mind they're synonymous.
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by fasterik 3mo ago
OpenGL is arguably still better for learning the fundamentals of computer graphics. All you really want early on is a simple vertex and fragment shader up and running so that you can learn how to move a camera around, transform objects, bas
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by fasterik 3mo ago
Totally agreed. I find it distracting working through a book that's been marked up by someone else. In fact, I get the same feeling even if I marked it up myself, which is why I stopped writing in books. I would prefer to keep my thoug
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by fasterik 3mo ago
I was mainly responding to the claim that he was "saying that AI was going to be a serious problem decades before anyone else was even considering it as a remote possibility." But we can also look at the specific predictions he&#x
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by fasterik 3mo ago
"Because it's there" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Mallory Some people are just driven to do things for the accomplishment. I don't think we need more psychologizing than that.
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by fasterik 3mo ago
Well, I don't agree AI is dangerous, at least no more dangerous than electricity or the Internet. But even so, saying that AI is dangerous is not at all an original or interesting thought, especially for a guy who started talking about
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by fasterik 3mo ago
No, they didn't say the same thing. Identifying potential risks is not the same thing as confidently predicting the extinction of humanity.
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by fasterik 3mo ago
>The guy was saying that AI was going to be a serious problem decades before anyone else was even considering it as a remote possibility That's not accurate at all. AI research has been around since the 1950s and pioneers of the f
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by fasterik 3mo ago
I don't think it's overstating it at all. If anything, I would argue that code is more expressive than literature or music because it's more general. Consider the space of all possible video games, demos/intros, generati
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by fasterik 3mo ago
You're still intentionally misreading the OP's statement. If you read it again in context, they're clearly saying that they think training bigger LLMs is not sufficient . I think I agree with that statement, but my confidenc
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by fasterik 3mo ago
>AGI won't rise out of AlphaZero and AlphaFold in the same way AGI won't rise out of Houdini chess engine. That's a straw man. Nobody thinks AGI will rise out of domain-specific systems. The question is whether domain-sp
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by fasterik 3mo ago
Your examples (math, literature) involve natural language. It stands to reason that a general language model will be more competitive in those domains. If you want examples of successful domain-specific models, look at AlphaZero and AlphaFo
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by fasterik 3mo ago
I still don't see why it's surprising, though. Humans and machines are subject to the same laws of physics. While we wouldn't expect LLMs to think exactly like humans, we should expect some degree of convergent evolution. The
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by fasterik 3mo ago
This doesn't seem that weird to me. Talk to any human and you'll find that their ability to recall specific names and facts is very context-dependent. Phrasing a question in one way can make it hard to answer, while providing cert
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by fasterik 3mo ago
There's already a good solution to buying and owning digital media: you pay money to download files that are playable offline. When you pay for content locked to a platform, you're not buying an asset, you're paying for a ser
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by fasterik 3mo ago
>adults often confuse learning with consuming material about learning True, and even more insidious than that can be consuming the actual learning material (e.g. textbooks), but not doing the required work to integrate it. I find that
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by fasterik 3mo ago
Computer graphics is intrinsically interesting and rewarding. It sits at the intersection of several important fields, from computer science to mathematics to theoretical physics to low-level programming. Maybe steering away from it is good
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by fasterik 3mo ago
>Peter Garber argues that the trade in common bulbs "was no more than a meaningless winter drinking game, played by a plague-ridden population that made use of the vibrant tulip market." So basically, it was the GameStop of t
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by fasterik 3mo ago
When I was a kid I got obsessed with Linux, but my family only had one PC in the living room. After an attempt to set up Windows/Linux dual boot where I messed up the partition table, my parents banned me from tinkering with it. Luckil
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by fasterik 3mo ago
>IMO, the pressures leading to degradation are all somehow linked to universalization Liberalism is fundamentally a universalist idea. I mean "liberal" in the original sense: the cultivation of free and indepdendent human bei
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by fasterik 4mo ago
I think the question isn't whether (DOOM + 1) would have succeeded, but what they would have been able to accomplish with the Quake team if they'd all had the stamina and job satisfaction to make several games over the following d
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by fasterik 4mo ago
It's the cadence and the density of cliches. I've seen Opus produce very similar output. That's not to say it's 100% that this was written by an LLM. They had to learn this style from human writing in the training data.
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by fasterik 4mo ago
My prediction is that it will go the same way as the dot com bubble. The hypesters and fraudsters will eventually collide with objective reality, but the technology will persist and society at large will benefit from the infrastructure and
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by fasterik 4mo ago
I love computers too, but it doesn't resonate with me when people call AI "snake oil." The comparison suggests that the thing doesn't do what it's marketed to do. AI does more or less what it's marketed to do,
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by fasterik 4mo ago
I don't think "refusing to learn C++" is the right way to frame it. I want to use the language features that are actually useful to me, without being forced into a specific programming style. I can't speak for every &quo

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