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by felipeerias 4mo ago
Exactly, the clock is external to the model. Nothing prevents it from being faster or slower, or even running backwards, because it’s ultimately just another data point in the input stream to a computer function. Your brain and your whole b
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by felipeerias 4mo ago
What, exactly, would be the link between you as you are right now, and “you” in a different body?
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by felipeerias 4mo ago
Hardware is fungible. Each LLM response in a conversation could be served from a different machine. Would you be "you" in a different body?
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by felipeerias 4mo ago
IMHO the sane position is essentially the Aristotelian one. Hylomorphism: body and consciousness are intrinsically linked. The nature of that link is an open metaphysical question. Virtue ethics: even if LLMs are not conscious, we should no
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by felipeerias 4mo ago
Mistreatment and abuse, even when directed at a machine, make you a worse person. Even if you are only interested in getting good results out of them, LLMs tend to work better when they are immersed in a narrative of open collaboration.
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by felipeerias 4mo ago
Mind-body dualism is not real. Even in your example, you would be building upon a minimal part of a person's body.
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by felipeerias 4mo ago
Your brain is part of your body, that's the point. There isn't a "you" separate from your actual, physical existence. Mind-body dualism is not real.
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by felipeerias 4mo ago
A stronger version of that argument is that LLMs are not intrinsically affected by the passage of time. Input stream comes in, input stream comes out. The LLM doesn't care whether this happens once a minute or once a year.
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by felipeerias 4mo ago
What are you, ultimately, if not your body?
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by felipeerias 5mo ago
One of the mathematicians in the video describes the process as: > the AI has been able to explore all these possibilities much more comprehensibly, and doing that it found a path, it found a way to the solution. Finding a counterexample
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by felipeerias 6mo ago
The other side of this is that open source projects that allow AI tools will be more restrictive towards new contributors. This already happens to some degree on large software projects with corporate backing (Web engines, compilers, etc.),
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by felipeerias 6mo ago
Claude 4.7 broke something while we were working on several failing tests and justified itself like this: > That's a behavior narrowing I introduced for simplicity. It isn't covered by the failing tests, so you wouldn't ha
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by felipeerias 6mo ago
Nowadays Japan’s fertility rate is higher than most of its neighbours. We are just used to pick it as an example because it started aging earlier than most other countries. Japanese population is still over 120 million. Forecasts put it fal
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by felipeerias 6mo ago
From the article: > Our tests gave models the vulnerable function directly, often with contextual hints (e.g., "consider wraparound behavior").
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by felipeerias 6mo ago
Anthropic gave the model the whole codebase and told it to find a vulnerability on a specific file, iterating across sessions focusing on different files. What happens then is that, for example, the model looks through that particular file,
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by felipeerias 6mo ago
That’s besides the point because most whales were killed in the XX century.
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by felipeerias 6mo ago
People had been hunting whales for centuries, but industrialisation gave them the means and the motivation to do so until near extinction.
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by felipeerias 6mo ago
The US implemented severe immigration restrictions in the 1920s that were lifted gradually over the 1950s–1960s.
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by felipeerias 6mo ago
Several European countries have already fallen in this trap. As pensioners comprise an increasingly large fraction of voters, pandering to them becomes far more politically attractive than investing in the future.
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by felipeerias 6mo ago
A living brain exists physically, changes over time, and never stops working. A brain cut from its body and frozen its a dead brain.
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by felipeerias 6mo ago
A LLM is not intrinsically affected by time. The model rests completely inert until a query comes in, regardless of whether that happens once per second, per minute, or per day. The model is not even aware of these gaps unless that informat
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by felipeerias 6mo ago
LLMs are disembodied and exist outside of time. Bundle of tokens comes in, bundle of tokens comes out. If there is any trace of consciousness or subjectivity in there, it exists only while matrices are being multiplied.
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by felipeerias 6mo ago
If they bundled together these two radically different usage patterns, either the service would become more expensive or the limits would become a lot tighter, in both cases making Claude Code far less attractive to professional users.
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by felipeerias 7mo ago
One could carefully calculate exactly how much a given document in the training set has influenced the LLM's weights involved in a particular response. However, that number would typically be very very very very small, making it hard t
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by felipeerias 7mo ago
The obvious solution is for Anthropic et al. to certify the skills of each user: > “Good at explaining requirements, needs handholding to understand complex algorithms, picky with the wording of comments, slightly higher than average num
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by felipeerias 7mo ago
Planning might end up being more reliable thanks to coding agents: if you want to estimate how long a task would take, just send an agent to do it. If the agent comes back in a few minutes with a tiny fix, it is probably a small task. If th
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by felipeerias 7mo ago
Most people seem to be expecting some kind of quantitative analysis: N developers undertook M tasks with and without access to a given AI tool, here is the statistical evidence that shows (or fails to show) the effect, and this result is va
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by felipeerias 7mo ago
As someone looking at this from outside the US, the whole sequence of events is frankly terrifying. I fear that frontier AI is going to be nationalised for military purposes, not just in the US but across the globe. At the same time, I real
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by felipeerias 7mo ago
It’s a bit more complex than that, but to be fair I don’t know what they were expecting after they integrated a purpose-built model with Palantir to be deployed in high-security networks to carry out classified tasks.
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by felipeerias 7mo ago
Reportedly, Anthropic didn't know about Claude's role in capturing Maduro until they saw it on the headlines.

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