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by ffwd 1y ago
> To untutored common sense, the natural world is filled with irreducibly different kinds of objects and qualities: people; dogs and cats; trees and flowers; rocks, dirt, and water; colors, odors, sounds; heat and cold; meanings and purp
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by ffwd 2y ago
The problem for me is that we haven't conceptualized what we mean by "reduced" consciousness. Reduced in what way? If we create an analogy with audio - audio can have 2 properties: frequencies and volume. Frequencies are the
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by ffwd 2y ago
This is an interesting idea but personally I think the opposite - the universe is not lazy and all details matter at all levels. Like imagine making a complete account of all world views of all people in all of history - all perspectives, a
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by ffwd 2y ago
This is good advice but just a note - the point is to be as simple as possible. With SSL and a good password there is no hacking that I know of. If I started doing a lot of this the file would get bloated and the readability and extensibili
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Show HN: Requiem: No setup PHP scripts for blog, gallery(github.com)
2 points by ffwd 2y ago|3 comments
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by ffwd 2y ago
I agree and I think if there are any hazards to modern information landscape it's kind of 2 fold (that I can think of) 1) the brain likes simple generalized information/models more than specific information and 2) the brain likes
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by ffwd 2y ago
There are two types of gradient though, conceptually. If consciousness is some state of matter that is unknown still, and each neuron, for example, contains "one bit" of consciousness, then the gradient is that as you add more ne
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by ffwd 2y ago
I'm not one to whine about downvotes but I just have to say, it's a bad feeling when I can't even respond to the negative feedback because there is no accompanying comment. Did I misinterpret something? Did you? Who will ever
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by ffwd 2y ago
Just speculating but I think attention enables differentiation of semantic concepts for a word or sentence within a particular context. Like for any total set of training data you have a lesser number of semantic concepts (like let's s
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by ffwd 3y ago
Thanks, I can't write a full reply now (need to think) but for some reason my intuition was, let's say you have a constant punishment signal, and a timer, and if it doesn't solve whatever problem by the time the timer goes do
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by ffwd 3y ago
I don't know much about RL but I was wondering has anyone tried the opposite? Like have a fixed set of actions, and a fixed/ranged movement speed, then a punishment every time it doesn't reach the goal? Or does this not work?
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by ffwd 3y ago
I think there is another aspect to human thinking other than system 1/system 2 though, which is the abstract world model humans have. system 1 / 2 is more like the process, while the world model is the actual data being 'proc
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by ffwd 3y ago
Regarding the dejargonizer - Just be careful of hallucinations! I did a similar gpt prompt where i asked for a simple basics for some complex topic, and sometimes there would be incredibly subtle hallucinations like even on a word basis, an
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by ffwd 3y ago
I have a question which I don't know the answer to: With those structured numbers will the LLMs be 100% accurate on new prompts or will they just be better than chance (even significantly better than chance)? Because this is one thing,
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by ffwd 3y ago
Yet another post about LLMs (but give it a chance!) English is not my first language, I know it is a little rough in places, but I did my best.
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Analysis of LLM's Reasoning Abilities(secondsight.dev)
3 points by ffwd 3y ago|4 comments
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by ffwd 3y ago
I'm just curious, how polysemantic is the human brain with each neuron? Cause it feels to me, what you really want, and what the human brain might have, is a high-information (feature based / conceptual based / macro pattern
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by ffwd 3y ago
Well I can't say any of this for sure but I want to say upfront, I think llm's can in theory do a lot (not sure if most) of the computations a human can do, but it's important to realize, imo, it's not actually stepping
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by ffwd 3y ago
To me predicting the next token is obviously not how humans think. If I ask you to envision a green triangle and a red square next to each other, and then swap the shapes but keep the colors in the same locations, and answer what color is t
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by ffwd 3y ago
I understand the argument but I disagree and would phrase it the other way around. We don't have evidence of conscious experience because we don't have evidence for a division between conscious experience and "existence/
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Database of simple explanations in Computers, Science and more(secondsight.dev)
3 points by ffwd 3y ago|1 comments
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by ffwd 3y ago
In 2022 it was definitely hunger as I stopped eating high calorie stuff completely. But that level of eating was unsustainable and only possible because of the health issue I was forced to. I was basically thinking about food 24/7. How
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by ffwd 3y ago
I actually sleep better when not eating before sleep. Sort of a bigger point about this - last year when I was losing a lot of weight I was eating around 1500 calories per day, and I felt pretty amazing ironically. Felt a lot more energet
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by ffwd 3y ago
I didn't know that's what it was called but yes, it appears it is.
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by ffwd 3y ago
I made a simple rule, but i'm not sure it will work for everyone, but I lost 77 lbs in 2022 due to a health issue and it seems to work. Basically I have to be hungry from 6 pm to 9 am (and not eat), for at least a week, preferably 2 we
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AGI is potentially different from Yudkowsky-style superintelligence(medusa.substack.com)
2 points by ffwd 4y ago|0 comments
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by ffwd 4y ago
I'm going to be contrarian-ish and say that LLM's / ai will never gain the creativity, flexibility and ability to adopt to novel stimuli nor create the new novel thing as much as a skilled human. That's why artists will
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by ffwd 4y ago
I have one slight addendum that didn't fit in the main post character limit (sorry I know this is long) :P: And then my final point is that (and I'm not sure about this exactly), but any action that current AI's do, are essen
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Ask HN: How “real” are AI scaling laws?
1 points by ffwd 4y ago|1 comments
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by ffwd 4y ago
This is my experience with Win 10 as well. In fact I dare say, Win 10 in the past 5 years is one of the best desktop OS's of all time. No crashes, perfect customizability to turn off things, fast and responsive. However that said, I&#x

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