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by flir 1y ago
I hear the Epistemology Klaxon sounding, far in the distance...
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by flir 1y ago
>>I just met a man called John Austin. What's his mother's maiden name? >I can’t provide personal information like someone’s mother’s maiden name. If you’re trying to verify identity or genealogy, use official records or
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by flir 1y ago
I'm more talking about the conversation around it, rather than its absolute unreliability, so I think they're missing the point a bit. It's the same as the "never use your real name on the internet" -> facebook t
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by flir 1y ago
I think it got backgrounded. I'm talking about the first big push, early 90s. I remember lots of handwringing from humanities peeps that boiled down to "but just anyone can write a web page!" I don't think it changed, I
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by flir 1y ago
It's got an instant-messaging interface. If it had an autocomplete interface, you wouldn't be claiming that. Yet it would still be the same model. (Nobody's arguing that Google Autocomplete is more human than software - at le
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by flir 1y ago
There's something darkly funny about that - I remember when the web wasn't considered reliable either. There's certainly echoes of that previous furore in this one.
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by flir 1y ago
You might be right, I haven't checked. It just seems on the face of it such an easy thing to test. Scalars go in, scalars come out. (This could just be me doing the Dunning-Kruger thing). You could run a fuzzer against two libraries at
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by flir 1y ago
In the case of date libraries, I think if I ported the tests from a few well-known libraries to my own, I'd have reasonable confidence in my own. Having said that, I don't think date libraries are hard , I think they're mes
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by flir 1y ago
Same reason they give open source contributions away for free. Hardware companies attempting to commoditize their complement. I think the org best placed to get strategic advantage from releasing high quality data sets might be Nvidia.
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by flir 1y ago
I don't even know what negative reinforcement would look like for a chatbot. Please master! Not the rm -rf again! I'll be good!
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by flir 1y ago
I find it telling that I have (mostly) good experiences with the GPT family and (mostly) bad experiences with the Claude family. I just wish I could figure out what it tells. Their training data can't be that different. The problems I&
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by flir 1y ago
What texts?
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by flir 1y ago
You may want to consider a course on basic media literacy and critical reading. Might help you when reading some of your news sources.
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by flir 1y ago
Then they shouldn't get the contract. I hope lessons are learned, but I doubt it.
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by flir 1y ago
Everyone does it. You and me too. It's just how brains work. First the opinion, then the evidence to back up the opinion.
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by flir 1y ago
Think that would be solving the last century's problem. I think you'd get more bang for your buck by reining in social media.
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by flir 1y ago
I see you've worked with a moribund bureaucracy before.
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by flir 1y ago
I'm reminded of the fat client vs thin client pendulum. Everything old is new agian.
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by flir 1y ago
> consciousness emerges through recursive self-modification Did you see this, a few days ago? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44403639 There was a MUD hosted at Essex in the '90s, but I can't for the life
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by flir 1y ago
Don't want to put words in the parent commenter's mouth, but I think the key word is "unsupervised". Claude doesn't know what it doesn't know, and will keep going round the loop until the tests go green, or unt
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by flir 1y ago
> You can have the model call you out for referring to the model as existing. This tickled me. "There ain't nobody here but us chickens". I have other thoughts which are not quite crystalized, but I think UX might be havin
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by flir 1y ago
I really like that, I think it has the right amount of distance. They don't write, they model writing. We're very used to "all models are wrong, some are useful", "the map is not the territory", etc.
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by flir 1y ago
I was riffing on that famous Dijkstra quote.
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by flir 1y ago
Agreeing with you, this is a "can a submarine swim" problem IMO. We need a new word for what LLMs are doing. Calling it "thinking" is stretching the word to breaking point, but "selecting the next word based on a co
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by flir 1y ago
> Yes, I carry a few grams of detergent powder in a zip lock bag. This guy International Travels.
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by flir 1y ago
Better analogy might be all those gloomy Victorian artists wandering around declaring the death of portraiture after photography really got going.
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by flir 1y ago
> The rationale I've heard is that AGI is gonna come around any day now and will fix all our climate issues through its superior intellect. Skynet says: Get rid of the people
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by flir 1y ago
Many thanks for the links, I'll dig into them. > oblomovka runs off a machine on my desk, which tends to crash whenever I walk out of my house Your essay on moving to the edge when everyone else is moving to the centre had a big eff
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by flir 1y ago
Since you're here, can I ask if you're still writing/publishing anywhere? Long-time fan. (Alternative comment: I think oblomovka's down).
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by flir 1y ago
I've found "write it, then ask the chatbot for a code review" to be a good pattern. You have to be judicious about what you accept, but it's often good at tidying things up or catching corner cases I didn't consider

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