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by globnomulous 2y ago
I can't tell whether this impenetrable comment contains anything other than posturing/name dropping. Congrats on your work, I think?
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by globnomulous 2y ago
I live for these satisfying moments of simple, pithy, indisputable proof/disproof.
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by globnomulous 2y ago
This rings true. I deeply regret not keeping my father's philosophy library, especially his Wittgenstein shelves.
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by globnomulous 2y ago
> Indeed, we have no good reason to think there's any at all -- unless, again, we think other programs do as well. And this is equivalent to saying there's a dog in my computer when I open a photo of a dog. It treats the simula
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by globnomulous 2y ago
Thanks for explaining. I see what you're getting at now. Here I think it's helpful to distinguish between what something is and how it's known. When we see something that resembles reasoning, we very reasonably deduce that re
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by globnomulous 2y ago
What you're saying doesn't contradict what I wrote. I said models are trained. You're saying they're trained and fine tuned -- i.e. continue to be trained. I also didn't say they do any kind of parroting or that log
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by globnomulous 2y ago
That isn't the argument. I've stated the argument twice. My longer response to you starts by stating the core of the argument as succinctly and clearly as I can. That's the first paragraph of the post. Not only are you still
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by globnomulous 2y ago
I'm not saying "they predict tokens; therefore, they can't reason." I'm saying "something that can't reason can predict tokens, so prediction isn't evidence of reasoning." More specifically, my c
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by globnomulous 2y ago
I'm not sure what you're getting at. Could you explain?
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by globnomulous 2y ago
> The reason so much writing, podcasting, and music is vulnerable to AI disruption is that quality has already become secondary. They're vulnerable because people aren't random. Most of what we do can be modeled statistically a
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by globnomulous 2y ago
These aren't "general" models. They're statistical models. They're autocorrect or autocomplete on steroids -- and autocorrect/autocomplete don't require symbolic reasoning. It's also not at all clear
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by globnomulous 2y ago
This should reduce carbon emissions, but the dow.stream consequences seem complex and difficult to anticipate. For instance, what happens to human consumption of other resources when energy becomes essentially free? How much cheaper does it
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by globnomulous 2y ago
> the invention of agriculture revolutionized access to food at a fundamental level And human health didn't recover for thousands of years
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by globnomulous 3y ago
In my case, even closing an account wasn't sufficient. A charge posted to a credit card I'd closed more than a year prior, and the card issuer was legally obligated to process the charge because of the renewal contract that appare
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by globnomulous 4y ago
Huh, I guess that's where Schopenhauer gets it
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by globnomulous 5y ago
Late 30s here. I got started -- with no background in science, stem, or programming -- in my early 30s. I'm an SDE at a FAANG company now and love every minute of work. The six-month bootcamp I attended was disappointing, but it got th
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by globnomulous 5y ago
> It doesn't stop with PhD. You need multiple postdocs to get an academic job by when you are well into the thirties Not true in many fields, and by the time most people have postdocs, they're makibg decent enough money that th
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by globnomulous 5y ago
Right, that's true. I just figured I'd offer a perspective that I haven't seen yet in the thread. Crappy programs are, in my view, a sham, but in my field they're still a pathway to stable work. There are plenty of schoo
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by globnomulous 5y ago
> Everyone starts a PhD with love for knowledge This isn't true, especially in stem and the sciences. > They are better off with a Masters and having a good career and then spending spare time on pursuing knowledge. In most place
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by globnomulous 5y ago
Nearly everybody who finished a PhD in the top-tier humanities graduate program I attended got an academic position. Those who didn't didn't deserve it, hadn't done the work, weren't capable of it, or were so personally
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by globnomulous 5y ago
Could you not attach it to a subnet, and attach the subnet to a network security group, and then do what's needed in the network security group? Maybe there are regional restrictions that I'm unaware of. Edit: oh, no, you just nee
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by globnomulous 5y ago
And WASM isn't meant to replace JavaScript. Last time I checked, its use was discouraged for general-purpose web development. It's meant to be invoked in JavaScript, not the one tool used when writing an entire web app. If you wan
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by globnomulous 5y ago
TypeScript doesn't run in the browser.
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by globnomulous 7y ago
I just started the first video. This guy is a phenomenal lecturer. Thank you for posting the link!
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by globnomulous 7y ago
My former field, in the humanities, prizes clear, direct writing and doesn't suffer bullshit or needless density. It's one of my favorite aspects of the discipline and its culture.
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by globnomulous 7y ago
This is amazing. My training is in languages, and I would love to contribute to this. Holy shit, they even have "going forward." I love, love, love this.