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by gonzobonzo 1y ago
My guess is that LLM's are bridge technology, the equivalent of cassette tapes. A big step forward, allowing things that we couldn't before. But before long they'll be surpassed by much better technology, and future generatio
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by gonzobonzo 1y ago
> I see so many people loving Gibson and crediting him for inventing the genre whole cloth, but of course he didn't! He probably came as close as an author could to inventing the genre whole cloth. No one's claiming that Gibson
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by gonzobonzo 1y ago
Those could probably be mitigated pretty easily in testing situations. For example, making sure all participants had a delay in chat conversations, or running correspondence through an LLM to equalize the personality. However, I'm not
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by gonzobonzo 1y ago
I agree, I think of that as the next level beyond the digital assistant test - a physical assistant test. Once there are sufficiently capable robots, hook one up to the AI. Tell it to mow your lawn, drive your car to the mechanic and have t
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by gonzobonzo 1y ago
I agree with you but I'll go a step further - these benchmarks are a good example of how far we are from AGI. A good base test would be to give a manager a mixed team of remote workers, half being human and half being AI, and seeing if
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by gonzobonzo 1y ago
The opposite really. People don't get called a bigot for saying the Lindbergh was a Nazi sympathizer or that Columbus had a bad plan and was only saved by dumb luck. Which is why those facts are much more well known than the facts abou
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by gonzobonzo 1y ago
> He told me that Earhart was a reckless pilot I was surprised to learn the same once I started diving into her history. She definitely was a media phenomenon, with her public image largely manufactured by her publicist husband. Her sto
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by gonzobonzo 1y ago
This is a problem with these solutions in general. Most of them are offering generic friends, as if everyone is interchangeable and you just need to sit two people together to make things work. And some people need that, or at least claim t
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by gonzobonzo 1y ago
> Conversely, if we're noticing what people actually do, you'll realize close to zero people who want to pursue computer science are doing it on their own. That's not true though? Many people are trying to increase their C
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by gonzobonzo 1y ago
Talk is cheap; if you want to see what people really believe, ignore what they claim and look at what they actually do. And when you do that, you see that people generally don't find typical college classes to be worth it outside of th
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by gonzobonzo 1y ago
> Indeed. In fact, I think AI alignment efforts often have the unintended consequence of increasing the likelihood of misalignment. Particularly since, in this case, it's the alignment focused company (Anthropic) that's claimin
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by gonzobonzo 1y ago
> Every conclusion that follows is only logical if you go with a completely nonsensical assumption. He specifically said that his father had enough money, and the issue was specifically paying for school lunches. Unless they literally wo
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by gonzobonzo 1y ago
The OP wouldn't have starved. There appears to have been food in the house the OP could have taken, but the OP didn't because he wanted his father to, in his words, "buy lunch food." You'll note that he says his fam
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by gonzobonzo 1y ago
That's mostly it. If you want to dive into the details, I recommend this debate[1]. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AFtgZP6Aa8&t=803s
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by gonzobonzo 1y ago
> Nobody should force schoolchildren to memorize them all. Just tell them that there are an unknown number of objects in the Kuiper belt and the Oort cloud and they’ll know as much as they need to know. Or just tell them that there'
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by gonzobonzo 1y ago
> The bigger difference is that Mercedes’ system only works on highways, under 40 mph, and you need a car in front of you that it essentially follows. And geofenced to specific highways, only during the day and during good weather. It&#x
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by gonzobonzo 1y ago
I just checked out Mercedes, and it appears to be geofenced with a lot of restrictions[1]: > DRIVE PILOT can be activated in heavy traffic jams at a speed of 40 MPH or less on a pre-defined freeway network approved by Mercedes-Benz. DRIV
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by gonzobonzo 1y ago
The first list appears to come from one U.N. report where they're using completely different standards for different cities - some are using population estimates for the municipality, others population estimates of just the urban core,
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by gonzobonzo 1y ago
Right. The fact that someone so terrible got 99% approval and only one anonymous investigator was able to stop them makes me think that it's likely a lot of other terrible admins who didn't have an anonymous investigator go after
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by gonzobonzo 1y ago
> But the arguments made against it seem quite biased towards Tesla: "However, this entire test scenario is so out of left field… there is a good likelihood this same test would fool some human drivers as well" The argument see
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by gonzobonzo 1y ago
You didn't address the actual issue. Looking at your claim: "I was a voracious reader, but I had a collegiate reading level since i was 6 or 7 and the books available to us in our school library just weren't cutting it. I als
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by gonzobonzo 1y ago
> Western societies basically don’t have extended families as an important social unit at all Like with low birth rates, this appears to stem more from modernity than anything else. Both Western and non-Western societies placed more of
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by gonzobonzo 1y ago
> Do you always immediately disregard what people say in favor of your own beliefs? It's the internet, it's easy for people to make claims, and we have to use our own faculties to try to guess at the accuracy of these claims. T
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by gonzobonzo 1y ago
Good point. One of the things that always strikes me as extremely dishonest about these conversations is when people pretend that libraries aren't curated collections. Usually with the librarians as gatekeepers, sometimes with others.
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by gonzobonzo 1y ago
I can't access the first source for that Wikipedia quote, but the second is a defunct website created by a graduate student. The fact that they're using it in the introduction for an article about the nuclear family is a good reas
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by gonzobonzo 2y ago
> what was the last collider worth building?...It's perfectly rational and intellectually honest to say "whichever one gave us something that got commercialized / helped people / etc." It seems like the LHC would
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by gonzobonzo 2y ago
> One of them stopped talking to me for reasons I don't understand. This is relatively common from what I've seen. People who just ghost a friend, or ghost an entire groups of friends. A lot of the times it's because they&
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by gonzobonzo 2y ago
Even more so when you see how quickly these coalitions will shift their beliefs or take on new beliefs when they’re signaled to do so by leaders of the coalition. You often see this in real time during political conversations (both online a
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by gonzobonzo 2y ago
> The number of students there because they want to learn a subject rounds to zero. Further - even if someone wants to learn these subjects, most don't see the value in paying for a college course to learn them. Close to no one, aft
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by gonzobonzo 2y ago
> You will need to cite specific examples for this argument to hold any water Statements like these makes me realize that many people don't really have a grasp of the state of things at the time. The Incan Empire didn't have a

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