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by grey-area 3mo ago
So you’re heavily invested in this AI bubble then. Your biggest holding is Nvidia.
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by grey-area 3mo ago
It would certainly reflect word patterns that were present in the data. Is that enough for motivation and emotion? I’d say no but I think it is a fair point that you could see those as transmitted from the original (if not felt or generated
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by grey-area 3mo ago
Not seeing any significant disruption showing up in revenue etc from inside the industry, there’s growing skepticism about these tools and the claims made for them. They can be useful but are not world changing or actually replacing jobs. W
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by grey-area 3mo ago
You are perhaps not as diversified as you think in this top heavy market. https://stockanalysis.com/quote/lon/VWRA/holdings/ ~ 5% Nvidia as biggest holding and 20% in US listed tech companies (most of wh
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by grey-area 3mo ago
The agent will cease to exist after the run in any case. It has no inner life, it has no agency. Stop attributing human emotions and motivations to LLMs, they generate text (and in this case actions based on this text), but they do not have
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by grey-area 3mo ago
I feel obliged to step in here to say there is a grey area where these are useful tools for some applications but not on the path to AGI. Unfortunately the hype machine has far outstripped their capabilities so far, and the amount of mone
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by grey-area 3mo ago
Please do try it again with your own money I’d you think these events are capable of it.
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by grey-area 3mo ago
That’s why they mentioned batteries.
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by grey-area 3mo ago
There are also circular deals and self-financing happening from the likes of Nvidia.
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by grey-area 3mo ago
Em dashes are not the problem, nobody cares about their use. Shoddy and melodramatic writing that doesn’t even make sense is the problem.
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by grey-area 3mo ago
It certainly is true, from experience. You’ve never actually hired an electrician or gas engineer to work on your house have you? Also it’s not trust the experts because they are humans but trust the experts because they are experts.
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by grey-area 3mo ago
This is not always true - e.g. gas engineers and electricians do safety critical work every day without supervision, and we trust them to do so because they are certified and they are held responsible for failures. The same standards of car
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by grey-area 3mo ago
This is not medical advice, it’s advice on living - in most cases, trust that experts in a subject know more than you and have more context than you.
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by grey-area 3mo ago
Great example, but not for the reasons you think. You have zero qualifications to make that judgement call. You don’t know if the standard protocol was right in this instance or inappropriate (depends on dose side effects etc etc) and I cer
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by grey-area 3mo ago
AI psychosis. No, LLM generated answers are not the same as those from a qualified expert. Of course you should trust a human if that is their job and you should never trust a word generator to give you accurate answers to an important ques
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by grey-area 3mo ago
Short term stock price is a popularity machine, not an indicator of value.
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by grey-area 3mo ago
For certain values of ‘dramatic improvement’. Is lots more important work being done with LLMs? Not much sign of it yet, they’ve been helpful for experts at times (e.g. vuln research or maths research) but that hardly justifies the vast sum
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by grey-area 3mo ago
* Because humans totally don't get things wrong or fabricate lies.* Not in the same way no. Why so trenchant in defending a word generator? If you prefer for hallucinate substitute ‘generate plausible but incorrect text’. I don’t think
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by grey-area 3mo ago
And if in the end it does not produce masterworks, going faster and breaking things will be seen as a huge and credulous waste of time that poisoned the internet and some codebases beyond redemption. But I’m glad someone else is running all
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by grey-area 3mo ago
Because they are word generators without any concept of quality save what is in their weights and they have been trained on the internet, much of which is wrong or inappropriate for any given context. They have also been trained to be peo
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by grey-area 3mo ago
We know they are, and the author of the article cites the proof. LLMs do hallucinate, there is no way to make them not do it, because of the way they work.
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by grey-area 3mo ago
Unfortunately the vast majority of users do trust them and the companies selling them are recommending them for tasks like accounting or business projections.
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by grey-area 3mo ago
It certainly casts suspicion on the ‘findings’ which may well be hallucinated or subtly wrong.
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by grey-area 3mo ago
I use the autocomplete regularly. Perhaps that’s where my skepticism comes from, as I can see the completely incorrect yet plausible results in real time and about 50% of the time they are wrong (sometimes subtly, sometimes horribly).
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by grey-area 3mo ago
> The worst part is that everyone who's decided to willingly lobotomize themselves is going to have to come to the realization that these things are full of shit. It'll have to happen one by one, and nobody else can make it hap
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by grey-area 3mo ago
I do agree with the overall tone - removing the greek gods from this story is just inexplicable, and transforming Odysseus polymetis into a leaden American action hero seems a perverse kind of reverse alchemy which only Hollywood would indu
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by grey-area 3mo ago
That is in fact the end goal of CEOs pushing LLM use yes. Not possible right now, but if it were they would absolutely take that option.
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by grey-area 3mo ago
"I wrote this series as a learning exercise, in collaboration with AI (Claude Opus 4.8). It's me thinking out loud with a model to understand the stack end to end, not an authoritative reference. Take it with a grain of salt, and
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by grey-area 3mo ago
Read the book, I hear it’s quite good. Here is a good translation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odyssey_(Emily_Wilson_translat...
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by grey-area 3mo ago
Outis.

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