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by habinero 2y ago
Agree. It's also a virtue to point out the emperor has no clothes and the tailor peddling them is a bullshit artist. This is no different than the crypto people who insisted the blockchain would soon be revolutionary and used for every
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by habinero 2y ago
What? That's (1) not true and (2) says, uh, a lot of unintentional things about the way you approach the world. I'm not sure you realize quite how it makes you look. For one, it's not even internally consistent -- the people
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by habinero 2y ago
This is highly misleading. ChatGPT did not ace the bar exam -- it was basically percentile graded against a group of people who mostly failed. If compared to real lawyers, it was 15th percentile on the essay portion [0] https://l
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by habinero 2y ago
Using language like "thinking" doesn't bother me. I'm not a stickler for precision language in colloquial speech. I do think it's important to deflate the hype and give context to what you mean by "thinking&q
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by habinero 2y ago
"Obviously" is doing some heavy lifting there. I don't think it's obvious at all. What is obvious is people are seeing patterns in the output where there are none. We're hardwired for pattern-seeking and we&#x27
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by habinero 2y ago
You can find all kinds of ridiculous people online, and they're all mostly harmless. I mean, every LLM post on HN gets people writing fanfic about how AI is developing human intelligence and other silly things. There's frankly no
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by habinero 2y ago
The reason you get different answers is there's randomness built into generating text from the statistical model. It's not any more complex than that.
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by habinero 2y ago
It's an accurate description, though. People are running around convincing themselves that the RNG text generator is alive and it's worth slapping some sense into them.
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by habinero 2y ago
No, it's a set of straw buyers for Alex Jones.
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by habinero 2y ago
Yes, the set of Sandy Hook parents who won $1.5B would normally get essentially everything, but the Onion agreement had the minority creditors get a lot more money.
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by habinero 2y ago
No, Legal Eagle covered the sale, and the agreement giving it to the Onion maximized the proceeds to both of the Sandy Hook groups that have won judgement against Alex Jones. With the sale to Alex Jones's set of straw buyers, that wa
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by habinero 2y ago
The owners of Clever Hans thought he could really do math, too.
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by habinero 2y ago
> When legal tender cannot be used for legal transactions, there is a problem Why? Something being legal for you doesn't make it compulsory for others. With limited exceptions, nobody is required to do business with you. Also, I mus
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by habinero 2y ago
The idea of making people with 19th century views actually live in 19th century conditions is extremely amusing. We could try it, sure. On a more serious note, I don't think it's accurate or fair to say it's merely because
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by habinero 2y ago
That's a, uh, rather overheated statement and ironically, a very Western point of view. Japan is one of the richest nations in the world, they can (and do) run their own payments systems. Also, it's risible to call that stuff Japa
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by habinero 2y ago
It sounds like you're asking it to rephrase until it spits out something you like. That's not "the good stuff", you've just turned it into robo-Clever Hans.
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by habinero 2y ago
It can't do any of that, though. There's no thought or reasoning behind anything LLMs generate, it's just a statistical pile of stuff. It's never going to generate anything new. It literally can't. However, they ar
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by habinero 2y ago
Yeah, it's pretty decent when you're doing the nuts and bolts scaffolding part of coding. Something like creating an ORM database table class, where all the fields are predictable and it's just a matter of writing out the rig
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by habinero 2y ago
I just want to point out that you're skeptical of this author and publication because of their politics, but also you're taking the article at face value as a full and complete description of the situation. If _you_ didn't do
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by habinero 2y ago
Well, if you looked into the subject at all, you'd learn that these dams are obsolete and don't generate much, if any, hydropower. They were usually put in place before we had a power grid.
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by habinero 2y ago
You're letting your prejudices jump you to wrong conclusions about what's going on. While it might be politically pleasurable to imagine a bunch of ivory tower idiots, the real reason driving dam removal isn't salmon, it&#x27
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by habinero 2y ago
No. Dam removal is driven primarily by practicality. The environmental piece is a lovely bonus, but the truth is these dams are obsolete, end-of-life and will eventually fail. Leaving them in place is not an option, they either need to be r
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by habinero 2y ago
I'm convinced cats violate energy conservation, because they can shed an infinite amount of fur.
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by habinero 2y ago
No, it's different. Brain zaps feel like a little unpleasant jolt of static electricity in your brain. They're hard to describe. It's not exactly painful but it's not pleasant. For all the doom and gloom of SSRIs, I have
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by habinero 2y ago
I really don't think mandate to include a -- let's be generous -- $1 AM radio in a car in case of emergencies will lead to communism.
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by habinero 2y ago
Except nobody is actually trying to do that, so the argument is irrelevant.
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by habinero 2y ago
That's a risibly untenable idea for several reasons. For one, the company presumably finds out you were lying when you got hurt or died. So you -- the person who made the contract -- are not the one who gets punished for lying. Instead
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by habinero 2y ago
You're ironically vastly overestimating the cops. It's not that they have good intel, it's that it's copaganda. They'll just make something up for publicity if they don't get something useful.
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by habinero 2y ago
Only for certain protected activities like employment or housing, otherwise it's entirely legal to be a bigot.
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by habinero 2y ago
If JKR is your worst example of feminism, we're just fine. She's extremely wealthy, popular, and 100% not in jail.

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