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by hackinthebochs 1mo ago
The stacked transformer paradigm picks out points in circuit design space. It is very possible this architecture has no inherent limitations on what it can compute in principle.
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by hackinthebochs 1mo ago
Yes, they have some alien failure modes. But that should be expect, they are an alien intelligence. I might be willing to grant that a lack of ability to reflect on its own level of knowledge is a demerit to it being generally intelligent.
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by hackinthebochs 1mo ago
But it's not relevant as a metric to gauge distance to human intelligence. Humans see individual letters, LLMs do not. If I asked you the relative activation of the cones in your retina as I showed you some solid color image, you could
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by hackinthebochs 1mo ago
Tokens are the most basic input unit of an LLM. But tokens don't generally correspond to words or letters, rather sub-word sequences. So Strawberry might be broken up into two tokens 'straw' and 'berry'. It has trou
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by hackinthebochs 1mo ago
>You said “Given causal closure, any causal influence is explained by prior physical events, thus bypassing any relevance of this special property.” You're taking the sentence out of context and missing the work it is doing. Given s
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by hackinthebochs 1mo ago
A corollary of causal exclusion is that two causally identical systems have identical explanations for identical physical events. If you posit some property of a substrate purported to be relevant for consciousness, it will either have a ca
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by hackinthebochs 1mo ago
It only takes a finite number of rules to generate a mapping between unbounded strings of finite symbols. The brain doesn't contain an infinite amount of information after all.
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by hackinthebochs 1mo ago
Causal integration + causal closure is a wrap for non-abstract theories. The so-called biological theories of consciousness are just wishful thinking.
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by hackinthebochs 1mo ago
One's subconscious drives much of your thoughts, yes. But important decisions are conscious mediated if only because consciousness has veto power. A lack of veto is a tacit endorsement of the action. That is control.
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by hackinthebochs 1mo ago
The democratization of intelligence is irrelevant if there isn't also a corresponding democratization of raw resources. In the before-times, labor and intelligence were bottlenecks to turning raw resources into wealth. This is what dro
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by hackinthebochs 1mo ago
It's really the only live option once the issues are properly understood. Causal closure: a physical event is explanatorily exhausted by prior physical events. Causal exclusion: if physical properties fully cause/explain everythin
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by hackinthebochs 1mo ago
If you're referring to the Libet experiments, they have been wildly overinterpreted. The conceptual problem with the common interpretation is that detecting a readiness potential prior to a report of a conscious intention to act does n
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by hackinthebochs 1mo ago
This just alters the thought experiment. What the thought experiment offers is a book of opaque rules, just instructions on how to transform symbols into more symbols without any concern for their meaning. What you're offering is a tra
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by hackinthebochs 1mo ago
>How does a person's brain containing all the facts, information, and skills that it needs to have a fluent conversation in Chinese imply that the person understands Chinese? How does it not!? Notice that the man while having memori
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by hackinthebochs 1mo ago
>So why would it be different for the brain? If nuclear energy can’t arise from abstract relationships, why would consciousness or anything else? Because consciousness isn't something the brain produces like a hormone or an excited
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by hackinthebochs 2mo ago
Pair programming is the extroverts answer to the solitariness of software development. They love it while everyone else is hating their existence. It works for short stints to solve specific problems but anything beyond that is just gratuit
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by hackinthebochs 2mo ago
I really don't know where you're coming from. You seem to be imagining that the law requires some kind of cryptographically validated age attestation. The law requires nothing of the sort. It's just an age field associated wi
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by hackinthebochs 2mo ago
>Also children can "come upon" devices Yes, this mechanism isn't perfect, but is a substantial improvement over the status quo. >and now that's stuck with the verified age set. This inference is nonsensical. >If
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by hackinthebochs 2mo ago
>but why can't the websites just ask me for my self declared age? Because children just click through the age gate when it suits them. With this legislation, a parent that purchases the device and creates an account for the child ca
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by hackinthebochs 2mo ago
Why are you people in such a hurry to have facebook et al collecting government IDs?
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by hackinthebochs 2mo ago
Parents already have the ability to do this, at least when it comes to porn. The fact is that most parents aren't doing it. Hence the push for legislation that increase the uptake of content blocks for minors.
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by hackinthebochs 2mo ago
There's something to be said for realizing which way the winds are blowing and getting ahead of it. The fight against any and all age gating on the internet is already lost. The question is what will the system look like once it comes
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by hackinthebochs 2mo ago
The breathless fearmongering over an age field on account set up is just completely over-the-top. This is probably the least bad out of all possible ways to implement age checking. The benefit of this is that it can short-circuit support fo
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by hackinthebochs 2mo ago
What does "hold these companies responsible" look like to you? I see a lot of empty rhetoric without things being spelled out. If you just want these companies to not exist, just say that.
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by hackinthebochs 2mo ago
Why exactly are some of you guys advocating for platforms to have increased responsibility for verifying the age of their users? Why exactly do you want platforms to collect government IDs or contract with third party ID brokers? How is tha
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by hackinthebochs 2mo ago
Yeah, we really should just storm the facility where Musk is hoarding all the worlds bread and meat. Wealth in terms of capital doesn't represent material goods, it represents the system's confidence in your ability to direct capi
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by hackinthebochs 3mo ago
While that's true, it's unrelated to hosting code. A reliable code hosting site should be agnostic to content. Once they start making editorial decisions about what projects to host, why should anyone trust them with their project
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by hackinthebochs 3mo ago
I'm also banned from the site for some reason despite never having been there before. Though I suspect my IP is on someone's naughty list for some reason seeing as I get far more captchas on the internet than I feel I should be ge
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by hackinthebochs 3mo ago
A news aggregator is a community above all. Upvoting content that you may not personally be interested in but will attract the right people is a net benefit for the community[1]. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4457
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by hackinthebochs 3mo ago
Thanks, seems comprehensive

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