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by hnfong 3y ago
I didn't read the original comment as saying the data was fraudulent. They were just doubting that "these metrics are a meaningful representation of economic reality", which includes buying a house. If I'm not mistaken,
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by hnfong 3y ago
2063: Your MetaFeed has not been accessed for 7 days in a row. Due to the inactivity, your MetaReality Bank account has been suspended. This is to protect all parties from potential unauthorized intrusion. You have 7 days grace period to co
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by hnfong 3y ago
In a deterministic physical world, all actions are based on the last state. So your actions are based on the state of the universe a split second prior. Why would you think anyone could innovate? (Ecclesiastes 1:9 - What has been will be
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by hnfong 3y ago
I totally agree, but want to add two observations: 1. Humanity has already been on the path of exponential growth. Take GDP for example. We measure GDP growth by percentages, and that's exponential. (Of course, real GDP growth has stag
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by hnfong 3y ago
> I would not have been surprised if the answer was also 5% Given the sensitivity of the market with any company perceived to be lagging behind AI developments, I wouldn't be surprised that their stock price would drop by a couple
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by hnfong 3y ago
... "by the content of their messages".
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by hnfong 3y ago
Ironically they can only do that without the trig functions. Imagine asking somebody on Bloomberg how they would model and quantify the "economic cycle" using trig. :D
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by hnfong 3y ago
> advanced math there is no place to hide flawed logical thinking If that's what you think, your math isn't advanced enough :P (disclosure: neither is mine) These days mathematical proofs tend to be dozens of pages long and req
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by hnfong 3y ago
Ah yes, and the few times I actually use a pen to write, 90+% I'm filling in a form that requires me to write in block letters...
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by hnfong 3y ago
Reminds me of SBF's mum being a professor in legal ethics and moral philosophy...
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by hnfong 3y ago
I think there's a lot of confusion overall. There's confusion over the correlation of education vs ability to make good decisions -- I don't think the causal relationship between learning maths/logic and better decision
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by hnfong 3y ago
The teachers who grew up without computers wouldn't change the curriculum because they wouldn't see the point. Even those who grew up with computers might not have realized you could solve problems easily with computers instead of
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by hnfong 3y ago
> It really should be "write software with a formal spec". The code is already a formal spec. Unless there are bugs in the language/compiler/interpreter, what the code is essentially formally well defined. As programm
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by hnfong 3y ago
> A formal spec isn't just ordinary source-code by another name, it's at a quite different level of abstraction This is the fallacy people have when thinking they can "prove" anything useful with formal systems. Code
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by hnfong 3y ago
Make the science complicated enough that it could be confused for another complicated thing that we don’t fully understand.
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by hnfong 3y ago
Yes, but we're talking about the judiciary here, not restaurants... Surely they'd have a minimal IT department...
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by hnfong 3y ago
Having a cert from a validated *.gov CA doesn’t seem that complicated, or at least, should be “just as complicated” as setting up properly TLs certs. Getting the tech adopted might be difficult (like you say some judges may not see the poin
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by hnfong 3y ago
What you say is true, but unless you have a way to eliminate poverty, the moral imperative doesn't provide a solution. It doesn't make sense to outlaw poor people. And paradoxically, at least under context of international trade,
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by hnfong 3y ago
So, as an ethnic Chinese, when I make spaghetti carbonara in the United States, I'm making "Chinese food"? Interesting. I haven't made or eaten crab rangoon before, so does this fact make spaghetti carbonara "more C
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by hnfong 3y ago
Yes. But the bar for creativity is very low for a work to be considered copyrightable. See eg https://www.copyright.gov/comp3/chap300/ch300-copyrightable-... 308.2 Creativity A work of authorship must possess “som
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by hnfong 3y ago
Your link suggests downloading nightly previews and v1.12 torch which are both slightly out of date info.
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by hnfong 3y ago
I'm not saying they lie about it, but as a hypothetical there could be many reasons to lie. - realizing their model leaks confidential information against malicious prompts - copyright claims against them forcing them to remove bits of
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by hnfong 3y ago
There's a difference between "you/I can audit it" and "we (collectively) can audit it". You're not living in a vacuum. The more users (and perhaps more importantly, contributors) an open source product has
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by hnfong 3y ago
CUDA is their main moat, so presumably they don't want to risk having open source drivers provide outsiders an insight to how their hardware works...
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by hnfong 3y ago
OpenAI requires a working phone number to sign up, and a credit card to use various features. So they just block the phone numbers (which has a country code), and credit cards (which owner/issuer's country info is available). Not
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by hnfong 3y ago
It's definitely not a commercial thing but political. I'm located in Hong Kong and using Hong Kong credit cards have never been a problem with online merchants. I don't think Hong Kong credit cards are particularly bad with c
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by hnfong 3y ago
The Turing Test was one of the goal posts for establishing intelligence , I don't think it was one for establishing humanity . I mean, at least some murderers are intelligent. But without an acceptable moral compass, does intelligenc
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by hnfong 3y ago
> LLMs are trained on text and images and are disembodied. Are we sure we aren't the same? In fact, I'd argue that we "humans" have no way to tell whether we're actually human, or whether we're inside a simu
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by hnfong 3y ago
In so far as Hong Kong IPs are "Chinese IPs", we can access OpenAI's website, but their signup and login pages blocks Hong Kong phone numbers, credit cards and IP addresses. Curiously, the OpenAI API endpoints works flawlessl
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by hnfong 3y ago
OpenAI does not allow users from China, including Hong Kong. Hong Kong generally does not have a Great Firewall, so the only thing preventing Hong Kong users from using ChatGPT is Open AI's policy. They don't allow registration fr

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