huurtehoog

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by huurtehoog 2mo ago
Unable to contest? The models do what they do. There is no sign of any LLM based system as a drop-in replacement for people. The capability of this technology is a matter of fact, not opinion. Their supposed future capabilities is a matter
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by huurtehoog 2mo ago
I don't understand what's your point. How does the existence of copyright breach bears on the fact that Xanadu was a fever dream and not a real solution to real problems and hence consigned to the list of fanciful technologies tha
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by huurtehoog 2mo ago
Computers have been at the center of civilization and politics since they helped win a war by changing intelligence work forever in WWII. The idea that some new thing was born with LLMs and that this new thing fundamentally changes the calc
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by huurtehoog 2mo ago
Text renderer, whatever. Doesn't matter how you think of them, they are very interesting technology that is being misused and misconstrued in the name of something that has nothing to do with technology: political economy. The greatest
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by huurtehoog 2mo ago
Xanadu suffered from the same disease as the world building hobby of amateur writers. In the absence of adversarial dynamics, anything you dream up seems possible. But reality is bound by predator-prey dynamics that sap the free energy from
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by huurtehoog 2mo ago
Intending to solve a concrete problem doesn't automatically mean a product designed under that intent in fact solves a concrete problem. The paragraph above the phrase you quote, addressing the very principles you mention: "Most o
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by huurtehoog 2mo ago
That's actually a great example. Massive resources have been poured into the automobile, they have a massive environmental, health, and social impact, and it is not clear at all too me the auto industry has been a net positive. In a se
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by huurtehoog 2mo ago
That's a lot of words for "soon, you'll see" which is just as good as mine "yeah, we'll see alright". Since those are purely opinions, there's no point in debating them. Thanks for sharing though. Whe
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by huurtehoog 2mo ago
No, I'm saying that going to live in a cabin in the woods if you want to is great, not so much if you do it for running out of options. Not a hard concept to grasp. Whether smartphones are optional or not depends on a lot of factors.
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by huurtehoog 2mo ago
Probably because they intend to sell aircraft, not electric motors.
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by huurtehoog 2mo ago
You can't see a difference between will and constrain? Force-feeding for example is torture, despite how much one may like eating.
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by huurtehoog 2mo ago
Is the massive value being created by LLMs in the room with us right now?
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by huurtehoog 2mo ago
> As soon as the abilities of the "chatbots" near that of the average human (a point that we are fast approaching if we haven't reached it already) That is entirely not clear. Besides, these tools are limited to producing
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by huurtehoog 2mo ago
My point is not that putting your money where your mouth is or shut up. My point is: all analysis is contingent, there is no point in saying bulls or bears are chronically wrong or that they should beat the market to merit being listened to
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by huurtehoog 2mo ago
Anything that fosters complexity will create jobs. Jobs won't dissolve into the ether. If the human civilization system grows bigger and complex, it necessitates more people. If humans were a high energy configuration in the evolution
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by huurtehoog 2mo ago
"My car went rogue, I put a brick in my car's accelerator pedal and jumped off and it cause a massive pile up" Please
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by huurtehoog 2mo ago
Every transaction in the financial market is a bet with two sides with opposite beliefs. I don't get why people make such a big deal off bears and bulls. Everyone is on one of these sides at every investment they make or liquidate.
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by huurtehoog 2mo ago
"[I]n an information-rich world, the wealth of information means a dearth of something else: a scarcity of whatever it is that information consumes. What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipien
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by huurtehoog 2mo ago
AI, like automation, means different things and these are often conflated. AI can mean roughly 'advanced software functionality' but it can also convey the intention of somehow getting output with higher value than the input avail
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by huurtehoog 2mo ago
"Gifted" (high IQ) children drop out of school at a staggering rate, something like 25%. I was doing some reading on cognitive science today and found this tidbit. High IQ is weakly co-related with income, avoiding prison, and lon
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by huurtehoog 2mo ago
Good code enables easy code. Easy code engenders bad code. Bad code necessitates good code. For all the 'revolutions' in programming computers, DARPA is hailing formal methods as the big thing in computer security now. Boom and bu
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by huurtehoog 2mo ago
Which has been the business model for a big chunk of the software industry for a while now. If you watch videos from the 1980s about computers, it's all the same unfulfilled promises as "AI" now: we will work less, everything
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by huurtehoog 2mo ago
The oldest 'sumerian king list' tablets found date from the Sumerian 'restoration' after Akkad, not 'Akkadian restoration' From what we gather, around 2300/2200 BCE the very first territorial empire know
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by huurtehoog 2mo ago
I'm sorry I expressed myself a bit poorly. I don't mean to say we don't know how to read the numbers. I mean we might be reading as a literal numeral something that was meant to be read in a slightly or completely different w
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by huurtehoog 2mo ago
Yes this is a more concise and less informative version of what I said. I thought my perspective would be interesting since I held 4000 year old tablets in my hands and studied with Assyriologists at the top of the field but what do I know?
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by huurtehoog 2mo ago
Most likely explanation is we're misreading some antique number system. Our interpretation of Sumerian numbering is tentative at best. The major indicator for accuracy was that early on a few different scholars converged on the same tr
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by huurtehoog 2mo ago
You have merely described vertical integration and something that isn't vertical integration and claimed they are the same thing.
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by huurtehoog 2mo ago
In world war II testing of homing torpedoes had the same fluke. I think the problem with automation is seeking general automation. The word can have two opposed meanings: constrained behavior, as in "if X happens, the system will autom
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by huurtehoog 2mo ago
Have you seen the numbers for public companies? We can't discuss the finance of private companies so we have to wait for their IPO, acquisition by some public company, or bankruptcy to find out more. The story written in the public num
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by huurtehoog 2mo ago
"Horizontal integration is the process of a company increasing production of goods or services at the same level of the value chain, in the same industry . A company may do this via internal expansion or through mergers and acquisitio

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