imperfect_light

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by imperfect_light 2y ago
He's said it pretty clearly, an LLM could be part of the solution in combination with program synthesis, but an LLM alone won't achieve AGI.
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by imperfect_light 2y ago
You're reading a whole lot into a tweet, in his interview with Dwarkesh Patel he says, about 20 different times, that scaling LLMs (as they are currently conceived) won't lead to AGI.
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by imperfect_light 2y ago
The stretch was in reference to comparing Chollet to Einstein. Chollet clearly understands LLMs (and transformers and deep learning), he simply doesn't believe they are sufficient for AGI.
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by imperfect_light 2y ago
A bit of a stretch given that Chollet is a researcher in deep learning and transformers and his criticism is that memorization (training LLMs on lots and lots of problems) doesn't equate to AGI.
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by imperfect_light 2y ago
Did you listen to what Chollet said? How much of LLM improvements are due to enlarging the training sets to cover more problems and how much is due to any emergent properties?
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by imperfect_light 2y ago
ChatGPT agrees, "The likelihood that this was written by a chatbot is relatively high"
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by imperfect_light 2y ago
It should determine your adherence to traffic laws based on your social score. Musk, Thiel, Altman, Andreessen? Do whatever the hell you want, laws don't apply to you. /s
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by imperfect_light 2y ago
The board should have been transparent about the dishonesty, especially around financial stakes, and I suspect the OpenAI employees and MSFT would have reacted differently.
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by imperfect_light 2y ago
This isn't lying about product philosophy, lying about your financial stake in an OpenAI VC group would be grounds for dismissal from any company.
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by imperfect_light 2y ago
The denominator in this graph is houses, not people, so adult children living/not living at home would have no impact.
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by imperfect_light 2y ago
First of all, agreed that housing prices are insane, even two-income households struggle to buy in my city. But taking a more long-term view, in the US the owner-occupied housing rate about 65%, which has not changed a ton in the last 50-60
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by imperfect_light 2y ago
We used to have housing of last resort, places like SROs that were unpleasant but cheap (and to be fair, they were often firetraps). But then we decided it was inhumane so we banned or greatly restricted them, and surprise, the people that
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by imperfect_light 2y ago
Wait, impartial is the measure now? The most-read newspaper in Israel, Israel Hayom, is owned by a friend of Bibi. Is it impartial? Should it be shut down?
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by imperfect_light 2y ago
This is the libertarian argument that since businesses try to maximize profits, they would not do things like discriminate, pollute or defraud because in the long-term it would hurt profits. The reality is businesses (including organized cr
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by imperfect_light 2y ago
How is that a counterargument? "Relax, parents regularly beat their kids with sticks for centuries and they were fine.."
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by imperfect_light 3y ago
My first thought is that this was an attempt at satire, but now I realize it's a privileged Western person who has never traveled to a poor country and thinks that if these workers weren't labeling data they'd be self-actuali
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by imperfect_light 3y ago
So if it's mostly automated then why are they abandoning it after investing so much time and energy?
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by imperfect_light 3y ago
Wonder if that 30% include the cases where someone walks in, strolls around, and walks out without buying something? Which I see people do all the time, interested in the concept.
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by imperfect_light 3y ago
If it was just a matter of building up a large enough training set and corresponding model do you really think Amazon would be abandoning a technology they spent so much time, money and resources on, in a somewhat embarassing manner?
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by imperfect_light 3y ago
You can buy options (puts and calls) for three years out. Shorting a stock for that long would be a recipe for disaster, at some point it's going to go up and you're going to lose it all. Remember when you buy long your positive
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by imperfect_light 3y ago
>So the market price for a company tends to favor short-term cash extraction over long-term value creation. Then why did markets favor companies that literally made no profits for years, Amazon and Uber being examples?
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by imperfect_light 3y ago
More broadly, what percentage of mergers are successful? I'd guess less than 20% if compared to the analyses that make them attractive to companies. I've been involved (at the worker bee level) in multiple mergers and in every ca
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by imperfect_light 3y ago
The variation in price is crazy, $80/MWH for Atlantic vs. $20-$30 for many other regions?
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by imperfect_light 3y ago
It's because in many of these fields (medical, dentistry etc) professionals are making decisions based on intuition and what they learned in school (which may or may not considered accurate anymore). They should be consulting a formal
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by imperfect_light 3y ago
I wish that "working remote" translated into "live and travel wherever I want" for everyone. So many companies now have policies that restrict where you work from for tax/payroll purposes, or because they don't
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by imperfect_light 3y ago
The problem is that it's become so difficult to tie into the grid that projects are being cancelled. There was a NY Times article on this ( http://web.archive.org/web/20230226032242/https://www.nytime
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by imperfect_light 3y ago
This never made any sense to me, aren't you just guaranteeing that the most marketable employees will leave and those that are coasting will stay put?
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by imperfect_light 3y ago
This is like the old "athletes are too greedy!" as if the alternative is the team owners (well known for being non-greedy?) should keep that money instead.
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by imperfect_light 4y ago
The title might lead some to believe these planned buildings have affordable housing, I don't believe that's accurate. Instead they will pay the city for the right not to have any affordable units, hence the $39 million.
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by imperfect_light 4y ago
Seattle notes: Escala condos were the model for the protagonist's apartment in 50 Shades of Grey https://www.mansionglobal.com/articles/fifty-shades-seattle-... Also across the street from Lola's, where Bezos

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