ineptech

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by ineptech 3y ago
I don't know about cool, but if my username dot com is amusing enough to qualify I've been curious to check it out.
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by ineptech 3y ago
More than ten years of consistent, substantive updates. Never had an expansion or DLC or "season pass" or in-game purchases. Best gaming $15 I ever spent.
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by ineptech 3y ago
I watched (okay, skimmed) the demo (okay, ad) and from what I can tell, it's a phone with no screen that you clip to your shirt and interact with verbally. The demo includes receiving a phone call, language translation, summarizing a
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by ineptech 3y ago
Not exactly what you're describing, but this is along those lines: https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/06/02/and-i-show-you-how-dee... It's pretty silly but the ending is both satisfying and relevant
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by ineptech 3y ago
Sure, maybe? We (or at least I) know little about the actual problem here, and metaphors only go so far. But to my mind, "too many things trying to handle a request" gets a cool name because it is a fairly narrow and unusual pro
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by ineptech 3y ago
It's the difference between one customer asking a hundred cooks for a waffle and a hundred customers asking one cook for a waffle. The former is the thundering herd (a bunch of processes trying to do something that only needs to be do
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by ineptech 3y ago
There is no authoritative body on the definitions of words. More generally, if genocide can mean "not killling, but very bad" then it is not much use except as an epithet - a negatively-loaded bomb to be lobbed in partisan debate
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by ineptech 3y ago
I understand where you're coming from, but -cide implies killing.
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by ineptech 3y ago
> financial speculation ... provides more accurate pricing and lowers transaction costs for the actual users of the futures contracts who take delivery of the commodity. I understand and agree, as I've said pretty explicitly in both
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by ineptech 3y ago
Sure, I get this and agree, but price discovery and facilitating markets are subject to diminishing returns just like anything else, right? I don't think I would've been downvoted for saying something like, "It's a prob
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by ineptech 3y ago
Was this not the whole point of the study in TFA comparing false memories of crimes to false memories of non-crimes? The assumption that people would be less willing to admit to a serious crime than to having been injured? > Intriguingl
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by ineptech 3y ago
I'm not sure how this is related to my post so perhaps I was unclear. I'm not talking about individual corn farmers and the choices they make, I'm talking about how we as a society and an economy allocate our resources. I&#
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by ineptech 3y ago
This isn't false but it feels reductive. A financial instrument that allows one to bet on the corn harvest is obviously valuable to the corn farmer, as it allows them to use profits from good seasons to hedge against bad seasons. The
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by ineptech 3y ago
> We need to rethink this model. This problem is inherent to client/server software, and there are really only three ways to do it: 1. The server side of client/server is centralized and run by corporations 2. The server side i
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by ineptech 3y ago
I'm not a policy analyst, but this doesn't seem very difficult. Market failures caused by information asymmetry can often be improved by mandatory disclosure of some kind. Even if you disagree, the inability of a bunch of progra
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by ineptech 3y ago
I think this misses the forest for the trees; the handful of cases where they broke the law are nowhere near as deleterious as the rest where they didn't. I can't think of a better time for new regulation than a hedge fund extrac
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by ineptech 3y ago
Yeah, "simple" as in we didn't have to make something that can learn general concepts, and then teach it language. It feels like a hack, doesn't it? Like you were working on a problem you thought was NP-hard and then y
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by ineptech 3y ago
> You cannot make accurate predictions without understanding the world that gave rise to these words. I think you must either admit that chatgpt does exactly this, or else give up our traditional connotation of "understand".
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by ineptech 3y ago
I have been thinking along the same lines - the fact that something as comparatively simple and barebones as an LLM can manipulate language symbols well enough to carry on a conversation suggests that it's a lot easier than was previou
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by ineptech 3y ago
Answered upthread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35615264
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by ineptech 3y ago
Sure, maybe? I don't have a clear idea of where consciousness begins. If I were trying to make a conscious LLM, I would use a sort of feedback loop of automated prompts talking about its input in realtime. Like, if you showed it a pic
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by ineptech 3y ago
It's only a mistake if you take it too literally and forget it's a model, e.g. "I measured the electron to have a mass, but I can't see how an excitation in a field would have mass so I guess I must've measured wron
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by ineptech 3y ago
I'm not sure what you're talking about, but it's not very related to my point about "is", which was that describing things in "[noun] is [adjective]" terms carries the implicit assumption that the universe
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by ineptech 3y ago
Fake edit: this is why it's helpful when discussing quantum mechanics to banish "is" from your vocabulary. For example, the debate over whether an electron "is" a particle or "is" a wave is much more trac
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by ineptech 3y ago
The old "is" strikes again. An electron is definitely not a cloud, nor a particle nor a wave, we don't know what the hell it is and stopped trying to describe it in those terms many years ago. Instead, we limit ourselves to
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by ineptech 3y ago
I don't have a rigorous definition, but I don't think we need one at this point, do we? Chatgpt is a search engine with a natural language interface, you can draw a straight line from its inputs to its outputs. I'm not maki
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by ineptech 4y ago
What makes it obviously not conscious is that it isn't a process. It can't do anything unless you ask it a question. I can certainly imagine a conscious or nearly-conscious AI someday, one that likely uses an LLM to handle langu
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by ineptech 4y ago
To me, LLMs are living (heh) proof of the validity of Searle's Chinese Room argument about weak AI. At the time, I think a lot of the people who disputed that had the position, basically, that any program that could pass a Turing test
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by ineptech 4y ago
You may also enjoy the AI conversation between Werner Herzog and Slavoj Žižek. https://infiniteconversation.com/ (not generated in realtime I believe, due to being created in the ancient days of a year ago)
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by ineptech 4y ago
Man, do we need a way to prove you are who you say you are that doesn't involve a giant corporation. I feel like there was a window where we could've organically coalesced around something open source, like Keybase, or a governme

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