jansport123

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by jansport123 8d ago
indeed, but i would say that is a property of all intelligence in a finite world. Even if you have the most brilliant computer, because we live in a finite world, it would also develop the need to take shortcuts to move forward.
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by jansport123 8d ago
everyone to some extent uses 'authority' as a proxy for truth, it is impossible for an individual to know everything before making a determination as to it's truthfulness (Even the notion of an absolute truth is in the domain
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by jansport123 8d ago
most of the complexity in software isn't in the actual code
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by jansport123 10d ago
i don't think anyone knows how this will play out - everyone is just anthropomorphizing, extrapolating etc... and i think it's nonsense - not because i don't believe that is the correct thing to do but because i believe this
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by jansport123 12d ago
how about anyone else with an ounce of integrity?
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by jansport123 13d ago
Well let’s look at facts - provided enough compute and a goal, these system will be in a sort of loop trying out every single thing that’s in their system - they have encyclopedic knowledge and so it’s not unbelievable that a prompt which u
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by jansport123 13d ago
I personally believe that the AI needs human like traits to achieve real discovery and that is where AI companies will push this technology and that is where we have no idea what happens
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by jansport123 13d ago
Right, I weirdly feel like we are entering an era where industry doesn’t invest that much in training the next generation - it feels like a rich getting richer scenario in all aspects of society
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by jansport123 17d ago
Yes but in this case, the allegation is Leibniz literally looked into newtons notebooks
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by jansport123 17d ago
I’m not a mathematician so take this with a grain of salt. Apparently terry tao commented that the approach used for the Euler paper can “probably” be used for solving NS but it’s still technically challenging and can probably be done with
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by jansport123 23d ago
a16z has always struck me as the shadiest vc - i associate them with NFT's, crypto and god knows what. They personify the amorality of chasing money over anything (Maybe indicative of SV culture these days in general).
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by jansport123 23d ago
i wouldn't let my kid use a phone or a computer till a certain age. age 1 - 11 is about having strong foundations in basics and these basics haven't really changed in a couple of decades at least. Reading, critical thinking, math
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by jansport123 23d ago
bigger reason to ban AI in public schools then. AI + neglectful parents is a disaster in the making.
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by jansport123 23d ago
technology seems to bifurcate outcomes - the top students seem to get much better than previous cohorts but the rest of them seem to get a lot worse.
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by jansport123 23d ago
someone expressing their view of meta which is on point by the way.
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by jansport123 23d ago
no loyalty to any company - let them compete and then we get to choose.
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by jansport123 24d ago
he makes a shit ton of money off this - in this attention economy we are doomed, people of every side find that going all in on something, no matter how intellectually dishonest, is much more profitable. Extreme AI bros or Extreme AI doomer
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by jansport123 1mo ago
yea, the quality of life for the average person is a better metric to say is a system is working but usually people always use GDP per capita or some other metric like that and most of that doesn't reflect inequality. America is amazin
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by jansport123 1mo ago
most people in the us aren't clapping
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by jansport123 1mo ago
there is absolutely no forum without biases. Least of all, a VC forum like this one.
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by jansport123 1mo ago
the way i see, LLM's in their current shape are neither good enough to replace software engineers but they have become a necessary part of everyone tool kit. ergo, actual companies themselves aren't getting much benefit because th
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by jansport123 1mo ago
That maybe true at some point, but i don't think we are there yet.
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by jansport123 2mo ago
I never studied hard in high school, had one AP, went to a mid tier university and got mostly C's and i also have a household income in the top 1%, a gratifying job and a loving family. I did what i wanted most of my life - i would rat
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by jansport123 2mo ago
i quit watching short form videos recently and my attention has come back - like i can actually read books and watch long videos and just let my mind think for much longer. It's incredibly damaging what algorithmic feeds are doing to p
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by jansport123 3mo ago
don't existing doctors aim to keep supply short? Seems like it's like the homeowner problem (existing homeowners always want their house prices to go up)
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by jansport123 4mo ago
seems to be a common concern amongst the local population everywhere "X identity is hiring only X identity"
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by jansport123 4mo ago
i use claude a lot and i find that it is best applied in domains in which i am already a master. I tried applying it to domain's im unfamiliar with and i found that i produced stuff but as time went on i understood what i produced less
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by jansport123 6mo ago
did they just copy the chatgpt ui?
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by jansport123 7mo ago
let's make a website about trumps lying - probably need hundreds of pages to get through. I can't believe what a joke America has become, the official whitehouse.gov website looks like some type of WWE or UFC promo.