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by jebarker 1y ago
Thanks for explaining. I think it is the interpretation of “perceive” that does that. When I read perceive I think about sensors and its prior to any interpretation, but I guess that’s not how everyone (most?) people read it.
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by jebarker 1y ago
I don’t see what’s misleading. Is it that people read “perceive” to mean “understand”? The headline seems like a reasonable simplification of the actual work to me.
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by jebarker 1y ago
Given the huge number of tests, I wonder how many people alive have seen a nuclear detonation
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by jebarker 1y ago
I feel like you’re glossing over some very thorny details that it’s not obvious we can solve. For example, if you just get two LLMs setting each other puzzles and scoring the others solutions how do you stop this just collapsing into nonsen
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by jebarker 1y ago
It’s not clear that the inefficiency of the current paradigm is in the neural net architectures. It seems just as likely that it’s in the training objective.
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by jebarker 1y ago
Something my middle-class British upbringing nurtured in me was incredible pessimism. Day to day this used to manifest as an assumption that I wouldn’t like any new experience, so I’d avoid them and stick to what I knew. My (American) wife
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by jebarker 1y ago
Maybe I don’t have a precise enough definition of syntax and semantics, but it seems like it’s more than just syntactic since interchangeable tokens in the same syntax affect the semantics of the sentence. Or do you view completing a prompt
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by jebarker 1y ago
I’ve been meditating for the last 6 years or so in the Vipassana-ish tradition. I actually started out using Sam Harris’ Waking Up course. I’ve found it very beneficial due to many of the insights the author found during their retreat. I am
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by jebarker 1y ago
My impression is that most people don't have a global objective.
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by jebarker 1y ago
2-3 seems wildly optimistic for reading that list and actually consolidating the knowledge. During my math PhD I ready a fraction of that number of books. It’d be more convincing if someone was provided as an example of “mastering mathemati
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by jebarker 1y ago
Is it true that those creatures are believed to be immortal or we’ve just never seen one die of natural causes?
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by jebarker 1y ago
For me, the sad part about dying isn’t the loss of agency in the world as much as missing the rest of the movie. At 43 I already feel like I’ve mostly realized my potential and I’m just here to raise my kids and then I become a burden. But
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by jebarker 1y ago
In some ways that’s a lot like how consciousness works isn’t it?
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by jebarker 1y ago
He’s not wrong
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by jebarker 1y ago
Or a radar gun to measure it
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by jebarker 1y ago
This cost me a click to ask why did you need to save people the click?
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by jebarker 1y ago
I’d struggle to ever pay for lounge access. Even when I’ve flown international first class the lounge is still usually quite disappointing in food, comfort and ambience. It’s better than sitting at the gate but maybe only $10 better. The on
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by jebarker 1y ago
> Grass is always greener, I guess. Indeed. Everything has to find their own path.
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by jebarker 1y ago
I am not sure I agree with not having kids being the cause of mid-life crisis. But for balance, as the GP, I will say that I had two kids through the time that I adjusted my approach to life to this less goal oriented approach. They do prov
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by jebarker 1y ago
This is the opposite of what helped me to stop feeling lost in life. I grew up very goal oriented and executed towards those goals with focus and determination. Around when I turned 40 I realized I wasn't all that happy and I'd sp
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by jebarker 1y ago
Great point - I shouldn’t have suggested what most people want, that’s always dangerous
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by jebarker 1y ago
Honestly, I don’t find that explanation helpful or accurate. I don’t think Compatibilism says we need to pretend we have free will. It says we do have free will, just not the metaphysical kind that most people want.
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by jebarker 1y ago
Something that helped me grok Compatibilism (I think…) is that there’s actually two layered ideas. The first layer is practical: there is a sense of freedom that is based on your actions and apparent choices being determined by your interna
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by jebarker 1y ago
The machines aren’t the cause of the endless screaming. The conspiracy theorists also claim to find plenty of “evidence” of tampering with physical ballots and the counting process.
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by jebarker 1y ago
It depends where you live and what your lifestyle expenses are. You can easily be set for most of your life on $3M if you live in a low CoL area and keep your expenses under control. Old age could wipe you out if you need a lot of care thou
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by jebarker 1y ago
Well-known but not well-understood
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by jebarker 1y ago
Exactly. YOLO runs of frontier models with a single random seed/data shuffle are pretty limited for trying to study the “molecular biology”. I actually like to think of LLM understanding as being like biology in the 1850s. There's
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by jebarker 1y ago
Optimized small model training is not only important for availability but also for the scientific study of LLMs. It’s like the use of simple organisms like yeast for biological studies - we also need to study the simplest possible transform
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by jebarker 1y ago
People really over-exaggerate the claim of friendly and polite US service workers and people in general. Obviously you can find the full spectrum of character types across the US. I've lived 2/3 of my life in Britain and 1/3
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by jebarker 1y ago
Yep, it’s amazing how many people seem to get sucked in by the idea you can reliably make money as a solo/small trading operation.

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