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by johnea 1y ago
So, you don't think humans should express sarcasm? Sounds more like censorship than moderation to me...
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All I can say is: It's about time. I'm amazed there aren't more of these stores nationwide. I live in San Diego, and (luckily) the closest one is an hour drive away in Tustin. California, 1/8 of the US population, and th
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> AI simply makes stuff up. I do not consider made up, hallucinated answers useful, in fact they are worse than useless. Let's all say it together: The LLM is just WRONG. It's not "hallucinating", it doesn't have
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I agree that smaller is better. I would take it even further, and say that storage, as well as generation, should be down-scaled as much as possible. On-building scale generation, and per building storage, being the ultimate embodiment. Thi
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by johnea 1y ago
I didn't see in the article, or anywhere in these comments, the reasons that Stack Overflow became a "read only" resource for me. The article did center around user's as moderators, but I felt there was a sudden increase
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Is there some way to short sell this?
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I have to agree. I was going to say, just plain grammatically incorrect. At first I though this had to be a truncation for the purpose of the HN subject line, but no, it's the actual title of the article. Could this be a difference bet
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I generally don't use aggregator sites. I scan/read ~20 journalistic websites each morning. In the modern meaning of "journalism", obviously these sites are also publishing news from elsewhere, but they also have their o
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It's good to know the link was in the phys.org article. I didn't read it. When I have interest in an article at that site, I search for the text of the headline, and try to identify the original source.
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I've often felt like this is one of the most serious issues faced by modern society: very small brains...
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I don't know, I can't decide...
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You... definitely don't live in southern California 8-/
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Thanks for that link! I didn't find it in my search...
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> On the right, this manifested itself as various forms of xenophobia and a wholesale mistrust of institutional figures; on the left, as much of what came to be called cancel culture and its censorious milieu. Both were attempts to polic
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A better link: https://www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2025/05/the-mysterious-gob... I wish people would stop linking to phys.org. It's primarily a spam ad promoting agregation site...
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by johnea 1y ago
At 30, you're still young! If I was starting today, rather than an electrical engineering degree, I'd choose a trade: probably electrician, or plumber. I know a few kids working for themselves in these trades and they are in uncea
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by johnea 1y ago
To cite integrative-psych: https://www.integrative-psych.org/resources/confabulation-no... "...this usage is misleading, as it suggests a perceptual process that LLMs, which lack sensory input, do not possess.&quo
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by johnea 1y ago
I think your defense of reusing terms for new phenomenon is fair. But in this specific case, I would say the reuse of this particular word, to apply to this particular error, is still incorrect. A person hallucinating is based on a many lev
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by johnea 1y ago
A repost of a previous comment, but the anthropomophization of this tech is so off the charts, I feel like I'm going to be repeating it, a lot: One of the most offensive words in the anthropomophization of LLMs is: hallucinate. It&#x27
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by johnea 1y ago
One of the most offensive words in the anthropomophization of LLMs is: hallucinate. It's not only an anthropomorphism, it's also a euphemism. A correct interpretation of the word would imply that the LLM has some fantastical visio
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To which, please see my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44092296
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Ummm, no one has ANY idea how our brains work at the level of consciousness. Full Stop. Please lets all try to resist this temptation. Physiology, neural dynamics, sensory input and response, all lead to levels of functionality that exist e
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It's a little disconcerting to read this question here. LLMs do not invent anything. They are trained on sequnces of words and produce ordered sequences of words from that training data in response to a prompt. There is no concept of k
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> Unfortunately, Crocs now makes a normal looking sneaker that crushes my toes. More proof that we've already reached idiocracy...
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by johnea 1y ago
As a long time sailor, with only one oceanic passage under my belt, but a desire to still cross a few oceans before I die; this story is more than an emotional story of tenacity, luck and survival. For anyone who ever goes to sea, stories l
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by johnea 1y ago
To this day, I still use a linux desktop simulator for the HP-41CX calculator! The original website seems now offline: https://nonpareil.brouhaha.com/ But the code is still available: https://github.com/brou
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This also happened to me. I guess it was the late 1980s. I was programming UV erasable microcontrollers in quartz-windowed ceramic packages. Once I had the whole multi-processor distributed system up and running, I snapped a photo with my f
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A friend and I also made this! We used it as a speed dialer that worked on any phone. I still have the hard copy of the synthetic programming guide! Even outside of that technique, the calculator was a very powerful programmable tool for th
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I think we're agreeing actually. because: > Mostly people are just apathetic and > OF COURSE the monopolistic corps should know everything Are, de facto, equivalent. Not caring allows the profit-motivated non-human legal entity
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> What unsettles us about AI is not malice, but the vacuum where intention should be. When it tries to write poetry or mimic human tenderness, our collective recoil is less about revulsion and more a last stand, staking a claim on experi

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