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by jprete 2y ago
I believe this is true, but I'm curious to see an example, if you have one.
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by jprete 2y ago
I think the problem isn't specific to SO. Text-based communication with strangers lacks two crucial emotional filters. Before speaking, a person anticipates the listener's reaction and adjusts what they say accordingly. After spea
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by jprete 2y ago
I think the actual reason people can't do it is that we avoid situations with high risk and no apparent reward. And we aren't sufficiently supportive of other people doing surprising things (so there's no reward for trying).
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by jprete 2y ago
Ozempic does not simply limit your appetite, it seems to also affect how much reward your brain feels from different foods (and activities!), which would make it easier to override those anticipated rewards with conscious choices.
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by jprete 2y ago
I think the problem is inventing new structures for logic games. The shape of the problem ideally would be different than any existing puzzle, and that's hard. If a person can look at it and say "oh, that's just the sheep-wol
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by jprete 2y ago
You don't trust AI-generated content, and your response to this is to make a tool to fool people into not knowing it's AI-generated content?
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by jprete 2y ago
"About sixty years ago, there were only about seven different web sites, and none of them had any user interaction or even navigation. They just autoplayed the same scheduled streamed video to everyone who looked at them, all the time,
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by jprete 2y ago
That guy is more techbro than I can really handle.
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by jprete 2y ago
Hinton already won a Turing award, so this Nobel just seems doubly absurd. I hope he turns it down, but it's a monetary prize too and it takes a lot of dedication to science to turn it down.
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by jprete 2y ago
The decreasing human population is the problem. Rather than let the cats suffer and starve after the last human leaves, they sterilized them so there would at least be less needless suffering.
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by jprete 2y ago
That's well above the threshold for destroying even the pretense of photographs having any information value on the Internet.
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by jprete 2y ago
> Although it's conceivable there's a surprise legal finding, companies like OpenAI and Anthropic are confident enough in how it will go that they are willing to insure you for any lawsuits, which would be ruinous for them if t
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by jprete 2y ago
Related - thinking takes a lot of energy, so people prefer options that are cheap to evaluate. This definitely contributes to the preference for expedient options.
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by jprete 2y ago
What does this look like from the photon's frame of reference, then? Or is it nonsensical to try to describe things from a frame of reference at C?
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by jprete 2y ago
Nobody cares about driving around in a million-dollar car. They want the money/power/status of the person who owns the million-dollar car. An unearned million-dollar car is practically a liability instead of an asset.
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by jprete 2y ago
Bear in mind these systems have already been through the reward-based training, and these are the results that are good enough to show in public.
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by jprete 2y ago
I would really like to hear from an actual physicist on this question since both of you seem correct for one of the reference frames and the only way I see to reconcile the two is with weird singularities like "the particle reaches the
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by jprete 2y ago
And the other half of this is that brains are extremely complicated casual chains. Causality can traverse the diameter of the brain something like 10^8 times in the period it takes for light to be perceived.
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by jprete 2y ago
I wonder if there's something about tech culture - or tech people - that encourages them to really, really like snowclones.
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by jprete 2y ago
The upper and lower bunk graphs are symmetrical in their probabilities, so it would intuitively seem like connecting to the same bunk's point would be easier/more likely than connecting to the other bunk's point. The first wo
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by jprete 2y ago
The possibility of well-written AI prose is a big reason why I dislike AI text generation. Writing for an audience refines the ideas being communicated. If the author doesn't do that refinement themselves, then I'm not reading wha
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by jprete 2y ago
The government at least doesn't have a direct incentive to screw it up and can be pressured by a lot more groups than just industry lobbyists.
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by jprete 2y ago
I think you misunderstood the OP; they were comparing two different conditions (Java slop vs. LLM slop), because they think there's a common cause (tooling lets people make overly complex systems that still kinda work but are difficult
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by jprete 2y ago
I'm not a physicist but as soon as I saw it I thought that it would be very costly (in physicist time) to distinguish it from a real physics paper. The difference between this and the output of a physics crank may well just be how fast
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by jprete 2y ago
This is very 1990s chain-email glurge story.
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by jprete 2y ago
"The Democrat decided to reject the measure because it applies only to the biggest and most expensive AI models and doesn’t take into account whether they are deployed in high-risk situations, he said in his veto message." That do
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by jprete 2y ago
I really wasn't sure! But to give you a more substantive response, I think the tastemakers are not in control in the slightest. Everything about Notion now screams "we don't give a crap about note-taking or personal wikis, we
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by jprete 2y ago
Copyrighting, or copy-writing?
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by jprete 2y ago
It never occurred to me before that chatbot randomness might have the same reward structure as a slot machine, but apparently it does. OpenAI got you to spend all your credits on seven attempts at this one problem. I'm not saying you&
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by jprete 2y ago
At this point I'm so used to this that I mentally translate "for health" into "to look good for the opposite sex".

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