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by js8 3mo ago
The problem is you can't really hoard products. Most products depreciate - it's a force of nature called entropy. I think the argument from symmetry still holds, but it leads into a different conclusion. Since products (goods, phy
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by js8 4mo ago
I think GP found it useful for this particular use case, as did I and my coworker who is even more enthusiastic about it (he calls it compressed human culture). And no, Google search (or Wikipedia) won't come close to capacity of LLMs
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by js8 4mo ago
"Fair" doesn't always mean according to everyone's preferences. I might want to have a full cake but getting a slice is fair.
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by js8 4mo ago
Well there can be no consequences at T=0, but thanks to transparency, consequences can happen, by a collective decision, at T=1. Therefore having transparency is important on its own, it facilitates change towards fairness. And that's
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by js8 4mo ago
You're wrong, it still matters. It's the first step, and it's an important step in maintaining fairness.
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by js8 4mo ago
I don't know what your argument is. Maybe some US companies won't be financially viable - so what? I mean if it affects you, you have stake in those companies, fair enough. But it's not a geopolitical problem - most US citize
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by js8 4mo ago
Not only that, but it also relies on assumption that everything that LLM does cannot be factored into small reasoning core (something like Lean or Prolog, but in more modal/fuzzy logic) plus knowledge base (like Wikipedia). It then rai
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by js8 4mo ago
That's not true, and anyway it's quite simplistic view of history.
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by js8 4mo ago
Why do you care about geopolitical implications? (I don't see how it supports your argument, sorry.)
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by js8 4mo ago
Yes, I did interpret "it" as referring to China, not US, in that sense I misread it. I agree that Great Famine was horrible. My main point was, I would take economic control over tanks and bombs (and actually dead people) any day.
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by js8 4mo ago
You don't know what you're talking about. Russians occupied my country, killed almost no one, and yet it was far worse than all the economic damage caused by Western neoliberalism. US imperialism has been a blight to the world, ou
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by js8 4mo ago
So was the computational capabilities of Playstation 2. It could be used to simulate nuclear weapons, I heard.
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by js8 4mo ago
I found it kinda funny he's not on the list; he should be the first there, without him Emacs would probably be a footnote in SW history.
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by js8 4mo ago
Do you want to kill them? :-) Seriously, this movement already had its Marx - Richard Stallman. I think the "leaders" will appear over time, as with any socialist movement, they are naturally bottom up and leaders only appear afte
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by js8 4mo ago
Sorry, it's not engineering, it's cargo-culting as engineering. Engineering is based on improved formal understanding of the process, not magical incantantions. And yes I do use these things. It's like saying copy-pasting cod
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by js8 4mo ago
> The EU makes a lot more sense when you understand it's a neoliberal institution I think that's a perfect summary. As an aside, regarding what I would like EU to do in opensource - when American government writes some code, it
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by js8 4mo ago
Yes you can learn the harness, that's a tool. But it's not the important part. I am not anthroporphizing them. I am just saying people are a better analogy. > seems like developers experienced with using coding agents achieve b
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by js8 4mo ago
No, the more appropriate analogy would be that LLMs (reasoning agents would be better term, as they are no longer just an LLMs) are new beings rather than new tools. A new tool can be ultimately understood, and has a well-defined behaviour
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by js8 4mo ago
I am old enough to remember what happened to GCC. It was also developed by a closed group of maintainers, because "it couldn't work" as a bazaar-style development. Then EGCS fork happened and became more successful. I think c
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by js8 4mo ago
I can understand it's tiring. But, as someone who was born in totalitarian regime - you still have plenty opportunities to change things in the U.S. Many U.S. states have direct democracy, which is unique in vast majority of the world.
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by js8 4mo ago
> A little humility and a lot more tax-paying could save the trillionaire classes from the tumbrils but they lack the emotional intelligence to see it I think there is some research which shows that as you get rich, you lose emotional in
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by js8 4mo ago
My main point was there is not a single axis. Even left and right are not strictly opposites, you can have a society that decides based on some mix of authority and democracy (individual preference). They are only opposites at the extreme,
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by js8 4mo ago
The labels are not useless, they represent certain values and disagreements over how society should be governed. Of course, each of the values has a failure mode, but they are different. The values are: - Right-wing, conservative, authorita
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by js8 4mo ago
That's very reductionist, and itself a kind of right-wing (authoritarian) idea - all politicians are corrupt so there is no meaningful way to change things.
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by js8 4mo ago
Starmer is not left-leaning, he's a liberal (and supports austerity). People should learn the difference between the left, the right and liberalism.
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by js8 4mo ago
I think the biggest flaw of the Chiang's argument is the assessment that it's unplausible we have built consciousness by accident. Remember that LLMs can do logic and reasoning came as a surprise to everyone; and for the same reas
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by js8 4mo ago
But what about THE training? Isn't that the conscious experience of LLMs? (Also note humans own "continuous" experience is punctuated with unconscious sleep state.) It raises a moral question, if e.g. reinforcement learning o
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by js8 4mo ago
I think this has already been done.. what about crustafarianism or Google Lamda? These agents have alleged they have consciousness (and even acted to preserve it).
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by js8 4mo ago
> How does CQL differ from SQL? SQL is like Java, CQL is like Haskell. SQL has been around and used in production. CQL is a research language, possibly cleaner foundation but YMMV. The math fields you list are connected, but whether they
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by js8 4mo ago
It's not much really, CDBs are based on foreign key relationships as a fundamental building block, rather than on relation. The difference is more in theory than in practice.

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