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by js8 5mo ago
I agree with parent, that's not how right-wing propaganda portrays the deep state. It's a strawman, of unaccountable government bureacrats. It excludes billionaires and dark money in politics (the real problem), they put themselve
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by js8 5mo ago
That's actually untrue. Yes, training a neural network is mostly inductive reasoning process. However, the ability of LLMs to reason deductively (as a chain of thought, although it's probably not the only mechanism) is an emergent
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by js8 5mo ago
The LLMs are generally still pretty bad at (deductive) reasoning. IME they go along more with the things like variable names and comments than the actual program logic (it would be an interesting experiment to compare LLM's understandi
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by js8 5mo ago
No, Palestinians in Gaza hardly have food and shelter, let alone weapons. Maybe Hamas (which most Palestinians despise) had couple handguns they managed to smuggle in but that's useless against bombs, tanks and drones. Gaza has been un
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by js8 5mo ago
You can think of genocide as a special case of a war, one where the party being genocided has no army or weapons to defend itself.
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by js8 5mo ago
What is the business model of Wikipedia? I don't think there is any. Not everything good in our society needs to have a "business model". People still work on it. It's FINE.
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by js8 5mo ago
> If you're making the argument that LLMs are gambling simply because they're faster than humans No I am not. It's more addictive because of the timescale. The comparison of AIs to gambling is through addiction mechanism,
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by js8 5mo ago
Strange. I tell Claude Code to do things differently all the time.
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by js8 5mo ago
Then you miss the point - AI use is being compared to gambling because it is addictive, partly due to same mechanism - the results (and rewards) are somewhat random, but it makes you feel as if you're completely in control of the outco
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by js8 5mo ago
It is different because for humans, it takes time to produce some result, while AI does it instantly. So if you tell a programmer to do X, you have a week for your adrenaline to cool off. If you tell AI, it will do it in minutes.
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by js8 5mo ago
> certainly not more than hiring people to do a job can be considered "gambling" Actually it's quite possible that being a business manager/owner is actually addictive (having power over people), we just don't re
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by js8 5mo ago
In many countries, people have already won a similar fight with printing press, press censorship and encryption. I think there is a reason for optimism (of the will). If AI can code, and empower individuals to do it on a local device, it is
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by js8 5mo ago
I don't think human coauthoring documents with AI is viable, due to very different costs. It's like with combining hand-written assembler and compiler output. I think ideally there will be some delineation which parts of the docum
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by js8 5mo ago
In fact, AI might be the opposite of managerial "silver bullet". The more we automate what is repetitive, the less predictability remains overall. Things can get more productive on average but the managing it becomes harder, as pr
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by js8 5mo ago
Actually, it's the other way around - I used LLM to think about it independently to check if my intuition made sense. I agree with its arguments (and I generally found LLMs argue better than myself, that's why I use them). It&#x27
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by js8 5mo ago
I don't think Big5 applies to LLMs. They don't share people's morality or common sense, and the traits are predicated on that. BTW: https://claude.ai/share/78a13035-0787-42a5-8643-398b26887e42
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by js8 5mo ago
I don't believe they are injective but if they are, they are not capable of (correct) thought. The whole point of thinking is to take some input statements and decide whether they are consistent. Or, project them onto a close but consi
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by js8 5mo ago
Yeah but I would argue it's different from both friendliness and obedience.
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by js8 5mo ago
I would call it obedience, and it's not the same as friendliness. The difference, in a repeated prisoner dilemma: Friendliness is cooperating on the first move, and then conditionally. Obedience is always cooperating.
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by js8 5mo ago
Doesn't surprise me. But I don't think this is caused by friendliness, but by obedience. And I think we want the agents to be obedient. And I am afraid there is a tradeoff - more obedience means more willful ignorance of common se
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by js8 6mo ago
The bot problem is solvable by using a web of trust system. You don't need a digital ID for that (i.e. you don't need to tie your digital world identity to a real world identity, nor you need a central agency to manage these). In
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by js8 6mo ago
Honestly, I found these two attempts at universal theory more interesting: https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12269 https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/28/3/332 I am also interested in connection wit
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by js8 6mo ago
I wonder if it emits orgasmic moans when working with a particularly pleasureable codebase.
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by js8 6mo ago
I thought about a similar concept for fun - each hex digit was replaced by 4x4 pixel matrix, where amount of pixels roughly corresponded to the value. So dot for 0, two dots for 1, checkerboard for 8 etc. Then byte was represented as 16x16
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by js8 6mo ago
I think semantic coloring (based on structure) is more useful. Also (can't help as someone working with z/OS), if you really want to make hex output readable, I recommend using big-endian machine.
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by js8 6mo ago
American "belt & road" has been tried, but in a neoliberal way, through WB and IMF, and it has been an utter failure (see Joe Stiglitz or Ha-Joon Chang for examples). Chinese are way more pragmatic (smarter) about it.
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by js8 6mo ago
I thought that you were about to write: "as a janitor in a restaurant, the dessert topping is sometimes used as a floor polish".
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by js8 6mo ago
A very human thing to do is - not to tell us which model has failed like this! They are not all alike, some are, what I observe, order of magnitude better at this kind of stuff than others. I believe how "neurotypical" (for the la
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by js8 6mo ago
Can you be more specific?
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by js8 6mo ago
I think they're counting on an ego hit - "you're just a tool" - although it might be negated by the human satisfaction of figuring things out.

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