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by keeda 5d ago
> This is only because immigrants are willing to do jobs at wages and working conditions that locals do not accept. I would partially disagree with this assertion (immigrants are clearly very constrained in their job mobility, and thei
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by keeda 5d ago
Interestingly, research shows LLMs are better than humans at persuading people, and one of the reported reasons is that their arguments are deemed to be more evidence-based. (Findings even show that people are more likely to be persuaded wh
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by keeda 5d ago
Sun clearly suffered some from being a bit too early to what would become cloud computing —- didn’t help that their tagline was “the network is the computer”, which IMO was a bit too obtuse, because I didn’t really understand what it meant
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by keeda 5d ago
I know OP has an intimately inside perspective, whereas what I know about Sun is only from what I read online as an admirer and developer on its platforms… but “gotten bored of the mechanics of running a business” does not match what seemed
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by keeda 5d ago
While true that doing things the hard way is critical to learn a discipline, the OP’s point is about what is possible with AI once you’ve built those skills and intuition. I think in the future it will be common for those passionate about a
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by keeda 7d ago
This is an intriguing observation! LLMs were famously bad at spatial reasoning, until Astra which apparently has a huge improvement. I wonder if that has any bearing on the recent jump in Mathematical performance? One thing that struck me f
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by keeda 7d ago
Hmm we may be talking of two different interpretations of intuition here. I agree that LLM weights contain representations of abstract concepts, as a lot of prior research has shown. This surely includes Mathematical concepts. But to me tha
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by keeda 7d ago
Oh, so Moravec’s Paradox is not really a paradox, it’s just an illusion! ;-)
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by keeda 7d ago
> How do people not understand that some laws only make sense at a certain scale? Consider that any other laws you may want in place could be even worse, and what we have with AI is the logical culmination of technology and the laws we
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by keeda 7d ago
I’m not quite sure what the disagreement is here. I was just saying asymmetric or other unconventional warfare can be extremely effective, as Ukraine’s resilience has shown, and there’s no reason Russia could not adopt similar means. In fac
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by keeda 7d ago
My hunch (or intuition, hah!) is that intuition is an instinctive mental shortcut required to navigate large problem spaces that can’t entirely fit into our heads. Maybe LLMs do not need intuition because they can scale their “cognitive cap
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by keeda 7d ago
Case in point, Russia has been fought to a standstill by its much smaller neighbor using asymmetric warfare. There is no reason Russia would not turn around and do the same to other countries. One may argue it has already done so in the pas
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by keeda 7d ago
We may not like this, but let us contemplate what laws would be in place to prevent a thing like this; I suspect we would like those laws even less. The laws at play here are related to Intellectual Property, specifically Copyright. Yes, it
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by keeda 7d ago
Yes, I don't like it much either -- though I continue to be absolutely fascinated by all this -- but I realize this is unstoppable, and I must trust that on the balance technology has been extremely good for humanity and the source of
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by keeda 8d ago
Ooh I did not know that, so it is likely intentional!
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by keeda 8d ago
Of course criminal negligence is a thing but you should look into the bar required to prove it. For one, it requires the highest standard of proof. Then there are at least 4 very specific elements that need to be proven, and it would be int
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by keeda 8d ago
I would highly doubt it, because news outlets and blogs rehash each others' reporting all the time. How many times have you seen an article start with "Today <XYZ publication> broke the news that..."? Since this is a c
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by keeda 8d ago
I think you just described "technology" -- would you outlaw all technology then? ;-)
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by keeda 8d ago
Yes! The best part is, at any point they are right there to answer any questions, or to challenge or validate and experiment with any ideas! You can go down fairly deep rabbit holes in either case to understand a topic, and -- unlike any
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by keeda 8d ago
> It doesn't really take a position. Interesting! In other unrelated domains, models seem more willing to take a position. It may be nuanced, but they do tend to take a stance. I think it's good that it leaves the interpretat
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by keeda 8d ago
You're right, but I also may have quoted poorly to give the impression that the first post was only about real-world problems. It goes on to point those out as an infinite source of theoretical problems, which sounded to me like an emp
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by keeda 8d ago
I wondered if that was a pun implying "AI models" were also being invited, given they've been the most prominent hackers as of late ;-) Not yet, I guess!
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by keeda 8d ago
Any lawyers here who have used AI agents heavily for their work? From what I've heard, they're currently very good at searching, analyzing and drafting documents like contracts and patents, but some say they suck at interpreting t
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by keeda 8d ago
Slawp?
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by keeda 9d ago
As an aside, it's amusing that this conversation is a re-statement of a main point in TFA: > However, math problems are really there to solve a real world problem. vs > That theory might be inspired by the real world, but the
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by keeda 9d ago
Yes, prompt injection is an issue with model safety, which is what we should be focusing on. I meant to say the discussion about OpenAI's negligence in securing agents and their infrastructure is the red herring. That said, nobody has
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by keeda 9d ago
Ah, this must be the precursor to Chipotle Vibe Coding: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1rsbxn9/stop_sp...
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by keeda 9d ago
Predictably the discussion is already veering towards OpenAI's negligence, which is a complete red herring in a discussion about model safety. To drive home the point, choice quote from the article: > “You do not answer to corporat
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by keeda 9d ago
Yep, I read the link, their detailed paper ( https://s3.amazonaws.com/real.stlouisfed.org/wp/2024/2024-02... ) and I also played with their data tracker here: https://www.genaiadoptiontracker.com&#x2
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by keeda 9d ago
Yes, posted it elsewhere: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49722616 -- this is necessarily a simplistic analysis to address a simplistic point in TFA, but it still kinda-sorta works assuming AI only augments workers and

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