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by laichzeit0 4mo ago
The one thing you can say though, is that “benefits himself” does not mean: buying a super yacht, a casino, an island, etc. So yeah, he’d YOLO and do the Mars trip before any of the above. Which is what most nerds on HN would love, except t
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by laichzeit0 4mo ago
I use the disparaging nature of the comments on HN as an indicator of AI progress. It’s negatively correlated. By that metric, AI has improved significantly this year alone.
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by laichzeit0 5mo ago
But only during the forward pass of the neural network?
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by laichzeit0 5mo ago
Interesting. Did Neanderthals have souls? We know we interbred with them. The question is then whether earlier hominids also had souls. Was "ensoulment" a gradual phenomenon or did it arise spontaneously? If it was gradual does
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by laichzeit0 5mo ago
So what stops them from just changing it to NotAnna's Archive and operating under that domain?
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by laichzeit0 5mo ago
You’ve written around the existence of pronouns with impressive determination.
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by laichzeit0 5mo ago
I feel like Searle could have taken the argument further down to pen-and-paper because people will somehow think if you can just make the neural network big and fast enough then “mind” and “consciousness” will somehow emerge from the symbol
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by laichzeit0 5mo ago
You could push the analogy even further and run the thought experiment where every forward pass through an LLM could in principle be done on pen and paper, distributed throughout all humanity. Sure it would take a long time, but the output
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by laichzeit0 6mo ago
Also none of Aristotle’s exoteric works is extant. All we have are dry, boring lecture notes. Cicero said his public works were a “golden stream of speech” and its all lost. So I don’t see how you’d build an artificial Aristotle when we don
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by laichzeit0 6mo ago
And that is why no one will remember your name.
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by laichzeit0 6mo ago
I must have missed the brief somewhere, but there was/is a very clear trend to replace the default male pronoun for gender neutrality with the female pronoun she. Just recently I noticed this in Judea Pearl’s Book of Why. When and why
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by laichzeit0 6mo ago
I feel like there are clear signs, but either people have cognitive blind spots or are just obstinate. For example, you hear people complain that they've been for a bajillion interviews and still don't get hired (hint: the proble
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by laichzeit0 6mo ago
I don’t actually even know what people are hinting at when they say that LLMs replace the need for building custom models. Regression models? People are using LLMs instead of say building a Bayesian hierarchical model? That’s not possible.
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by laichzeit0 7mo ago
Well, not if you have AI reviewers… It’s LLMs all the way down.
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by laichzeit0 7mo ago
Like, bro, do you think 5.x is a drop in replacement for 4.1? No it obviously wasn’t, since it had reasoning effort and verbosity and no more temperature setting, etc. There’s no way you can switch model versions without testing and tweakin
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by laichzeit0 8mo ago
In The Laws you find: strict supervision of marriage age, mandatory procreation windows, state monitoring of reproduction, penalties for bachelors, public scrutiny of household conduct, drinking regulation, limits on wealth and inheritance,
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by laichzeit0 8mo ago
Absolutely nuts, I feel like I'm living in a parallel universe. I could list several anecdotes here where Claude has solved issues for me in an autonomous way that (for someone with 17 years of software development, from embedded devi
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by laichzeit0 8mo ago
All these so-called safe jobs still depend on someone being able to afford those services. If I don't have a job, I can't go see the vet, the fact that no one else can do the vets job is irrelevant at such a point. I would like t
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by laichzeit0 9mo ago
I’m sure programmers who wrote their code on punch cards felt the same. Then programmers who wrote in assembler felt the same about high-level languages and optimising compilers.
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by laichzeit0 10mo ago
Unfortunately, this is an observational study and when you get to the confounding part, they kind of shrug their shoulders and say “well, we included a bunch of covariates that should reduce make the bias go away”, but there’s no causal dia
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by laichzeit0 11mo ago
It’s also weird to think that if there is extraterrestrial contact, it will most definitely happen in the specific land mass known as the United States and only the US government will be collecting said technology and hiding it. Out of the
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by laichzeit0 11mo ago
Well function composition f(g(x)) is not the same as g(f(x)) and when you represent f and g as matrices relative to some suitable set of basis functions then obviously AB and BA should be different. If the multiplication was defined any dif
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by laichzeit0 11mo ago
Rudin’s Principles of Mathematical Analysis aka Baby Rudin. Small, short, terse yet has brought many undergraduates to tears.
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by laichzeit0 1y ago
There were similar such comments during Covid where people were saddened that people were still debating whether it was a lab-leak or not. Dogmatism, on which ever side, unless maybe in a field like mathematics which is entirely deductive,
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by laichzeit0 1y ago
Tell me you've never used Statsig without telling me you've never used Statsig. It's an online controlled experiment platform. You know like when you want to figure out if a blue button gets more clicks than a red button or
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by laichzeit0 1y ago
I read the book Bell Curve years ago, but I remember the analysis being that the found statistically significant differences between race and IQ. The authors argued that individual differences in IQ within a population are strongly influen
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by laichzeit0 1y ago
So were their claims falsified?
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by laichzeit0 1y ago
I use Python 90% of my day and I can't say I like it or hate it or care about it at all. I use it because it has all the libraries I need, and LLMs seem to know it pretty well too. It's a great language for people that don't
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by laichzeit0 1y ago
Neither are most functions, but locally, at a point, a linear approximation works just fine in practice.
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by laichzeit0 1y ago
But this just gives the definition of the distribution. No intuition about where it might have come from, it just appears magically out of thin air and shows some properties it has in the limit.

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