layla5alive

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by layla5alive 3mo ago
Indeed, the real fun signal here is the conflict between how intelligent humans think they are and the different story told by much of human behavior, including within this very thread! When an LLM makes a cognitive mistake, humans jeer &qu
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by layla5alive 3mo ago
I guess you don't really know how an LLM works then..?
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by layla5alive 3mo ago
Human brain looks a lot like scale and minor refinement above dog brain. Or mouse brain.
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by layla5alive 3mo ago
They already possess general intelligence by many metrics. Sure they miss a few, but that's nitpicky and goalpost shifty - lots of humans make errors of all sorts as well, or incur brain damage limiting them in one or a few areas of in
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by layla5alive 3mo ago
Yes, calling themselves "rationalists" seems to be the biggest tell. That they wish they were that. Yet their behavior reflects anything but.
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by layla5alive 3mo ago
No, they're proposing a spying panopticon and state control of global resource distribution - specifically general purpose compute - including seizing and destroying GPUs. They're proposing a totalitarian global dictatorship contr
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by layla5alive 3mo ago
Starlink is going to be panopticon surveillance satellites long term - I hope I'm wrong.
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by layla5alive 3mo ago
Having a PC at all back then made you relatively privileged and probably relatively wealthy compared to those of us living in families on food stamps. I saved money and bought a 2400 baud modem from a classified ad for $25 (had to drive a c
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by layla5alive 3mo ago
dhcp uses it by default nowadays.. but you can tell dhcp to use your mac address instead (like it used to).. https://askubuntu.com/questions/1498611/ubuntu-dhcp-client-u... (linked because depending on version, th
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by layla5alive 3mo ago
https://archive.ph/NEwVz "However, these inference optimizations, which rival Anthropic refers to as “compute multipliers,” are a big focus for all the labs. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has been publicly talking about t
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by layla5alive 4mo ago
Was that class taught by a certain woman who had a business making websites, per-chance?
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by layla5alive 4mo ago
> The problem is that politicians don't seem to understand it. The problem is that politicians were corrupted by power.
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by layla5alive 4mo ago
Have you walked any miles in the shoes of the people you're summarizing so bluntly?
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by layla5alive 4mo ago
+1 fiber over short distance just adds power/heat and latency compared to DAC - fiber is nice for ease of cabling and airflow, but not performance or cost when below a few meters.
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by layla5alive 4mo ago
I agree with the others: this is literally the perfect implementation of literal Big Brother "your TV watches you" tech - this WILL BE ABUSED by Tech Corps + Governments. We need to stop building surveilance panopticons! "it
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by layla5alive 4mo ago
The Cantillon Effect applied to machine intelligence..
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by layla5alive 4mo ago
People can wear masks in confined spaces. It doesn't preclude the benefits of filtering the air and using Far UVC. Defense in depth. But also there are lots of spaces where filtration and UVC can really work wonders.
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by layla5alive 4mo ago
Every day that passes this seems to become more true. I don't believe this must be true. I don't believe it was always true.. but gosh have we taken some turns..
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by layla5alive 4mo ago
It is trickling down, always has been! The emperor IS wearing beautiful clothes, also!
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by layla5alive 4mo ago
A lot of people here in the comments saying 'this can't work because amyloid beta hypothesis was wrong' seem to be missing that this treatment is aimed at some of the primary mediators of general brain health (function of nat
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by layla5alive 4mo ago
Indeed. When are we going to wake up and stand up to this? "Freedom?" This is not freedom. Liberty? Nope. This really is techno-serfdom. Power and capability for me (govts / large corps) but not for thee (us, the serfs).
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by layla5alive 4mo ago
Comparing either the Wright Brothers first successful flight (1903) or even an F22 Raptor (released in 2005) to a Sparrow: "If this is flight, it's really boring. We can't even build a mechanical sparrow that can lay eggs and
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by layla5alive 4mo ago
You evaded any understanding of my point — mistaking the API for the implementation is like seeing a manuscript beside a typewriter and concluding the typewriter wrote it. You wouldn’t do that; why make the same category error here?
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by layla5alive 4mo ago
I think most of the nuance in your first argument was undermined and overshadowed by your fairly categorical assertion that LLMs are bullshit generators and not actually useful. When you got a reply illustrating how incorrect that claim fro
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by layla5alive 4mo ago
It's a literal truth that predicting the next token one at a time does not preclude intelligence on the other side of the decode function. Deal with it.
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by layla5alive 4mo ago
decode() looks simple! Wow, obviously intelligence can't live behind that function call! /s Now, take that for loop, and replace the implementation of decode(context, ++position) and pass it to a human who was bored enough to play
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by layla5alive 4mo ago
You're talking about simple compression and encoding mechanisms and by implication you're drawing an analogy to an LLM encoding/compressing the information.. And sure, it does, but the person you're replying to was tryin
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by layla5alive 4mo ago
So much this - so many people seem to miss the forest from the trees that emergent properties are not bound to the complexity of the underlying mechanics. All of life arises (maybe) from very simple subatomic particles, and at each stage yo
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by layla5alive 4mo ago
I could answer the same query the same way as a child.
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by layla5alive 4mo ago
I do not think you are correct.

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