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by lblume 1y ago
Empirically, there seems to be strong evidence for LLMs giving factual output for accessible knowledge questions. Many benchmarks test this.
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by lblume 1y ago
> And no, there wasn't anything medically wrong with her. Do you mean physically? The behavior surely sounds compulsive...
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by lblume 1y ago
https://xcancel.com/p3b7_/status/1955173413992984988
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by lblume 1y ago
Prescriptivism is inherently limited to situations where near-unanimous consent exists between all speakers.
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by lblume 1y ago
I fail to imagine how one could use "try and" in a resume, without actively trying to.
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by lblume 1y ago
This is interesting, because I wouldn't be too sure about that. Whether I am able to play chess well exclusively depends on the strengths of my opponents, because there is no absolute baseline. If society somehow decided that what you
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by lblume 1y ago
Accuracy certainly does play a role, but this in itself is not sufficient for preventing an infinite regress – how does one determine the accuracy of a source if not by evaluating claims about the source, that themselves have sources that n
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by lblume 1y ago
The position of Kant does not align with the direction modern neuroscience is heading towards. Current evidence seems to prefer decentralized theories of consciousness like Dennett's multiple drafts model[1], suggesting there is no cen
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by lblume 1y ago
How is this relevant? Modern LLMs don't rearrange words at all in a meaningful sense of the word, and are certainly better than just using random chance to sample tokens.
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by lblume 1y ago
With chronic liar being a severe anthropomorphization by itself due to assuming some level of intent by the LLM, correct?
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by lblume 1y ago
It seems that on some level, you have to in order to not just constantly reflecting upon your thoughts and researching facts. Whether you trust a given source should surely depend upon its reputation regarding the validity of its claims.
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by lblume 1y ago
Expected Value?
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by lblume 1y ago
Do you really know what you don't know? This would rule out unknown unknowns entirely.
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by lblume 1y ago
Doesn't seem too likely, world knowledge is very valuable.
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by lblume 1y ago
Ambiguity is resolved via provided context, but just as with conversations, this context may be severely underspecified.
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by lblume 1y ago
Why would you even need LLMs for that? Notwithstanding context, finding text that fits into a given bounding box is already perfectly doable via a classical algorithm (in this case e.g. based on dynamic programming).
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by lblume 1y ago
I tend to agree, however the government is not an unincentivized incentivizer. By being able to impose such fines, the government is potentially itself incentivized to not prevent these accidents for they potentially cause this kind of reve
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by lblume 1y ago
In most jurisdictions, a corporation is a juridical person[1]. When not explicitly mentioning natural persons, whether a corporation is a "person" is thus ambiguous. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juridica
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by lblume 1y ago
Density is fundamentally incompatible with car-friendly cities and a large amount of road. In general, the denser a city becomes, the more people will go by foot, cycle, or use public transport, especially in Europe.
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by lblume 1y ago
The difference is that the tube driver (assuming there even is one) can't just decide to take a slight turn from the planned route, while the car driver really might.
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by lblume 1y ago
Correct. The only way to not subject oneself to (economic) irrationality is to model your beliefs about the world using probabilities and using Bayes to update in light of new evidence.
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by lblume 1y ago
Correct. This is also known as a rebound effect [1], or, specifically with regard to technological improvements, as the Jevons paradox [2]. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebound_effect_(conservation) [2]: https:&
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by lblume 1y ago
> you have to assume We don't have to assume. We know that JavaScript is slow in many cases, that shipping more bundles instead of less will decrease performance, and that with regard to the amount of content served generally less i
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by lblume 1y ago
The fact that this article and similar ones get upvoted very frequently on this platform is strong evidence against this claim. Considering the current state of the Web and user application development, I tend to agree with regard to its de
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by lblume 1y ago
At least in theoretical computer science, often, but that's another matter entirely.
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by lblume 1y ago
Yes, SPAs should store simple user state in the URL as well.
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by lblume 1y ago
In that case we read it entirely differently — the last paragraph explicitly mentions inferring "Nullable fields that never hold nulls are often the result of incomplete migrations or forgotten cleanup steps". The author also prop
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by lblume 1y ago
Sure, if one just leaves a column nullable due to negligence, one should check the actual requirements and enforce them to make invalid states unrepresentable. The author still makes too strong of a claim that becomes detached from the migr
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by lblume 1y ago
A counterpoint: photography enabled integrity and authenticity of images, which fueled journalistic credibility, in general becoming one part in fostering a high-trust society. AI image generation leads to these advances being slowly eradic
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by lblume 1y ago
> But a field that is nullable in the schema and never null in practice is a silent lie. This seems to be the central claim. But just as lies require intent, so does database design to some degree. A column that is nullable but never nul

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