lelanthran

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by lelanthran 1mo ago
> If I train my 1000 billion parameter blank AI on this text and only this text over and over again, we may get 99% there. You'll get 100% of the way there, because, lacking any other training, it will only ever be able to reproduce
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by lelanthran 1mo ago
> All people want is affordable housing, jobs that let you plan for the future, and healthcare that won't bankrupt you. Right. I want to see the Democrats campaigning on those things. Midterm is near, they should be getting their
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by lelanthran 1mo ago
> I wonder why C and C++ are usually regarded as equally insecure. They aren't, usually. C++ has all the C problems, and multiples more on top of those. It's a broad attack surface - literally no one is going to claim to be pro
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by lelanthran 1mo ago
I don't think netbsd uses github.
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by lelanthran 1mo ago
> I'd hesitate to jump to the conclusion that Holmes had editorial control over the way journalists portrayed her. We're going to find out anyway in the movie how she markets herself (and maybe how she marketed herself in the p
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by lelanthran 1mo ago
> Try steering a fast horse with blinders. Most people here hit a fucking wall at mach 7 when you try to show them reality. We're all going to find out when we see the movie anyway, right? We're going to see how she markets her
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by lelanthran 1mo ago
It wouldn't have worked if people weren't biased in favour of women.
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by lelanthran 1mo ago
> She was sold as a successful Stanford dropout Is, uh, "sexism" in the room with us now?
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by lelanthran 1mo ago
Didn't she fail out of science/engineering. Can I claim to have an medical background if I failed the first semester?
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by lelanthran 1mo ago
> Anything that turns your brain off, whether it's tugging your heartstrings, endorsing your ideology, whatever, scammers are ready to take advantage. TheLastPsychiatrist used a good phrase to describe this: cognitive kill-switch.
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by lelanthran 1mo ago
> Plenty of male-led businesses also turned out to be scams, and yet no one goes 'that guy looks sharp, but he is male so seems suspicious'. The scam was sold on her gender ("successful female entrepreneur"), so unfor
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by lelanthran 1mo ago
> The overall point is that claiming that "human writing = human thinking" is too broad a general statement to make seriously. Do you have any non-contrived example of writing that was done with zero thought?
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by lelanthran 1mo ago
The problem is "This user submits in 60 minutes enough PRs to keep us busy for a week". You don't know that they are low effort PRs until you expend time and energy, while in the meantime more important PRs might be in the qu
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by lelanthran 1mo ago
>>> I don't, generally, think in words, >> Don't worry, no one does. > …you don’t think in words? "I don't, generally, think in words" is not the same as "I don't think in words". Li
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by lelanthran 1mo ago
> I don't, generally, think in words, Don't worry, no one does. That's why it is so common for people to forget a specific word they want to use ("it's on the tip of my tongue"). If we thought in words that
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by lelanthran 1mo ago
Intention (mens rea) is not a get out of jail free card, it just changes the nature of the crime and charges you get convicted off. If you run someone over on purpose you get convicted of murder. If You do it by driving recklessly you get
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by lelanthran 1mo ago
> Why does me writing "apt apt apt apt apt apt apt" help me think about the world? Poor example. You wrote it to make a point, after all.
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by lelanthran 1mo ago
Come on, this is a take we expect from a 1st grader! Gcc makes maybe 1 mistake ever 2 billion emissions. LLMs make 1 mistake ever 3rd emission.
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by lelanthran 1mo ago
> wonder if long form writing will go the way of code. You and the AI agree on an outline or other high level representation, then the LLM expands it into a document. What use is that? I'm not being facetious, I'd really rather
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by lelanthran 1mo ago
> I expect the gruesome writing style of LLMs to be fixed relatively soon, seeing how it can already be prevented with just a few lines of stylistic instructions. I have not found this to be the case even with SOTA models as recently as
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by lelanthran 1mo ago
Could be that models are not yet at the point where they are able to write code as well as we think they can. I mean, there's a limit on the complexity of a phone workout app, but almost unbounded complexity in even simple business app
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by lelanthran 1mo ago
> The way I see it is AI collapses hierarchy Right. Because the owners of capital will let you have access to the largest models, without which you can't compete with them. I think that there is a high probability of increased inequ
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by lelanthran 1mo ago
It's hard to figure out unless they had persistent memory elsewhere. The reason they could tell that a message was deleted is because the existence of a "message deleted" message is itself a message telling them they are be
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by lelanthran 1mo ago
The problem is that the AI commenters ironically want human readers for their generated content. I feel that if you want humans to read your stuff, those humans insisting that you write your own stuff is not an unreasonable position to tak
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by lelanthran 1mo ago
Sorry, to me any complaint about people complaining about prose is a vehement statement about accepting AI. I feel that if one doesn't want to send that message, they shouldn't be attempting to convince others that rejection of
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by lelanthran 1mo ago
> I don't think I've ever seen someone on HN say that. A 5m search got me the following: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49410941 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49411042 https:&#x2F
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by lelanthran 1mo ago
The problem is not the LLM prose appearing everywhere, it's the legions of AI-boosters appearing in every thread attacking anyone who complains. Apparently, even though they want to spew AI prose everywhere, they want it read by humans
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by lelanthran 1mo ago
> Claude, continue to teach me about 3d rendering as related to our current challenges matching the fidelity of the built in browser. Why? Claude can just do it for you, can't it? If you're using Claude to do these things, why
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by lelanthran 1mo ago
We see this posted weekly here. Give it a break. It's old and worn out now.
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by lelanthran 1mo ago
> The jump in capabilities in the last 6 months has been substantial. What I would like to see is a chart graphing the model size against some objective measure of capabilities, specifically for coding. It's easy to see gains when y

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