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by lsy 2y ago
We can't develop a universally coherent data set because what we understand as "truth" is so intensely contextual that we can't hope to cover the amount of context needed to make the things work how we want, not to menti
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by lsy 2y ago
Is there a streaming-native way of encoding multiple camera angles simultaneously in a video? The ability to toggle between different angles is a feature on DVDs and Blu-rays that IMO is underused but awesome for educational videos where
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by lsy 2y ago
This is a great example of the type of question-begging and junk science "deep learning models" enable. The methodology is to take time series MRI of hundreds of regions of the brain and, labeling each data point as "male&quo
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by lsy 2y ago
I think it's difficult to conceptualize a program's behavior as "buggy" when the program has no specified behavior . The vexing thing about LLMs and image generators is that they ultimately have no intended purpose or p
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by lsy 3y ago
It's odd to use dock workers as a contrast, since their heavy unionization has led to very high pay rates (which, for the record, I think are deserved): "Full-time dock foremen earned 24% more than the average CEO’s base salary in
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by lsy 3y ago
This may or may not be real, but there has certainly been a lot of discussion about results that are similar to this from real models. My sense though is that nobody really has a solid way to fix these kinds of issues. You can basically jus
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by lsy 3y ago
What's amazing to me is that this is the first time I've seen the frame problem explicitly mentioned in online discussion of LLMs, despite it being an incredibly relevant and historically difficult problem in the exact field of AI
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by lsy 3y ago
The 2nd episode of Stewart Brand’s BBC series “How Buildings Learn” is called “The Low Road” and also addresses the use of inexpensive or undesirable space. Ultimately part of making room for innovation means allowing people to take risks,
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by lsy 3y ago
What isn't really discussed here (and I wish was!) is the corollary to the price scaling of successive generations: the outcome isn't proportionate to the increased cost. GPT-4 cost thirty times as much as GPT-3 to train, but it i
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by lsy 3y ago
If the search terms are "competitive" what's the moat that keeps your customers' competitors from leveraging the same foundation models until that term is flooded with marginally-optimized copy? High-quality copy used to
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by lsy 3y ago
This is almost the opposite of what I envisioned when reading the title "folk computer", which makes me think of a computing experience that's fundamentally simple, convivial, and transparent to users, something like what&#x2
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by lsy 3y ago
Though it seems like there is some sensitivity around the comparison of LLMs to Markov chains, and certainly an LLM is not generated in the same way, it is pretty accurate that an LLM could be represented by a sufficiently (ie very) complex
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by lsy 3y ago
One way of answering this question would be to consider why, for example, Native American children were punished at boarding schools for speaking their language instead of English, why US colonial rule of Hawai'i included bans on Hawai
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by lsy 3y ago
> All those Erewhon, whole foods and trader joes will turn into boarded window crack houses and garrisons for gang warfare. This seems a little hysterical. Cities functioned extremely well, perhaps even better, before the advent of lengt
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by lsy 3y ago
"I have a worry about X that I can't justify in any way" isn't a good basis for forcing people into a decision that (as the GP mentions) has dozens of obvious, immediate, and measurable benefits in the other direction. T
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by lsy 3y ago
This law is true in some cases, but I think is too often used as the tech industry's version of "first they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win". The argument is that, sure, a technology&#x27
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by lsy 3y ago
I’m perplexed by this article’s argument, which seems to be that Graeber is somehow betraying “anarchism” by theorizing the state as ill-defined or non-monolithic, or questioning the concept of “inequality”. All of these arguments seem tota
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by lsy 3y ago
It feels like journalistic malpractice for this article to assign some kind of personhood to "AI George Carlin" and talk about this entity "dropping" a comedy special or "throwing shade". This is the production
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by lsy 3y ago
https://medium.com/@konstantine_45825/gpt-4-cant-reason-adde... These are some examples on GPT-4.
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by lsy 3y ago
I agree with your perspective overall but I find when something like this is posted the responses are usually along the lines of "how do we know that statistical prediction on a large enough scale is not akin to understanding?" Wh
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by lsy 3y ago
I was interested to see a paper from a philosophical perspective but it seems this one fails to grapple with some of the more foundational critiques, primarily around reference where it claims that externalism militates for a view where ref
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by lsy 3y ago
One allegation that stands out is > DMCA Section 1202 violations by all defendants regarding removal of copyright management information from items in the datasets Aside from the obvious fact that OpenAI doesn't want "© 2023 Th
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by lsy 3y ago
It’s interesting to me that these criticisms come mostly from the right when they’re essentially the result of a corporate attitude towards universities, where rather than being so heavily subsidized that they are essentially free for the p
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by lsy 3y ago
It's kind of fascinating that we've taken the lowest-bandwidth way of proving agency and effort - writing - and made it tremendously more labor-intensive to deduce whether any agency or effort were involved at all. I think the kno
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by lsy 3y ago
I wonder if we'll eventually realize, similar to Solow's productivity paradox, that whatever efficiency "gains" we get from AI are just cancelled out by the increased need for fact-checking, some increased incidence of m
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by lsy 3y ago
The article is sourced from The Information, which says "Google plans to reorganize a big part of its 30,000-person ad sales unit, an executive told some staff last week, prompting anxiety that some departments will face job cuts.&quot
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by lsy 3y ago
Maybe I wasn't clear, but my point of view is that efficiency is — rightly — not an important feature of farmers markets (at least to me or people I know), so I'm put off by this paper that is trying to somehow optimize them using
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by lsy 3y ago
What is it about text generation that makes us so credulous about its relationship to reality in a way that we aren't with other generative tech? I assume that a lawyer would implicitly understand that they can't, for example, ask
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by lsy 3y ago
I never really thought of farmers markets as a location for efficiency in the economy. Normally you are shutting down a street, hauling product in small trucks directly from an upstate farm, and having 1-2 staffers per product type make dir
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by lsy 3y ago
I don't think "accuracy" is going to be the defining feature of which chatbot succeeds. People just aren't using them for tasks where a 3-5 point difference makes the grade, because the difference between 67 and 100 is m

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