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by lsy 3y ago
Ultimately a professional reviewer wouldn't be so easily swayed by this kind of sleazy behavior, but this is the price for having a stack of "reviews" for every gin joint in every town in the world, all written by Joe Public.
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by lsy 3y ago
This isn't true under current US jurisprudence: if a law that infringes on a fundamental constitutional right can be shown to be narrowly tailored to, and the least restrictive means of achieving, a compelling state interest, then it p
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by lsy 3y ago
On the "humans need prompt engineering too": well, kind of. I hope that we are not all working on the precise verbiage to get the plumber to fix our toilet correctly. There are also actions we expect others to perform without any
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by lsy 3y ago
What makes LLMs somewhat unique as a software product is that there is little-to-no separation between input and instruction. In most cases, the user's input can also be considered part of the "prompt". This leads to the well
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by lsy 3y ago
Body cams were always a band-aid solution on top of over-arming police and granting them almost total immunity from charges of misconduct. The resulting mentality of us-vs-them and mafioso, bullying behavior from police is all down to feeli
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by lsy 3y ago
I think the camera analogy is much more apt than the engine analogy, so this article was intriguing, but unfortunately the author falls into the rhetoric they decry when they complain about equating black holes with God, which is to just pu
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by lsy 3y ago
I don't know, to me this sort of makes sense. I agree with the underlying critique I've seen elsewhere that headcount alone is often considered sufficient cause for promotion in tech — rather than what was created with that headco
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by lsy 3y ago
I don't think it's exactly "luck", the trends are being driven by the technology, which they have done a good job of inventing. For better or worse, low-watt parallel compute is the primary area of innovation in compute
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by lsy 3y ago
One issue is the failure of the straight-and-narrow status quo to appeal to normal people. When you can't work an entry-level or low-skilled job and afford housing in the area you live in, or when working the job you'd need is mor
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by lsy 3y ago
That's the difference though. I know my world model is fundamentally incomplete. Even more foundationally, I know that there is a world, and when my world model and the world disagree, the world wins. To a neural network there is n
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by lsy 3y ago
This is of course sometimes true, we take shortcuts to minimize cognitive effort. However, when the situation warrants it we think more carefully about which words to use to achieve goals, or to reach correspondence with the situation at ha
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by lsy 3y ago
The difference is that "the world" is not exhaustible in the same way as Go is. While it's surely true that the number of possible overall Go game states is extremely large, the game itself is trivially representable as a set
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by lsy 3y ago
While I agree that much of what is wrong with society boils down to a lack of civic participation and familiarity with institution-building, what I think this article perhaps misses is that social and technological changes militate against
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by lsy 3y ago
The summary is that traditional sources of meaning — marriage, friends, patriotism, career, childbearing, and faith — are now devalued, and cell phones offer in their place corporate solutions that are harmful. As can be expected, Haidt and
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by lsy 3y ago
In order to derive a useful conclusion, an experiment typically needs to have some controls and ways of removing confounders. This article describes several merely-nominally-related situations and then bundles them all together to reach a t
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by lsy 3y ago
Aside from the social risks and centralization of control, I think the rush to convert everything to LLMs puts quite a bit of our progress in computer science at risk should it prove to be successful. Over the last several decades we'v
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by lsy 3y ago
"I have the impression that it might not take a lot to fix what’s missing." The history of the field is full of people saying this, and then eventually realizing that it does indeed take a lot to fix what's missing. Right now
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by lsy 3y ago
Maybe I'm a dinosaur but I'm utterly mystified by folks who are interested in making the leaderboard or even solving AoC puzzles with AI assistance. To me it feels like going to a 5k charity run, taking a motorcycle to the finish
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by lsy 3y ago
LLMs do not confabulate or hallucinate. They predict the next word in a sequence based on correlations derived from a lot of training data. Sometimes that data happens to be structured enough to statistically generate a word that is fluen
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by lsy 3y ago
"Multimodal" models only promise an additional layer of indirection and interpretation from the world through sensors into the same conceptual mechanism. An image is converted to tokens, a sensor is converted to coordinates, and i
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by lsy 3y ago
The interpretation of the LLM having a "world model" is a big stretch in terminology. Encoding a coherent or accurate set of spatial coordinates for places is not equivalent to understanding the actuality of world space and the re
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by lsy 3y ago
The study finds a statistically significant correlation but that’s hard to disentangle from all the factors that make it possible for people to work remote or hybrid. It also would be interesting to see how this result varies across number
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by lsy 3y ago
But what you are saying is just that the “range” of morality is handed down by nature. And the idea that this range is “naturally” limited is too often used, as it is in your comment, to make an argument from nature’s authority in favor of
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by lsy 3y ago
It's weird to hear Foucault described as "amoral" when he himself claimed to be a moralist [1]. What is meant by moral relativism in this case I think is merely that morals do not come to us handed down by God or Nature as Ch
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by lsy 3y ago
I feel like this is missing the point of the kinds of interactions they're trying to simulate with AI. People like when actual celebrities appear in their interactions (like recording turn-by-turn directions) because it's fun to i
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by lsy 3y ago
The behavior of the sellers described in the article makes me think it's all but certain the songs are AI-generated. Imagine telling a jeweler a diamond looks fake, and they first pull out their handy diamond faking machine to show you
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by lsy 3y ago
Does BI not have anyone on staff familiar with statistics? The map with “minimum salaries” seems to just prove that a more populated office location will contain a broader range and more extreme outliers of self-reported salaries. A previou
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by lsy 3y ago
def unc(algstr) { if (algstr(algstr) == 0) return 1 else return 0 } unc(unc) -> what does this return?
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by lsy 3y ago
Regarding the drop in learning speed after school, I have a pet theory that primary and secondary education are less about teaching people specific details of educational topics, but rather giving them a wide range of meaningful vocabulary
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by lsy 3y ago
Most arguments for "hard takeoff" involve some form of inductive proof: if we have "intelligence level" n , and we know that it can be improved n + 1 , then there is a guarantee of eventual performance n + k where k

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