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by lucianbr 2y ago
> The joke is that if Meta thought that replacing all the Python code they have with something else was worth it, they'd have done it already. "Worth it" depends on both how much performance improvement you get, and how ha
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by lucianbr 2y ago
Manufacturing a coal power plant also takes energy. Clearing the site for a coal power plant also takes energy. Same for the infrastructure. Did you ever ask those questions for coal or gas or oil? Or is it only for solar panels that they
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by lucianbr 2y ago
> On the plus side big tech knows interviews are often a function of luck How does this not mean "we hire at random"? It's especially egregious after explaining all the reasons you can't give a candidate extra time, b
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by lucianbr 2y ago
> A few billion seems like not enough time. Where would you get an intuition about how much time a billion years is? Or for what is "mind boggingly complex" and what not? How many eons have you lived? People who claim it is pos
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by lucianbr 2y ago
> the event it describes WILL eventually occur given enough time/trials/etc. What's the meaning of writing WILL with capitals, and then saying "nobody is talking about the real, actual universe"? What is the valu
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by lucianbr 2y ago
There's always a way. On the other hand, does it help to worry? I don't think you can influence Apple.
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by lucianbr 2y ago
How is that relevant? Microsoft bought OpenAI, didn't create it by R&D, so the assertion stands: giants don't do new things, for whatever reason.
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by lucianbr 2y ago
What is your "almost certainty" based on? What does it even mean? Every thread on LLMs is full of people insisting their beliefs are certainties. What I'm certain is we should not praise the inventor of ball bearings for inve
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by lucianbr 2y ago
Muscle memory or something like it hardly seems a step towards AGI. Or towards solving any difficult problems.
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by lucianbr 2y ago
This is basically a reformulation of "have fun staying poor!". Even contains the exclamation mark. Those people sure showed us, didn't they? Ah, but "it's different this time !".
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by lucianbr 2y ago
> If it's not there it's not there. There is nothing in the LLM that would have the capability to create new information by reasoning, when the existing information does not already include what we need. There is logic and usef
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by lucianbr 2y ago
> It is easier to never have to worry about it if you simply decline to use plastic cooking utensils. > I actually made all of my wood cooking implements from scratch. I cut down the trees and carved them. Is this trolling? "It&#
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by lucianbr 2y ago
The instinct to acquire resources does not have a limit. When homo sapiens evolved, such a limit would not have been a useful adaptation. There were no billionaires then. Also it's nice to boss people around, probably for the same reas
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by lucianbr 2y ago
> Often that person's leadership wasn't the problem What's the basis for this claim? I would rather think often it was the problem. Not absolutely every time, but most times. After all, the C-suite makes the decisions. I c
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by lucianbr 2y ago
> Are they fooling themselves, or trying to fool others, or working at jobs where 90% of their work is boilerplate drudgery, or what exactly? I wonder about this also. Maybe it's just some of each? Clearly some people fool themselv
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by lucianbr 2y ago
> Economically they're in very rough shape What does this even mean? I would have expected it to mean "can't wage war", "people are starving and storming the palace". Obviously not. So? Other than numbers, w
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by lucianbr 2y ago
Interesting that money is considered to have a large influence on US elections, one side has a lot more money, and yet the race is incredibly close.
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by lucianbr 2y ago
They both store JSON, each in some particular way, but they don't both store it in the same way. Just like they both store tabular data, but not in the same way, and therefore get different performance characteristics. Are you arguing
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by lucianbr 2y ago
Well I guess the theory is that you could go to court, and the court would be reasonable and say "this 1 second look does not fulfill the requirement, you need to actually use human judgement and see what was going on there". Lots
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by lucianbr 2y ago
> a Reader object that has many methods supporting various configuration options (setSkipRows(..), setNaFilter(...), etc), perhaps using a fluent style I don't understand what that would bring as opposed to the current situation you
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by lucianbr 2y ago
It's so obviously cherry-picking, I have no idea what you are even thinking. To not be cherry-picking would mean that it's actually ready and works fine in all situations, and there's no way Musk would not shout that out from
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by lucianbr 2y ago
That's reasonable. Let's just call it root cause analysis in this case. The original point seemed to me to be "we can't use computers because they're not accountable". I say, we can, because we can do fault ana
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by lucianbr 2y ago
If a mechanical device does something wrong, are we in the same conundrum? I don't see what the problem is. There's malice, there's negligence, and there's accident. We can figure out which it was, and act accordingly. M
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by lucianbr 2y ago
> The point of accountability is to deter harmful activity by ensuring actions/decisions somewhere result in consequences What I read is yes, the point is revenge. If I can offer you a different way of preventing harmful activity, a
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by lucianbr 2y ago
Is the point revenge or fixing the problem? Fixing the algorithm to never do that again is easy. Or is the point to instill fear?
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by lucianbr 2y ago
You should read about the popes in medieval times. Point being, everything you wrote is about humans, not about americans. And having religion changed nothing. Who knows what those people believed inside their minds, but outward they had re
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by lucianbr 2y ago
It's not really a technical issue, they just pretend it is. It's an abuse by the employers, and that's not something you can fix with certified mail. Likely they just find a way to make the certified mail not work when it is
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by lucianbr 2y ago
Can't you just avoid the suit notice, the same way they avoid the resignation notice? I mean, I'm sure you're right. I just want to highlight that it's actually oppressive bullshit perpetrated by the rich, not "a fu
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by lucianbr 2y ago
Have you considered the possibility that the good effects are for some smaller group, such as business owners and managers? If we're going to be wise and realise that all decisions have advantages and disadvantages, we should also real
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by lucianbr 2y ago
Yeah, combining unit tests and written docs in various ways seems fine. My reading of the article was that the tests are the only documentation. Maybe that was not the intent but just a bad interpretation on my part. Though some replies her

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