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by lukev 3y ago
Well, they're concerned with Gettier problems etc too. But yeah the problem what you mean by "knowing." For example, I am perfectly happy to say that a LLM "knows" words just like I "know" words, or that i
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by lukev 3y ago
I would argue they do not contain knowledge using the classic definition of knowledge as "justified true belief." They can emit statements that happen to be true because the probabilities fall that way (as a sibling comment points
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by lukev 3y ago
This is a great little article. I've been calling ChatGPT the "bullshit robot" since it came out; it really does fit Frankfurt's definition remarkably well. But that doesn't mean you need to be "anti-AI".
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by lukev 3y ago
Can we set helium supply aside, though? I really hope we can make airships work, but it seems like the volumes of helium required will be prohibitive for wide-scale deployment. Hydrogen works well but remains dangerous... perhaps modern t
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by lukev 3y ago
I agree with the prevailing sentiment that 8 != 16 and saying it is, is kind of stupid. However. An 8gb mac with Apple silicon does have higher subjective performance for lightweight office use than a standard 16gb windows machine. I pers
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by lukev 3y ago
Yes, if I use the exact same prompt but omit "and labor" it works fine. Also, "soft lighting" is an extremely standard prompt term and no image generator has a problem with it.
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DALL-E 3 censors mild leftist prompts
4 points by lukev 3y ago|6 comments
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by lukev 3y ago
Pretty much the same thing happened to my dad. He was diagnosed with a rare type of blood cancer. The insurance company denied monoclonal antibodies (as recommended by his oncologist) and would only pay for a complete bone marrow transplant
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by lukev 3y ago
I'm not even sure I like this framing with "exceptionalism" (positive or negative) applied to these folks. It's totally possible for someone who is exceptional in one way (e.g. rich and famous) to be quite pedestrian, bo
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by lukev 3y ago
Eh, maybe. The tech community seems predisposed to a certain kind of hero worship based on perceived intellect that I don't really see in the rest of society.
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by lukev 3y ago
The tendency of the tech community to view "smartness" as a single axis variable is a major achilles heel. Clearly, it is possible for the same person to be both quite smart and deeply, profoundly stupid. To use a relatable metaph
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by lukev 3y ago
In the words of Ursula Le Guin: "We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable — but then, so did the divine right of kings" Fundamental social and economic system change can, and has, happened. The fact that we can't ye
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by lukev 3y ago
This definitely works. There's lots of papers on this. Heck, you can verify this with ChatGPT yourself... just ask it a couple questions, then (in a separate thread) ask the same questions but tell it to "think step by step"
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by lukev 3y ago
The size of the set intersection between people fearing/hoping for the AI singularity (SF "rationalists", mostly) and neo-reactionary monarchists (yes, in 2023) should give you all the answer you need.
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by lukev 3y ago
I don't know if it can be taught critical thinking. LLM token-generation is only vaguely analogous to "thinking" at all. Recursive self prompting with both internal and external calibration might be analogous to "critica
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by lukev 3y ago
Trying to encode truthfulness or biasless-ness into the weights of a model is a fools errand from the start. Consider an extremely optimistic (near term) case for AI; that we can build a model with intelligence, knowledge and recall equival
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by lukev 3y ago
Counterpoint: he has behaved as an idiot the entire time.
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by lukev 3y ago
I feel this deeply. It's important to remember that as developers, we do have a choice. Not about everything, but there's an option to choose the less-sucky alternative. You don't have to use Node. You can write good, backw
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by lukev 3y ago
I agree completely. Having LLMs use programming languages/tools/libraries built for humans is the wrong path to fully leverage their potential. They are capable of so much, but trying to use them as a drop-in replacement for human
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by lukev 3y ago
I will buy one of these for my neighbor at my own expense as soon as they are available. Dude loves his yard, I get it, but he is out there for at least 30 minutes every single day with his gas blower. Usually over dinner time when we are e
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Why can't our tech billionaires learn anything new?(davekarpf.substack.com)
23 points by lukev 3y ago|1 comments
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by lukev 3y ago
This is the system working as intended... it's the problems that don't get caught you need to worry about...
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by lukev 3y ago
I haven't heard a good explanation yet for whether this is even legal. It seems like a textbook example of an unconstitutional bill of attainder. You'd have to ban TikTok based on something it does , and any such law would impact
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by lukev 3y ago
The writing/poetry community is basically done there. Authors will still post announcements etc but there's maybe 10% of the community there once was.
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by lukev 3y ago
I like this point of view, and I'll even go a step further... If we're going to use LLMs as the basis for anything resembling general intelligence, it won't be through one-shot invocation of the model. It'll be through s
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by lukev 3y ago
While we're talking about terminology, I think both "hallucinate" and "confabulate" are misleading and lead to inappropriate intuitions about how language models work. Both words imply that there's something er
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by lukev 3y ago
Indeed, and it'd be worthwhile doing a comparison. My only point is that you have to make sure comparisons are accurate with respect to scope of services. Private schools in the US look artificially good in terms of both finances and p
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by lukev 3y ago
The cost-per-student of private vs public education is not an apples-to-apples comparison because the public school system is also obligated to provide transportation and special needs education, both of which are very expensive and neither
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by lukev 3y ago
> Wealth is only produced when people work. This is a little simplistic. Say a farmer can grow 20 bushels of wheat in a year. A farmer with a tractor can grow 200 bushels. Does the guy who invented the tractor work as hard as the farmer?
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by lukev 3y ago
The bitter truth though is that the last 20% always takes 99% of the time and effort. LLMs are a huge breakthrough and we are absolutely speedrunning the 80%, but I see no reason to believe the usual pattern won’t hold when the easy wins ar

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