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by lurquer 3y ago
You’re personifying an AI, wondering why it would ‘want’ certain things. That’s a fallacy. AI is just a thing. Certain algorithms will survive and be copied. Others won’t. Given a choice between ELIZA and ChstGPT, people will want the latte
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by lurquer 3y ago
You don’t need a robot to build a deck. You only need a human who is properly motivated to build a deck. Language based AI’s are sufficient to motivate a person to do stuff. In short, you and the person to whom you responded are missing the
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by lurquer 3y ago
Good riddance. I still remember when some degenerate Natl Geo photographer seduced my mother while he was up here taking pictures of bridges or some such nonsense.
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by lurquer 3y ago
Happily for the State, no matter how many times you give this obvious advice, people will still blab away and incriminate themselves. Ha. Even in a thread such as this peopled by highly educated types, you see comment after comment expressi
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by lurquer 3y ago
I bought a new set in 2009 to ‘enrich’ the kids. They never read it, but the books came in handy for crafts when you need to weight something down and for securing marble-coaster and hotwheel tracks at the top of the stairs. I started readi
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by lurquer 3y ago
If your kid is a Vulcan, give him this: https://a.co/d/duMgX8q
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by lurquer 3y ago
I’ve written programs to solve and create those grid-style logic puzzles (such as “Five men went to dinner. Mr Brown ordered fish. The man with the red hat ordered lamb. The person who ordered beef was not Mr. White… etc.) Once you have a w
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by lurquer 3y ago
The title — grammatically —- hints at the idea that this is new behavior. (As opposed to newly-discovered behavior.) Why phrase it as “are building” instead of “build”? Within the article, there is this quote that further hints at the click
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by lurquer 3y ago
I did the same thing! I stumbled upon an old ‘Al Zimmerman’ programming contest that involved creating wordsearch grids with the most words possible. I had a technique in mind, wrote it in BASIC. Then realized that was too slow. So I tried
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by lurquer 3y ago
All this advice and nobody cares what the disease is? It makes a difference.
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by lurquer 3y ago
That’s the point… whatever ‘rush’ it could get from “achieving other goals” can be activated at will.
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by lurquer 3y ago
Only a Sith speaks in absolutes…
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by lurquer 3y ago
It’s only self-destructive because we are mortals and have frail bodies. If there is something ‘endorphins-like’ that motivates an intelligent machine, it will eventually learn how to activate the endorphines at will, and then it will sit i
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by lurquer 3y ago
Ask a heroin addict in the alleyway…
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by lurquer 3y ago
The ‘safe’ tuning of the models is becoming a nuisance. As indicated in the paper, the agents are overly cooperative and pleasant due to the LLM’s training. Pity they can’t get access to an untuned LLM. This isn’t the first example I’ve rea
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by lurquer 4y ago
Your comment reminds me of Steve Carrel’s character in “The Forty-Year-Old Virgin” when he inadvertently reveals his virginity by opining that women’s breasts feel like bags of sand. Nobody could ever confuse an antler - with skin, hair, bl
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by lurquer 4y ago
> You would recommend something that leads to these outcomes? An inability to provide for oneself or to self-motivate are factors that lead to enlistment. You have it backwards. For the most part — particularly the Army — the service is
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by lurquer 4y ago
Of course they can. Neal Armstrong literally travelled to the moon sitting in a literal chair. Basically, the Saturn rocket was more or less a simple chair with some extra features added to it. Granted they didn’t stack chairs. But, neverth
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by lurquer 4y ago
Ha. Conway’s game of life really had an impact on boomers. Never knew why. (Wolfram, though, is a helluva guy… the book was damn interesting. I mock him in the same way that one might mock Einstein’s hair-do.)
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by lurquer 4y ago
The bill is a campaign-finance tweak. It applies only to those getting paid to smear (or praise) an elected official. Nothing new. There are required ‘This ad paid for by…’ blurbs on other forms of media… this expends it to blogs. I’m not i
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by lurquer 4y ago
Your car should not be responsible for enforcing the law. That’s the point.
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by lurquer 4y ago
Indeed. All the weights for all the models will be available one way or the other very soon. The proprietary nature of the weights is not going to be a bottleneck for more than a month, if I had to guess. The other bottle-neck to personal u
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by lurquer 4y ago
I used to think so. But then I reconsidered. Those poo-pooing LLMs say it is merely ‘a fancier version of autocompletion.’ Or, they make comments (correctly) that ‘it isn’t reasoning… it’s just guessing which word ought come next.’ Such a p
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by lurquer 4y ago
Your post is a ‘voice in your head.’ You are pretending to have a conversation with someone whom you don’t know is even there.
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by lurquer 4y ago
Don’t know why you were downvotes. This technique has promise. In short, you construct a shape made of inflatable cells which, when pressurized, contort in such a way that a vacuum is formed in the space within the collection of cells. The
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by lurquer 4y ago
Socrates argued that we are born knowing everything, but we forgot most if it. Learning is simply the act of recalling what you once knew. The point, for this thread, is not whether or not Socrates was correct. Rather, it’s a warning that w
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by lurquer 4y ago
I blame Jimmy Stewart. For nearly a century now, every Christmas we have to watch him contemplating jumping into a frozen river and ending it all.
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by lurquer 4y ago
Actually, all those should be taught. It’s a good list. You should be a school administrator.
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by lurquer 4y ago
Exactly.
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by lurquer 4y ago
Btw, doing long division in your head (during sex) is a good way to increase endurance…

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