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by mattlutze 3y ago
If someone uses an LLM to produce the code, I'd guess they'll use it to evaluate the code as well.
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by mattlutze 3y ago
> For the record, I agree with you – I would have thought that an AI that can reason well would probably know when not to trust humans, but I suppose that assumes it values preventing humans creating napalm over being correct and helpful
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by mattlutze 3y ago
There's also the jobs where folks thing they're an employee but are being reported by the business as a contractor, to effectively pay less and also save on required tax and benefit compensation.
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by mattlutze 3y ago
" These lecture notes, at least several of them, made their first appearance on the web in 2006." Looks like it's a broad and deep foundational course. I'd imagine really appreciating this theory priming, and then taking
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by mattlutze 3y ago
I think these are saying the same thing (and software translators often get things slightly different than original intent).
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by mattlutze 3y ago
Counterpoint: if something pretty much works without a law being in place, why write a law? Laws are never perfect, and writing one just for the sake of it both makes complying with the law more complex and opens opportunities for people wi
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by mattlutze 3y ago
I very much support workers collecting in solidarity to support each other. I'm not sure that I like the idea of official agents of a state office, or de facto state office, being authorized to independently choose how to execute their
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by mattlutze 3y ago
It's a bit shocking, as Sweden is one of Tesla's most mature and highest-density markets in Europe.
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by mattlutze 3y ago
> but the reaction of many to being recorded was very, very negative. Rightly so. The lives of others aren't just data for us to unilaterally collect, to the contrary of the "beg forgiveness" big data collection philosophy
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by mattlutze 3y ago
"Never before in my life had I seen so many smart people working on the same goal" I'm not sure why but the assumptions and naivety in this opening line bothers me. There are plenty of goals and problems that orders of magnit
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by mattlutze 3y ago
We just don't have the information to make judgements, much less leaping to "they must be lying." There's a few public numbers from a handful of foundation models as to performance vs parameter count vs architecture gene
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by mattlutze 3y ago
> Basically, you don't want to lose evidence if there's a warrant or ongoing lawsuit. I really see no problem with that clause in most ToS documents. Perhaps more nit-pickinlgy specific, they may be compelled by law (the courts
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by mattlutze 3y ago
ISPs are also in the business of analytics [1, 2], and a significant percentage of customers hiding their traffic reduces the value of their analytic products. 1: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/ftc-
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by mattlutze 3y ago
>> So I have a weird catalog in my head of things not to mention if I don’t want to start the same discussion about that thing for the 50th time. > Somehow we've built a culture where its socially acceptable, and even rewarded
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by mattlutze 3y ago
There is no false choice here. Only a choice. Apple creates and sells a catalog of products. They choose to tightly couple their hardware to specific operating systems and software. Lots of others have tried to copy Apple's hardware ap
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by mattlutze 3y ago
Most software devs would prefer a debugger, but most non-software devs would probably prefer a virtual developer. If a technical product manager was able to generate the code needed for a feature using some combination of LLMs and CoPilots—
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by mattlutze 3y ago
I agree with the tongue-in-cheek and the serious question. I was asking myself this just yesterday. Britanica's definition is nice (the application of science to the optimum conversion of the resources of nature to the uses of humankin
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by mattlutze 3y ago
It's generally better for your finances to not pay 100% of a committment today if interest on payments is below the immediate return of how you'd otherwise use the money. The way we use a platform over time changes, as does option
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by mattlutze 3y ago
Many communities' implicit social contracts imply that it can be impolite to just leave in the middle of a party a person has been invited to. If it's "I'm bored" but not "oh God, I hate this," a lot of fo
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by mattlutze 3y ago
Incarceration by itself is poorly correlated to the goal of reducing overall crime and reducing recidivism. Putting people in prison should be a last resort, instead of the first resort that the US and some other countries treat it as. Rega
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by mattlutze 3y ago
Yes. Simple penalties create classes of crime; wealthy folks just ignore the penalty on double parking some poor schmuck because who cares about a $100 fine when you're making $1M? These regulations are written to discourage unfair act
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by mattlutze 4y ago
Parent is talking about a fundamental feature of networks. A denser and larger network has much more useful network-related features, and if one company has a significant majority of the total addressable market for a network, it's a m
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by mattlutze 4y ago
I'm not particularly literate in this, but I've understood a significant portion of the assets are very low yield government bonds. No bank / institution today probalby wants older bonds that yield e.g. 1% if bonds issued tod
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by mattlutze 4y ago
This was thrilling. Sometimes, one person's bug is another person's feature :)
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by mattlutze 4y ago
LLMs have a very clear issue of making false predictions, versus knowledge graphs that represent the information mapped within them. We should be careful to not treat the current hot thing as a hammer. > Anytime you have an ML system whe
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by mattlutze 4y ago
> What would you do if you were a board member of multiple companies and you found out their bank was financially unsound and couldn't do normal bank stuff? Founders Fund has investments in some of the largest internet age companie
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by mattlutze 4y ago
A tool to get you to do your browsing and shopping on Amazon, so that they can improve your buyer profile and sell it across their network.
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by mattlutze 4y ago
The chess example may though count as "shallow" thinking, in that your quick games are pattern matching out of experience without much time for deep or self-reflective novel analysis.
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by mattlutze 4y ago
There is an issue with how people are personifying ChatGPT and assigning it agency. Some want to talk of these LLMs as approximating an intelligent actor. If that's the case, then we also need to assign metaphors for things like deceit
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by mattlutze 4y ago
That's the trouble though isn't it—leaving it to mature gracefully in the cellar gets you to a point where only an expert somilier in that particular varietal knows really what to do with it, and you pay through the nose for their

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