mdp2021

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by mdp2021 3mo ago
> Is anyone still writing assembly in the age of LLMs ... Yes. Its "simplicity" is exactly why we pick and assemble piece by hand - we imagine the leanest way. LLMs are (not just in Assembly, but especially) very precious as
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by mdp2021 3mo ago
> How many hours did you spend on your phone last month? How many fewer hours would you have spent if the apps you interact with weren't designed to maximize "engagement"? ?? Very strictly zero? You are assuming we would
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by mdp2021 3mo ago
Would be the snipers aware that they continuously prove the point...
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by mdp2021 3mo ago
> consequences of their outputs For what purpose exactly? When the computer is asked the solution to a problem, it must be absolute: "What is the sum of 12 and 45"; "Is Jack cognitively apt" etc.: we want a truth, s
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by mdp2021 3mo ago
You must have misunderstood the statement: «In order to properly engineer things, we must know how they work»: of course they may work anyway, of course there may be emergent properties (as was explicitly written), but the deontic part of k
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by mdp2021 3mo ago
> we shouldn't design systems with dark patterns that take advantage of human frailty First of all: «humans are frail», so the paramount social and individual objective, goal, is to overcome frailty (in cognitive and psychological
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by mdp2021 3mo ago
> is a machine following an algorithm (even a stochastic algorithm) “thinking” or “reasoning”? If the process is sound, yes, it can be said to be thinking or reasoning - it produced "sound thought or reasoning". The "rea
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by mdp2021 3mo ago
The point was that the "disagreement from most countries" must be contextualized in its weight recalibrated in their (in general) authoritativeness, which has reached abysmal lows recently. If you do not agree, show that these tim
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by mdp2021 3mo ago
> What's the paradox The textual development of a thesis must be sound, the proof accompanying a theorem etc. That an output be accompanied by a non-relevant text is a paradox. It is also part of the "problem of transparency
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by mdp2021 3mo ago
So that would be discrimination because one is e.g. Cuban (or happens to work in Cuba). This should be grounds for legal action and moral and monetary damages.
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by mdp2021 3mo ago
> launching products with little or no due diligence The downfall of humanity is in these "persons" that believe that dangerous things like sharp tools and fire should not be around. The core problem remains in the cultivatio
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The Chatbot Act Forces One Parenting Model on Every Family(eff.org)
17 points by mdp2021 3mo ago|0 comments
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by mdp2021 3mo ago
> collision avoidance has a higher priority Apparently not all cars have collision avoidance towards the sides. The combination of HW and SW features now varies.
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by mdp2021 3mo ago
> Time to ["]up["]grade to a 2008 330i Went to an official repairs shop for a device yesterday, said I had a backup device with a malfunctioning (for clinical reasons) OS. The technician replied that OS downgrade is inhibited
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by mdp2021 3mo ago
You are being sarcastic, right? We have been seeing this coming for a very long time, in the order of ten years. Spoken with car makers employees: "people ask for that". So: what do you mean.
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by mdp2021 3mo ago
> Especially the lane departure ... assist was downright dangerous in snowy conditions And near cyclists... (Opposite to some configurations described nearby, some car models do automatically steer pushing the car in its lane, they do
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by mdp2021 3mo ago
(I checked the directives weeks ago.) In the eu, the general idea is "you can disable the functions each time you restart the car - they will be re-enabled as the car is off". Some people spend minutes turning off the annoying par
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by mdp2021 3mo ago
> My 2015 has none of these things The eu has started pushing those things with a 2016 (I believe) regulation that imposed "all cars approved for production after 2018 must have an "e-Call" system (internal GPS, micropho
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by mdp2021 3mo ago
> Students can gain such things just fine in a STEM field As long as you do not claim that "living only on proteins or stones and without carbs or leaves would be a good idea".
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The Screen Act Threatens Privacy Far Beyond Adult Websites(eff.org)
13 points by mdp2021 3mo ago|1 comments
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by mdp2021 3mo ago
The paradox of a reduced importance of the contents of a CoT must be explained.
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by mdp2021 3mo ago
We do not academically consider reasoning or thinking an activity restricted to humans, but as absolute processes.
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by mdp2021 3mo ago
> discourage anthropomorphisation by avoiding personal pronouns The fault is in the naïve antropomorphizer not in that which writes "I" being in fact a "first person".
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by mdp2021 3mo ago
> automated Automata in context are artificial. Humans are automata, human intelligence can be said an automation. The point making a difference is that that in context is artificial.
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by mdp2021 3mo ago
> The question of whether they reason ... Most of the article is about ... I read it as: the content of the explicit verbalized reasoning may not be that important to the outcome. I'd say that raises most important questions.
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by mdp2021 3mo ago
In order to properly engineer things, we must know how they work. We cannot just jump from emergent property to more convincing emergent property as if the rocks on the surface of a lake. "Reasoning" is an important part in said f
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by mdp2021 3mo ago
> We want them to understand what's We want them to assess what's true and what's not.
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by mdp2021 3mo ago
> inefficient That depends. Is it also more reliable? If two books, one big one slim, prove the same thesis, what I would be interested in is the quality of the content, not the size. There can be a measure of efficiency in "have
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by mdp2021 3mo ago
Ok, this one seems to have a twin just released. I received from Gary Marcus' site: > The U.S. government shared a map of Africa that mislabeled every single country https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/the-seven
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by mdp2021 3mo ago
Oh no, I compared it to decency. And your examples do not falsify my statement. Statement which is, by the way, differently expressed by Henry Kissinger ("Leadership", 2022): the defining traits of current administrations are incr

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