mjburgess

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by mjburgess 9mo ago
Granting to you for the moment that the issue is with technology -- if instagram is removed, what is it replaced with? Presumably youtube? Or more passive kinds of tech? Is the issue social media, or mass media? Who knows. If we don't
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by mjburgess 9mo ago
It's hard to control for mere provision of social media access. Eg., if you're supposed to be out in the field all day, when are you mean to access social media? Social media is, in that case, a replacement activity. The question,
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by mjburgess 9mo ago
I think there's a non-trivial probability that concern over social media is a moral panic, and it's being used as a scapegoat for larger social forces. I wonder if much of what it does is surface our neuroses and issues into publi
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by mjburgess 9mo ago
There's serious issues with heritability research in general, it's observability stuff -- not experimentation, so imv, its at best proto-science, and in many cases plainly pseudoscience. "Heritability" itself has little
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by mjburgess 9mo ago
Any articles where newspapers are the main source are basically just propaganda. An encyclopaedia should not be in the business of laundering yellow journalism into what is supposed to be a tertiary resource. If they banned this practice, t
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by mjburgess 9mo ago
I'm not sure the problems we have at the moment are a lack of accountability. I mean, I think let's go a little overboard on holding people to account first, then wind it back when that happens. The crisis at the moment is mangera
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by mjburgess 9mo ago
In this sense LLMs are another wave of "end-user programming" like excel formula. This has been the recurring experience of many in these waves.
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by mjburgess 10mo ago
i believe this is via original at https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/aft... (possibly an LLM redraft of the original)
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by mjburgess 10mo ago
Are you using GLM-4.7? I've just spent a fortune on Opus, and I heard GLM was close -- but after integrating it into cursor, it seems to spin forever, loose tool use, and generates partial? plans. I did look into using it with the clau
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by mjburgess 10mo ago
Given the number of vs code competitors, I think "extinguish" maybe on the other side this time.
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by mjburgess 11mo ago
HN has become per-thread view-enforced. It's pretty obvious now what the "correct" views are for any given thread, any dissenting comments are downvoted to death. When the next thread comes along, the opposite view might be t
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by mjburgess 11mo ago
No, because ML is compression via interpolation and does not imply decompression.
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by mjburgess 11mo ago
That you put quotes around 'promises' shows you already understand the issue with your comment. That you cannot disquote it, is the issue. You seem like you're trying to find a way of strawmaing my position in order to score
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by mjburgess 11mo ago
There is no "trick", the relevant sufficient and necessary properties for an agent to give rise to economic transactions are likewise not possessed by a micro-organism.
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by mjburgess 11mo ago
Nope, but mathematics research is one of the most rarefied fields being extremely difficlt to get into, hard to get money, etc. -- (this is my understanding, at least). Progress is made here by people who, aged 10 are already showing signs
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by mjburgess 11mo ago
Granting your premise, i'd be forced to argue that economic value (as such) doesn't arise from their activity either -- which i think is a reasonable position. Ie., The reason a cookie is 1 USD is never because some "merely l
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by mjburgess 11mo ago
A transaction is an exchange between two parties of something they judge to be of equivalent value (and mostly, in ratio to a common medium of exchange). You can program AI with "market values" that arise from people; but absent
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by mjburgess 11mo ago
AI systems cannot be economic agents, in the sense of participating in a relevant sense in economic transactions. An economic transaction is an exchange between people with needs (, preferences, etc.) that can die -- and so, fundamentally
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by mjburgess 11mo ago
Given that its likely this sort of SVG output has been RLHF special-cased, I think it's time we move past this benchmark.
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by mjburgess 11mo ago
Retained mode (for desktop apps) was/is primarily about creating an object heirachy that allows you to minimize full redraws and the like --- you'd assume, for something immediate mode, that you're basically asking to push fr
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by mjburgess 11mo ago
All ontologies people claim to be ontologies are false in toto All "ontologies" are false. There is, to disquote, one ontology which is true -- and the game is to find it. The reason getting close to that one is useful, the ex
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by mjburgess 11mo ago
I mean, I agree. I think most L's are either engaged in a rhetorical performance of the kind you describe, or theyire averse to cognitive effort, or ignorant in the literal sense. There are a small number of highly technical cases wher
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by mjburgess 11mo ago
I agree there can be such debates; that's kinda my point. I'm just saying, often there is no real debate it's just one side is ignorant of the distinctions being made. Any debate in which one side makes distinctions and the o
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by mjburgess 11mo ago
Ah well, that's true -- so we can be more specific: discrete, discrete computable, and so on. But to the overall point, this kind of reply is exactly why I don't think this is a case of L vs. S -- your reply just forces a concessi
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by mjburgess 11mo ago
'computer' is an ambiguous word. In a mathematical sense a computational process is just any which can be described as a function from the naturals to naturals. Ie., any discrete function. This includes a vast array of processes.
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by mjburgess 11mo ago
I'm not convinced your L/S dichotomy applies. The concern there is that the natural world (or some objective target domain) has natural joints, and the job of the scientist (, philosopher, et al.) is to uncover those joints. You w
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by mjburgess 11mo ago
Your first line assumes that `q` fails to refer to an objective property. The `e^q` space isn't quality, as much as `e^t` isnt temperature (holding the property we are talking about fixed). Thus the comment ends up being circular.
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by mjburgess 1y ago
But what is 'tech'? When we say the EU isn't competitive in 'tech', what technology capacity do they lack? I think 'tech' as a category doesnt make much sense any more. It's like saying 'road-bas
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by mjburgess 1y ago
That assumes the random process by which vectors are generated places them at random angles to each other, it doesnt, it places them almost always very very nearly at (high-dim) right angles The underlying geometry isnt random, to this orde
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by mjburgess 1y ago
What are these capabilities? I don't see any sense in which the EU has fewer capabilities. It has, say, a smaller number of businesses with smaller market dominance. It isnt clear to me what capability the EU would gain by having a mon

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