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by mrandish 6mo ago
Justified, true beliefs: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/knowledge-analysis/#KnowJ...
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I think it takes time. I can only imagine the hours required to research, develop and shoot such well-evidenced explanations, given that part of his audience is true believers searching for any gap through which they can sustain their bel
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I'm not the poster you replied to but it's worth mentioning that there are, unfortunately, examples of more than a few highly-credentialed academics and scientists believing some pretty out there things. Due to such a large sample
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For anyone else who has a UFO-crazy uncle, I've found Mick West's YouTube channel to be invaluable https://www.youtube.com/c/mickwest . Mick is a retired video game programmer (Spider Man, Guitar Hero, Tony Ha
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I used to wonder the same thing and then we bought a vacation home and experienced no cell service in an area close to a major metro. It's only a 40 min highway drive outside a top 20 U.S. big city. Our street is only 12 mins drive fro
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Across the decades of my career in high-tech, I found that repeating the pattern of "Create something you're personally passionate about, then give it away" has directly led to quite remarkable success - not every time, but a
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True, but since you're responding to my post, I'll clarify that I do know what Zork is and my objection was to linking to a legendary name without any relevant context such as which version of Zork and no explanation of the Z-Mach
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I clicked in because, being quite a retro-head, I do know the legendary name Zork (although I've yet to actually play it) and am well aware of Infocom text adventures in general (having read more than one historical retrospective on In
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by mrandish 6mo ago
Not being familiar with the term CUA, I looked it up and TIL something ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Common_User_Access ). Since the doc you linked is dated 1988 and CUA was a brand new thing circa OS/2 (at le
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> IBM was consistent with their keyboard nomenclature across multiple products, and the 3270 series mainframe terminals used the Tab key While it seems odd in light of IBM's usual adherence to corporate norms across business units,
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Thank you. I came across this post several hours ago, was confused and, like you, found the explanatory link which should have been posted and was about to reply with it but then got a phone call. I love HN but the frequency of 'mys
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This regulation isn't primarily for fans of replaceable batteries, it's driven by general concerns about e-waste. It's unclear how much it might actually reduce e-waste in practice but it will certainly increase compliance co
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I think one of the heaviest weights factoring into Claude's statistically hallucinated response to that particular introspective question is the guard rails Anthropic's safety team has coded into it. Specifically to always be clea
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> Claude says it can't tell if it has any kind of inner life. I don't see how some people apparently believe the text output of an LLM about it's internal mental state is anything other than a plausible fabrication based o
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> we don't even have a definition of the word that we agree on. Indeed, for any in-depth discussion of LLMs and consciousness to be productive, clearly defining terms and scope is essential. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy i
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Reference: Philosopher John Searle's influential "Chinese Room" thought experiment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room
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by mrandish 6mo ago
I answered your questions in two other fairly detailed responses, so I'll link to them instead of re-posting much of the same text again: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48000647 https://news.ycombinat
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> what makes humans rise to the level where we can assume their subjectivity is true? To dive into this specific question: to me, there's a better reason than the obvious functional utility of not treating other humans like NPCs. It
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> The "how" doesn't seem to me to be as important as you're suggesting. When the question is understanding the true nature of what is occurring (eg "is an LLM conscious"), the "how it works" is cri
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Given that Dawkins is a biologist in his 80s, I'm more disposed towards being charitable than I am when people actively involved in developing LLMs let themselves get bamboozled.
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> Can such an algorithm reason about itself in relation to others? No, but an LLM doesn't do that either. An LLM is an algorithm to generate text output which can simulate how humans describe reasoning about themselves in relation
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Agreed. AltaVista was the best of the pre-Google search engines. I seem to remember Google having negative terms, literals and booleans (at least or/and) - although they weren't well documented, they worked. Amazon had literals an
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Agreed. Current frontier LLMs tend to be jagged and brittle in ways which are remarkably hard for humans to reason about. They appear so smart in virtually all the ways humans have traditionally estimated intelligence in other humans (concr
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Hopefully, this comes as no more of a spoiler than revealing the Titanic sinks at the end of the movie... but, everything Mark Klein revealed in 2006 (and that Snowden revealed in 2014) is still happening daily - along with much, much wor
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by mrandish 6mo ago
Thanks for that link. It's solidified the growing suspicion I've had that Zitron wasn't worth paying much attention to. If I'd read more than 5 or 6 of his posts I'd probably have gotten there sooner. I now place hi
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I thought your "layer zero" analogy was an interesting avenue to reason about but you lost me with: > My currently belief is that consciousness is some kind of field or property of the universe (i.e. a universal consciousness f
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I've only read a few of his pieces here and there and had just assumed he was an AI skeptic, so I never thought his position was LLMs would never be good for anything at any price. That's a pretty extreme thing for any serious
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Based on the headline, this is the first thing I thought of.
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> the web interface is like right there staring at them. True but the an app gives Facebook much more user data for targeting which dramatically increases revenue per ad. Persistent user data that's largely unconstrained by privac
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> definition of these terms To me, "intelligence" is a term that's largely useless due to being ill-defined for any given context or precision.

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