mrtranscendence

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by mrtranscendence 3y ago
> Your guess is that the majority of Reddit users have joined since 2018? It's not really important to the debate around unlicensed use of copyrighted works to train AI models, but it wouldn't surprise me at all if the majority
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by mrtranscendence 3y ago
Well, you could memorize and recite copyrighted works all you want, as long as you're doing it in an empty room without anyone listening.
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by mrtranscendence 3y ago
There are such datasets, and AI companies absolutely pay to have data curated. But I suspect it would be just unimaginably expensive to create a dataset from scratch with enough tokens to feed a model with hundreds of billions of paramete
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by mrtranscendence 3y ago
Since the way GPT "learns" is not materially similar to how a human learns, I don't see why this talking point is particularly relevant. Nothing stops the courts from distinguishing between an AI and a human with regard to wh
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by mrtranscendence 3y ago
I guess I'm just marginally more sanguine than you are that issues related to infrastructure and logistics could be, eventually, worked around. There would still be ways to contact people over a distance, some of which would remain ava
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by mrtranscendence 3y ago
Well, there's a reason it's called " the hard problem of consciousness" and not "just some incidental observation about models of consciousness". When evaluating general relativity it's not important to a
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by mrtranscendence 3y ago
I think the consequences of a sudden, permanent shutdown of the internet would be fairly dire over the short term. Grocery stores would face inventory problems, with shortages worse than what we saw in 2020. Emergency services could be stre
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by mrtranscendence 3y ago
I haven't studied diffusion methods in great detail, but my simplistic ELI5 understanding goes something like: during training you gradually add noise to an image, step by step, and then the model learns how to remove the noise at each
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by mrtranscendence 3y ago
I rarely see IIT characterized as complete junk. Personally, I don't see much value in it as I don't think it answers, or even grapples with, the hard problem of consciousness. Tell me how integrated information gives rise to su
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by mrtranscendence 3y ago
I don't think IIT is a correct theory or even on the right track. Nevertheless I fail to see how it's "silly". It's no sillier than any other putative scientific theory of consciousness -- less silly, since IIT actu
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by mrtranscendence 3y ago
I'm not sure I follow you here. I'm not saying that it should necessarily come with RAM, storage, and OS, which can be removed without disassembling the entire laptop. And I'm not making a statement one way or the other on wh
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by mrtranscendence 3y ago
I do the same thing, though weirdly enough less than I used to. Sometimes it really helps me work through a problem -- maybe it slows me down to a better pace? Who knows. Talking to pets also works. They've never been able to offer a v
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by mrtranscendence 3y ago
I do tend to talk through spatial problems, yes, though I'm not so aphantasiac that I can't visualize, say, the image that would match a simple pattern of lines demonstrated in prior images. I can also situate things with relative
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by mrtranscendence 3y ago
> By default, while I read something there's no auditory element at all. I wouldn't characterize how I read -- which as far as I know is normal, but who can tell! -- as narrating to myself. Rather, it involves the sensation of
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by mrtranscendence 3y ago
I've gone back and forth on aphantasia. It's true that I generally don't see images in my mind; even when thinking about things that are visual I'll tend to mentally describe them in English. But if I really try I can de
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by mrtranscendence 3y ago
Apropos of nothing, I learned (thanks to a recent Linus Tech Tips video) that Framework's DIY Edition laptops are preassembled for QA and then disassembled prior to shipping. I found that amusing. Not sure I could buy a DIY model knowi
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by mrtranscendence 3y ago
You don't need to be rich to buy them, but you do have to care at least a little bit to spend $170 on headphones (or $250 for the Pro). I think they've continued to be a status symbol to some degree. I could see a kid wanting AirP
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by mrtranscendence 3y ago
I've spent at least $3500 on my gaming PC, and I may even get an AVP, if the reviews are extremely good. But I would never fly business class unless my company were paying for it (which they only will for international flights ... and
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by mrtranscendence 3y ago
I've seen one used at work for R&D demo purposes, but aside from that I don't think I've ever noticed anyone using one while out and about (Cincinnati, OH). Certainly never in transit or on an airplane.
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by mrtranscendence 3y ago
In the US the initial iPhone was a bit of a sensation. Demand outstripped supply at first, and people waited outside stores for hours to snag one. It sold less than future models would, because it seemed fairly expensive and the value propo
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by mrtranscendence 3y ago
I don't hate it, but I'll never be anywhere near as fast as on a real keyboard. It's a shame there aren't new paradigms for input. I loved the Nintype keyboard, which combined swiping with tapping for impressive speeds
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by mrtranscendence 3y ago
Are you aware how successful those products have been? They don't match iPhone revenue by any means, but they move a ton of units and are the market leaders for their categories.
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by mrtranscendence 3y ago
> Corporations are made up from people and many of those who developed their most successful products initially are no longer there True, but it's not as if this is a completely new company with new employees. Much of the leadership
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by mrtranscendence 3y ago
That seems insane to me. I'm always chattering away up there, I can't imagine it otherwise.
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by mrtranscendence 3y ago
There may be upsides to the ability to fake video and audio of someone (better CGI effects in films, for example). But in my experience when people refer to a deepfake they seem to mean that the fake has been distributed to confuse or decei
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by mrtranscendence 3y ago
I think the question stands. You can't fit 25 4090s in a robot (unless we're talking about something massive with an equally massive battery), and even if you could an LLM wouldn't be appropriate for driving a robot. Given th
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by mrtranscendence 3y ago
This doesn't seem likely in the near term. An iPhone 13 Pro has 6gb of memory, which might be enough for a single 1.3b parameter model if you purged everything else out of RAM. Combining 8 (or even 4) of them on a single phone won&#x
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by mrtranscendence 3y ago
1.7 trillion patients? We're going to need more hospital beds ...
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by mrtranscendence 3y ago
I’m so hopelessly addicted to YouTube that premium only made sense. I should probably work on that, though.
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by mrtranscendence 3y ago
For me, the takeaway is that training state of the art models may become cost prohibitive even for large companies. There may be a practical limit to how complex models can become. This is at least plausibly interesting to know.

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