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by naasking 3mo ago
> In Europe, criticizing any politician is very very common. Criticizing politicians has gotten people arrested in Europe. This doesn't happen in the US. > As for work, in US, research grant were removed for using some "woke
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by naasking 3mo ago
> I didn't see them defining "for everybody" what low/high morality are. Morality by definition is a set prescriptions that everyone ought to follow . > this whole "I am so smart I cannot see right and wrong&
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by naasking 3mo ago
> that they aren't particularly vocal and obviously active about their politics Is Grok obviously vocal and active about its politics? Or are you talking about Musk? > I don't see how political commentary about Musk's i
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by naasking 3mo ago
I don't believe for one second that this metric has been rigourously evaluated, it's also just based on vibes.
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by naasking 3mo ago
> The child knows how to catch the ball, without understanding. I disagree that decoupling "knowing" from "understanding" is well motivated or useful in any way. > I don't think that it is useful to say that L
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by naasking 3mo ago
Not sure why this is weird when you really think about it. You're saying that a multiparameter constraint satisfaction problem is harder to solve, even when there's only a single solution (one point in the total space that satisfi
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by naasking 3mo ago
> Which simply dooms the terminally ill to fake treatment. I wish people would stop saying this. First, controls aren't necessarily "fake treatment", they are often compared to other standard treatments. Second, the treatm
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by naasking 3mo ago
I think you need understanding to reason, but you don't need reasoning to understand. A child understands how to catch a ball without reasoning about forces, air resistance, gravity, etc. I think LLMs understand without reasoning. They
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by naasking 3mo ago
I think it's a mistake to disentangle their abilities from understanding. Just swallow the pill that they have some form of understanding, even if it slightly differs from ours. I really don't see the problem.
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by naasking 3mo ago
1. Determinism is a very small subset of what makes computers useful. Non-determinism like stochasticity is literally everywhere, like random seeds. 2. LLMs are detemrinistic. They have a parameter to tune how stochastic they are.
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by naasking 3mo ago
Because they don't just parrot, they interpolate, which is why they have such varied abilities. You can't explain the range of behaviours they have with just parroting, and once you accept that, why shouldn't this qualify as
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by naasking 3mo ago
I don't see why it's those are the only two options, nor why they are even mutually exclusive.
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by naasking 3mo ago
> Spaced repetition is very effective, but it's really really clunky to use Spaced repetition is just reviewing the same material periodically. It doesn't have to be a complicated system. We already know how to learn and educat
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by naasking 3mo ago
> Humans can accurately retell what their consciousness was doing Can they? How could we possibly know this is the case? People could simply post-hoc rationalize this to justify whatever decision they made.
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by naasking 3mo ago
Yes, computing in latent space is a big thing now. https://ouro-llm.github.io/
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by naasking 3mo ago
nvfp4 is pretty good, and with 4 machines you get a roughly 4x speedup using tensor parallelism.
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by naasking 3mo ago
> I would expect the performance on a 768B parameter model spread across 4 to be significantly lower even though its a mixture of experts. To fit that model you'd need multiple machines which lets you run tensor parallelism for add
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by naasking 3mo ago
Politicians keep looking for excuses to break consumer encryption, and the youth social media harms are just the latest excuse that has received broad support. So disappointing.
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by naasking 3mo ago
Why? 4 x DGX sparks should be enough. That's way less than $80k.
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by naasking 4mo ago
> It depends a lot on things like geology and some people are a lot more sensitive. People said this about high voltage electric lines and wind turbines. Blind tests proved they were imagining things.
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by naasking 4mo ago
Note that you're asking whether it's more impressive that someone managed to analyze and intentionally create an appealing, cross-cultural, and marketable product, rather than creating something appealing completely by accident. O
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by naasking 4mo ago
Most bytes traversing the internet is video these days. Arguably, ffmpeg has processed most of that video.
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by naasking 4mo ago
I don't have to believe politicians, I see it with my own eyes whenever I deal with government employees.
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by naasking 4mo ago
Same way anyone else got their job, but that's beside the point. The point is that accountability in government is significantly lower than in private industry, and this is a big source of the problems.
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by naasking 4mo ago
> IMO wherever someone says "the government" we should mentally substitute "we all, collectively". No, we should substitute "unaccountable bureaucrats". The people who enter and leave power from elections ar
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by naasking 4mo ago
> LLMs are not that smart. They are smart, but they are not aware of the environment they're in, or any implicit context that someone whose doing a job carries with them, that's why all of that context has to be explicitly laid
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by naasking 4mo ago
> Why on earth would you go out of your way to do that? If someone wants to try it, why stop them? She just took it for granted that their job was to enshrine the existing state of things in a formal law. This is exactly the Canadian exp
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by naasking 4mo ago
> Newspapers have mechanisms like corrections and apologies that can be used to "right" a published falsehoods. Ineffective mechanisms. So if we accept ineffective mechanisms as sufficient redress in those spheres, why not here
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by naasking 4mo ago
> You're not really solving problems, you're retrieving the best match of solved problems from compressed corpus. This is not correct. LLMs interpolate in a high dimensional space, so you're actually composing the best mat
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by naasking 4mo ago
> Because it is not usable, if we need to verify everything. Do you verify every line of code written by your fellow developers? I doubt it, which is strange because they make errors don't they? What matters is the error rate . Pas

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