namaria

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by namaria 2y ago
I've said this before, at the root of all these technological promises lies a perpetual motion machine. They're all selling the reversal of thermodynamics. Any system complex enough to be useful has to be embedded in an ever more
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by namaria 2y ago
Look fair enough, I did some research and the whole flow state idea lost a lot of cachet for me because I now realize it's just a piece of pop psychology while I had previously thought it had something to do with high performance athle
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by namaria 2y ago
Technology Connections on yt has a great series on dissecting a nice electromecanic model, highly recommended
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by namaria 2y ago
We've had a whole generation now of CS majors who don't really understand the underlying hardware and it shows.
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by namaria 2y ago
no need to put words in my argument... I'm merely saying, if flow state is just 'paying attention' than maybe it's not a special category... and if it's something that takes effort and yields better results than jus
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by namaria 2y ago
Is this a general argument then? Should we date teenagers in our late 30s as well? Or is this just ignoring survivor bias when it's convenient?
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by namaria 2y ago
I mean, flow is either something special or trivial. If it's trivial as paying attention, why not discuss 'attention', which has a rich literature behind it? If it's something special, that demands skill and investment a
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by namaria 2y ago
I imply nothing. We will have to wait some actual AGI to see if it would be made to do work on threat of being switched off.
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by namaria 2y ago
Seriously this kind of social proof - 'this rich and famous guy said this so I paid attention' - is quite opposite to the major philosophies surrounding meditative practice.
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by namaria 2y ago
I think you're conflating 'flow state' with just being absorbed into something. Flow state is typically described by elite athletes when exerting at the edge of their skill and performing at a high level. It has little to do
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by namaria 2y ago
Let's just say AGI is a thing that is possible to build. Why would anyone think they can own, boss around and rent out an intelligent entity? It can't be goaded with threats of starvation and exposure. I wonder why anyone would th
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by namaria 2y ago
https://xkcd.com/927/
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by namaria 2y ago
Language model summaries can change meaning in hard to detect ways unless you're a very knowledgeable specialist.
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by namaria 2y ago
I don't know, seeming 'conversationally smarter' when having access to a language model is much different from just looking stuff up and pattern matching answers? I'm afraid these models are making people sound smarter a
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by namaria 2y ago
Worse. You're just providing tokens which will get values you don't know or can predict attached to them and trying to influence values which will produce tokens based on rules you don't know, which change all the time for re
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by namaria 2y ago
I've found that small increases in weight and protein excess in diet help mitigate soreness a lot.
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by namaria 2y ago
Saying all you can do is search (brute force) means admitting that we have no theory.
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by namaria 2y ago
And digital means 'fingerish'. Etymology can be fun but not always illuminating.
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by namaria 2y ago
And oracle means 'short announcement' (oraculum) meaning Icelanders call computers 'number announcers'. Interesting! But more seriously, I wonder what the etymology of 'völva' is...
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by namaria 2y ago
Most likely humor is just not one thing but many and seeking a unifying theory about something that isn't a unity won't yield anything.
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by namaria 2y ago
Nonsense, the current model is a new architectural approach. It was all explained in that recent paper, "Attention is all your meat"
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by namaria 2y ago
"Learning is amazing, you can literally change the structure of your brain to better adapt to the universe!" "Nah there's nothing to learning, you don't know something, badabing, you know something, big deal."
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by namaria 2y ago
Your schtick of moral uprightness is quite transparent
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by namaria 2y ago
That was a much smaller model, couldn't do much more than crawl around and run away.
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by namaria 2y ago
I've said it before, AI is the default way to hype technology. A hundred years ago computers were 'electronic brains'. It goes dormant after loosing its edge and then re-emerges when some research project gains traction again
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by namaria 2y ago
Training took hundreds of thousands of years. Everyone just gets a foundation model to fine tune for another couple of decades before it can start flipping burgers.
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by namaria 2y ago
> Since time immemorial, we have taught math by teaching the core concepts and building on them incrementally. This is just false. Some of the earliest examples we have of what appears to be writing used in teaching contexts, it's
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by namaria 2y ago
By yourself? Hardly. We all are by demanding top dollar for sitting on computers while demanding to buy cheap things without limits. But we're getting paid right? And the Prime van will keep delivering.
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by namaria 2y ago
The slippage between work and meaning is due to the arrival of post scarcity. There isn't enough meaningful work to go around because work is still predicated on delivering some useful transformation. But when 80% of the useful transfo
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by namaria 2y ago
You're the one copying and pasting 10 year old pitches.

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