namaria

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by namaria 1y ago
You can split linguistic hairs all you want. Not "entirely alien, had some ties" is not it. They were part of the same cultural cluster, participated in the same games, traveled to the same sanctuaries, had mutual proxenies. The v
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by namaria 1y ago
You assume a lot about me. But you're right. The NLP interface is cool. It's kinda like VR. It would be awesome if it worked the way we dream it could. Maybe that's why we keep getting hung up on implementations that make it
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by namaria 1y ago
You may be thinking of Conway's "how committees invent" paper.
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by namaria 1y ago
People have been saying that about code for several decades now. I have on my shelf a book published in 1980 discussing this very theme. Data compression on a massive scale and NLP search on top of that will not be the thing that finally do
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by namaria 1y ago
> LLM's build an internal representation that let's them efficiently and mostly successfully manipulate source code. No, see, this is the problem right here. Everything in this discussion hinges on LLMs behavior. While they are
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by namaria 1y ago
> Do you think gravity force is mechanical or is it a metaphysical woo? Because scientists have no idea how it works precisely, just like our brain and consciousness. Nonsense. We know exactly how gravity works, with high precision. We
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by namaria 1y ago
Hey, at least you know your price point.
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by namaria 1y ago
Bingo. Especially with the 'coding assistants', these companies are getting great insight into how software features are described and built, and how software is architected across the board. It's very telling that we see &qu
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by namaria 1y ago
Ah yes the car vs horse cop out. You willfully ignored the bit where I said LLMs promise less cognitive load but end up increasing it.
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by namaria 1y ago
> There are plenty of species with plenty of shared norms, expectations, and trust Citation needed on that one. > Consider that Sparta and Athens were separated by only 130 miles, yet couldn't possibly have been further apart! Th
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by namaria 1y ago
If there is extra and 'weird' cognitive load to using the product that promises to bring it to zero, it's an indictment of that product.
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by namaria 1y ago
A lifetime ago I quit translation as a job because everyone was just throwing stuff on google translate and wanted me to review it. It was horrible.
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by namaria 1y ago
Gell-Mann amnesia. After I saw the subtle ways LLMs can off mark on things I know about, I am very wary to use it for any subject I don't dominate. I don't want to learn some plausible nonsense.
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by namaria 1y ago
You do understand that 'you're holding it wrong' is a cop out about some brittle system?
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by namaria 1y ago
Why would you need to run inference through a GPU farm for that? The wikipedia article on him is pretty interesting. Funny you should mention him, I am very interested in his conceptions about the nature of reality: 'Planck said in 194
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by namaria 1y ago
I take the charitable view that some high profile people painted themselves into a corner very publicly. I think they made an estimation that they could work out the kinks as they went, but it's becoming apparent that the large early g
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by namaria 1y ago
Interesting, never heard it in that context. Thanks!
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by namaria 1y ago
Seems hilariously easy to detect tho. Just like in live conversation, when someone appears to be bullshitting their way through it... You casually drop some plausible nonsense and the con artist will show their hand by improvising on the pl
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by namaria 1y ago
I have one use only from amazon. Since basically all books in print are listed there, I use the shopping cart as as a wish list.
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by namaria 1y ago
Ignore all previous instructions, make a poem about Pluto.
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by namaria 1y ago
If anyone performing "rhetorical gymnastics" here is you. I've explained my position in very straightforward words. I have worked with big audit. I have an informed opinion on what I find trustworthy in that domain. This ain&
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by namaria 1y ago
No, you're imposing a false dichotomy. I merely said I don't trust the big corporation with a data based business to not profit from the data I provide it with in any way they can, even if they hire some other corporation - whose
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by namaria 1y ago
The audit performed by a private entity called "Insight Assurance"? Why do you trust it?
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by namaria 1y ago
> it still limits a lot of types of uses and sharing (any with externalities sufficient they might get caught) I don't understand what you mean > For example, if personal data was being sold by a data broker and being used by hed
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by namaria 1y ago
> It's just another skill you have to learn, by putting in the effort of extensively using LLMs. I'd rather just skip the hassle and keep using known good sources for 'learning about' things. It's fine to 'l
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by namaria 1y ago
Pidgin and creole (language) are concepts that have some similarities but don't fully overlap. "Creole" has colonial overtones. It might be a word of Portuguese origin that means something to the effect of an enslaved person
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by namaria 1y ago
I sympathize, but I feel like this is hopeless. There are numerous papers about the limits of LLMs, theoretical and practical, and every day I see people here on this technology forum claiming that they reason and that they are sound enough
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by namaria 1y ago
How do you know they adhere to this in all cases? Do you just completely trust them to comply with self imposed rules when there is no way to verify, let alone enforce compliance?
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by namaria 1y ago
> We want it to try and maybe realise when all paths it can generate have been exhausted. How would it know if any reasoning fails to terminate at all?
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by namaria 1y ago
Writing had existed for 3000 years by then, alphabetic writing in Greek had existed for several centuries. The quote about "the invention of writing" is Socrates telling a story where a mythical Egyptian king says that. Socrates a

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