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by nilkn 2y ago
Not the same thing. AVP uses passthrough video, which is subject to the same field of view as the virtual content. These glasses are actually glasses, so the real world has an "unlimited" field of view -- only virtual content exis
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by nilkn 2y ago
Expecting the rate of progress to drop off so abruptly after realistically just a few years of serious work on the problem seems like the more unreasonable and grander prediction to me than expecting it to continue at its current pace for e
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by nilkn 2y ago
I feel like that's already been demonstrated with the first-generation video generation models we're seeing. Early research already shows video generation models can become world simulators. There frankly just isn't enough co
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by nilkn 2y ago
The argument about AGI from LLMs is not based on the current state of LLMs, but on the rate of progress over the last 5+ years or so. It wasn't very long ago that almost nobody outside of a few niche circles seriously thought LLMs coul
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by nilkn 2y ago
It's a highly risky bet, but not fundamentally unreasonable. One might believe that Ilya's research was genuinely critical to OpenAI's current situation. If one takes that premise, three potential corollaries follow: (1) Open
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by nilkn 2y ago
In my estimation, yes. I'd like to see replies here focus on helpfulness and knowledge sharing. You are certainly free to disagree.
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by nilkn 2y ago
I don't contest the answer "nope" (in fact, I provided an explanation) -- I contest your decision to prioritize snark over helpfulness.
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by nilkn 2y ago
It's not necessarily what an LLM does. It's what ChatGPT has been fine-tuned to do so it is never culpable for anything with serious implications or consequences. There's no reason one could not train a decisive and opinionat
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by nilkn 2y ago
Neutrinos must exist to satisfy conservation of lepton number. Specifically, the weak interaction can change flavor. In beta decay (for example), a down quark changes into an up quark, which converts a neutron into a proton and emits an ele
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by nilkn 2y ago
You used reception here to argue against me, going so far as to claim that people are “protecting HN” from my comment. Given that, I pointed out another form of measuring said reception. Suddenly, you were up in arms about using reception
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by nilkn 2y ago
Galileo’s principle of relativity is used all the time.
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by nilkn 2y ago
I said that. If you thought I was wrong in that assertion, then all you had to do was stop questioning your entire existence here. The fact that you continued to do so lends credence to my assertion rather than refuting it.
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by nilkn 2y ago
And I acknowledged that by providing additional clarification.
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by nilkn 2y ago
And yet you yourself have been passionately engaged at length in the very debate you say doesn’t exist. The evidence abounds here from your own comments that it is not purely about the triviality of my comment. In fact, your first objection
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by nilkn 2y ago
You are the one who brought up reception here, not me. I merely responded. So if you don’t like it, don’t choose it yourself first. All that happened is you selected a metric that you thought was favorable to yourself, but you miscalculated
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by nilkn 2y ago
I’d expect a bit more nuance on Hacker News. What I wrote is not provocative by being offensive or hurtful to anyone. It’s provocative by introducing an idea that intelligent, educated people cannot come to a consensus on in a purely intell
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by nilkn 2y ago
> I think what you're experiencing is people being protective of HN in terms of having meaningful debate and what you said isn't particularly meaningful despite the wordsmithing. As of the writing of this comment, every single
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by nilkn 2y ago
Strong reactions like yours to what should be a very mild and uncontroversal statement that you evidently don’t even disagree with are exactly why these things are increasingly viewed by many as having elements of dogma. What I wrote needed
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by nilkn 2y ago
I didn’t say it’s the only theory of quantum gravity. You can get a theory of quantum gravity by taking standard QFT — it just won’t work at extremely high energies. Other options like loop quantum gravity do not reproduce the rest of our m
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by nilkn 2y ago
I don’t accept that I owe anyone any kind of additional data on any of this. Just like I don’t have to have a proven solution to the problem of finding a theory of everything to suggest that string theory may not be the truth of the univers
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by nilkn 2y ago
Everybody knows it, but the principle is selectively applied. For instance, our observations imply both general relativity and quantum field theory are necessary to model various aspects of the world. That’s an example of a Y. The only know
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by nilkn 2y ago
Don’t you think jumping to a complete existential crisis over such a simple comment is a little extreme? That alone is a red flag that maybe dogma has taken over. No, nothing I wrote suggests one must shut down all scientific discussion or
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by nilkn 2y ago
Point out where I said we should “shutdown all scientific discussions.” You won’t be able to, and you will then realize how incredibly absurd what you just wrote is.
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by nilkn 2y ago
X causes Y does not mean that Y implies X. It’s reasonable to suspect X given Y and an absence of other such causal relations, but it’s not necessarily reasonable to spend decades building layers and layers of models that assume X at the
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by nilkn 2y ago
It's possible that safety will eventually become the business advantage, just like privacy can be a business advantage today but wasn't taken so seriously 10-15 years ago by the general public. This is not even that far-fetched. A
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by nilkn 2y ago
Another angle that makes this even more complicated is that younger people can and do get things wrong too. A fresh perspective is not automatically a correct perspective. A leader would be rightfully wary about letting someone experiencing
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by nilkn 2y ago
Even after the release of GPT4o, Perplexity Pro with Claude 3 Opus is by far my most used LLM application. For me, the writing quality of Claude 3 combined with a wider variety of information sources makes it far surpass raw ChatGPT for mos
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by nilkn 2y ago
We don’t know that, though. Consider an evolution of a flat coordinate plane given by (x,y) -> (e^t * x, e^t * y). This process can run forever and has the property that all points appear to move away from all other points through time,
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by nilkn 2y ago
You’re assuming that space was compressed into a single point at the Big Bang. However, this is not implied by the Big Bang or cosmology. All we can truly infer is that the universe was very hot and dense and that spacetime experienced rapi
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by nilkn 2y ago
And that idea is wrong. It was never accepted, not even by Feynman. The field explanation is the one used by the Standard Model. I’m providing the best known real answer for anyone curious after reading the article.

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