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by parodysbird 1y ago
He was also a Roman citizen, so he could pull some privileges for free rides like getting to Rome through exercising his right to appeal directly to the Emperor
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by parodysbird 1y ago
AGI is made-up nonsense, so it's better to phrase the hardware overhang (and anything else that is meant to refer to reality) without reference to it.
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by parodysbird 1y ago
I think I might value a society where there are fewer people like this
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by parodysbird 1y ago
Or that these people are not suitable to have been judges in the setup of the Turing Test... People also fall for email spam with blatant misspellings, that doesn't mean email spam passes a Turing test, it means the people falling for
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by parodysbird 1y ago
> movies that aspire to win academy awards, are meant to be played to the world wide lowest common denominator That's not the kind of films that tend to win the major Oscar awards. Those tend to be either a bit artsy (e.g. Anora thi
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by parodysbird 1y ago
That's a wild impression of what living in a city is like
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by parodysbird 1y ago
The original Turing Test was one of the more interesting standards... An expert judge talks with two subjects in order to determine which is the human: one is a human who knows the point of the test, and one is machine trying to fool the ju
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by parodysbird 1y ago
You can be inspired by anything, that's fine. Gell-mann was amusing himself and getting inspiration from Buddhism for quantum physics. It's the process of the inquiry that generates the knowledge as a discipline, rather than the p
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by parodysbird 1y ago
The thing with alchemy was not that their hypotheses were wrong (they eventually created chemistry), but that their method of secret esoteric mysticism over open inquiry was wrong. Newton is the great example of this: he led a dual life, wh
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by parodysbird 1y ago
> It’s called Quantum Mechanics. Nobody is suggesting anything entails a possible violation of quantum mechanics, so yes, obviously any system under inquiry is assumed to abide by QM.
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by parodysbird 1y ago
How is what the same thing? Fabric production vs social communication? I don't really see what is the relation here.
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by parodysbird 1y ago
> Alphafold made a breakthrough in protein folding. Sort of. Alphafold is a prediction tool, or, alternatively framed, a hypothesis generation tool. Then you run an experiment to compare. It doesn't represent a scientific theory, no
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by parodysbird 1y ago
Oh yeah this is exactly how my group chats went. We still can post some good (in our context) memes and have fun, but not like an avalanche of poorly filtered slop. A joke for a group can still be crafted via an LLM when used judiciously an
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by parodysbird 1y ago
This is basically a contemporary reframing of the core purpose of Renaissance magic. I suppose aspiring to be a 21st century John Dee from talking to some powerful chatbot of the future, rather than angels or elemental beings, does sound a
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by parodysbird 1y ago
To emphasize again part of the post above: "The aim of our creation is communication and mutual-transformation". When I write a poem in a birthday card for my wife to give her on her birthday, very little of the "meaning&quot
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by parodysbird 1y ago
It's not pedantic, it's true, and it actually is deeply important because misunderstanding this can lead to very different beliefs about the world, science, and technology.
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by parodysbird 1y ago
You have bad politics. This is bad politics.
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by parodysbird 1y ago
Biologists, mathematicians, physicists, and philosophers are already the experts who produce the text in their domain that the LLMs might have been trained on...
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by parodysbird 1y ago
And based on the actual Imitation Game in Turing's paper, we are no where close and I don't think we will be close for quite some time.
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by parodysbird 1y ago
It is fantasy (or more specifically, science fiction). And it's astonishing how uncritically it gets taken at face value through so much of the industry.
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by parodysbird 2y ago
Extreme combat superiority does not mean you are fighting a combat where that achieves your objectives. The reason the Taliban did not have to reckon with the full potential of the US military is because the US unleashing it's full pow
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by parodysbird 2y ago
America didn't lose the Iraq War to Saddam, it lost to disparate groups of Islamic jihadis who read some Mao. Losing a war is not body counts, it's a military withdrawal after a failure to achieve objectives. It doesn't mean
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by parodysbird 2y ago
The Dutch and Swiss are very powerful, relative to their size. You can say fantasy things like "if they were invaded tomorrow", but that's not reality. The US has atomic weapons, but has lost almost every war it has started s
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by parodysbird 2y ago
> Vietnam already coming to the negotiating table, time will tell. Oh wow you got a developing country to agree to lower their tariffs on their fairly minor import capacity from the US.
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by parodysbird 2y ago
So you're just doing Delphic oracle prophecy. Mysticism is not actually that helpful or useful in most discussions, even if some mystical prediction accidently ends up correct.
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by parodysbird 2y ago
The yearly dots are the individual points of data; so the lines between e.g. 2021 and 2022, despite being the main visual marker, do not indicate a change that happened in 2021 that leads to 2022, but rather a change that happened in 2022 c
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by parodysbird 2y ago
No, we do not try to answer the original trolley problem in earnest. We immediately reject and move on.
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by parodysbird 2y ago
He's not a developer. He's really talking about consumer tech.
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by parodysbird 2y ago
This is not a criticism he really mentions explicitly, but the issue I see with the valuation is that these products cannot be used in a production system by a responsible engineer. As in, I can't have LLMs autonomously plugged in as p
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by parodysbird 2y ago
This is a great point. Now I have extra reason to cheer on the bubble bursting.

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