partyficial

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by partyficial 7d ago
a good teacher remembers the journey, not just the destination. socratic method exists. almost none follows it.
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by partyficial 7d ago
> you don't plan to read it Not in full. I plan to read the LLM's summary. Most people could benefit from brevity. author : writes the summary (prompt). LLM expands it to article. reader : LLM summarizes the article. reader rea
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by partyficial 8d ago
both. they wanted to deceive people (lie). so they made up a reason (hallucinate).
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by partyficial 8d ago
the author can ask the same question - why should I write something if you're just going to use a LLM to summarize it ? This is an unnecessary argument both ways. Whether you use a LLM or write it yourself or read it yourself (and then
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by partyficial 8d ago
> We (ideally) change our beliefs with every new piece of input. That's good. sounds like a cope. like shifting goalposts. or no true scotsman fallacy. if I see a tree in front of me, and 2 seconds later I close my eyes, and someone
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by partyficial 9d ago
that's not knowledge - that's just theory and belief. you know, like religion.
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by partyficial 9d ago
Rarely do I sit through a 40 minute youtube video end to end, fully engaged - above was one of them. It is the only video in that channel, and worth it.
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by partyficial 9d ago
75 years and we get to play Victor Frankenstein ? seems like a very short timeline to me.
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by partyficial 11d ago
> feasible in 2-3 years from now > long ways away I'm constantly amazed by what people think is "long-term" on HN.
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by partyficial 11d ago
they're all men, too. and white. at least one of them is gay. does that matter as well ?
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by partyficial 11d ago
how did you get this data ? do you work at HN ?
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by partyficial 11d ago
it's like their brain is unaware of the concept of a timeline
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by partyficial 15d ago
Every analogy, by design, has both similarities and differences. The intention is to focus on the similarities, and ignore the differences. If I say, your face is like the moon, I mean it is bright, not that it is a million miles away.
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by partyficial 17d ago
it's the same tradeoff between : - rigidity vs flexibility - determinism vs creativity - conservative vs liberal - right vs left if you know exactly what you want and how to describe it, use SOAP-XML/REST etc. if you don't kn
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by partyficial 18d ago
> You'll just be cut out of the conversation that's a bad thing ? > you won't reap the benefits but that IS my claim - I will reap benefits proportional to my actions (good or bad). e.g. if global warming causes a flood
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by partyficial 20d ago
I can never ever understand the sentiment of - 'If I do/do-not-do XYZ, it won't make a difference since millions of people are still not-doing/doing XYZ in the world'. It gives same energy as "If I avoid murder
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by partyficial 20d ago
the suffering of the animals being killed for your tastebuds outweighs your suffering of the "vegan-high-horse".
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by partyficial 21d ago
He didn't say it was a cyber-attack, but it was a cyber-attack risk. Being able to bypass instructions (morality) and security restrictions (capability) is bread and butter for hacking.
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by partyficial 24d ago
Nah, that is Hinduism as seen through the Western lens. "Sanatana" in Sanatana Dharma means Eternal. The 4 cyclic yugas are well documented in every Sanskrit literature. We are currently in year 5127 of Kali Yug i.e. it started in
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by partyficial 27d ago
i keep hearing this trope repeated ad nauseam cos people put no thought into it. you only need people's money if you can't control their labor. did a plantation owner in the 1600s need the money of his slaves ? if you control a ro
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by partyficial 1mo ago
The UK office's (Ricky Gervais) final words in the last episode: "and some say she's just a big pair of tits"
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by partyficial 1mo ago
it was funny. and it's a matter of pride that they accused you of being AI.
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by partyficial 2mo ago
how do you know the news is any more true than the source it is verifying ? Now i have to research whether two sources are true or not.
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by partyficial 2mo ago
> half of the news articles are just a collection of quotes from officials or politicians in public statements, being regurgitated without any additional effort that is EXACTLY what i want in news. i do not want your summarization opinio
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by partyficial 3mo ago
the current AI mania is trying to shoe-horn a creative system into a deterministic one. LLMs are creative. Databases are deterministic. There is no right or wrong in a 'zero money image'. There is right and wrong in a 'zero m
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by partyficial 3mo ago
most arguments are due to differing definition of words in the arguers' minds. almost every heated argument that I've carelessly gotten myself into, I have gotten out of, by saying : "let's first start with what we agr
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by partyficial 3mo ago
> Everyone would prefer far from true. I (and many others) prefer cookie cutter things, because I know what to expect, and due to quality control of big companies. e.g. hotels > airbnb, amazon essentials > etsy hand-knit, Lays chip
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by partyficial 3mo ago
seems the author removed that paragraph from the article after reading this comment
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by partyficial 4mo ago
because of the metric system?
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by partyficial 4mo ago
how does one buy a SIM without an address/phone number that's already tied to your physical identity ?

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