pegasus

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by pegasus 5d ago
Kind of. First of all, reasoning LLMs can also do (a form of) reasoning. Second, yes you could say LLMs form a sort of intuition, but its domain is the space of human-produced text. It only translates to real world intuition to the degree
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by pegasus 5d ago
Intuition also takes effort, just of a different type and quality . It's the difference from mindlessly applying memorization and simple inference/recombinations (basically delegating to our own internal LLM) versus deeply conte
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by pegasus 12d ago
You're right. I knew language is not necessary for cognition, but I always thought of thought as just internal monologue, i.e. "trains of thought". It turns out the definition they use in cognitive science is "the manip
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by pegasus 13d ago
Sounds like you weren't paying attention. A lot of dog owners don't, so it's not at all unusual in my experience. The only thing I'd push back on is of dogs having thoughts, everything else checks out.
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by pegasus 13d ago
All you get is a new, likely to be useless fact, together with the opaque proof of that fact. There are no known or forseeable applications to the finding that there are singularities in the idealized flow. What you lose OTOH, are the man
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by pegasus 14d ago
You don't seem to have grasped Terry Tao's (and others') criticisms. Basically they are saying that the advancement you get is illusory. Most of the time, it doesn't give you any new capabilities or deep understanding,
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by pegasus 14d ago
There can't be that many math museums in Paris...
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by pegasus 23d ago
And yet you terminated. Which would be the correct thing to do if Marxist philosophy would be wrong on all counts, as you explicitly state. Which of course, it isn't.
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by pegasus 28d ago
They're probably referring to tech like reasoning models, or agent harnesses for example, which are arguably slowly moving things towards the symbolic end of the spectrum.
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by pegasus 2mo ago
Sure, but the same must be true for these models as well. They must be doing some form of reasoning, even if it's not formally correct and it relies instead on all kind of half-assed heuristics which only work inside certain unexami
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by pegasus 2mo ago
Human languages aren't just a set of more or less arbitrary conventions relating groups of sounds with meanings. Language is probably humanity's greatest and most advanced technology, making most of the other ones possible. And
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by pegasus 2mo ago
Indeed.
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by pegasus 2mo ago
Sure, I'm all for opening the whole enchilada. But at least Chinese AI development is more open than the US one. And not just on the weights front, but AFAIK also more open when it comes to the techniques used and lessons learned i
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by pegasus 2mo ago
Regardless of the motivations behind the paper, the fact is that they are right. It's a topsy-turvy world where America closes up and China opens, and I hope it gets corrected soon. And besides, it seems to me like the ethical choice.
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by pegasus 2mo ago
I guess the question of why counterexamples are so rare and/or hard to find is still left to be investigated.
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by pegasus 2mo ago
I feel the same. When those large datacenter projects were being considered, the necessity for building new power lines should have been included in the ask. Instead they built the centers, then "notice" the system is straining a
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by pegasus 2mo ago
> What I'd really wish for is an EU browser that 'just works'. Have you tried Zen Browser? It's entirely open source but the core team and sponsor are European, and it's actively positioning itself as the Europe
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by pegasus 2mo ago
That difference is not essential to the question at hand. An open book test based on an erroneous book would give the same results as this test, even if it wouldn't penalize blank answers.
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by pegasus 2mo ago
Yep, a possibility that has found support with Roger Penrose, who wrote two books about it.
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by pegasus 2mo ago
I don't see how stealing IP is inconsistent with a sympathy for openness. If anything, it's the opposite. "Information wants to be free" and all that. They were just liberating those secrets ;)
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by pegasus 2mo ago
That's just one surface feature of how fascism manifests at the level of economic policy, it doesn't capture the essence of the movement. You wouldn't expect Mussolini to have the introspective capacity to actually understan
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by pegasus 2mo ago
"Mussolini's model"... Wikipedia has a whole page on the definition of Fascism [1]. Also worth reading is Umberto Eco's article on this subject, which also has its own wikipedia page [2]. Spoiler alert: it's not as
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by pegasus 2mo ago
Watercolors in SVG?
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by pegasus 2mo ago
Isn't steering the agent the new journey? Why shouldn't that provide "little intrinsic rewards"?
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by pegasus 2mo ago
Prefill isn't supported in the major commercial models anymore. Probably in order to thwart jailbreak attacks.
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by pegasus 2mo ago
Not only is AI art often slop, it's also often theft. Or maybe even always theft. And it's both of these things that account for this newfound ability to create something normally time-intensive in seconds. Imagine I want to h
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by pegasus 2mo ago
It's because they are post-trained to be agreeable, which is clearly a desirable trait in a model. I think the correct way around this is converting the conversation from first- and second-person direct, to third-person indirect, maki
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by pegasus 2mo ago
> From Shannon's theory, it's abundantly clear that "information" is just a mathematical description That's a very narrow and technical definition of information. It's what people refer to by the word when t
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by pegasus 2mo ago
Why shuffle, though?
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by pegasus 2mo ago
> Finally, to claim that information is somehow the important fundament of existence is patently absurd to me, since it would've similar to arguing that miles have some very special epistemic and ontological status. As the sibli

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