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by pegasus 10mo ago
I agree it's hard to not get sucked into the soap opera aspect of it all. Taking a break once in a while is a healthy strategy, but I think ultimately the sweet spot is to be informed about the important developments as they happen, s
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by pegasus 10mo ago
Why is this being downvoted? I'm baffled. The comment is coherent and relevant to the discussion at hand.
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by pegasus 10mo ago
The big one is voting, of course. It's not like following international politics will impact what firmness mattress I will buy.
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by pegasus 10mo ago
Have you considered that checking for that specifically might not be actually needed? After all, the correlation between exercise and metabolic health is well established.
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by pegasus 10mo ago
It's not really about learning, as in absorbing information. It's more of a practice: memento mori . Wishing you health and healing.
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by pegasus 10mo ago
Thanks for the link, that was illuminating, and it confirms feelings I expressed in reply to a sibling comment above. I find bound TFA and "The Deathbed Fallacy" glibly dismissive and ultimately misguided.
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by pegasus 10mo ago
People on their deathbed are not deploring their lack of discipline. In very real sense, what these people are mourning is the opposite. TFA links to another article, "The Deathbed Fallacy", which lists some of the most often ment
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by pegasus 10mo ago
That's part of the cook being helpful. It's how they check that you're not asleep at the wheel and your critical thinking is awake and engaged ;)
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by pegasus 10mo ago
Nobody likes to be left hanging.
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by pegasus 10mo ago
The brush-strokes are part of the painting (they give texture and structure for example), so a painter would care about them, if he'd care for the end product. But a painter who would instead deeply care about details of the brush inci
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by pegasus 10mo ago
Is remote rendering a thing? I would have imagined the lag would make something like that impractical.
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by pegasus 10mo ago
Unless you happen to meet the unendingly patient and helpful cook who is willing to explain the recipe in any depth one desires.
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by pegasus 10mo ago
Maybe not, but I was answering to "nobody believes", not to whether AI is intelligent or not (which might just be semantics anyway). Plenty believe, especially the insiders working on the tech, who know it much better than us. Tak
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by pegasus 10mo ago
Are you serious? Sam Altman and a legion of Silicon Valley movers and shakers believe otherwise. How do you think they gather the billions to build those data centers. Are they right? Are you right? We don't really know, do we...
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by pegasus 10mo ago
And a parrot (or human) is not stochastic? The truth is we don't actually know. So the usually included "just" is unjustified.
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by pegasus 10mo ago
Those foreign students usually pay for the education they receive, they might not be willing to do so (or as much) if there are strings attached. Besides, I don't think any country should aim on brain draining any other country, that k
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by pegasus 10mo ago
The proof is verified mechanically - it's very easy to verify that a proof is correct, what's hard is coming up with the proof (it's an NP problem). There can still be gotchas, especially if the statement proved is complex, b
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by pegasus 10mo ago
Comparing humans with machines on resource use gives some seriously dystopian vibes.
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by pegasus 10mo ago
I meant the universality (openness) of desktop computers comes under threat, as the "walled garden" model seeks to make the jump from mobile to desktop.
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by pegasus 10mo ago
That's just the thing, desktops computers have always been in an important way the antithesis of a specialized appliance, a materialization of Turing's dream of the Universal Machine. It's only in recent years that this unive
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by pegasus 10mo ago
> No, it is not. Yes, it is. You seem to have misunderstood what I wrote. The critique I was pointing to is of the amount of examples and energy needed during model training, which is what the "learning" in "machine learni
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by pegasus 10mo ago
> For one thing, yes, they can That's post-training. The complaint I'm referring to is to the huge amounts of data (end energy) required during training - which is also a form of learning, after all. Sure, there are counter-arg
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by pegasus 10mo ago
> In that sense every corporation would be intentional, deceptive, exploitative, motivated, etc. ...and so they are, because the people making up those corporations are themselves, to various degrees, intentional, deceptive, etc. > Mo
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by pegasus 10mo ago
You're totally right, "self-criticism" would be more appropriate. I wonder if researchers, in their desire to anticipate a hoped-for AGI, tend to pick words which make these models feel more human-like than they really are. A
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by pegasus 10mo ago
These types of semantic conundrums would go away if, when we refer to a given model, we think of it more holistically as the whole entity which produced and manages a given software system. The intention behind and responsibility for the be
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by pegasus 10mo ago
It's more than just that, but thanks for that link, I've been meaning to dig it up and revisit it. Beyond hallucinations, there are also deceptive behaviors like hiding uncertainty, omitting caveats or doubling down on previous st
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by pegasus 10mo ago
Because you want both likeability and factuality and if you try to mash them together they both suffer. The idea is that by keeping them separate you reduce concealment pressure by incentivizing accurate self-reporting , rather than appea
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by pegasus 10mo ago
AFAICT, there are several sources of untruth in a model's output. There are unintentional mistakes in the training data, intentional ones (i.e. lies/misinformation in the training data), hallucinations/confabulations filling
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by pegasus 10mo ago
Consider that you might have become polarized yourself. I often encounter good arguments against current AI systems emulating all essential aspects of human thinking. For example, the fact that they can't learn from few examples, that
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by pegasus 10mo ago
But parent didn't try to apply "it's just maths" to humans. He said one could just as easily say, as some do: "Humans are just biology, hence they're not magic". Our understanding of mathematics, includin

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