pickleRick243

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by pickleRick243 8mo ago
Who keeps linking this guy's posts? I don't think I've agreed with a single one of his takes.
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by pickleRick243 8mo ago
LLM slop article.
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by pickleRick243 8mo ago
> I think it’s important to highlight at this stage that I am not, in fact, “anti-LLM”. I’m anti-the branding of it as “artificial intelligence”, because it’s not intelligent. It’s a form of machine learning. It's a bit weird to be
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by pickleRick243 8mo ago
A lot of this discussion is just sort of moot because the cold hard calculus of economics will dictate the future of AI coding. If it turns out it's just a cognitive burden that makes programmers worse, the bubble will pop and eventua
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by pickleRick243 8mo ago
I don't think either of these are the best choices for this. Chatgpt 5.2 pro and gemini 3 pro deep thinking I believe are the strongest LLMs at "pure thought", i.e. things like mathematical reasoning.
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by pickleRick243 8mo ago
I don't think it's that serious...it's an interesting experiment that assumes people will take it in good faith. The idea is also of course to attach the transcript log and how you prompted the LLM so that anyone can attempt
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by pickleRick243 8mo ago
I'm surprised I don't see many (or any) comments mentioning this: this blog post was clearly written with heavy LLM assistance.
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by pickleRick243 8mo ago
I don't think it's that hard. MacKenzie Scott Bezos managed to give away nearly half (not accounting for appreciation) of the wealth she obtained from her divorce in a few short years.
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by pickleRick243 8mo ago
Do you have this same understanding for all the people whose livelihoods are threatened (or already extinct) due to the work of engineers?
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by pickleRick243 8mo ago
I have bad news for you regarding pupils who "care about getting good grades"...
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by pickleRick243 8mo ago
It certainly cares about your political preferences though?
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by pickleRick243 8mo ago
This makes no sense. Why lower extended thinking time? Those who want faster answers can just use standard. The only purpose this serves is to "trick" the user into thinking he's still receiving "extended thinking&quo
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by pickleRick243 8mo ago
Oftentimes, the main purpose of writing the tests is to prevent future regressions. This is pretty common for instance in ML (pytorch) code. You put in some tests with various random inputs and assert it against whatever your network says
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by pickleRick243 8mo ago
Regardless of the basic conceptual point being made (merits of tiger parenting vs. holistic "participation trophy" style parenting), this research doesn't look that convincing. There's the graphic: "Top 1% cognition
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by pickleRick243 8mo ago
so AI can actually replace software engineers? It's relatively unusual to see someone who "believes in AI", but is "anti-AI", at least among the HN crowd. Also, I find this view very selfish. Yes, let's gatek
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by pickleRick243 8mo ago
I think the disagreement is over what exactly will be taken away. Certainly, like any technology that came before, AI will automate something. A programmer that finds joy in the raw act of coding- thinking of how to solve a problem and cr
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by pickleRick243 8mo ago
I don't think this is really true if you look at the results of the last election. Activism just on the transgender issue alone looks to have swung a lot of votes.
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by pickleRick243 8mo ago
Are you Koren? Did we read the same article? The one that calls into question anything Koren says or claims? From the article I read: "A twelve-day-old infant cannot crawl. It cannot grab, and it cannot put something into its own mou
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by pickleRick243 8mo ago
> And if there's no chance of a conviction, there's no benefit to anybody from reopening the investigation. It's probably true that without a chance of conviction, standard protocol dictates that public resources should no
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by pickleRick243 8mo ago
Almost 40% of California voted for Trump. The political polarity of a group can be measured in multiple ways. If you measure it by the views of its elected representatives or leaders of its institutions, it will look quite extreme because
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by pickleRick243 8mo ago
Better for whom?
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by pickleRick243 8mo ago
This is true, but the need to read critically especially on the internet has become an indispensable skill anyway. Psy-ops, astroturfing, now LLM slop.
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by pickleRick243 8mo ago
The democratization is mostly in allowing people from outside the field with mediocre mathematical ideas to finally put them to paper and submit them to mediocre journals. And occasionally it might help a modern day Ramanujan with "ex
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by pickleRick243 8mo ago
LLMs are tools. In the hands of adept, conscientious researchers, they can only be a boon, assisting in the crafting of the research manuscript. In the hands of less adept, less conscientious users, they accelerate the production of slop.
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by pickleRick243 8mo ago
I'm curious if you'd be in favor of other forms of academic gate keeping as well. Isn't the lower quality overall of submissions (an ongoing trend with a history far pre-dating LLMs) an issue? Isn't the real question (
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by pickleRick243 8mo ago
Why would you think that engineers have stronger ethics than the population at large? Following this logically, some profession would have to have lower than average ethics or perhaps only the unemployed do? I don't think that one&#x2
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by pickleRick243 9mo ago
I don't understand, why do you say this? I would think that google's security is very solid, and am not aware of them ever being hacked to gain access to user accounts/passwords. Are you saying they're deliberately lea
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by pickleRick243 9mo ago
The actions of the current US administration seem to have provoked intense negative reactions, or perhaps caused long simmering resentment to boil over. I hope some of this energy goes towards cultivating a more entrepreneurial, less risk-
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by pickleRick243 7y ago
To me, the biggest confounding variable is the race/culture of the researchers. From the supplementary material: "We recruited eleven male and two female research assistants to perform the drop-offs. All research assistants were