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by pwinnski 4y ago
Sigh. The models do not "have a very good surface understanding," they are capable of competing strings of words in a way that we interpret as a surface understanding. I believe time will show this is a category error, not just an
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It's a text prediction engine, and clearly people are impressed. I suggest saving your statements here, like "This will not go away. It will transform every aspect. This thing understands context." and so on, and revisit them
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You're doing it, too. You're thinking of these AI models in terms of human intelligence. The models are not operating at a lower or higher level along a scale of human intelligence, so they're not genius-like or child-like. T
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by pwinnski 4y ago
> ignoring their real incredible power of translation. I feel like everybody commenting on this thread ought to have to write "it's text completion, not intelligence" on a chalkboard 500 times or so first.
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> How hard to implement do you think that is? Very, very, very, very hard.
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This is the same dangerous fallacy of thinking that causes "self-driving" cars to kill people. If it is "correct enough" to lull people into a false sense of security, the inevitable failures will be worse than if it peo
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Which, again, makes the anti-trust case stronger. The case being: Google leverages one of their businesses (providing compute) to build an anti-competitive moat around another of their businesses (youtube), and it's so effective that t
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by pwinnski 4y ago
I hope that your ignorance and attitude here is somehow restrained as you encounter people in life, and that you never find yourself facing any sort of medical issue or on any medicine that puts you behind a lifelong eight-ball. You could r
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At some level, humans are undervalued, seen only as grist for the mill, to be ground up and their value extracted, then discarded. Soldiers, homeless people, food service workers, child care workers, teachers, oil rig workers, and on and on
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I feel like there are so many things wrong with these questions that I must be misunderstanding you. Like, every assumption seems counter-factual.
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It's a tongue-in-cheek essay, I'm not sure the author intends to suggest an alternative. The way I think a out the barter rules is that they are there to keep people from using barter terms to describe non-barter economic activity
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Why would maximizing the well-being of its citizens naturally result in abandoning responsibilities and shrinking by more than 15%? That seems counter-intuitive to me.
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Yes, affordable housing today often luxury housing from the past. That works well enough for areas dealing with slow growth. In Dallas, for example, the apartment I rented in 1996 was top of the line, and is now mid-range. When a government
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Pro tip, you (some percentage of you) can (for some definition of can) lose weight for free (your mileage may vary) with no drugs at all. The fact that these drugs exist and work demonstrates the hormonal link that decades of research has s
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by pwinnski 4y ago
With the exception of the Great Depression and the second world war, average weights have been increasing in the USA for more than a century. We talk about this as if it's a recent shift, because we finally went from being nearly-unive
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This is ignorant of decades of research and the effectiveness of hormone-manipulating drugs like the one under discussion.
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Not only unreliable, but ignorant. There is so much in hormone responses and often-undiagnosed conditions that makes "just eat less" absolutely irrelevant to many people.
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I'm aware that you're upset because of shortages in the medicine you need. I think your beef should be with the pharma company seeking to maximize profits by constraining supply such that they are easily overwhelmed by off-label
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People aren't abstract mathematical concepts. No two people are identical, and the range of difference between the two most extreme men almost certainly exceeds the range of difference between the most woman-like men and the most man-l
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I can't imagine why anyone would find it offensive to believe that women should not be valued equally with men. Oh wait, right, because that's inherently offensive. The world can be more like Star Trek , and might move in that di
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by pwinnski 4y ago
The phone company doesn't fill your line 24/7 with unsolicited and illegal content, either, which any unmoderated comment section does.
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So many assumptions here! I use tooling to divide my 4K monitor into five rectangles: two across the top each taking up 1/4 of the screen, and three across the bottom each taking up 1/6 of the screen. Even with that, I have to lay
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Many countries find it useful to encourage some behaviors and discourage others by means of tax policy. Not just the US, although the US seems to do it quite a bit. So we have, or have had, tax policies in the US that encourage home ownersh
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Hence the phrase "regulatory capture" which describes a system in which unelected bureaucrats are not given life-and-death power over companies, but the people who set the rules are wholly captured by the regulated companies so th
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The dilemma of people believing the ideal age is 18 (or under, but under is illegal, so...), and so wanting to watch women who are as close to being underage as possible without getting them in trouble.
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Most movies will have a hashtag (or more than one), which you can use to search. Full-text search isn't available without opt-in, because that's not a feature the majority of historical mastodon users have wanted, nor a feature th
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The "cool kids" refer to Paul Graham as "PG" to show how in the loop they are with venture capital. It's a hero-worship thing.
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Absolutely, for sure, although I'm not sure anyone expected literally everyone to switch overnight? Twitter growth curve involved peaks and troughs for years, too. The idea of treating anything short of a 100% conversion rate as negati
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Twitter's ability to provide reach seems to be diminishing rapidly, whether mastodon thrives or not. I don't know that they'll ever cross on an imaginary chart over time; it could be that twitter always delivers reach bette
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This is pretty good! Like most quick overviews, however, this one is shaped considerably by the writer's experiences. Experiences of the writer that I don't share include: > It's possible for users to require permission be

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