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by qsera 1mo ago
>introducing new high level abstractions... Coding via LLM is not similar to using an abstraction. Imagine a car. The controls like steering wheel, the pedals, the gear levers. Those are abstractions. But using LLMs are like driving usin
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by qsera 1mo ago
Sure. That is easy. But I was talking about training data.
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by qsera 1mo ago
>what would make you think Astra is yet to be AGI... Can it detect if I feed bullshit (by bullshit I mean stuff that contradicts with its own existing "knowledge") in its training data? If not, then I think it is a good indica
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by qsera 1mo ago
AGI my ass!
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by qsera 1mo ago
> But if this ever dropped back near 50 for long.. There is no reason why it would bounce back at 50. What if it bounce back at around 20 and settle around 30? Then you have less doctors than before...
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by qsera 1mo ago
> It reaches a new balance point with more doctors than before. But you just pull this "more doctors than before" out of your ass. There is no such assurance. If less people want to become doctors, then eventually there will
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by qsera 1mo ago
What is there to "reproduce" if there is no "original" version to get the ball rolling? We know how living things reproduce, but we still ask how life originated. Same thing.
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by qsera 1mo ago
>There is always something;... I am sorry, but I can't help feel like this is a cop out. Much like "Its tortoises all the way down". Or "God created the universe and God always existed". Making this original univ
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by qsera 1mo ago
I am a total layman. But I believe that MUH (Max Tegmark) is the real thing. I was once looking at fractal animations on youtube. At one point, I thought I saw things move in it in a way that resembles physical movement. That caused me to
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by qsera 1mo ago
So where did the original universe come from?
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by qsera 1mo ago
I think you are over estimating it. Sure unicode support is a hell hole. But if you stick to ascii, it is not very hard, that is including syntax highlighting. virtual lines ....I don't know about CRDT or atomic editing though...
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by qsera 1mo ago
>I have 40+ years experience What domain?
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by qsera 1mo ago
most of them include potty training dinosaurs or monsters which shows authentic positions of such beings taking a shit, and the spectators ends up covered in or being bombarded with literal shit balls... And know what is worse is that kids
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by qsera 1mo ago
Now take a set of words. They have "sizeness", "weightness", "colorness" and "densityness"...and "pythonness" and "haskellness" and even "adjectiveness" and "verbnes
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by qsera 1mo ago
The scam that is based on the implicit claim that LLM is a path to AGI. Seeing LLMs for what they really are will also make it clear they are fundamentally unfit for a lot of tasks they are currently marketed for...
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by qsera 1mo ago
>The human mind cannot comprehend the capacity of massively multidimensional space. That is why the scam works, because investors are humans...
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by qsera 1mo ago
> people entering the field specifically to make big money goes down... This is a self defeating argument, because for it to work it requires that there is a larger number of people who love the field than the number of people who are in
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by qsera 1mo ago
By government approved, I meant only to access government websites/applications.
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by qsera 1mo ago
Seriously. What is so beautiful about text editors? (I am not the downvoter btw).
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by qsera 1mo ago
>Why wouldn’t careful human code review and extensive test coverage suffice? I have come to understand that LLM generated code, even when carefully reviewed, ends up being hard to review as time progress. This is because when you are cod
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by qsera 1mo ago
>Chrome is the only alternative The future looks pretty clear to me. We will have to use two browsers. One government approved, google (or some other thing) vetted browser for all the official and banking stuff. One other for all the oth
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by qsera 1mo ago
Yea, you should be already known for some other things. Then being nice could add to it. But just being nice is not going to make you known.
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by qsera 1mo ago
>When we should let doctors from overseas immigrate and easily become practicing doctors here in the US. Lol, what does this has to do with anything regarding aptitude or curiosity!?
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by qsera 1mo ago
Never heard about this dude..
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by qsera 1mo ago
I don't get the markets obsession with big phones. May be size is a proxy for battery life...
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by qsera 1mo ago
No one has been remembered for being extra nice alone. I mean, being an asshole is inconsequential if you are brilliant. Only total losers whine about such silly things in successful people...
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by qsera 1mo ago
>when the browser is such a capable platform Seriously? Why would you want to open a memory heavy browser tab to run a TUI? This attitude is how we got Electron. Browser as an app platform, should be used as a last resort.
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by qsera 1mo ago
Then it "replication" becomes a target and thus would be gamed instead. This is a constant tug of war..
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by qsera 1mo ago
You don't. It is too costly and thus risky. Instead you do a charade and convince authorities (who just want to cover their asses citing some vetted studies) and people that your stuff work. It is "ass covering" all the way
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by qsera 1mo ago
And that is exactly why AI marketing touts ability to replace programmers, when in reality it is much better suited to replace middle management between client and programmers...

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