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by quirkot 7mo ago
counterpoint: if I have to treat the computer like a person, what's the point of talking to a computer in the first place? Particularly when there are so many other systems that can provide answers without the runaround
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by quirkot 8mo ago
Train the algorithm so that you can be the sort of product you want to see in the world
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by quirkot 8mo ago
the issue brought up in the article isn't that "the algorithm is biased" but that "the algorithm causes bias". A feed could perfectly alternate between position A and position B and show no bias at all, but still se
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by quirkot 8mo ago
Sounds a lot like Marx's theory of alienation
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by quirkot 8mo ago
What? A pump and dump scheme? I am shocked I tell you, shocked
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by quirkot 9mo ago
>> Building 29 separate settings with confusing and overlapping effects is less work than making a single setting of: [Local Only]? Yes, absolutely. 29 separate overlapping settings likely match up precisely to arguments in various AP
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by quirkot 11mo ago
I think he's trying to differentiate himself from all the people who are not AI engineers
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by quirkot 11mo ago
it took me a minute to parse that sentence also. They are saying that health tissue makes up < 100% of the body, but that microplastics can be found in a full 100% of the body (healthy and non-healthy). Therefore microplastic prevalence
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by quirkot 11mo ago
I'm not trying to throw shade, but the approach as described is very short sighted. > That tiny spark of joy reminded me how much I love to build Well, yes. That's the fun part. The hard part is the "bug fixes on that comm
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by quirkot 1y ago
The "G" part of AGI implies it should be able to hit all the arbitrary yard sticks
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by quirkot 1y ago
Not to be rude, but... uh... did your step mom steal your identity and use it for stuff? Minors are huge targets for that sort of stuff because generally no one is checking a 10 year old's credit
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by quirkot 1y ago
Anyone with a Bloomberg terminal able to run how much free cash the top X companies in the fortune 500 generate? The amount of capital OpenAI is describing have to be a material % of all cash generated each year over the next 5 years.
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by quirkot 1y ago
I always wonder... if there was an AGI and it's chipset gave the wrong answer, how would it ever know?
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by quirkot 1y ago
I'd never buy anything as overt as an advertisement in an AI tool. I just want to buy influence. Just coincidentally use my product as the example. Just suggest my preferred technology when asked a few % more often than my competitors.
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by quirkot 1y ago
> In principle, good looks, oratory eloquence, a charming personality, well-connectedness, and personal wealth are not particularly useful to creating and executing government policy. This ignores the fact that "getting people to ag
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by quirkot 1y ago
"Carelessly unintrospective" becomes dishonest when you allow other people to rely on your words. Carelessly unintrospective is a tolerable interpersonal position, it is a nearly fraudulent business position.
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by quirkot 1y ago
Counterpoint: eugenics are bad. You are saying suffering is allowable/good because eventually different people won't be able to suffer that way. That is an unethical position to hold.
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by quirkot 1y ago
Seems kinda of like a ... lonely mountain
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by quirkot 2y ago
That app update screwed me up for weeks. Feeling that sweet sweet vindication right now
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by quirkot 2y ago
Is this true? >> Do not panic! A lot of the large LLM vocabularies are pretty huge (30k-300k tokens large) Seems small by an order of magnitude (at least). English alone is 1+ millions words
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by quirkot 3y ago
Just wait till an aggressive lawyer finds out about this. Gonna be a lot of companies taken to the cleaner for hallucinations
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GPT inputs outgrow world chip and electricity capacity(astralcodexten.com)
19 points by quirkot 3y ago|14 comments
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by quirkot 3y ago
Hell yeah. You accumulate $100m (or whatever the limit is) and we throw a parade for you. You get an award and your name on a plaque. You won capitalism! and you're not allowed to make another cent
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by quirkot 3y ago
Good code is the simplest code you can write to get the job done. Getting too excited about techniques is a form of scope creep
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by quirkot 3y ago
More like fulcrums on which the world moves, amirite?
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by quirkot 3y ago
>> designed by former SpaceX & Tesla earthlings Man, for a company that is passionate about space stuff, they sure don't seem to care at all about experiencing the night sky. tent made out of glow tubes? madness
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by quirkot 3y ago
That doesn't have anything to do with financial statements. If you're Joe's Lawn Service and someone hands you money, it goes on your balance sheet. That's how accounting works, every penny gets (you know) accounted for.
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by quirkot 3y ago
Hmmm, possibly. However you are describing an operational reality and the author was using financial reporting terms. And specifically if something like "people gave a bunch of money to what they thought was us" isn't on the
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by quirkot 3y ago
> Since the Neobank doesn’t have its own FDIC insurance and bank charter, the neobank customer’s deposits actually sit on the sponsor bank’s balance sheet Are you saying that "neobanks" do not record the deposits as a liability
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by quirkot 3y ago
This graveyard is such a great list of fads. Reading thru it I remember how hot each on of the services google was mimicking was for a time. Ahh.. google. The world's biggest Also Ran

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