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by quonn 1y ago
Elon could turn Tesla's car business around by apologizing, letting go of his extreme compensation claims, keeping shares of only 15% instead of 25% and working pro bono in the future. Otherwise it is difficult to see how they could st
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by quonn 1y ago
Ukraine was not in the examples given and you read both the original post and my response wrong. The post did not say „if you have nuclear weapons you don‘t get attacked“. It said „if you don‘t have nuclear weapons you get attacked“. Of cou
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by quonn 1y ago
How do you get the idea that we have any of that technology? Brains are nothing like computers and we have almost no technology that is like biology. There is no reason to be sure that we can just scale down the existing tech to arrive at
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by quonn 1y ago
A bunch of matrix multiplications is not a species.
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by quonn 1y ago
> You lack that deterrent you get attacked, as simple as that No you don't, unless you're a dictatorship (including all the examples you gave).
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by quonn 1y ago
What's wrong with TypeScript for backends? Specifically backends where the load is moderate or happening in the database anyway?
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by quonn 1y ago
> When you have exponential growth, it's always early days. Let‘s take the development of CPUs where for 30-40 years the observable performance actually did grow exponentially (unlike the current AI boom where it does not). Was it a
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by quonn 1y ago
I think you severely underestimate what the 8 billion human beings on this planet can and will do. They are not like horses at all. They will not allow themselves to be ruled by, like, 10 billionaires operating an AI and furthermore if all
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by quonn 1y ago
> It's early days and nobody knows how things will go, but to me it looks that in the next century or so How is it early days? AI has been talked about since at least the 50s, neural networks have been a thing since the 80s. If you
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by quonn 1y ago
Given how Japan works in general I bet it's the latter. It's a great country to travel and eat alone, for example.
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by quonn 1y ago
> merge the same concept It's doing compression which does not mean it's coherent. > The addition circuits are also fairly easy to interpret. The addition circuits make no sense whatsoever. It's doing great at guessing
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by quonn 1y ago
> that they can internally represent many different complex ideas efficiently and coherently The Transformer circuits[0] suggest that this representation is not coherent at all. [0] https://transformer-circuits.pub
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by quonn 1y ago
In the end the data has to fit into structures or tables that can be processed by some algorithms. If the system is not rigid to a certain degree it would become unmaintainable or full of bugs or both.
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by quonn 1y ago
> The person lamented the ongoing economic volatility — caused by tariffs and Trump’s unpredictability — during a presidency that they had been promised would be a boon to business. “We’re all experiencing a liquidity crunch,” they said.
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by quonn 1y ago
> most CS has now become blue-collar work, and it is something people in the industry have not yet come to terms with. No, actually it's literally office work, working in an office or even working from home.
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by quonn 1y ago
How is it designed so? You pass a law that puts anyone running a node 10 years in prison and anyone accepting or paying through it as well. You see, easy. For this to not be possible it would have to be widely in use and government-backed.
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by quonn 1y ago
Why would it have anything to do with AI? Generative AI has been widely used for two years and the drop is exactly around January 20. What happened in AI around that time?
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by quonn 1y ago
As if western europe wouldn't have the skills. Eastern Europe has not relevant international software industry outside of JetBrains. Same as western europe which at least has SAP and Spotify.
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by quonn 1y ago
No, it wouldn‘t.
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by quonn 1y ago
It may sound plausible, but the actual computations are very simple, dense and highly optimised already. The model itself has room for improvements, but this is not necessarily something that an engineer can do, it requires research.
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by quonn 1y ago
If there were evidence that one LLM would be conscious I would also accept it for others. However this is not the case. But we know at least one human is conscious. That‘s convincing me.
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by quonn 1y ago
Excel and Powerpoint are not conscious and so there is not reason to expect any other computation inside a digital computer to be different. You may say something similar for matter and human minds, but we have a very limited and incomplete
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by quonn 1y ago
Consider this: Being born/trained in 1900 if that were possible and given a year to adapt to the world of 2025, how well would an LLM do on any test? Compare that to how a 15 years old human in the same situation would do.
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by quonn 1y ago
Given the fact that LLMs like most neural networks work by passing their input through layers, wouldn't this be expected? There's no going back to an earlier layer and if the first layers are in some sense needed for "transla
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by quonn 2y ago
For this the Russian buyer would have to previously sell something to the Philippines and accept pesos. Why would they accept those pesos if they are not generally accepted elsewhere?
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by quonn 2y ago
True - but LLMs can do this. A German Onion-like magazine has a wrapper around ChatGPT that behaves like that called „DeppGPT“ (IdiotGPT), likely implemented with a decent prompt.
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by quonn 2y ago
I can do this because it is in fact the most likely thing to continue with, word by word. But the most likely thing to continue a paper with is not to say at the end „I don‘t know“. It is actually providing sources which it proceeds to do w
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by quonn 2y ago
It‘s broken now. It was fine 5 years ago.
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by quonn 2y ago
Not necessarily. There is no big difference whether the business logic resides in the same node process or another one. If the first process is unsafe on that level, then the token can also be extracted.
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by quonn 2y ago
Maybe it’s like measuring the detonating fuse and give them matches: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fire_Raisers_(play)

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