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by raducu 1y ago
> I suspect you've never done therapy yourself. Most people who have worked with a professional therapist understand intuitively why the only helpful feedback from an LLM to someone who needs professional help is: get professional h
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by raducu 1y ago
> Speak for yourself. I live in a city. I talk to my neighbors. I met my ex at a cafe. It’s great. What's the birth rate in the civilized world? How many men under 30 are virgins or sexless in the last year?
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by raducu 1y ago
> Maybe it's time to overthrow the Turing Test. Fooling humans isn't necessarily an indicator of intelligence. I'm sorry, but I find this intelectual dishonesty and moving the goal posts. Speaks more about our inability to
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by raducu 1y ago
> Does any of that argument really matter? And frankly, this statement. My definition of a complete AGI is: an AI that can read JIRA tickets, talk with non-programmers and do all my job and get me and all/most software engineers fir
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by raducu 1y ago
>. authentic” their Montessori approach was. Indeed there's all kinds of Montessori. I can vouch for my daughter's . If anybody wants to give it a go, my benchmarks are: 1) find reviews of parents, especially no abuse, shouting
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by raducu 1y ago
> human-like intelligence on silica is a good idea. The famous Chinese Room Translator -- silica is irelevant, you could probably implement LLM-like algorithm with pen and paper, do you still think the paper could suffer or be "cons
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by raducu 1y ago
> I'd bet good money lots of non-Western European civilizations had that same thought after the English, Spanish, Portuguese, etc. rolled up on their shores. And you'd be correct.
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by raducu 1y ago
> There's also a lot of "universals" that people take for granted as universal when it really isn't universal. It doesn't matter if they kiss to talk or pass on their memories as DNA or they exist in a permanent
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by raducu 1y ago
> We most often find the least common ground between races, ethnicities, nationalities, or any other way to create outgroups, and you think humanity will handle an intelligent extraterrestrial civilization well? But we find PLENTY of co
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by raducu 1y ago
> Imagine an intelligent shade of blue A finite intelligence, willing to talk across the galaxy, talking in finite sequences, using engineering and maths? I'm sure there's a lot of universal aprioris
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by raducu 1y ago
> So it’s several rounds of “yes yes, the previous time the criticisms were right, but this time it’s different, trust me”. So everyone else is justified in being skeptical. True, but even the boy who cried wolf too many times eventually
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by raducu 1y ago
> “this LLM tool I’m using now is the real deal". GPT-5 is not the final deal, but it's incredibly good as is at coding. Anecdotal, but it's something completely else in terms of capabilities, ignore it at your own peril,
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by raducu 1y ago
> Angela Collier has a video saying it's kinda ridiculous. There are other concepts like space fountains, orbital rings and sky hooks that seem more doable -- especially the sky hook seems close to do-able, especially on the Moon.
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by raducu 1y ago
> once we're up, its just a matter of force over time to create a nice orbit. It depends what you mean by "up there". ChatGpt tells me you'd free fall from 1000 km to 100km in about 8 minutes. It also did the math
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by raducu 1y ago
> going to do the second one too. I missed the first one, when will the second one be?
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by raducu 1y ago
> I have yet to see a chat agent deployed that is more popular than tailored browsing methods. Not an agent, but I've seen people choose doctors based on asking ChatGpt for criteria and the did make those appointments. Saved them c
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by raducu 1y ago
> The card actually has some nonvolatile storage with your current balance. I'm not trying to find a gotcha, but wonder how that works with paying by phone nfc and then by card?
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by raducu 1y ago
In 2025, does it make any difference to tel the LLM "you're an expert/experienced engineer?"
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by raducu 1y ago
> 1. ERP is actively uncomfortable, that is the point. But there is a delicate balance to the level of discomfort. Strong emotions can override reason (and wrong reason can create strong emotions that create tight loops/patterns one
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by raducu 1y ago
> CBT is based on a theory that it is not events in themselves that upset us, but the meanings we give them. > The question of the existence of the unconscious is crucial, because if CBT starts to take into account the possibility of
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by raducu 1y ago
> Could it be that something other than ability to focus is blocking you? Fear of failure, for example? Looking for other reasons behind procrastination is very important, indeed. There can be many, many core beliefs that hold you down.
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by raducu 1y ago
> No one seems to be able to grasp the possibility that AI is a failure. Do you think by the time GPT-9 comes, we'll say "That's it, AI is a failure, we'll just stop using it!" Or do you speak in metaphorical&#x2
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by raducu 1y ago
Thanks, the issue was indeed not using explicitly the thinking model or they changed something over the weekend -- it's at least on par with Claude now. EDIT: clearly better than Claude or any other model that I tried before. I had
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by raducu 1y ago
> you do implicit plan tracking, creation and modification of the plan in your head in light of new information and then follow that plan. I'm not sure these tools do that very well. I think the plan is not just words, if it was, y
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by raducu 1y ago
Sample size of 1 but GPT-5 seems horrendous at coding? My go to benchmark is a 3d snake game Claude does almost flawlessly (or at least in 3-4 iterations) The prompt: write a 3d snake game in js and html. you can use any libraries you want.
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by raducu 1y ago
> We didn't smoke Andy up anymore. I got open eye visuals from smoking some dubious hashish, 2 other people smoking the same stuff had no issues. I really enjoyed the experience, except for a small incident where I woke up in the mi
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by raducu 1y ago
> you can't tell it to remind you of something in 5 minutes without an external agentic architecture. The problem is not the agentic architecture, the problem is the LLM cannot really add knowledge to itself after the training from
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by raducu 1y ago
Also being bilingual delays alzheimers by 7 years, so there must be something to dementia also.
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by raducu 1y ago
> but also about the other side knowing what you know The israelis used the Spike missile for DECADES (they even had mock tanks launching it) and kept it quiet. The ukrainians immediately uploaded videos of them using FPVs, I was sure at
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by raducu 1y ago
Not a doctor, but for me it helps if I take Saccharomyces boulardii (enterol) whenever I take antibiotics beause it is a yeast and is not affected by antibiotics. I also take probiotics, not sure if it's the right call to combine yea

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