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by root_axis 6mo ago
Great post. Looking forward to the followup article about lights and shadows :)
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by root_axis 6mo ago
Maybe 20 years ago, today it's no better than anything else - well designed in some aspects, total trash in others. The stewards of xcode, spotlight and siri (among many other stinkers) are disqualified from the category of "best&
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by root_axis 6mo ago
Exactly my thoughts. It also raises major questions about organizational and executive leadership, it seems crazy to put the reigns of such a massive ship - integral to the business of huge swaths of the economy - into the hands of an ambi
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by root_axis 6mo ago
Obviously, the fun part is delivering value for the shareholders.
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by root_axis 6mo ago
I have also found LLMs are a great tool for understanding a new code base, but it's not clear to me what your comment has to do with skill atrophy.
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by root_axis 6mo ago
It's been an agenda for the republicans and Israel for decades. It's been reported that Israel tried to encourage Obama and then Biden to do the same. Back during the "normal" political era, even respected republicans li
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by root_axis 6mo ago
How does that work? Wouldn't it be slow loading the weights into memory every time you launch it?
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by root_axis 6mo ago
> You have to prove that experienced programmers are not significantly better at security. That has not been my experience. It's true that they are "better at security" in the sense that they know to avoid common securi
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by root_axis 6mo ago
> you can always fire it up yourself and see what its all about I imagine it doesn't run very cheaply.
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by root_axis 6mo ago
Yeah, but that's the current state of the art after decades of aggressive optimizations, there's no foreseeable future where we'll ever be able to cram several orders of magnitude more ram into a phone.
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by root_axis 6mo ago
By what metric?
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by root_axis 6mo ago
> No, the argument is "this behavior is similar enough to human behavior that using it as evidence against <claim regarding LLM capability that humans have> is specious" I'm not really following. LLM capabilities a
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by root_axis 6mo ago
Yes. They're making the point that your flashing yellow warning is a good thing, and that it's helpful to the customer that a mechanism is in place to prevent it from being disabled by an attacker.
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by root_axis 6mo ago
> Some people point at LLMs confabulating, as if this wasn’t something humans are already widely known for doing. I think we need to start rejecting anthropomorphic statements like this out of hand. They are lazy, typically wrong, and
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by root_axis 6mo ago
That logic makes sense, but them hyping up the model is a sign that this is just another marketing stunt. Otherwise, we wouldn't even be hearing about it rather than a media blitz designed to stoke demand for their dangerous and exclus
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by root_axis 6mo ago
Yeah, every engineer in the bay area has a way of framing the business they work for as a benign force for good... Until they find themselves working somewhere else, then suddenly they have a lot to say about the unacceptable things going o
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by root_axis 6mo ago
> but I think too many people are seeing the same symptoms (and some actually measured them). Or too many people are slurping up anecdotes from the same watering hole that confirms their opinions. Outside of academic papers, I don&#x27
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by root_axis 6mo ago
How much of this is the model being degraded and how much of it is people just projecting vibes onto the variability of stochastic outputs?
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by root_axis 6mo ago
There are countless reference examples online, that's just a slower, buggier, and more expensive git clone.
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by root_axis 6mo ago
I basically always start with digital, if the book is good I always buy a physical copy for my shelf.
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by root_axis 6mo ago
Even that won't matter. The problem isn't the elected officials, the problem is that most of the county doesn't care either way.
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by root_axis 6mo ago
There will be no prosecutions. Even if there's a situation where Dems regain power, they don't have the political capital or efficacy to prosecute.
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by root_axis 6mo ago
> I think he's finally gone too far. He'll be fine. It should be pretty clear by now that 40% of the country prefers Trump regardless of policy.
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by root_axis 6mo ago
Seems like a trivially simple verification to defeat.
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by root_axis 6mo ago
Why can't you allow typing and just consume the state of the text input as the initial state of the js logic?
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by root_axis 6mo ago
That's so far into the future that we can cross that bridge when we come to it.
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by root_axis 6mo ago
> First, it seems you've shifted from "intelligent" to "conscious". Not true. Take a second look.
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by root_axis 6mo ago
> Yes he is, the message he replies to is about intelligence No, I'm not. The comment I replied to is the one that mentioned consciousness.
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by root_axis 6mo ago
The "it's just math" argument may not be technically rigorous, but it's directionally correct. The unstated reasoning invites us to consider why this particular math would be conscious, but not many other forms of math
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by root_axis 6mo ago
> Computers have been running thousands of times slower than they should be for decades I've been hearing this complaint for decades and I'll never understand it. The suggestion seems completely at odds with my own experience

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