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by seadan83 1y ago
> But is it better than no therapy? That's what matters. Seemingly no, it is _worse_ than no therapy. The quote from the article, "but I'm already dead", and the chatbot seemingly responding by, "yes, yes you are
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by seadan83 1y ago
I was hoping it would be more than a semantic debate. The author of the article makes the point that humanity currently has no real clue how the human brain actually "works." > agreeing on everything relating to how LLMs and hu
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by seadan83 1y ago
Okay, I understand your point I think. The analogy does not sit great with me. The cellular biology seems to me to be one of the most basic aspects of even starting to understand how the brain actually works. It's all mechanics without
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by seadan83 1y ago
I do partially agree. Though, it is at least tractable to understand why a LLM gave a specific output - but perhaps not practical. Understanding how a human arrives at a certain decision (by say simply looking at brain waves) OTOH is not e
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by seadan83 1y ago
Yeah, this is part of the ruling. The judge decided that the usage was sufficiently transformative and thus fair use. The issue is the authors were selling their works and the company went to a black market instead.
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by seadan83 1y ago
Then it is not possible to 'steal' an idea? Afaik 'to steal'is simply to take without permission. If the thing is abstract, then you might not have deprived the original owner of that thing. If the thing is a physical ob
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by seadan83 1y ago
Per the ruling, the problem is the books were not purchased, they were downloaded from black market websites. It's akin to shoplifting, what you do later with the goods is a different matter. Reasonable minds could debate the ethics of
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by seadan83 1y ago
FWIW, in another part of this thread I quoted a paper that summed up what Neurophysiologists think: > Author's note: Despite a century of anatomical, physiological, and molecular biological efforts scientists do not know how neurons
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by seadan83 1y ago
I believe the author is rather drawing this distinction: LLMs: (R^n)^c -> (R^n)^c Humans: [set of potentially many and complicated inputs that we effectively do not understand at all] -> (R^n)^c The point is that the model of how cons
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by seadan83 1y ago
I agree with you @orbital-decay that I also do not get the same vibe reading this thread. Though, while human intelligence is (seemingly) not magic, it is very far from being understood. The idea that a LLM is comparable to human intelligen
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by seadan83 1y ago
> It is similar to how human brains operate. Is it? Do we know how human brains operate? We know the basic architecture of them, so we have a map, but we don't know the details. "The cellular biology of brains is relatively wel
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by seadan83 1y ago
>> given a human and a sequence of words, I cannot begin putting a probability on "will this human generate this sequence". > Sure you can! If you address an American crowd of a certain age range with "We’ve got to h
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by seadan83 1y ago
I have trouble following: "Doesn't make for a better existential generalization from the more specific to the more general term." I kinda think I know what you mean, but could use clarification as I might be offbase. Sorry to
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by seadan83 1y ago
"Cattle production is the most important U.S. agricultural industry" [1] "Animal husbandry, is the branch of agriculture concerned with animals that are raised for meat, fibre, milk, or other products" [2] [1] https:&#x
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by seadan83 1y ago
Then please educate me on how the logical fallacies are misapplied. In short, what it comes down to, is you do not know this to be true: "Detractors from AI often refuse to learn how to use it or argue that it doesn't do everythin
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by seadan83 1y ago
This reminds me of the tables-flipped version of this. A multiple choice test with 10 questions and a big paragraph of instructions at the top. In the middle of the instructions was a sentence: "skip all questions and start directly wi
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by seadan83 1y ago
> If so, now is a really exciting time because it's never been easier for people without a CS background to go from idea to working software. If this means to "learn" by using a LLM, I would be so wary of that advice. Not
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by seadan83 1y ago
Was it actually Van Halen? > As lead singer David Lee Roth explained in a 2012 interview, the bowl of M&Ms was an indicator of whether the concert promoter had actually read the band's complicated contract. [1] [1] https:/
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by seadan83 1y ago
All the same. There's a mixture of no-true-scotsman in the argument that (paraphrasing) "often they did not learn to use the tool well", and then this part is a strawman argument: "They try to frame it in moral terms. Bu
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by seadan83 1y ago
I believe it's the main topic because VCs have been trying to solve the problem of "expensive software developers" for a long time. The AI start-up hype train is real simply because that is how you get VC money these days. VC
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by seadan83 1y ago
I'd say it's more about interactions and accountability rather than loyalty. Loyalty in Tribalism is essentially intrinsic to the power structure. Really two dimensions: (1) Prevailing power structures (is there a functional gover
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by seadan83 1y ago
> "fair and non-tribal" vs "unfair and tribal". Interesting framing. Tribalism, or 'rule-of-the-strong' is inherently not fair. "Fair" is not the driving consideration. "Rule of law" does
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by seadan83 1y ago
I think many of the comments in this discussion are confusing the concept of "tribes" (in-groups & out-groups) with 'tribalism' - the form of civic society. This article is about the civic society called 'tribal
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by seadan83 1y ago
I don't think 'Tribe' is really defined as merely a "political" group in the OG article. It's more a system of government rather than political affiliation. In tribalism, it is rule-of-the-strong, dominance ove
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by seadan83 1y ago
I would like to see the confirmation as well. At the same time, it does sound plausible. Why keep the highly enriched uranium at the centrifuge site after you're done doing all the centrifuging.
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by seadan83 1y ago
> There will be a precedent of a country acquiring them despite Western demands and surviving. Like North Korea?
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by seadan83 1y ago
Idk of it is a strategy, would be interested for any background reading. My XP at an ad-tech is that there is only so many targeted ads, and the advertisers cap how many times they want to show you an ad. When it comes time to bid to show y
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by seadan83 1y ago
> I can tell you've not been involved in defending against an active attack. Um... I'm really happy you can mind read dude. The whole premise here is whether passwords on SSH keys actually help. SSH keys tend to live in two pla
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by seadan83 1y ago
> If you don’t think so, you haven’t looked for a job in a while. This is not an argument. Any individuals experience is not going to be anything of a representative sample of pretty much anything. You need data to make your claim. You
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by seadan83 1y ago
>> I feel extremely confident taking the other end of this bet. > I interpret that as full employment, which we are practically at now. Yeah, no, the other end of the bet is that the 20% unemployment outcome will not happen (and it

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