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by semiquaver 5d ago
I grew up with the Disney channel on cable as a kid in the 90s. Disney channel at that time was ad-free except for cross-promotions for other Disney channel shows, most of which I (as a kid who liked the Disney channel) wanted to know more
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by semiquaver 5d ago
Did anyone actually read the linked wiki in full? It’s basically saying “if there are embedded ads in certain live (likely sports) content we carry you may see them even on an ad-free plan because we don’t have an alternative. Also we might
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by semiquaver 7d ago
“equivocating” is not the word you meant to use here. Probably “equating” I suspect. But yes, I stand behind my claim and I deny that it’s a semantic game. The two areas are not identical in human understanding but they’re on the same order
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by semiquaver 7d ago
It’s likely that at some point we will also be able to represent a scan of the human brain digitally as code and data. Assuming we don’t separately make a huge number of leaps in neuroscience which are far from assured, it will be very like
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by semiquaver 7d ago
Not all workplaces are high functioning in the way you imagine. Until recently a shocking amount of software development did not use source control .
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by semiquaver 7d ago
I am absolutely serious. I agree with you that the extent to which we don’t understand brains is overpowering. And I would stand by the proposition that “we don’t understand LLMs in almost exactly the way we don’t understand brains”. We kno
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by semiquaver 7d ago
Paraphrasing Me: it’s disturbing we don’t know why this pile of numbers we made seems to *think* in a way previously only done by humans. I think it’s important that we understand this better if possible. You: we don’t really ne
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by semiquaver 7d ago
I’m not saying gradient descent was empirically discovered, I’m saying that its use in machine learning (or elsewhere, I suppose) is itself a form of empiricism in that what it is is essentially a repeated observe/measure error/
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by semiquaver 7d ago
“Putting a lot of effort and training” into a dog or an inanimate carbon rod would never result in something that can plausibly substitute for human mental labor and looks likely to eventually surpass us at many tasks, no matter how much yo
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by semiquaver 7d ago
Letting agents run wild with a codebase and no humans understanding it is a recipe for disaster across so many axes. You are not a serious person if you recommend that. Check back in a couple years and I’m sure they’ll be there but today’
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by semiquaver 8d ago
I agree wholeheartedly about your second sentence, but “we made this artifact and don’t know why the thing it does looks spookily like cognition” and “this artifact makes decisions at random” are obviously distinct categories and pretending
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by semiquaver 8d ago
I think ”poorly understood” is accurate. Understanding has levels. How brains think is also poorly understood.
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by semiquaver 8d ago
“Convenient” sure sounds like trying to allude to a conspiracy theory. Is that what you’re doing? Why not state your claims or questions directly?
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by semiquaver 8d ago
I’m shocked how many otherwise well-informed people don’t understand or agree with this very fundamental fact of just how little we actually understand about why LLMs work as well as they do. They figure “it’s science, of course there’s m
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by semiquaver 8d ago
Yeah, I know people who have the same zero-explanation `git commit -mfix` style that they did pre-AI and am baffled. If you can’t be arsed to explain yourself, let the agent do it. It literally takes less work to tell the agent to commit fo
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by semiquaver 8d ago
This would sound insane to me from two years ago but I have recently started insisting on writing all my own commit messages and pull request descriptions. I do usually have an agent review them for factual accuracy, but not rephrase them.
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by semiquaver 9d ago
Aren't you just betting against the bitter lesson though?
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by semiquaver 10d ago
No. Extradition generally can only occur over conduct that is criminal in both jurisdictions and speech in particular is protected in US extradition agreements.
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by semiquaver 10d ago
Reading headlines with this increasingly common format makes me irrationally angry.
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by semiquaver 10d ago
I feel like humanity skipped Leg Day when it comes to philosophy and we are all going to pay for that lack.
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by semiquaver 11d ago
But not on standing grounds. And no, Amazon did not lose the “case”, which usually means “the whole lawsuit”. The current posture is still at the preliminary injunction stage. Amazon was granted a PI by district court (basically “perplexity
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by semiquaver 12d ago
Tap? With your fingers ?
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by semiquaver 12d ago
The goalposts will continue moving until morale improves.
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by semiquaver 12d ago
Don’t let AI write for you. Everyone can tell.
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by semiquaver 12d ago
WTF? I remember the exact opposite. Everyone on social media and in the mainstream news said Ukraine was toast and the war would last a few months tops.
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by semiquaver 12d ago
Thinking that this is happening because progress is slowing down is a bonkers take.
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by semiquaver 13d ago
It’s not even edited, pangram rates it 100% bot-authored.
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by semiquaver 14d ago
Agreed. I’ve come to believe that the video’s benefit from bringing awareness to the issue is outweighed by how misleading it is. Massive amounts of the video were “we hacked the TV and made it do [bad thing]” and was reported as “LG TVs do
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by semiquaver 14d ago
Obvious claude slop; 100% bot authored according to pangram
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by semiquaver 15d ago
Just another instance of the bitter lesson. The model itself knows how to be clever and conserve tokens in command output by using shell primitives and as the models get smarter they get better at anticipating large output and defensively

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