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by sigbottle 29d ago
It's specifically the last two bullet poitns - Tristan is suspicious of the timing, as only few others were trying this approach. OpenAI says the model didn't access his user data directly, but leaves unanswered whether Tristan&#x
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by sigbottle 1mo ago
Chain of thought reasoning is really good, true, but agents really took off with tool calling and being able to integrate with a bunch of stable tools. In some sense, creating good new abstractions externally and learning those is a form of
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by sigbottle 1mo ago
I think it goes to show how different notions of "compression" can be (that word gets thrown a lot nowadays because of AI). Humans like simplicity for sure, but there can be different use cases for the simplicity
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by sigbottle 1mo ago
NVM I learned about leelaXodds today
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by sigbottle 1mo ago
Oh wow, this is one of the best explanations on the thread. I guess the horizon problem is not such an issue for chess bots because reaching endgame is much shorter? And whole-piece handicaps probably snowball way faster than a potential go
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by sigbottle 1mo ago
There's a DNS wizard at my job (not doing DNS stuff currently; but in his past life), and while he was talking to me about certain topics my eyes glazed over, and I thought, "Man, surely that won't affect me, right?" Wel
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by sigbottle 1mo ago
I mean, aside from all the NP Hard sub problems (I might not be reading your satire though), the real hard problem is that a "product" is not just software, but an ecosystem and a promise of maintenance of the abstract user experi
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by sigbottle 1mo ago
That's true. Again, I currently view LLMs as a function of integration - what they may lack in "intrinsic smarts", whatever that means, they can tool call and we build capacities (and they build capacities!) around them and t
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by sigbottle 1mo ago
Kind of hijacking, would you say that LLM's have solved the frame problem? To me, the frame problem is: Can you function in an open vs closed world, and to me the answer is yes, LLM's can definitely function in an open world where
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by sigbottle 1mo ago
Code (not AI) in general is the worst at semantics. Not an excuse for their practices, but it makes sense they wouldn't try to figure out something more advanced. If they did, their solution would probably be something like, "try
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by sigbottle 1mo ago
> You can maybe automate getting something plausible out, but how would you know if it was _good_ in a timely way? Contrary to the other guy, the answer is accountability, either personal, or higher-level systems like competition and ult
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by sigbottle 1mo ago
Yeah, philosophy of science & analytic philosophy (especially with Quine) has been down this rabbit hole before. Formalisms should be in service to higher-level intelligences, not the other way around. It's pretty clear that LLM&
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by sigbottle 1mo ago
I mean, we ground that in external verification (or, use math, which in theory is accessible to everyone, but also has an "empirical" loop now via lean). I'm not saying AI has remotely solved this problem, not even close. But
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by sigbottle 1mo ago
Oh, it is the shoelace formula, but for 3D? OP's description vaguely triggered memories of the shoelace formula from a decade ago, but geometry was never my strong suit. All I remembered was positive/negative triangles (or was it
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by sigbottle 2mo ago
It still feels academic though. Suppose your response to that is, "Well, suck it up, its formalized". I'd argue that it'd be worse if you could teach your book, and a 50 year old who both has rich lived experience and
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by sigbottle 2mo ago
I think software, paradoxically, has deeper network and intertial effects than pretty much anything else we have invented so far. Compare the leverage it enables to the ecosystem lock in it forces. With physical goods, it's not nearly
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by sigbottle 2mo ago
Optimizing for the appearance rather than the underlying substance. Ahh. I know Terrence Tao didn't have the following in mind when he said those words, but oh man, the philosophy neurons are firing in my brain rn.
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by sigbottle 2mo ago
More generally, in a system of agents, you could impose deep structure by construction on all the agents, or figure out from a set of black box agents, necessary convergence principles. Or you could treat them as black boxes, but instead of
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by sigbottle 2mo ago
Honestly, it kind of reminds me of my life. I need to start going to the gym, stop being a slob, start showing up to my job not like I'm a college freshman attending classes but as a respectable young man. But instead of doing that, I&
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by sigbottle 2mo ago
Well, GPU kernels are co-designed really hard. A lot of it is, async tile pipelines + spam my MMA primtives. Obviously it's still hard , but the point is that, by construction (cause like, NVIDIA literally releases primitives like thi
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by sigbottle 2mo ago
There's a neutral judge waiting out there to objectively tell us what good and bad outcomes are, obviously. Or, even better, let's have the AI judge, because humans are too stupid to think for themselves. Look at all the harm they
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by sigbottle 2mo ago
This article is great, but I'd like to push an even stronger thesis: The idea of too ambiguous to capture all constraints in written text, still presupposes that there is some objective world out there, which needs to be mapped to in
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by sigbottle 2mo ago
But making money isn't enough, though? If you think about it from this perspective, what matters far more is connections with the wealthy, or enough power to defend yourself. Which is different from just being rich and chilling. Rich a
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by sigbottle 2mo ago
How does R&D get revenue? I don't know how it is for hard tech, but from my understanding of these "researchy small team" labs in software, what ends up happening is that you find a bunch of small contracts to solve, thro
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by sigbottle 2mo ago
I keep on seeing this claim, especially from popular creators such as 3Blue1Brown. How is this not borderline vacuous? I'm not a LessWrong^TM rationalist guy, but one really good thought experiment I always keep in the back of my mind
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by sigbottle 2mo ago
I mean, I think the point is, every discipline isn't ever that discipline in a vacuum, it touches the real world, and we build meta-structures around said things that may not look like programming, but certainly require deep programmin
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by sigbottle 2mo ago
To be fair, Ghidra was released in 2019 and in general knowledge was still hard to find even back in 2010 I feel (well, compared to 2026 in the age of AI)
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by sigbottle 2mo ago
Blame Descartes? I don't know. Extended theories of cognition all get shot down, even analytic philosophers who are accused of being more "continental" still primarily hold mind-body dualisms
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by sigbottle 2mo ago
Yooo is this the CMU funny guy?
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by sigbottle 2mo ago
Is irc still a thing nowadays? My dream is to find some niche 25 person irc channel and just shoot the shit at 3am lol.

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