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by simianwords 6d ago
What I hate about AI writing is not the tone but the path dependence. Let me explain. You create a document. You review it and ask it to make changes. Now the LLM will remember this change and make the document become a record of all stuff
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by simianwords 6d ago
Agree to disagree but I don’t think either of your words capture “the whole argument hinges on only one specific point. If this point is refuted then the whole argument is refuted. The rest of the points are only auxiliary but not crucial”
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by simianwords 6d ago
Not to be contrarian but there’s also a lot to like in it. Load bearing is a good word and I hope it wins the memetic lottery and becomes common. A lot of arguments do boil down to one specific “load bearing” one and I’m glad I learned voca
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by simianwords 6d ago
true haha > Great that everyone’s posting their “my secret sauce” cookbooks just to jump on the hype train but it looks like the models have already figured it out for themselves Unfortunate lesson to be learned here: there's not m
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by simianwords 6d ago
Bitter lesson means all these tricks will not be needed in a year or two. Either labs will abstract it in harness or models will become good enough that it can do it by itself
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by simianwords 8d ago
I never got the point of poetry, even after giving it an honest shot many times. It felt far too compressed to express any thing. I could not separate it from how I would appreciate music. Maybe its because I don't start from the same
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by simianwords 8d ago
Perhaps mathematicians will undergo the same split as what happened to philosophy and natural sciences.
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by simianwords 8d ago
Any one who saw Grok working in x.com would know that it does wonders for fighting misinformation. If you run LLMs on the comments in HN, I bet that it can find around 10% of the comments are outright wrong and misleading. The biggest probl
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by simianwords 8d ago
I think people don't have an intuition of LLM costs and the time saved by using it. Of course it costs but its obvious that it brings more in savings than it costs.
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The Entity Service Antipattern(michaelnygard.com)
1 points by simianwords 8d ago|0 comments
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by simianwords 8d ago
Well said. It’s on them to adapt. They make it look like it’s society’s problem (which it is) but also put the ball on OpenAI’s court which it shouldn’t.
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by simianwords 9d ago
why this maximalism? There's nothing that has 0% hallucination including humans. lets use reasonable baselines.
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by simianwords 9d ago
But man this is ridiculous. 25 field medalists don’t accept agency in their own community but try to push external people to change their process?? Why can’t the letter say “guys new tech dropped. We need to reorganise. Understanding is cru
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by simianwords 9d ago
Well ok I understand your point. I’m trying to say the system has to change to adapt. Imagine accountants saying the same thing against calculators. They had to adapt. So do mathematicians. So do I in software development.
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by simianwords 9d ago
I read this multiple times and also recollected the original letter. You can’t really blame me for thinking this is a straaaange request. “Don’t help me solve my problems because it removes the incentive to be in this field” is how I hear i
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by simianwords 9d ago
Are you suggesting that a human can't have the agency to decide whether to use it or not?
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by simianwords 9d ago
you must have been so smug writing this. But I wanted to engage in a discussion.
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by simianwords 9d ago
Please help me understand this and I'm asking this in good faith. Why can't OpenAI publish whatever it wants. And the math community can use it or not use it. Fundamentally OpenAI's solutions are high signal - they are incent
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by simianwords 9d ago
Its not a conspiracy. Its 25 fields medalists who think exactly like how I put it. Ideally, they can just take whatever the technology gives as soon as possible and use it. They don't want it because they don't think the communi
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by simianwords 9d ago
This pattern of argument keeps repeating in every place. Pro tech people: technology removes bottlenecks. Sometimes we use those bottlenecks as a side effect to build muscle and so on. But removing bottlenecks gives us much higher degrees o
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Why I didn’t sign the Fields medallists’ letter(gowers.wordpress.com)
271 points by simianwords 9d ago|379 comments
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by simianwords 10d ago
> AI is the best invention at figuring out or walking the search space and directionally doing logically computation over general software adjacent stuff. So.. like chess? Anyway, do you have any prediction on what LLM's can or can&
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by simianwords 10d ago
https://www.chessbench.org/ >GPT-6 Astra xHigh: 0.06% rejected moves
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by simianwords 11d ago
They gesture at not using benchmarks for some reason...
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by simianwords 11d ago
BTW it was not multi model playing doom, it was passing structured input and getting structured output. Its not what I thought: frames of video passed and real time game play.
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by simianwords 11d ago
This is hiding the real truth. Rich people invest more money and its a good thing that they invest because the investment goes into productive areas which ends up back into consumption. The other way round is much much worse - imagine if ri
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by simianwords 13d ago
I just find it strange how multiple people throw completely different arguments just to land on same conclusion. Your argument seems to mix a few arguments like: OpenAI has so much demand and it has made so much compute that it is a bad thi
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by simianwords 13d ago
they lied about their performance by.... solving a famously hard problem to solve? Edit: The "reputable academic" who accused OpenAI had to say this about LLMs and the recent result. source: https://cims.nyu.edu/~t
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by simianwords 13d ago
(100% AI generated tweet btw) My take is that there's a real impending doom with real reason to coordinate a slow down: I'd put this at 60%. Reasons? All smart people are on this position. Dario has been saying this since 2015 or
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by simianwords 13d ago
Sorry, this is ridiculous. OpenAI said that they have a step change in model performance. They proved it by solving a Millenium problem. HF incidents are public and vetted. If you still think there's a stall despite all evidence pointi

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