suddenlybananas

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by suddenlybananas 1mo ago
Yeah I disdain them
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by suddenlybananas 1mo ago
Do you not put thought into what you listen to? I don't just passively have music forced down my throat like I'm a duck being fattened for foie gras, I actively choose what I listen to and I know the artists involve don't use
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by suddenlybananas 1mo ago
>if you can easily make middling art with a prompt then it’s going to be swamped by all the other stuff, the really good, unique, fresh art will rise to the top No it'll be buried under slop. This was a huge issue before AI-generate
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by suddenlybananas 1mo ago
The threats weren't denied, and they did offer an authorship to Buckmaster, which would be very strange if he had nothing to do with it.
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by suddenlybananas 1mo ago
Why should we trust them?
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by suddenlybananas 1mo ago
The Navier-Stokes proof barely cited anyone.
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by suddenlybananas 1mo ago
>Brubeck's comments were weird at face value This is an odd way to gloss over threats.
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by suddenlybananas 1mo ago
I think beginner programmers are unlikely to use unsafe when learning rust but people coming from c or c++ who are beginners at rust might use unsafe all over the place.
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by suddenlybananas 1mo ago
Mathematicians are way more open about what they do than OpenAI is.
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by suddenlybananas 1mo ago
Why do we need Simon Willison's quoting of something Terence Tao said yesterday? Surely the original thread is more useful, unless HN has just become a place to spam his blog.
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by suddenlybananas 1mo ago
I do see people claiming he's abusive/unscrupulous which are pretty extreme allegations. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49605915#49610498 https://x.com/dheeraj_nagaraj/status/209726
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by suddenlybananas 1mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49605915#49607090
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by suddenlybananas 1mo ago
Can't scoop it if you do that!
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by suddenlybananas 1mo ago
How are people talking about this there? Why are so many employees posting nasty things about Tristan on twitter?
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by suddenlybananas 1mo ago
They'll probably claim a rogue AI agent accessed it accidentally!
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by suddenlybananas 1mo ago
Where do you think they are putting their energy?
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by suddenlybananas 1mo ago
It could potentially have blackmail material.
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by suddenlybananas 1mo ago
Is there anything you think would be appropriate to prohibit?
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by suddenlybananas 1mo ago
It came from the Malay word, but the Malay word comes from Hokkien.
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by suddenlybananas 1mo ago
>The reason we bump this major version is that we can get rid of design decisions made in the past that currently block us and then we want to change defaults to more sensible settings that will benefit a greater audience I don't kn
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by suddenlybananas 1mo ago
But the models learn in a very different way than humans, they're certainly vastly more sample inefficient. I'm not saying it isn't impressive or that it isn't necessarily a kind of intelligence, I'm just sceptical
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by suddenlybananas 1mo ago
>But neurotransmitters and action potentials don't help in modeling symbolic structure. This is exactly why Fodor argues that psychology should be explained on its on level with symbols rather than appealing to neurology. But if you
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by suddenlybananas 1mo ago
These aren't really strawmen, they're more or less than mainstream opinion in the cognitive sciences from the 80s to maybe 2015-2020 or so.
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by suddenlybananas 1mo ago
People really overstate the relationship between ANNs and the brain, they have very different mechanisms and only have a similarity if you squint at 100000 feet. ANNs don't have neurotransmitters or even action potentials.
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by suddenlybananas 2mo ago
Why not both?
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by suddenlybananas 2mo ago
I have similar problems installing region locked apps as someone who's fairly frequently in different regions.
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by suddenlybananas 2mo ago
I agree Ariely was more influential and his fraud more flagrant (obviously Arday's lies were more absurd, but they were less academically relevant), but it's not true that Arday had no attention given to him. He did provide advice
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by suddenlybananas 2mo ago
That's just coming up with a hypothesis.
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by suddenlybananas 2mo ago
While many countries kicked out colonizers violently, it's not a universal, many countries were decolonized without violence. Turkey is also an odd choice here, given they were an empire who was kicked out of many of their possessions.
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by suddenlybananas 2mo ago
Of course, but the article writes as though the US just left these places to their own devices, even though they constantly meddled in these countries after the fact, and meddled in many more countries across the world. It's not like t

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