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by teiferer 3mo ago
The point I was waiting for but never came, so I'll make it here, is: Will LLMs be able to synthesize? Sure they can learn calculi. Lambda, differential, whatnot. But will Claude eventually be able to come up with a genuinely new forma
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by teiferer 3mo ago
But it's quite straight forward to identify that too.
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by teiferer 3mo ago
Though some people will train LLMs on it and if it's wrong then it will bias the training outcome towards that incorrectness. But it's not the purpose of a blog post to ensure LLM training data has high quality.
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by teiferer 3mo ago
P vs NP all over again.
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by teiferer 3mo ago
Though this action drive (and the means he has) could be used for so much better. Humankind's top 10 problems don't include the issue of being confined to a single planet. That far down the list. The actual stuff gets you less att
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by teiferer 3mo ago
A charitable response would be the desire to push the boundaries of what is (or is considered) possible. A less charitable response would be the desire for attention and approval to fill some kind of deeply rooted inferiority complext. The
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by teiferer 3mo ago
I hope you are planning for a rotating base as a core feature.
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by teiferer 3mo ago
> The defense is of course that some people can do that - Musk did it, so why not? If you think that Musk did his endeavors in order to become rich, you are likely mistaken.
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by teiferer 3mo ago
Depends what kind of market you are going after. Mass market for end users, sure, your argument applies. But there are lots of other types too.
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by teiferer 3mo ago
> representative democracy can't work in a post-truth world either. Truthful public debate is a central ingredient to democracy. If you don't have that then you are severely lacking in democratic qualities. In other words, your
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by teiferer 3mo ago
> For many people the state is inefficient, illogical, evil and goes after them without any reason (ex: think COVID restrictions). And that is an argument for agreeing to give more ways to go after you to that supposedly evil governmen
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by teiferer 3mo ago
If you ask me personally, then no, we don't need to have such a vote. But if the point is that country wide referendums should only be held for important questions but then exclude Brexit because "it's stupid" then that&
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by teiferer 3mo ago
> I've never required a backup, but it's good to be safe. Indeed. And if you never test your recovery then you don't actually have a workable backup.
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by teiferer 3mo ago
That makes little sense in a highly competitive market where your competitive edge is waning by the minute. Tey dumped billions into creating the new models. Just letting them sit there just to see what the Chineee do makes no sense.
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by teiferer 4mo ago
> Mathematically, as lim temperature->0, the distribution gets spikier and spikier, the most likely sample goes to almost-but-not-quite infinity and the rest go to almost-but-not-quite 0. That's not how limits work. As the temper
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by teiferer 4mo ago
In what way was Brexit a stupid thing? It was an extemely important decision, directly affecting everybody's life. If asking people about anything then isn't that what it should be? You might not like the outcome (I don't)
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by teiferer 4mo ago
> Ordinary people do not care about e2ee. Gotta read the room. It's a matter of phrasing things. Moxie had this illustrative take: If your chat is not e2ee, it'a a group chat. It's you, your mom, every secret service in th
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by teiferer 4mo ago
> The idea of privacy will become associated with crime. The risk is there but it is not a given. The debate is not new, it's been going on for decades. It's a permanent struggle.
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by teiferer 4mo ago
> The best level of democracy is no democracy. That's a quite fatal view. I'm not going to defend the shortcomings of democracy as a system or the issues all real implementations have. But democracy has a feature that is unique
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by teiferer 4mo ago
I don't understand how that angle keeps surviving. It is in the interest of the rich and powerful to keep the vast majority of society in jobs and pay them a wage. That's what they use to consume the things that drive the economy
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by teiferer 4mo ago
> proofs for proofs. What does that even mean? Sorry, this is just a nonsensical term. The issue is not that the proofs could be wrong. It's that humans don't understand them even if they are verifibly correct. In contrast, wit
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by teiferer 4mo ago
Imagine tomorrow all source code for all software disappears. Would we still be able to use computers? Of course! They don't need the source code to run. Would we nevertheless be in big trouble? Oh definitely. We'd need to write a
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by teiferer 4mo ago
> Here’s one way to think about the difference between coming up with a formal proof and having something other mathematicians can use: Here is a other one: hello_world.c versus hello_world.exe (apologies for windows extensions, just for
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by teiferer 4mo ago
Well for grandma on the street I can accept that, but shouldn't at least the tech community be more precise in terminology? "AI" is also a misnomer. So many things in our industry are that it always takes some layers of diggi
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by teiferer 4mo ago
> Fast but stochastic has no value. He valuations of a bunch of AI unicorns disagree.
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by teiferer 4mo ago
Is there any substantial number of companies actually training AI? Or do you count writing skills files for Claude as "training"? (Cause it really isn't..)
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by teiferer 4mo ago
That's not mandated by law though. Shouldn't companies following such stupidity be easily out-competed by those that don't? In he market for their products/services but also in the market for employment.
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by teiferer 4mo ago
That'a not just the angle though, it's an issue with the ozone layer too, right?
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by teiferer 4mo ago
Sorry that's just obviously false. It's only directly above you at the equinoxes, so twice a year. Otherwise it has traveled further north or south. Before everything was an app, people had physical globes at home which could illu
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by teiferer 4mo ago
> it’s almost impossible for me to get sunburn in daily life in Sweden even without sunscreen. Um most Swedes, even with not-super-pale skin get a sunburn every june. Just being outside in the sunshine for 2-3 hours without any protectio

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