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by thfuran 11mo ago
And you can tell this pretty easily because it can't have a conversation with you.
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by thfuran 11mo ago
If that were true, it would mean that it couldn't output hyphenated words without turning the hyphens into em dashes.
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by thfuran 11mo ago
I want to query a bayesian ontology, not a Markov chain with delusions of grandeur.
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by thfuran 11mo ago
You're thinking of Larry Ellison.
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by thfuran 11mo ago
Yes, spending less money is better than spending more money (though there can be potential tax treatment differences or other complexities depending on exactly how money is spent), but that doesn't mean the person in charge of approvin
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by thfuran 11mo ago
This separation and other accounting peculiarities like use it or lose it budgeting cause so much inefficiency.
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by thfuran 11mo ago
>everything at its basis is a chemical reaction, but the right reactions chained together create understanding, knowing, etc That was their point. Or rather, that the analogous argument about the underpinnings of LLMs is similarly unconv
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by thfuran 11mo ago
Even if they do, it can only be transiently during the inference process. Unlike a brain that is constantly undergoing dynamic electrochemical processes, an LLM is just an inert pile of data except when the model is being executed.
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by thfuran 11mo ago
>Even Republicans could get behind it! No, they have no actual interest in saving the government money, especially if it comes at the cost of enforcing regulations on corporations.
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by thfuran 11mo ago
Yes, and rightly so, sometimes.
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by thfuran 11mo ago
Spices are pretty much universally horribly overpriced at grocery stores.
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by thfuran 11mo ago
No, that’s just one form of regulatory capture. If this legislation is a result of lobbying from retailers opposing imposing meaningful fines, particularly if the state of things before its adoption was that penalties from failed inspection
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by thfuran 11mo ago
Re-planning when you gain enough information to know you need to isn’t a failure — not re-planning then would be — but repeatedly finding yourself re-planning when you had or should have had that information before the initial plan is.
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by thfuran 11mo ago
Yes, I think verifying mere existence of the cited paper barely moves the needle. I mean, I guess automated verification of that is a cheap rejection criterion, but I don’t think it’s overall very useful.
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by thfuran 11mo ago
I just substantially edited the comment you replied to.
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by thfuran 11mo ago
>No, I merely said that the scientist is the one responsible for the quality of their own work. No, you expressed unqualified agreement with a comment containing “And yet, we’re not supposed to criticize the tool or its makers?” >Any
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by thfuran 11mo ago
>While there many reasonable critiques of AI But you just said we weren’t supposed to criticize the purveyors of AI or the tools themselves.
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by thfuran 11mo ago
What exactly is the analogy you’re suggesting, using LLMs to verify the citations?
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by thfuran 11mo ago
No, they need to be able to defend their elections and social media from Russian interference.
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by thfuran 11mo ago
I think you mean it has decreased the SNR (by raising the noise floor).
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by thfuran 11mo ago
Monopoly is that word. "Pure Monopoly" is the term for the platonic ideal that people like to insist companies don't live up to and so aren't at all monopolistic.
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by thfuran 11mo ago
Good luck finding magenta there. RGB is not modeling the monochromatic light spectrum.
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by thfuran 11mo ago
I'd buy a SteamTV that's a good panel with a decent soc, DP instead of HDMI, and no webshit.
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by thfuran 11mo ago
But fulfilling obligations isn't inefficiency or fraud, and that's what DOGE purported to be attempting to eliminate.
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by thfuran 11mo ago
I don't think I've ever met one of these people.
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by thfuran 11mo ago
I think that hermit now would be significantly more isolated than the closed door person, since no one else now is using physical mail for professional communication.
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by thfuran 11mo ago
Isn’t reading stuff on the internet more mainstream than buying things at Barnes and Noble? Not necessarily those specific things, but the notion that something needs to be physically available at a bookstore to be relevant is at best dated
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by thfuran 11mo ago
Will it? I’m not sure how the utilities structure their prices wrt the actual cost, but they definitely separate the baseline connection cost from usage on bills (at least in the US), so they may not be killed by people using very little po
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by thfuran 11mo ago
It's pure corporatese.
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by thfuran 11mo ago
>What somebody scored in a high school writing class should matter far less than the output somebody is capable of producing when given a prompt and an hour in a closed setting Sure, but it takes < 1 second to read a GPA.

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