vidarh

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by vidarh 5d ago
Consider every situation where you "force" an LLM to output only a choice / category, or a set of them. If you have workflows like that, you're now being promised significant cost- and latency reduction. For coding agent
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by vidarh 5d ago
I don't mind that as long as that system gets regularly wiped. If you don't wipe it, you can't reasonably measure the actual output and it's pets Vs cattle all over again, only with agents.
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by vidarh 5d ago
I've worked on that as well, and agree with you. You do need the "build this thing" flow, but that just shifts the bottleneck. You also need a whole infrastructure around it, where the jira-to-production pipeline isn't t
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by vidarh 5d ago
Why would you expect that?y AI output are all similar to what I built before, but much more of it. Revolutionary products depends on revolutionary ideas, not faster execution.
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by vidarh 5d ago
As an Amiga user, I don't even get the nostalgia for Amiga Unix. I don't have nostalgia for early versions of the various Unix versions I've used. It doesn't hit nearly the same as using AmigaOS on the Amiga did. Partly,
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by vidarh 6d ago
Hm? It doesn't sound like Psygnosis rejected it at all. The article points out they half-assed the last title because they still needed to meet that contractual obligation.
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by vidarh 8d ago
I was referring to the use of the word "load-bearing". It was most likely an intentional joke, but it's one of the most grating current AI-tells to the point it's a word you'll at this point generally want to avoid
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by vidarh 8d ago
> Those rethinks are load-bearing parts of your voice. I really hope this was intentional.
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by vidarh 9d ago
Your second sentence does not support the claim in your first sentence; it's merely a second unsupported claim. It is also entirely irrelevant to the argument. The threshold for behaviour consistent with having emotions (note: not beh
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by vidarh 9d ago
As long as it's visibly AI, I don't think it's meaningfully false advertising. The bigger problem with respect to false advertising will be when even the low-effort AI crud is plausible enough that people don't recognise
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by vidarh 9d ago
For it to be an "escape hatch", there'd need to be a measurably different distribution of outputs than what you'd otherwise expect, that translates to functions that are not Turing computable. There is zero evidence for
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by vidarh 9d ago
Does your disc drive have the complexity of an LLM that shows behaviour consistent with having emotions? I'd consider that a prerequisite , but not sufficient , for that question to make sense.
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by vidarh 9d ago
Frankly, just a general extension to feed a query log to a batch job to do offline optimisation of common actual reoccurring query shapes based on a query log might well be worth it.
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by vidarh 9d ago
There are multiple widely replicated common crappy menu styles already. If anything AI generated menus are likely to lift the quality floor. I recall in particular when I first moved to London and realised you could identify low quality Ita
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by vidarh 10d ago
Hopefully it'd motivate attempts to figure out how to objectively define and measure consciousness, for starters. It matters precisely in the context of the subject of this article. If you believe the models at some level gain consciou
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by vidarh 10d ago
You have absolutely no evidence for any of these assertions. This is a religious belief in the total absence of evidence, not science.
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by vidarh 10d ago
It's different, but it is not at all clear whether or not that matters for the purposes of whether or not they can experience things, seeing as we don't know how to measure that even for other humans other than by relying on self-
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by vidarh 10d ago
The model does not. The system it runs in can. My agents have persistent memory. It is not at all clear whether or the distinction that the long-term memory is external from the model matters.
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by vidarh 10d ago
A model detached from a harness, sure. But we routinely do add persistent memory to systems incorporating LLMs.
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by vidarh 10d ago
We don't even know how to disprove that this statement with "AI" replaced by "other humans" other than by listening to people self-reporting and taking their word for it and/or defining the words in ways that d
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by vidarh 10d ago
People often can't reproduce what is right in front of their open eyes well. Conversely, I have aphantasia but can draw reasonably well from memory (at one point well above average, but I'm about 30 years out of practice). There a
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by vidarh 11d ago
It's absolutely not a definition - if you can actually picture things, you don't have aphantasia. I brought it up because it's surprisingly frequent that the people who doubt it exists turns out to doubt it because they don&#
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by vidarh 11d ago
Appreciate it. I don't really miss it much (though it explains various things about my preferences, such as finding visual descriptions in books extremely boring unless the language used itself interests me), but that one experience di
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by vidarh 11d ago
I don't think that it is that the industry abounds with us, but it is natural that those of us who have strong opinions on aphantasia and/or feel affected are far more likely to post on stories about it. That a larger proportion o
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by vidarh 11d ago
The number of permutations you can try to decode a book cipher is near infinite. Just "a book cipher" does not tell you how the numbers map to words or characters in each book. You just try creating random book ciphers and see whe
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by vidarh 11d ago
We've sunk so low that people are now complaining about old-school inline quoting...
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by vidarh 11d ago
I'm not sure what you're asking. Of course I can look at the drawing. But it still doesn't produce any image that persist when I'm not looking at it.
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by vidarh 11d ago
Yeah, that is my experience too. I consider myself to have aphantasia - I have had that one vivid experience outside my dreams. Outside of that it's all been blank my whole life. Without that one experience maybe I'd doubt it to
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by vidarh 11d ago
For my part I have a constant droning monologue on my voice I can only stop by sleeping or intensely focusing, like meditation. It's unambiguously my voice, as if I'm about to speak, but my vocal chords just don't engage but
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by vidarh 11d ago
I find these takes kinda insulting because they directly dismiss as false direct personal experience of a lot of us. I have experienced visualisation. I know the vast chasm between the two states from direct first hand experience. So do m

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