vidarh

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by vidarh 5mo ago
Here's an article in the Smithsonian magazine from 1995 with an em-dash: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/review-of-the-pr... Where do you think LLM's learned these things from ? They are widely u
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by vidarh 5mo ago
Yeah, 100% agree with that.
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by vidarh 5mo ago
For me, it's entirely ended my tablet use, and now rarely reach for a laptop. I still have a desktop with two large screens, but I don't feel a need for anything in between any more. The screen is big enough for me that given it&#
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by vidarh 5mo ago
"You're totally right about X and Y. I think the only thing we disagree about is Z". People like being told they're right, and you then downplay the importance of the actual remaining disagreement. Often that lowers the
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by vidarh 5mo ago
I'm opposite. My phone is only folded while in my pocket.
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by vidarh 5mo ago
I do have a laptop, and two large screens for my desktop, and my foldable is still a massive upgrade. I haven't used my tablet since I got it. I use my phone for things I'd often grab my laptop for etc. I hardly use the thing clos
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by vidarh 5mo ago
I have a Pixel Fold and similar experience - some minor nuisances but not come across anything that doesn't work. The biggest nuisance is apps restarting when switching from the front screen to the big screen.
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by vidarh 5mo ago
I think in general stripping away the parts you agree with from the argument works great, because it strips away a whole lot of potential for ending up indirectly arguing over things that aren't in contention, and it often also defuses
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by vidarh 5mo ago
It is clearly a word play, but I guess their question is whether or not the old = alt connection was made or not. (Of course the alta in Altavista is from Spanish "high", but that doesn't really change anything)
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by vidarh 5mo ago
I don't find it very interesting at all. The slurs were distressing to a lot of people, and people don't have an unlimited right to access to private spaces if they can't behave. If I were to invite you into my space, I get t
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by vidarh 5mo ago
I don't know what attention he got on 4chan, but here he was shadow banned (rightly so; his comments were frequently full of slurs and more), and quite a few people had showdead on in part to see his comments (me included) because they
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by vidarh 5mo ago
That sounds really sad, and not Lego's fault...
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by vidarh 5mo ago
A lot of the Lego builds we did when my son was little was exactly this: A set would spark an idea and there'd be endless castles that started with piece of a castle set but went in totally different directions and incorporated all kin
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by vidarh 5mo ago
We only need to assume the hypothesis that brains don't exceed the Turing computable to say that LLMs have the same computational power as a brain. We can't prove it, but given the total absence of evidence of anything exceeding
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by vidarh 5mo ago
I dare you to objectively prove to me that you're conscious.
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by vidarh 5mo ago
The problem of subjective is different, because while we might be able to get to a point of being able to say it can't affect anything, pretty much by definition we can't experience another entity's subjective experience or
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by vidarh 5mo ago
I agree re: subjective experience. It seems like something inherently unknowable. What we could do is break down other facets of what we talk about under the umbrella of consciousness, and find measurable subsets. E.g. a lot of people ins
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by vidarh 5mo ago
I didn't suggest it was. I pointed out that some of the subscriptions offered by the Chinese labs probably are. Not the per token API prices.
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by vidarh 5mo ago
I don't understand how people can claim to know that, given we don't know what consciousness is
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by vidarh 5mo ago
We can tell that the inferencing costs for many of these models are low enough that these models are being sold close to real costs on the basis that many of them are open weight and available from third party providers who have no incentiv
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by vidarh 5mo ago
Haiku does quite well if given a detailed plan. That means much more detail than you otherwise would, but you can still save over e.g. having Opus or Sonnet do everything by having them expand their initial plans into more specific levels o
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by vidarh 5mo ago
I can't find anything to support the claim that they require a prescription from any authoritative source. The page you reference cites guidelines from an association that has no legal power. The relevant Act seems to only define a pre
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by vidarh 5mo ago
If anything, this aversion has now made it clear that sneaking a device that can be made coin-sized into a bunch of passengers luggage would be sufficient to throw air travel into total chaos... That doesn't seem like a smart precedent
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by vidarh 5mo ago
I found it weird to realise CPAP machines requires prescriptions some places. In the UK you can just order one next delivery from Amazon.
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by vidarh 5mo ago
When I'm talking about raw vs. something processed here, the only processing I'm talking about is a prompt or two to clean up the obvious artefacts.
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by vidarh 5mo ago
I haven't seen any evidence an LLM is trainable to be a decent detector for anything people have made any kind of attempts at trying to get past them. Which is as expected as access to a detector effectively makes the problem equivalen
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by vidarh 5mo ago
My experience in testing actual AI written content on willing participants is that people are entirely useless at detecting AI written content with any reliability whatsoever.
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by vidarh 5mo ago
You're lucky your doctor is aware of it. I've had several who did not understand, and insisted creatine must be dangerous if it elevated creatinine levels, and/or didn't understand the effects.
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by vidarh 5mo ago
I've even had doctors unaware that the regular eGFR tests needs to be adjusted for body mass to be remotely accurate if you're bigger than average - e.g. lifting weights or obese. Couple that with creatine and you get some "f
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by vidarh 5mo ago
I'm not aware of any evidence that creatine harms the kidneys if your kidney function is remotely normal. You'd probably want to check with your doctor if your kidney function is already compromised. Creatine supplementation will

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