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by wavemode 7mo ago
NY Times article on the rhetoric: https://archive.ph/In52a
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by wavemode 7mo ago
It's not clear what precisely you're asking. "Does world suffering actually cause people to feel sad?" Yes, of course it does. (If it doesn't for you, you're not necessarily a bad person or something, but you h
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by wavemode 7mo ago
Not to sound condescending, but this reads like someone fimiliar with LLMs but very unfamiliar with statistics in general. If we could understand economics, or poverty, or any number of other social structures, simply by cramming data into
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by wavemode 7mo ago
I never claimed that you can't get natural tone out of an LLM. What I said was that you can't get this blog post out of one. By all means, go read the post and then try to do so.
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by wavemode 7mo ago
We're definitely not at that point. If this blog post is unedited LLM output, the blog owner needs to sell whatever model, setup and/or prompt he used for a million dollars, since it's clearly far beyond the state-of-the-art
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by wavemode 7mo ago
Who exactly said that about the Instagram acquisition?
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by wavemode 7mo ago
I was always taught that overuse of the em-dash is poor style. Oftentimes using more specific punctuation (comma, semicolon, colon, parentheses) more clearly communicates the structure of a thought. Em-dashes are a lot more freeform and inf
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by wavemode 7mo ago
Is the use of "literally" here, and the use of quotes, meant to be taken literally (as in, he literally said this)? Or is this the sense of "literally" which actually means "figuratively"?
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by wavemode 7mo ago
I wouldn't call it an Americanism, per se. There are plenty of countries where you can't become a citizen at all without having a relative who is one. There are also plenty of countries where, even being born there is not sufficie
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by wavemode 7mo ago
No, the title is not misleading at all - your comment is misleading. Total tech jobs being up doesn't tell us anything, since there are also way more tech workers now than back then. Over 100K people graduate in CS/IT per year,
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by wavemode 7mo ago
Yeah but, there are like 100K CS/IT graduates in the US every year. Tech jobs increasing 100K per year was just maintenance. Lotta people in tech are going to struggle to find a job. That's the point.
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by wavemode 7mo ago
how exactly does the Charm corporation make money?
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by wavemode 7mo ago
This old clip comes to mind: https://youtu.be/ZVYqB0uTKlE
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by wavemode 7mo ago
I think the real reason for that is simply that a lot of people are still running Java 8 (so those docs still see a lot of traffic). I remember reading that it's still used by something like 25% of Java developers.
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by wavemode 7mo ago
Well, that's the thing about the em-dash - it has always been usable as a "swiss army knife" punctuation mark. Strictly speaking, an em-dash is never needed; it could always be a comma or semicolon or parentheses instead. Ove
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by wavemode 7mo ago
Given their close ties to Microsoft, I expect to start seeing names like "ChatGPT One" and "ChatGPT OneX"
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by wavemode 7mo ago
Yeah, I remember thinking to myself "I wish the US had a referendum system like the UK", then I looked it up and found out that the UK has only ever had 3 national referendums, only 2 in the 21st century, and one of those was Brex
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by wavemode 7mo ago
There probably isn't. But actual incest is risky and (often) illegal, therefore lots of porn sites disallow videos depicting it, therefore producers avoid it.
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by wavemode 7mo ago
Political debate suffers from Sayre's law: "In any dispute the intensity of feeling is inversely proportional to the value of the issues at stake." Most people simply aren't knowledgeable enough to have an informed opini
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by wavemode 7mo ago
That page contains a list of things you aren't allowed to do in MV3 anymore. There's no explanation of attacks being prevented. In what specific ways are you safer when installing a malicious MV3 extension compared to installing a
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by wavemode 7mo ago
> very wide attack surface. Do you have details of specific realistic attacks that were possible under MV2 and now impossible under MV3?
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by wavemode 7mo ago
That's the opposite of corporatism. Corporatism would be if the corporations made demands of the government, and the government bent over backwards. The US government has lots of corporatism, but this isn't an example of that.
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by wavemode 7mo ago
Your comment is of even less value than the article. The fact that you find this subject matter uninteresting, is also uninteresting. Clearly other people feel differently.
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by wavemode 7mo ago
What differentiates your resume from your friend's?
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by wavemode 7mo ago
I do trust that you earnestly believe in the importance of ethics in AI - but at the same time, I think that may be causing you to assume that the average person cares just as much or similarly. I've seen the same phenomenon play out i
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by wavemode 7mo ago
If you disagree with someone on the internet, you can just say "I disagree, and here's why". You don't have to aggressively accuse them of "not engaging" with the text. I engaged. You just don't like what
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by wavemode 7mo ago
When I say "model" here I'm referring to any statistical model (in this example, probably linear regression). Not specifically large language models / neural networks.
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by wavemode 7mo ago
Statistical models generalize. If you train a model that f(x) = 5 and f(x+1) = 6, the number 7 doesn't have to exist in the training data for the model to give you a correct answer for f(x+2) Similarly, if there are millions of academi
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by wavemode 7mo ago
> the kind of analysis the program is able to do is past the point where technology looks like magic. I don’t know how you get here from “predict the next word.” You're implicitly assuming that what you asked the LLM to do is unrepr
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by wavemode 7mo ago
It's funny - some months ago I noticed that I use the word "actually" lot, and started trying to curb it from my writing. Not for any AI-related reason, but because it is almost always a meaningless filler word, and I find th

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