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by willy_k 2y ago
And he’s celebrated for his contributions as a scientist and educator, not to ethics or social issues. People don’t disavow Ghandi out of hand because he was anti-vax.
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by willy_k 2y ago
It’s still a social media platform, not every action taken is some nebulous part of Musks agenda. Odds are there was an influx of posts that qualify as spam from the signal.me domain that were marked by an automatic system as spam, because
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by willy_k 2y ago
Your previous comment implies the same. Regardless, I’m not saying that anyone who disagrees is necessarily, just observing that the natural consequence of said manipulation would be to hold a dogmatic insistence that “it’s them, not me”.
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Also, for some more complex questions I’ve noticed that it doesn’t expose its reasoning. Specifically, yesterday I asked it to perform a search algorithm provided a picture of a grid, and it reasoned for 1-2 minutes but didn’t show any of i
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by willy_k 2y ago
Not really, the domain block was reportedly due to increased spam activity from that domain and performed automatically, so it would follow that a write up would come a few days later. That is if they are related, which is not a given.
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by willy_k 2y ago
That’s very different from being equivalent to placebo. And according to anecdotes in this thread, it may be permanent in some cases.
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by willy_k 2y ago
Says the subscriber to the other one. Both sides are rank with this, there are surface differences and differences in MO but this has become the default state of both. If one vehemently disagree with that, their side has done its job well.
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by willy_k 2y ago
> Research says it's no more effective than a placebo, but hey, if it works, it works. The paper you cited doesn’t say this, if anything it says the opposite. It found that it reliably works for some amount of time, but the mechanis
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He says, snarkily reiterating what’s already been said and ignoring the reasonable response.
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> I’d be more worried about propaganda being inserted. FWIW, it would be far from the first time that’s happened (including for sensitive US issues).
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My question is why is time and money being spend on researching this, as opposed to something like its long term effects on the brain or what happens when it’s use stopped. Sure this finding is a fun thing that might be lumped into a psychi
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by willy_k 2y ago
I wouldn’t go so far as to say it was definitely faster, but the development of mobile phones post-iPhone went pretty quick as well.
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The brain doesn’t necessarily need the same exact hardware to do the same function, but in adults if it’s lost they will probably not regain the function without intervention. Neuroplasticity-inducing substances may very well enable the bra
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by willy_k 2y ago
We can make the butt of a rocket with 27% more payload capacity than Saturn V fall out of the sky and slot itself into giant mechanical pincers. More than twice the capacity if you forgo the catch. The human potential is there.
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by willy_k 2y ago
May help our cells keep time. The article doesn’t suggest that they’re the mechanism for consciousness awareness of time.
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Source?
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He wanted the national guard there. What you’re saying isn’t any better than someone parroting some Newsmax theory about depopulation. There’s no real substance behind your claim, just mischaracterizations and innuendo repeated ad nauseam s
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by willy_k 2y ago
> I also suspect many people who voted for him did not specifically consider what he would actually do. So far he has more or less adhered to the plans he and the rest of the crew that coalesced around his campaign over the summer and un
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by willy_k 2y ago
All of the above. Whether or not one agrees with it, humans have a need for retribution, or as we prefer to call it to feel better about it, justice. And you cannot get retribution on LLMs.
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You don’t need a straight answer out of anybody. This is an easily verifiable property of the LLM output - are the citations it gives correct, and if so how many?
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Furthermore, neurons alone do not led to consciousness. At the very least, their modulation, mainly by glial cells, is essential as well. Personally, my money is on quantum coherence within microtubules being the mechanism of conscious expe
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They’ve only released o3-mini, which is a powerful model but not the full o3 that is being claimed as too expensive to release. That being said, DeepSeek for sure forced their hand to release o3-mini to the public.
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That hasn’t entirely gone away, it’s just taken up the guise of empathy now. Canada’s MAID program seeks to euthanize people for mental health issues, and it is my believe that it has already been successful in suckering many that would not
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IIRC the body breaks down stored fat well before it breaks down muscle.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning–Kruger_effect
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What’s the actual hit rate? AFAIU it’s plausible that an article title and PubMed ID could be encoded in the models weights if they were trained on.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_websites_blocked_in_ma...
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What’s “this”?
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I believe that this is what chain of thought models attempt to address.
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I think they’re just saying that humans haven’t really changed much at all, if I had to guess they weren’t referencing any one quote. The only thing that’s really changed is the tools we can use, but we’ve made little (some would say backwa

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