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by wizofaus 4y ago
Indeed, I had started to write something similar. And pretty clearly animals like Dolphins or Chimps when they exercise their general intelligence don't do it by manipulation of language tokens. BTW I tried to get Chat-GPT to solve a p
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by wizofaus 4y ago
I wouldn't claim ChatGPT lacks intelligence though. Clearly in terms of language comprehension and generation it does so.
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by wizofaus 4y ago
I've posted a number of times why I don't think current GPT tech classifies as AGI and certainly not human-like intelligence, as have others. Ask it to solve novel mathematical and logic problems, for a start (even ones you'd
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by wizofaus 4y ago
Really? How would we even test for that?
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by wizofaus 4y ago
I don't know about GPT-4 but it's very easy to find cases where v3 is incapable of the generalized sort of mathemathical and logic problem solving that humans manage fairly easily, and on that basis alone it didn't classify a
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by wizofaus 4y ago
I think I can categorically state that virtually every DRY violation I've come across involved little more typing than Ctrl+C Ctrl+V.
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by wizofaus 4y ago
Just came across another slightly more interesting example. We have code that has to do essentially the same thing for three different document types: it loops through a passed-in list and for each item, adds an object to a document, then i
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by wizofaus 4y ago
GenerateRandomBit() either returns true or false depending on the seed (which gets updated with each call). If it returns true on the first iteration then dataPointer[0] will be OR'd with 1 (i.e. set to "1"), otherwise it wil
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by wizofaus 4y ago
Which is fine - any software of non-trivial complexity is going to require looking at the behaviour of multiple execution units, which may well be in different files. But if they're named sensibly and the dependencies are clearly main
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by wizofaus 4y ago
I'm with you - the violations of DRY I still see regularly are clear cases of copying and pasting exactly the same logic (or magic literal value) when there was no reason not to put it in a helper function or named constant that coul
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by wizofaus 4y ago
It's used in GenerateRandomBit? (It's a global variable, almost certainly a bad idea for a general purpose random generator, though it'd probably be fine if it were _Thread_local)
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by wizofaus 4y ago
It might not be the only thing that matters, but once you lose your health, it's very hard to get much enjoyment out of anything else in life. Our bodies remind us constantly in no uncertain terms when they're not functioning well
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by wizofaus 4y ago
Not just that - the fear of being told their health issues are due to their weight (regardless of whether that's true) and the consequent feelings of shame can discourage many people from seeking medical help of any sort, often until i
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by wizofaus 4y ago
I just got the impression the OP wasn't aware of Pielke Jr's background. Actually he's probably better described as a contrarian than a denialist, though he's been called out by no less than Michael Mann as belonging to
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by wizofaus 4y ago
Subjective experience of the world around us. The one thing I'm 100% sure I do have, and it would require very special pleading (or solipsism) to insist other humans are anything other than almost certain to share that trait. My suspic
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by wizofaus 4y ago
My awareness is the only thing I have 100% convincing evidence for the existence of!
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by wizofaus 4y ago
Only because I don't believe he's ever denied climate change was happening or that if it is it's not our fault, which are the usual first two phases of denialism.
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by wizofaus 4y ago
AI-based image generation is surely already good enough that a single digital photo can't count as evidence alone. But your scenario doesn't make much sense to me - are you suggesting AI will have reached a point it's stored
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by wizofaus 4y ago
Pielke Jr is a climate-action "denialist" from a long way back, no? (claims to accept the science but then concludes there's nothing we can do about it for the foreseeable future other than adapt. This article seems to be say
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by wizofaus 4y ago
Is there convincing evidence actual insects have "awareness"?
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by wizofaus 4y ago
Except all of us that do own houses were in fact once people that didn't, often not that long ago. Those of us that have owned houses a long time are pretty likely to have kids that don't (but hope to at some point soon), one woul
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by wizofaus 4y ago
But we already know computers can ingest and accurately/permanently store information at speeds orders of magnitude greater than human brains can - to take an extreme example it takes years and years for a particularly dedicated human
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by wizofaus 4y ago
Surely ChatGPT has been trained on vastly more data than most humans have? And there are known examples of children/young adults with phenomenal problem-solving skills even for problems very unlike anything they would have been exposed
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by wizofaus 4y ago
A dishwasher solving a real problem would be one that was capable of preventing arguments over how best to stack them.
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by wizofaus 4y ago
I suppose it's the redefinition of average to include IQs up to "115" that I'd say was the issue then...
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by wizofaus 4y ago
Fairly sure your maths is off there...IQ is supposed to have normal distribution, hence ~50% have below-average intelligence, 50% above-average: how can 84% possibly have low-to-average? Either way, even if it's true that some signific
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by wizofaus 4y ago
When you can actually land (not crash) in 2 seconds, NASA may have a role for you... (8s was the best I managed but still a "fender bender").
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by wizofaus 4y ago
My opinion is that if a government can be elected on the grounds of promising to improve how we define what sort of "growth" is worth pursuing and implement policies to achieve that, then it has a duty to follow through on such pr
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by wizofaus 4y ago
It's easy to poke fun at government incompetency but like it or not they are who your country elected to make the sorts of decisions that shape its future. The only truly abysmal government is one that is paralysed into doing nothing a
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by wizofaus 4y ago
There's nothing inherently special about the type of growth that tends to be focused on currently - it just happens to be what we've already got mechanisms in place to measure and requires relatively minimal effort to maintain. If

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