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by woeirua 3y ago
There is a strong belief in some circles that outpatient mental health care can cure most people. It cannot, and that is one of the fundamental flaws with the community based treatment model. First, many conditions can only be managed with
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by woeirua 3y ago
I think humanity self-destructs if it gets close to the singularity while still in a capitalistic society. You either immediately transition to socialism or have civil war erupt in every country simultaneously.
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by woeirua 3y ago
This is not realistic due to the costs associated with training the models. At least for the foreseeable future.
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by woeirua 3y ago
In 5 years or less we might see a massive reduction in demand for human taxi drivers. What are taxi drivers going to do? These are typically not people who are well educated and capable of making a rapid shift into another field. And what d
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by woeirua 3y ago
This kind of mentality is going to blowback on AI researchers very quickly. When the job losses start mounting politicians are going to need a very persuasive answer as to why we should let millions of people be thrown onto the streets so t
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by woeirua 3y ago
Have you checked it recently? It’s better than Google Maps now.
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by woeirua 3y ago
Techniques like this give me hope that some day we will be able to objectively diagnose mental illness, and monitor the efficacy of treatment.
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by woeirua 3y ago
The big advantage here would be the ability to attribute entire blocks of text back to a specific source and cross domains just by building a database of embeddings. The downside is that these networks are probably not as creative as they&#
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by woeirua 3y ago
As LLM prices come down social media is going to be absolutely inundated with bots that are indistinguishable from humans. I can't see a world where forums or social media are _useful_ for anything in 10 years unless there are strict g
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by woeirua 3y ago
It’s significantly worse than OpenAIs offerings, and I’m tired of people pretending as though these models are totally interchangeable yet. They are not.
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by woeirua 3y ago
You need to learn about legacy admissions. The best universities _are not_ educating the best students today.
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by woeirua 3y ago
How long before we see a SaaS (s*t-as-a-service) startup where you can get fecal transplants sourced from people who only forage for their food?
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by woeirua 3y ago
How old was MosaicML? How many customers did they have? Revenue? Profits? This feels like pure hype for LLMs to be honest. Good for the founders of MosaicML to exit at the top, but I'd bet good money that DataBricks winds up writing t
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by woeirua 3y ago
It seems consistent with the behavior we see when using GPT4 in chat mode. Every once in a while it will change its answer as it’s generating it, as though it’s switched which model it favors to produce the response. GPT3.5 doesn’t do that.
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by woeirua 3y ago
Except people have been crowing about using VR headsets for work for years now too and it still hasn’t taken off. This is one of those areas where I think techies are just totally out of touch with what the market wants.
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by woeirua 3y ago
Half as much is still no where close to where they need to be to get mass market adoption.
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by woeirua 3y ago
Just saying, Microsoft already tried this with the HoloLens, and pivoted hard and fast into B2B only.
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by woeirua 3y ago
I think it's very important for people to get out of the HN bubble when discussing this. $3500 is just way too expensive for mass customer adoption. Meta is struggling to get customers to adopt the Oculus hardware when its an order of
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by woeirua 3y ago
Why are you still sending your kid there? Those are atrocious conditions. Complain, loudly, to your school board and vote with your feet.
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by woeirua 3y ago
I’m just not convinced that anything not tied directly to a government issued ID is going to be strong enough.
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by woeirua 3y ago
The end of ZIRP is what is deflating the tech bubble. With interest rates now high(er) than before you can earn a decent return just by buying bonds. There's no reason for investors to recklessly speculate on companies like Lyft or Ube
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by woeirua 3y ago
The only good news is that interest rates are likely to stay high for the next few years, which I expect will put a major damper on this bubble. AI companies will have to show profitability quick in order to keep the funding train going.
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by woeirua 3y ago
How do you explain the performance of companies like Lyft, DoorDash, Tesla, etc? People have, rightly, been calling them out as examples of companies that are fundamentally overvalued for years now. But it has only been in the past year or
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by woeirua 3y ago
Yeah it’s really concerning just how fast its coding ability has fallen off.
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by woeirua 3y ago
It’s a bit of an open question as to how much of that data is: high quality, unique, and available. It could be that OpenAI used most of what satisfies those constraints. Training on low quality data won’t help improve its accuracy on queri
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by woeirua 3y ago
We don’t know for sure. OpenAI isn’t being transparent.
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by woeirua 3y ago
More importantly humans have ways to detect deception from other humans, be it through body language or other cues. With only text it is very hard to determine whether the model is lying to you or not.
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by woeirua 3y ago
We just don't know anything about what the economics look like right now. It could be that they're running GPT4/3.5 at a loss right now.
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by woeirua 3y ago
Spoiler alert: they're actually both LLMs arguing with one another.
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by woeirua 3y ago
Did you even watch the Terminator series? I think scifi has been very adept at demonstrating how physical disconnects/failsafes are unlikely to work with super AIs.

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