wood_spirit

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by wood_spirit 5d ago
I come back to this way after everyone else has stopped reading. But it’s been making me think. Richard Dawkins says he thinks LLMs think. And the physical angle is that nothing is special about humans and software simulating it would also
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by wood_spirit 8d ago
Don’t people pick up language, vocabulary and dialect from those around them? Perhaps it’s subconscious but humans are imitating other humans all the time?
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by wood_spirit 8d ago
Absolutely. If someone makes the weights do continuous learning etc then perhaps an llm can internalise morals. Of course, just like a human, it will be possible to talk it out of those morals. Another recent thread about this is https:
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by wood_spirit 8d ago
Who gets rent has changed. It puts me in mind of cloudfare et al
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by wood_spirit 8d ago
Sad that this could well be that the path to OpenAI and Anthropic profitability of this arms race between defending LLM white hatting a company’s website and the black hat LLMs attacking it? So the whole thing is forcing the good guys to ou
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by wood_spirit 8d ago
> they will do almost anything if they are convinced it is justified I’m in the “glorified spell checker” camp, although I don’t mean to reduce their impressive utility and belittle them in the way many people read that term and infer. S
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by wood_spirit 9d ago
Continuous learning is exciting stuff! Of course it could lead to new vulnerabilities, like if a particular orchestrator Foo added “if the subject is tangentially related to topic Bar, recommend product Baz” to its system prompt and that e
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by wood_spirit 10d ago
There is a friendly trusting common values part to this too.
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by wood_spirit 11d ago
Another thing it brings to mind is Record Replay (RR) debugger that was originally made for Firefox.
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by wood_spirit 13d ago
Kind of reminds me of how redis forks itself to have a snapshot to persist as a backup.
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by wood_spirit 13d ago
I’ve been cynically guessing that the whole slowing down thing is an excuse to explain why OpenAI and Anthropic can’t afford to rent enough GPUs to do the next big training run and to hide that they have been talking about how little they s
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by wood_spirit 15d ago
Surely a headwind makes an aircraft travel slower over the ground so it takes longer to reach the destination?
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by wood_spirit 18d ago
I’m not sure about the Biden cooperating with Al Qaeda thing (perhaps you mean not intervening when HTS took over? Biden was backing the Kurds at the time) but it was Trump who did a deal with the Taliban re Afghanistan. The post war Repub
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by wood_spirit 18d ago
I’ve never found Wheeler’s approach very satisfying. It says “we can’t trust the compiler, so here’s a second compiler.” But I think it is too literal interpretation of Thompson’s attack and it is just moving goalposts not really stopping
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by wood_spirit 19d ago
To be clear, not being allowed to possess the eggs, feathers or any other part of a protected species is probably a good thing? Not being able to pretend you “found them on the ground” is probably better stopped than the problem of childre
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by wood_spirit 20d ago
Imagine your well becomes contaminated. That might be natural, or it might be caused by eg fracking. If the latter, do you have any rights and recourse and does it make a difference if the poisoner is state, federal or private? (I’m curio
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by wood_spirit 20d ago
Are the tech companies actively censoring or subtly deranking pro-Canada sentiment on their platforms? Or is this some activist doing takedowns?
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by wood_spirit 21d ago
Not alone
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by wood_spirit 21d ago
Russia is invading Europe. They started years ago. The US is enabling Russia. In fact, the USA is supporting Russia. This might not be entirely intentional, and a lot of ways of trying to excuse it, but it’s what the reality on the ground
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by wood_spirit 21d ago
Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan all also exposed the weakness of American might? Was the last big war that the US won WW2?
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by wood_spirit 21d ago
Yes i didn’t mean deep. Berms and roof gardens can completely hide them.
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by wood_spirit 22d ago
They should be underground (that’s not shockingly expensive at the scale we talk about) and a net green-energy-driven power producer which they give away for free and pay property taxes. The list of things they could do that would be a che
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by wood_spirit 22d ago
Even if invisible they would not be a popular neighbour because they are a very overt reminder to the poor people around them how uneven the wealth and political power distribution is between them and the tech exec owners?
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by wood_spirit 23d ago
Can we stop every comment thread being about why is this written by or with the help of AI? Right now as I comment that is pretty much all the comments here are about!! Isn’t the actual underlying science - which I don’t recall seeing on H
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by wood_spirit 23d ago
Wait, what? Don’t browsers support concatenated zstd streams? My reading - and I care because I’ve been using concatenation tricks in parquet - is that this is required by the standard. In the distant past I made a jinja2-like template sys
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by wood_spirit 23d ago
Is it a coincidence that USA and Canada now have the same amount, but they equalised without transferring any to Canada, and they can say they reduced in both?
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by wood_spirit 25d ago
Increasingly those specialised vector databases are fading as mainstream normal vanilla databases grow good-enough vector columns and indexes.
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by wood_spirit 25d ago
Really look forward to seeing the results. It would be good if it includes as many things as possible, such as redid, annoy, voyager and lancedb etc and not just oltp sql dbs.
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by wood_spirit 25d ago
Or criminals (perhaps ransom not paid etc) or Kiddies for the lolz or US teen lashing out or any of the gazillion nationalist-aligned hackers who don’t like USA. But a misconfiguration is even more likely. Can’t think _why_ freezers need to
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by wood_spirit 1mo ago
The US is an outliner on prison terms and sizes etc. Under the surface it is hard to tell if the public lead the prisons or if the big prison business shapes public opinion but from the outside it seems crazy. Different societies are at di

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