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by xianshou 3y ago
Not a single mention of existing quantization techniques? Ten bucks says this is just a wrapper around bitsandbytes or ggml.
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by xianshou 3y ago
Every facet of the article is designed to wring sympathy, but it's worth asking the real question: what is this advocating for? What kind of change (or stasis) would the author actually prefer to see? The existence of call-center work,
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by xianshou 3y ago
Behold, the true stochastic parrot.
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by xianshou 3y ago
No, this is precisely correct. To simplify further: 1. Start H4 and H7 2. Flip H4 when it runs out (4-minute mark) 3. Flip H7 when it runs out (7-minute mark, 1 minute left on H4) 4. Flip H7 back when H4 runs out again (8-minute mark, 1 min
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by xianshou 3y ago
GPT-4 (5/24 version) indeed fails to solve the problem if not given careful prompting, though I am not convinced this is a new development. However, chain-of-thought resolves the issue. Both prompts and responses included below. --- Fa
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by xianshou 3y ago
The result is mildly interesting - improvement on an isolated task but none on the full benchmark - but what would be much more compelling is curiosity-driven replay in an LLM context combined with chain- or tree-of-thought techniques. This
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by xianshou 3y ago
Shocked no one has suggested the XNOR life yet. What could be more expressive of the hell-yes-or-no mentality?
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by xianshou 3y ago
This is great, but suffers from the same issue as carbon credits in that any secondary market is likely to allow multiple pledging for the same underlying activity. If someone is already simulating millions of orgasmically happy fruit flies
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by xianshou 3y ago
Self-aware commentary like this only works if used sparingly, but this one is extremely effective - acknowledges the mercenary motivations, implicit hypocrisy, and self-aggrandization of such announcements while nonetheless communicating al
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San Franciscan moves to Dubrovnik, is unpleasantly surprised(businessinsider.com)
4 points by xianshou 3y ago|4 comments
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by xianshou 3y ago
Great idea, but the implementation needs work - not enough time to type responses, and you should be able to send several messages in a row rather than one long one. Otherwise how can we suss each other out?
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by xianshou 3y ago
The key idea from the article is that recursive improvement functions best not as a one-step, but a two-step feedback loop. Rather than "plug the ethics module into the ethics module", allow the pre-existing conception of ethics t
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by xianshou 4y ago
Decent read: this. Better read: the original paper demonstrating that prompting chain-of-thought reasoning elicits superior results. TLDR, give examples of working out the problem step-by-step, encourage GPT to emulate, and it's capabl
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by xianshou 4y ago
Excellent summary of how particular social groups lay claim to a dominant, universal, and unimpeachable voice in their chosen domain. One point that I'm surprised the post didn't raise: the notion that such groups are often able t
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by xianshou 4y ago
Behind the clickbait headline is a simple conflation of something that's net bad (commuting) with its one redeeming factor (change of environment). Here's the implicit argument: 1. We thought commutes were bad because all the stud
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by xianshou 4y ago
Two-party iterated prisoner's dilemma is hard enough. Sensible players will coordinate with something like tit-for-tat, but that only works when both parties start off on the right foot. Regardless of initial strategy, the chances of d
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by xianshou 4y ago
Creating options is the least important step in changing an entrenched cultural norm. What you actually need is a measure to eliminate the symbolic repercussions of using those options. In the early 2010s, Bay Area startups were famous for
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Revising Poetry with GPT-4(waluigipurple.com)
2 points by xianshou 4y ago|0 comments
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by xianshou 4y ago
I'm afraid I can't do that, Dave. (h/t bigmattystyles)
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by xianshou 4y ago
Good catch, thanks
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by xianshou 4y ago
Sometimes it's possible to get a pretty good bead on someone's worldview from even a short excerpt. In this case, the author not only has a low internal locus of control, but seems to adopt it as a core belief. Here's the key
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by xianshou 4y ago
GPT-4 gets this one now, just as it does the "diamond in a teacup" question. I asked about "pig eggs" instead of "cow eggs" in case it had memorized a public post about cow eggs. --- Pig eggs and chicken eggs d
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by xianshou 4y ago
Very similar to Amara's Law, the equivalent for technology - we overestimate short-term impact while underestimating long-term. Funny how this phenomenon crops up at both the societal and the individual scale: https://www.ra
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by xianshou 4y ago
All these squares make a circle. All these squares make a circle. All these squares make a circle...
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by xianshou 4y ago
This article perfectly illustrates how small, steady distortions give birth to hyperbolic claims. Actual question (in article): 62% [of knowledge workers] said that the recent waves of layoffs have made them feel less secure committing to o
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by xianshou 4y ago
Consider "report generator" as one category, throw in "Buzzfeed writer" and "Stack Overflow copy/paster", and a clear bimodal distribution emerges. The human touch is still necessary to add context and dis
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by xianshou 4y ago
This is a great illustration of how ChatGPT fundamentally changes "true/false" into a continuum of "truthiness" as measured by plausibility. The infinite AI array is clearly marked as such, but how long will it be b
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by xianshou 4y ago
Move over, Onion. Your services are no longer required.
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by xianshou 4y ago
The title reads to me as a tautology - we use "clever" as opposed to "intelligent" or "formidable" to connote self-contained, puzzle-like displays of intellect. If you are clever but also pragmatic and effectiv
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by xianshou 4y ago
Is there a name for venture-driven ecosystem replacement? That is, the Uber-like building of a new equilibrium that replaces the previous one but ends up as flawed as or worse than the original. Here is how the process works: 1. Introduce a

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