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by yawpitch 6mo ago
I don’t think this does much to address the question of LLMs being conscious, but it does seem to put at least a small nail in the coffin of LLMs being divine.
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by yawpitch 6mo ago
Somewhat ironic that you think it would be easier to do nothing when that section is specifically asking people to consider doing nothing when doing something unnecessary with computing resources would necessarily be harmful. Now, I might a
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by yawpitch 6mo ago
I appreciate the opsec advice. Honestly would have preferred to be able to reply here, for the public benefit of others, but I think you just came in under the artificial verbosity limit and there were a lot of interesting threads I didn’
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by yawpitch 6mo ago
Speaking of a form of filibustering, this forum rejects any reasonable response I write as too long. Email me at michael at yawpitchroll d’aught com and I’d be happy to give this another round.
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by yawpitch 6mo ago
They didn’t assert it as if it were significant, they asserted it as if it were fact . Which, let’s be clear, it is. And no sufficiently informed person could argue otherwise, given that the historical development of computing was driven
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by yawpitch 6mo ago
You truly do have an impressive imagination. Again, there’s no insult, there’s simply an observation. Nothing on that page is particularly political from any position but a substantially polarized one. It’s not entirely apolitical, sure,
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by yawpitch 6mo ago
There’s no accusation, just like there’s nothing particularly political or polarized in that piece. One can imagine an accusation, precisely as one can imagine the particularly political where it doesn’t actually exist. As for how to discer
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by yawpitch 6mo ago
If you see a substantial amount of bolted on extra politics on that page there’s a good chance you are experiencing the symptoms of polarization.
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by yawpitch 6mo ago
Of course Richard Dawkins would also conclude that Richard Dawkins is conscious, even if Richard Dawkins doesn’t know it.
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by yawpitch 6mo ago
Continuing the same paragraph: “Applying a 10-year lag period […] and comparing versus prostate cancer screening […] but not breast cancer screening […] attenuated the risk increase.“ The “attenuated” in this case means “weakened the case f
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by yawpitch 6mo ago
Headline does not match the title or the paper. Moreover, actual conclusion of the paper: “Common vaccines were not associated with a decreased risk of dementia. Unmeasured confounding and detection bias likely accounted for the observed in
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by yawpitch 6mo ago
Or, confirmation bias purchasing bias confirmation.
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by yawpitch 6mo ago
Jordan Peterson cannot credibly be accused of clearer thinking.
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by yawpitch 6mo ago
Funny how if the inverse applies to programming languages the strong normal form kind of does too… For example, in Python you can’t avoid talking about the Python object model, and that implies you also can’t actually express anything in Py
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by yawpitch 6mo ago
Why would it be a good idea - or, indeed, just an idea — to shield the promptor from the prompt’s consequences? If you think about it to any great degree what you’re asking is should Two Face’s coin should be held responsible for which fa
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by yawpitch 6mo ago
So all we have to do is wait for the bar to have been sufficiently lowered?
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by yawpitch 6mo ago
Well, no, because now instead of you hallucinating a response, you’re paying a GPU to do your hallucinating for you.
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by yawpitch 6mo ago
The proof that time-traveling superintelligence doesn’t exist, and never will, is the continuing moment-by-moment existence of any club — or species — that would have Donald J Trump as a member.
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by yawpitch 6mo ago
Oh ye of any remaining faith.
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by yawpitch 6mo ago
tl;dr: earlier Ancient Greek manuscript found in later Roman-era sarcophagus == still no ancient aliens.
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by yawpitch 6mo ago
This has been explained so many times… a wizard imbued the kid with the powers of Solomon, Hercules, Atlas, Zeus, Achilles, and Mercury.
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by yawpitch 6mo ago
Money. Oil. Racism. Oil. Religious ignorance. Oil. General ignorance. Oil. Trumpism. Oil. The Bigger Dick Foreign Policy (TM). Oil. The vacuum between Mike Huckabee’s ears. Oil. Oh, and trying to get Epstein out of the news before Melania t
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by yawpitch 6mo ago
Excellent. Now do “superego death”.
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by yawpitch 6mo ago
Actual title is more informative.
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by yawpitch 7mo ago
Sorry, don’t you mean senior war reporter Ellen Mitchell?
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by yawpitch 7mo ago
Ahh, but now everyone knows you’re a cuck-sucker.
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by yawpitch 7mo ago
Stop imagining 5th dimensional chess from a (purported) man who is playing tic-tac-toe.
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by yawpitch 7mo ago
Merde!
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by yawpitch 7mo ago
He hasn’t died, he’s just moved on to an eternity of roundhouse kicking Satan.
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by yawpitch 7mo ago
For the right (and it’s always right) kind of techbro, those are one and the same thing.

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