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by zehaeva 1y ago
I'm more reminded of Tom Scott's talk at the Royal Institution "There is no Algorithm for Truth"[0]. A lot of what you're talking about is the ability to detect Truth, or even truth! [0] https://www.youtu
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by zehaeva 1y ago
Excluding room and board that's more expensive than Harvard[0]. I feel like if you're spending that much money on a child then it should be freaking amazing. You could employ a private tutor full time for that sort of money. 0: $5
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by zehaeva 1y ago
While I don't think that we can reason everything from first principles, those who think they can are doomed to fall pray to their own personal bias and repeat errors that our forebearer had, I do think that everyone should give everyt
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by zehaeva 1y ago
My only concern with using LLMs to learn new material is being certain that it's not leading me astray. Too many times I've used LLMs for tasks at work and some of the answers I've gotten back are subtlety wrong. I can skip p
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by zehaeva 1y ago
Maybe one of the books by Douglas Hofstadter? Godel Escher Bach? or I Am A Strange Loop?
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by zehaeva 1y ago
If it were a Fiction novel then might I suggest Blindsight by Peter Watts?
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by zehaeva 1y ago
No, It's a FLOOR WAX!
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by zehaeva 1y ago
I wonder how you are to tell when it does give you the correct answer, and one asks "Are you sure?" and it cheerily apologizes and give you a new incorrect answer.
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by zehaeva 1y ago
I totally say this under my breath every time I have to enter sensitive information while other people are around.
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by zehaeva 1y ago
A little off topic, but I am always amazed at the crazy niche podcasts that exist out in the world. As an example, I listened to a, now defunct, podcast about Type Theory. Wild esoteric stuff.
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by zehaeva 1y ago
Meta is currently on trial for antitrust. As was pointed out elsewhere in this post Jon Haidt has been railing about social media for a while now, and has written several books on the subject. https://jonathanhaidt.com/socia
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by zehaeva 1y ago
It's a good thing to think about. I knew a guy in high school who had male pattern baldness that started at 13 or 14. Full blown by the time he was 16. Dude looked like one of the teachers.
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by zehaeva 2y ago
Ahh going back to the days of Government Cheese I see! Everything old is new again.
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by zehaeva 2y ago
Since it's been a _long_ time since my physics undergrad I honestly can not speak to how baryon acoustic oscillations tie into dark matter. Hell the paper describing it came out after my first trip through college! I'll confess th
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by zehaeva 2y ago
This feels like you'd say that just because apples fall from trees and a bowling ball falls in much the same way when tossed off a building, that grouping those things together implies a common cause and that we should call that cause
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by zehaeva 2y ago
They're not collecting all of this data to make pretty pictures, it's going to be used to test all sorts of theories. Ones that explain Dark Matter as well. (I do agree with Angela Collier, youtuber nee physicst, Dark Matter is no
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by zehaeva 2y ago
Not really trolling, unfortunately. GP, in their parenthesis, made the insinuation that if it, which I would take as a LLM, talks like a human and makes up answers, like a LLM is wont to do, like a human is it human? >(if it talks like
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by zehaeva 2y ago
That's an incredibly narrow slice of properties of ducks, nematodes (and humans). Is there truly so little that makes up the soul of a duck? No mention of laying eggs? Caring for it's young? Viciously chasing children across the l
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by zehaeva 2y ago
I thought summarizing papers/stories/emails/meetings was one of the touted use cases of LLMs? What are the use cases where the expected performance is high?
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by zehaeva 2y ago
Ugh, there's some people out there who cannot see these. Not for a lack of trying, I've personally been trying since the 90s.
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by zehaeva 2y ago
I love humans. You all are so weird, wild, and wonderful. I'm also inspired to use capsaicin to fight my personal fight with some squirrels that feel the _need_ to live in my garage. They ignore all my humane traps and are chill with a
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by zehaeva 2y ago
Well, this sounds like it could(will) be in the Orange Catholic Bible! I can't wait to find out when the Butlerian Jihad starts.
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by zehaeva 2y ago
For as well read as I am, I am not so clever to quote the works that have influenced me. No, I am afraid that I was being more of a follower of Wallace here, I was being sincere with my words. I truly do marvel that humans really haven&#x27
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by zehaeva 2y ago
Similarly, when I read Meditations by Marcus Aurelius I was struck by how normal everything seemed. While he was an Emperor the everyday banality of what he talked about going through 2,000 years ago was amazing. Humans really haven't
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by zehaeva 2y ago
I'm reminded of the opening line to Anna Karenina > All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
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by zehaeva 2y ago
Eyewitness testimony has been shown to be far less reliable than most people believe it to be. Human memory is frail and subject to modification if not outright fabrication. Not to say that it should be completely discounted, only that it s
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by zehaeva 2y ago
I can't imagine that this is unexpected, nor that surprising. I served on a jury nearly 20 years ago for a criminal case. And the biggest thing at the time, if you recall that long ago, was the biggest shows in TV were CSI and Law &amp
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by zehaeva 2y ago
I have a few Deaf/Hard of Hearing friends who find the auto-captions to be basically useless. Anything that's even remotely domain specific becomes a garbled mess. Even watching documentaries about light engineering/archeolog
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by zehaeva 2y ago
I came here to make this same joke good sir! You beat me to it!
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by zehaeva 2y ago
I always thought that such things were an urban legend of unix/linux environments. "Be careful with your commands! You too could nuke your entire installation!". When I was in college (some 20 years ago) I rolled my eyes eve

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