ACow_Adonis

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by ACow_Adonis 26d ago
Why would a smart person go to an LLM for an answer they cannot judge or test, be succeptible to flattery and sycophancy rather than picking up on the emotional manipulation and being suspicious/sceptical of the interaction, or looking
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by ACow_Adonis 5mo ago
Because I don't have a few billion dollars in my back pocket and even if I did, planned obsolescence and dark patterns are infinitely more profitable thus regulation is needed to achieve consumer positive outcomes?
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by ACow_Adonis 6mo ago
You mean the internet you pay to access and which was around before the ads were even on it? That internet? I'm not trying to be mean I'm just trying to historically parse your sentence/belief. Because for me this is a simpli
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by ACow_Adonis 6mo ago
Even theoretical AI still has the other mind problem from economics. Communicating and predicting desires, preferences, thoughts, feelings from one mind to another is difficult. Fundamentally the easiest way of getting what you want is to b
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by ACow_Adonis 6mo ago
Surely the correct conclusion is to question the value/veracity of those degree issuing institutions and rituals? And if you previously were unaware of the insanity and irrationality passing under the surface of such human activity, I
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by ACow_Adonis 7mo ago
The issue is that your standard is borderline setting up an impossible strawman, and when we actually do textual (and/or biblical) analysis and historical science, we never really have a "this is THE version of Q" nor do we h
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by ACow_Adonis 8mo ago
What on earth is it about intellectual property that breaks someone's mind so much that genuinely, when presented with a translation of a 2000 year old text that itself is based on another authors translation and who's translator
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by ACow_Adonis 9mo ago
In practice, I find it depends on your work scale, topic and cadence. I started on the $20 plans for a bit of an experiment, needing to see about this whole AI thing. And for the first month or two that was enough to get the flavor. It le
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by ACow_Adonis 9mo ago
Ah yes, but that results in two problems. Firstly a fish without legs objectively does not have legs, but we do not necessarily call it disabled, even though it clearly lacks a facility. Secondly, the autism spectrum disorders are, as I pre
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by ACow_Adonis 9mo ago
But going by the strict notion of DSM-V criteria of providing a hindrance, we hit the somewhat problematic definition whereby a person can have autism at one point in their life (when it hinders them in a context), moves into another point
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by ACow_Adonis 11mo ago
I think it depends on how one interacts with it. As far as I know it doesn't have a personalised feed and I'm seeing the same front page as everyone else. So I mainly use it to scan once or twice a day to pick out if there'
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by ACow_Adonis 11mo ago
I find it much more intuitive to think of LLMs as fuzzy-indexed frequency based searches combined with grammatically correct probabilistic word generators. They have no concept of truth or validity, but the frequency of inputs into their tr
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by ACow_Adonis 1y ago
As someone who has an android personal phone and an iPhone for work for several years, I literally do not know what the hell people mean by "polish", beyond just the informal emotional utterance that can be translated back to &quo
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by ACow_Adonis 1y ago
As a comparatively politically aware Australian, I had absolutely no idea who he is/was, but then I don't have any Twitter or general social media presence or consumption.
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by ACow_Adonis 1y ago
I don't know where you live, but it quite clearly is where I'm from. Oooh, to be sure they don't call them IQ tests explicitly, but the psychometric capabilities and performance tests they've gotten me to do (mathematica
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by ACow_Adonis 1y ago
Honestly, imo clinically in aggregate the actually score itself provides very little information beyond what a 5 minute conversation would achieve, and the result could be better thought as bordering on 5-6 level categorical variable rather
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by ACow_Adonis 1y ago
Well yes, but that's not actually empathy. Empathy has to be felt by an actual person. Indeed its literally the contrary/opposite case. They have to emphasise it specifically because they are reacting to the observation that the
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by ACow_Adonis 1y ago
Presumably for the same reason Google doesn't let you block or filter shit sites. If you genuinely let user's preferences be taken into account, it's incredibly hard to make money from ads if the user's true preferences
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by ACow_Adonis 1y ago
Except its a bit like that PERL quote. You have a problem. You want to figure out a way to get people to pay for things like news, investigative reporting, art, community and positive externalities. You think, I know, i'll use ads! No
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by ACow_Adonis 1y ago
So i guess overnight we have a new floor for unempirical projections of future project profit :D A lot of made up numbers now have a min(50.0) equivalent somewhere :P
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by ACow_Adonis 1y ago
See this article: Why do econ journalists keep making this basic mistake. https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/why-do-econ-journalists-keep-m... Source: am economist, and the writer of the blog is 100% correct. Reporting and
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by ACow_Adonis 1y ago
Well, I think surely the entirely fair thing to do is to just admit we don't know rather than make any attribution or imply any possession of an answer to those questions?
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by ACow_Adonis 1y ago
Your countrymen literally voted in Trump, and they did it with broad support across many parts of the country. You can argue that a significant proportion didn't, which is true, but while democrats and the like show increasing distaste
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by ACow_Adonis 2y ago
Yes, this is product differentiation, features, demand elasticity, network/ecosystem lock-in, loyalty tax etc. Just as software and internet also has a mixture of free to use, once off, subscription, usage metering and fixed cost reven
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by ACow_Adonis 2y ago
I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around someone someone in business not understanding charging fees. You charge fees to get money. Banks are there to make profits. You say that banks don't make much money off of it, but may
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by ACow_Adonis 2y ago
I attended a private school for a couple of years, and I have to say it was worse than the public ones. Now obviously this is going to be neighbourhood, country, and community specific, but the problem I had with observing private schools w
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by ACow_Adonis 2y ago
I genuinely don't think the tech medium is the problem. There's good and educational software available on tablets just as there is on anything else. While I've always been anti-tablet myself, and anti-phone for similar reas
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by ACow_Adonis 2y ago
Wait wait wait... You're either misinterpreting the article or reading extra implications into it. The observations of the pacific cargo cults are an example of religious and cultural syncretism which took on many varied and unique for
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by ACow_Adonis 2y ago
Yes, that's fair. You can generally either go for the "1 time bet the house" bugs, or you can go for the salami slicing so small across many transactions and there's minimal grey areas in between... But as a general rule
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by ACow_Adonis 2y ago
I don't have any immediately at hand, so whether you believe some random guy on the internet from here on out on is up to you. I actually did a little bit of private investigation myself into betting markets of a handful of sports a nu

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