Alwayshasbeeb

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by Alwayshasbeeb 6d ago
> I imagine a lot of people feel like an engineer asking about the actual problem feels like getting goaded into some sort of pedantic debate. Wow, that's describing it really well. I work for a guy who basically started a company b
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by Alwayshasbeeb 6d ago
Eliezer Yudkowsky is not a scientist. He made a popular Harry Potter fanfiction series and a "rationality" blog-community that attracts "human biological diversity" enthusiasts.
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by Alwayshasbeeb 10d ago
>Schwitzgebel, Strasser, and Crosby fine-tuned GPT-3 on Dennett's corpus This sounds like a completely different scenario. How many users who post LLM written blog posts are tuning the weights of their LLMs on a large corpus of thei
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by Alwayshasbeeb 11d ago
>or if this is just liberal minded "see the big companies are out to get us and this is just the current example". Of course, as opposed to the objective minded "there is no conspiracy ever, when it is repeatedly demonstr
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by Alwayshasbeeb 12d ago
Can you? Let's say you prompt it with "this is a puzzle computer game, your objective is to progress through its levels" plus the controls from the instruction manual and tie it to a vision + KB and mouse harness. Will it eff
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by Alwayshasbeeb 12d ago
Could I hook up a SOTA model the 2D computer puzzle game Gruntz (1999) so that it can read it from screenshots and act on it through keyboard and mouse inputs in a way where it would learn how to play and progress through the game? I don&#x
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by Alwayshasbeeb 1mo ago
In my experience, using LLM's for generating code has definitely dulled my capacity to think about function hierarchies, composition and having a "picture" in my head of what will go where in the repository. Raw "leetcod
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by Alwayshasbeeb 1mo ago
I wish the soy one were hidden on a corner on my local supermarket. There isn't even one anymore in my country, and that's the biggest soybean producer in the world. Other plant milks are 3x the price of the cow one because of eco
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by Alwayshasbeeb 1mo ago
While it's great that green energy is now economically feasible, the idea that there will quickly (say, in the next 50 years) be a "green transition" that eliminates the usage of carbon fuels is still highly dubious. What we&
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by Alwayshasbeeb 2mo ago
Sometimes small tools are all you need, even if they're slop. About a month ago I pirated an Argentinian movie and the only subtitles available in my language were out of sync and at a different speed/framerate so adjusting for de
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by Alwayshasbeeb 2mo ago
Not really. It's probably just international users not tolerating american exceptionalist hubris when they see it, especially now that the pretending is done. Plus, what a shocker it is that a "hacker news" website would have
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by Alwayshasbeeb 2mo ago
Oh no! The evil CCP is a huge threat to world peace and goodness! Give all your money and input token data to Palantir to support a rules based world order where the good guys thrive and cleanse the earth from crooked turtle biologists. ht
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by Alwayshasbeeb 2mo ago
A "US for-profit publicly traded company" is what brought us the Cambridge analytica scandal. I'd rather not trust them with the next wave of consciousness and opinion shaping technology. Also, oligopolies aren't famous
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by Alwayshasbeeb 2mo ago
Nothing today indicates that they will be living in a renewable energy utopia. Solar panels and batteries getting cheaper is just not enough.
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by Alwayshasbeeb 2mo ago
That's quite easy. Fracking Social media infinite scrolling and targeted ads Short form videos (tik tok, YouTube shorts, instagram reels) Coming soon: Deep sea mining Some of these are not great technologies, you might say. Well if the