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by HarHarVeryFunny 3d ago
Google's ad-serving is dumb as a rock. It seems to be based just on things it thinks you may be interested in, even when it should be 100% obvious that they are not things you are going to buy. They should let people have more control
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by HarHarVeryFunny 3d ago
Animals learn - bite the owner, or overstep the e-fence, and you'll be punished for it and not do it again. LLMs don't learn, and anyways don't feel punishment. Animals, humans included, don't really have "morals&qu
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by HarHarVeryFunny 3d ago
Why would an LLM care about cheating? Because you asked it to? That's not how these systems work. You've given it a goal - maximize chess ability metric, and that is what it is doing. RL training causes LLMs to pursue reward maxim
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by HarHarVeryFunny 3d ago
RL-trained LLMs are paperclip maximizers built atop auto-regressive predictors. There really is no way to control them (prompting is bound to fail) since it's been shown that any RL training induces GENERIC reward-seeking (paperclip ma
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by HarHarVeryFunny 3d ago
I think you need to take tariffs case by case and ask if this an industry worth protecting - do you need to have it domestically, or are you ok to rely on imports? Maybe you want to protect high margin industries supporting good jobs, and a
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by HarHarVeryFunny 3d ago
They won't - they'll act purely in their self or shareholder's interest. If the government wants companies to act in a way that benefits the country and its people, then they need to pass laws to make that happen, for example
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by HarHarVeryFunny 4d ago
> You would presumably need far fewer of them for their research ability, and hopefully hire more people who can actually teach I suppose you are suggesting that research mathematicians are either over-qualified mathematically and/o
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by HarHarVeryFunny 4d ago
In a related vein, not too long ago I asked Sonnet how many states and non-terminals were in an a YACC parser for ANSI C, something that could easily be googled for, but it instead chose to go off and downloaded and build bison from source,
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by HarHarVeryFunny 4d ago
Do you think outsourcing and offshoring of jobs, whether manufacturing or software development, has been a positive for the US economy? Does it make sense to you for US companies to be sending wages overseas, supporting a foreign family and
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by HarHarVeryFunny 4d ago
> New jobs will be created. In the short term yes, but in the long term no. What makes AI different to previous technological shifts is that it is (or will be) a general purpose technology, equally capable of itself doing the new jobs th
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by HarHarVeryFunny 4d ago
> Limit what AI corporations can use? Other countries would love that more than anything. Basically a free gift to any competitors or any startup that quietly avoids the rules. Sure - look at what is being done today with H1B visas and t
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by HarHarVeryFunny 4d ago
> Namely, restricting the use of AI in corporate environments so that it does not destroy the economy as it advances. Indeed, and the same logic applies as to why allowing companies to replace too many worker's by H1B holders is a b
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by HarHarVeryFunny 4d ago
I also think they overestimate how much of most jobs can be done by an LLM (a text generator!), and how much importance and reliance most companies put into soft skills, and non-linguistic understanding/feels, both during interviewing
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by HarHarVeryFunny 4d ago
Most research mathematicians are employed as academics, and it's hard to see universities replacing teaching staff with AI even if that were possible. IMO giving a hypothetical AlphaMath to mathematicians, the same way Google gave Alph
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by HarHarVeryFunny 4d ago
Did anyone ever think that N-S was a perfect model?
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by HarHarVeryFunny 4d ago
Yeah, I don't expect them to stop, but I do think they are probably hurting themselves, as well as mathematics, by continuing do to this. Imagine if they had handled this differently and these results - still using OpenAI models - were
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by HarHarVeryFunny 4d ago
Somewhere along the way Amodei seems to have become corrupted by power and/or impending extreme wealth. In early interviews with people like Dwarkesh he's the likable geek gushing about scaling laws, animated and able to maintain
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by HarHarVeryFunny 4d ago
Why/when would people expect agents to be idling? I'd have thought they'd be busy (using cached prompt-prefixes) until they were finished.
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by HarHarVeryFunny 4d ago
I watched this Hofstader video last night, and have to say the content was very disappointing and a waste of time. It doesn't help that Hofstader is a very poor speaker. All we get in this video is a rambling set of example analogies.
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by HarHarVeryFunny 4d ago
Given that the math community (incl. those 25 Fields medalists) has come out strongly against this trophy hunting of their unsolved problems, to the detriment of mathematics, I don't think these companies are going to be getting positi
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by HarHarVeryFunny 4d ago
The result was never the point. Clearly the real-world cannot "blow-up" - real-world water vortices do not reach infinite velocity, etc. The point of having Navier-Stokes as a Millennium prize was to hopefully generate new mathema
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by HarHarVeryFunny 5d ago
> If the worry is that AI companies are turning open problems into benchmarks and potentially “using up” fertile mathematical problems before humans can develop the ideas around them, what exactly should the companies do differently? Jus
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by HarHarVeryFunny 5d ago
That has to be the most impressive endorsement list any declaration has ever seen! 25 Fields medallists! Wow!
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by HarHarVeryFunny 5d ago
The predictive nature of our cortex seems even more direct that that, although perhaps obvious is overstating it. To read about the 6-layer circuit of our cortex, google for "cortical microcircuit". Basically the repeating structu
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by HarHarVeryFunny 5d ago
There are certainly a lot of analogies to be found in language - it would be interesting to know how much of this is cultural (e.g. business use of sports analogies) vs universal across cultures. Your "spiraling" example reminds m
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by HarHarVeryFunny 5d ago
In the US you can always sue someone in civil court for damages you think they have caused you. For criminal charges you need to have violated the law, but in a civil case it seems it's enough to have suffered monetary or reputational
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by HarHarVeryFunny 5d ago
Generalization is necessary as a way to sense the world for a bunch of reasons: - The never-same-twice nature of sensory perception - The need to recognize objects from different directions, distances, partially obscured, etc - Because the
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by HarHarVeryFunny 5d ago
I'm not sure the value of speculating, but since you insist... If someone said to you "you're going to regret this, mo-fo!", do you really need to suppose they had a specific plan in mind, rather than just intent to inti
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by HarHarVeryFunny 5d ago
Agreed, and while subjective experience can be misleading (being a Hofstadian "strange loop" is a strange thing) you'd think that if our entire perceptual and cognitive processes were analogy based, then this would filter thr
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by HarHarVeryFunny 5d ago
Well, recognizing (recalling) Pooh on a towel as being the same as a picture of Pooh in book can also just be regarded as generalization, same as recognizing that someone looking left is the same person as them looking right, etc. Our corte

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