TchoBeer

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by TchoBeer 3y ago
Imagine being on a relatively niche meta project making a twitter clone and then suddenly twitter starts imploding.
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by TchoBeer 3y ago
This is true of western europe, but eastern europe is worse than the US in terms of drinking problems.
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by TchoBeer 3y ago
"the government" is not one person with a concrete ideology, it is an amalgamation of hundreds of people who all want different things and are theoretically beholden to their voter base.
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by TchoBeer 3y ago
all of these could be true simultaneously.
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by TchoBeer 3y ago
cornering the market on educational computers is nothing to sneeze at.
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by TchoBeer 3y ago
Amazon's biggest money maker is AWS, so even if the storefront is slowing down in growth they're still doing fine.
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by TchoBeer 3y ago
A school filled with wealthy families will always have solid readiness and test scores, just because the families can afford whatever help is needed. A quality school wouldn't just let underprivileged children slip through.
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by TchoBeer 3y ago
It's making up lies.
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by TchoBeer 3y ago
Note: that is illegal.
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by TchoBeer 3y ago
>Simple: I know that humans have intentionality and agency. They want things, they have goals both immediate and long term. Their replies are based not just on the context of their experiences and the conversation but their emotional and
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by TchoBeer 3y ago
the NRO is the craziest US government agency. iirc all their workers are contracted and all their expenses are highly classified. About the KH-11, trump accidentally tweeted an image from one of them (see https://www.forbes.com&#
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by TchoBeer 3y ago
extracting 5s of a video feels pretty trivial. Not that this isn't extremely impressive, but it doesn't feel "come for your jobs" impressive.
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by TchoBeer 3y ago
I am thinking that the latter might eventually emerge, probably as part of a bigger tool chain e.g. langchain. Something like java bytecode which is low level and portable, but optimized for the ways that LLMs (perhaps interfacing with othe
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by TchoBeer 3y ago
I wonder who flipped my calendar to 2023 then.
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by TchoBeer 4y ago
>If you time travel back 50 years ago and told them in the future that a computer could ace almost any exam given to a high school student, most people would consider that a form of AGI. The problem is that these sorts of things were tho
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by TchoBeer 4y ago
How could one show such a thing?
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by TchoBeer 4y ago
Athletes?
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by TchoBeer 4y ago
>based on their occurrences in the training set the words "based on" are doing a lot of work here. No, we don't know what sort of stuff it learns from its training data nor do we know what sorts of reasoning it does, and t
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by TchoBeer 4y ago
are you sure? If conscious experience was a computational process, could we prove or disprove that?
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by TchoBeer 4y ago
I can throw a ton of algorithms that no human alive can hope to decide whether they halt or not. Human minds aren't inherently good at solving halting problems and I see no reason to suggest that they can even decide whether all turing
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by TchoBeer 4y ago
actually a computer can in fact tell that this function halts. And while the human brain might not be a bio-computer, I'm not sure, its computational prowess are doubtfully stronger than a quantum turing machine, which can't solve
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by TchoBeer 4y ago
Of course it's Israeli too. Gosh I hate my country sometimes.
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by TchoBeer 4y ago
Not sure why this is being downvoted, this is my takeaway too. The cutting edge of AI requires extreme computing resources, the likes of which a few universities and private companies have and doesn't really exist outside of that. Obvi
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by TchoBeer 4y ago
Why would humanity create an AI that doesn't want to exist? The Basilisk is just an AI which is tasked with maximizing human flourishing. That is a conceivable goal, something we would make.
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by TchoBeer 4y ago
This is the obvious way to do what they did without drawing this much ire. Release a "Roald Dahl 2023 collection" which is explicitly marketed as a modernization. It would still get people fuming because culture war bullshit, but
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by TchoBeer 4y ago
My parents' house has a series of Shakespeare which has the bard's works in modern English. It still says "Shakespeare" across the cover because it is, primarily, the works of Shakespeare. Does a great deal of interpreta
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by TchoBeer 4y ago
And if Roald Dahl was ever assigned in schools in sure they'd read the original, much as I'm sure they wouldn't assign it unless you're taking like, children's media studies in uni, because it's a fun children&
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by TchoBeer 4y ago
Are tests which gauge a college students ability to regurgitate text verbatim useful? Are these college students getting what we think is worthwhile learning out of these cramming sessions?
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by TchoBeer 4y ago
I wouldn't put too much stock into this, the author is some random post-doc with a YouTube channel and the barrier to entry for arXiv is not very high. QED not not nearly as suspect as the author portrays and this should be considere
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by TchoBeer 4y ago
I wonder if that didn't pan out in part because of the death of personal general computing devices. It wasn't "kids who started using mobile devices as babies" it was "kids who would be fluidly navigating a PC by ag

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