acituan

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by acituan 9d ago
> why wouldn't capital drive the value of inference to the absolute bare minimum? Capital can drive the cost of inference down but the value is determined by whoever wants to pay for that inference. Therefore this question is no
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by acituan 9mo ago
I understand your point about misattribution but it cuts both ways. How about when a company is better than competitors because they executed better because they had a superior organizational culture. Or not successful and this is due to
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by acituan 9mo ago
Why would you assume culture is immaterial? And to make this less emotional let’s take the micro scale; don’t you think the culture of doing engineering doesn’t affect outcomes team to team within the same company, or company to company wit
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by acituan 9mo ago
Here is where I got that impression: > once the optimizations became sophisticated enough Either way I am not trying to litigate here. Feel free to correct me if your position was softer.
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by acituan 9mo ago
I don't know why you'd think your analogy wasn't clear in the first place. But your analogy can't support you on the assertion that optimizations will be sophisticated and reliable enough to completely forget about the
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by acituan 9mo ago
First problem is turning engineers into accountability sink s. This was a problem before LLMs too, but now a much bigger and structural problem with democratization of the capacity to produce plausible looking dumb code. You will be forced
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by acituan 9mo ago
> compilers only got better and better At no point compilers produced stochastic output. The intent user expressed was translated down with a much much higher fidelity, repeatability and explainability. Most important of all, it complete
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by acituan 9mo ago
> What got me past that point was short bursts at BPMs way past my comfort zone and building synchrony _after_ I stumbled upon more efficient motions that scaled. This is actually pretty close to what Stetina says. I just probably didn’t
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by acituan 9mo ago
Funny how this exactly applies to instrument playing. Unearned speed only begets sloppiness. The only way to go past a certain velocity is to do meticulous metronome work from a perfectly manageable pace and build up with intention and sync
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by acituan 9mo ago
Language is not humanness either; it is a disembodied artifact of our extended cognition, it is a way of transferring the contents of our consciousness to others or to ourselves over time. This is precisely what LLMs piggyback on and theref
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by acituan 9mo ago
We know from the era of data the power of JOIN. Bring in two different data sources about a thing and you could produce an insight neither of them could have provided alone. LLMs can be thought as one big stochastic JOIN. The new insight
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by acituan 9mo ago
> I'm always surprised how many 'logical' tech people shy away from simple determinism, given how obvious a deterministic universe becomes the more time you spend in computer science, and seem to insist there's some s
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by acituan 9mo ago
My bad, skipped a chain of thought there. Since medicare pays less than private insurance, hospitals can and do shift costs (which in reality is "opportunity cost of profit") to the latter, which pushes to private premiums up. Reg
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by acituan 9mo ago
Employers paid for healthcare in 1970s too, and even for higher percentages of the workforce. If there is a premium inflation surpassed the CPI, that is still inflation, not real growth. If there’s an inflation problem in delivering a tempo
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by acituan 9mo ago
> what are fair ways to extract value from citizens for the shared value of the state? The right question is who benefits the most from state’s services. For example if a whole lot of security, legislative or admin services go to protect
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by acituan 9mo ago
It is a black box. We don’t know what happens on the other side of the RPC call; good and bad, therefore it could be any number of knobs. User has two knobs called the thinking level and the model. So we know there are definitely per call k
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by acituan 9mo ago
Unfortunate that he starts with the thinking argument because it will be nitpicked to death, while bullshit and computing freedom arguments are much stronger and to me personally irrefutably true. For those who will take “bullshit” as an ar
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by acituan 9mo ago
> An objective and grounded ethical framework that applies to all agents should be a top priority. I mean leaving aside the problem of computability, representability, comparability of values, or the fact that agency exists in opposition
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by acituan 9mo ago
If the motivation structure is there I don’t see an inherent reason for people to refuse cultivating themselves. Going with the gym analogy lay people did not need gyms when physical work was the norm, cultivation was readily accomplished.
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by acituan 9mo ago
> AI is not the problem, laziness and negligence is. As much as I agree with you that this is wrong, there is a danger in putting the onus just on the human. Whether due to competition or top down expectations, humans are and will be pre
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by acituan 2y ago
It might take 50 years to awaken to the abuse of power going on here. Forget individual videos for a second and look at youtube-the-experience as a whole. The recommendation stream is the single most important "generative AI" goin
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by acituan 3y ago
Sounds like a stretch of the concept of social learning, and more like vanilla model distillation. Social learning exist to transcend the limited processing power and limited training data exposure of individual agents through multimodal tr
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by acituan 3y ago
Unless well separated, this will easily turn developer-hostile by some clueless management demanding high coverage and enthusiastic juniors smuggling in massive amounts of AI tests so that at the end of the day you will need get a rubbersta
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by acituan 3y ago
> I feel that's taken a little out of context Not necessarily, for one how often people really stare at the cues of a negative event, and try to suppress it versus trying to suppress an internal imagination of the event? Secondly, t
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by acituan 3y ago
> You can get a big dopamine hit from meditation or as a response to stress but you don’t see kids running to Buddhist monasteries in droves or rushing to the stress of public speaking. Dopamine obviously is a shorthand for a more comple
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by acituan 4y ago
> dead people’s political documents is propaganda. Yours is no less propaganda. People do cultural learning, pretty much everything you use from technology to medicine and yes politics is overwhelmingly based on dead people's ideas.
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by acituan 4y ago
> The alternative to majority rule is tyranny of the minority Being anti-majority doesn't mean pro-minority. It is about decreasing the weight of merely being in the majority as an input feature to optimal decision making. It is pro
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by acituan 4y ago
Sorry, appeal to authority don't impress me. Science is science, and this is weak science. Feel free to suspend your own judgement based on brand values.
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by acituan 4y ago
This is an extremely weak study that basically launders Huberman's "mini interventionism" and abuses west coast's fascination with what is mostly "breath-themed magic". The idea of hyperregulation of breath is
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by acituan 4y ago
> What you hire for at one time because you think it's profitable to do so is not necessarily related to who you let go at a later time because you think it's profitable to do so Software engineers are one of the most fungible

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