aschwtzr

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   by aschwtzr 1y ago

   I think there's a natural process similar to gentrification in which as technology matures the hackathons promoting it transition into marketing-led events. I got into hackathons in the early 2010s when IoT was the hot new thing and sa
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   by aschwtzr 3y ago

   That was poorly worded, what I meant is that some people in general seem to think of LLMs as proxies for reality or truth., and Musk himself says he wants to build "truthGPT" https://www.theverge.com/2023/4&#x
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   by aschwtzr 3y ago

   I thought of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Exactitude_in_Science and its relation to language, which is discussed by Baudrillard's Simulacra and Simulation. Large Language Models are the efforts of mapmakers to