castigatio

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by castigatio 6mo ago
Wow - an open ended discursive AI that can help you refine your needs doesn't convert as frequently as a website promoting products? Go figure. This is ultimately a win for shoppers because AI gets in the way of the impulse to buy reta
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by castigatio 7mo ago
I'm not sure where people think humans are getting these magical leaps of insight that transcend combinations of existing things. Magic? Ghost in the machine? The simplest explanation is that "leaps of insight" are simply nov
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by castigatio 1y ago
I agree about the value of general application. I do think though that we just don't have the tools to do many things LLM's can do - searching information in a nuanced way and getting nuanced responses is one thing.
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by castigatio 1y ago
Google search + LLM based search is far more effective than Google search alone. Google's stated mission has been to organize the world's information. Being able to ask a far more nuanced question about the kind of information you
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by castigatio 1y ago
The argument doesn't work because whatever you think of where generative AI is taking us or not taking us - it is 100% demonstrably better at doing a wide range of tasks than other technologies we have available to us - even in its cur
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by castigatio 2y ago
We live in a world where there's a lot of talk about how AI might impact societies and economies - but little actual data. To me it seems very worthwhile to try to add 'any' data to that discussion and track how things change
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by castigatio 2y ago
C'mon folks. So many "expert opinions" and erudite references in these comments. The sciences of cognition, neurology, evolutionary psychology etc are all still muddling around trying to figure out how the human mind works. W
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by castigatio 2y ago
Do you not understand probability? Or are you just suffering from confirmation bias?
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by castigatio 2y ago
But this person is just speaking the truth - I worked for an ISP with cable landing stations. These cables went down several times a year due to physical damage of non nefarious kinds. It's not obvious that this malicious. It certainly
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by castigatio 2y ago
Well said. I can understand the incentive for researchers to make provocative claims about the abilities or disabilities of LLM's at a moment in time when there's a lot of attention, money and froth circling a new technology. I&#x
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by castigatio 2y ago
It was a silly example - though not intended as serious. I agree - the distinctions you describe are useful. So what about the utility of increasingly granular description of oppression? Can you point me to the utility of these? The people
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by castigatio 2y ago
I think this is a bit like coming up with words to expand on the concept of poop. Poop is a necessary and useful word. It describes something you get on your shoe. Or something you may have to suddenly rush out to do. However if I became so
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by castigatio 2y ago
I now challenge you to use it appropriately in casual conversation tomorrow.
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by castigatio 2y ago
Indeed - its pretty absurd.
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by castigatio 2y ago
Whatever you think about AGI, this is a dumb paper. So many words and references to say - what. If you can't articulate your point in a few sentences you probably don't have a point. There are all kinds of assumptions being made i
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by castigatio 2y ago
Sure - it's not super involved - I just created a custom GPT and told it what I wanted it to do. I first set it up when I'd just lost my job in a company restructure and felt it likely I'd need some kind of emotional support.
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by castigatio 2y ago
- Emotional regulation. I suffer from a mostly manageable anxiety disorder but there are times I get overwhelmed. I have an agent setup to focus on principles of Stoicism and its amazing how quickly I can get back on track just by having a
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by castigatio 2y ago
I think many things can be true at the same time: - AI is currently hyped to the gills - Companies may find it hard to improve profits using AI in the short term - A crash may come - We may be close to AGI - Current models are flawed in man
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by castigatio 2y ago
It's a sign of things to come. We're going to have our own AI agents that filter and respond (or not respond) to these kinds of messages. Agents interacting with other agents. The bar to get hold of a real person is going to becom
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by castigatio 2y ago
Well - what is a mind exactly? We don't really have a good definition for a human mind. Not sure we should be claiming domain over the term. It's not a terrible shorthand for discussing something that reads and responds as if it h
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by castigatio 3y ago
Got it thanks - interesting that it's a general phenomenon.
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by castigatio 3y ago
Out of curiosity - of all the reasons for underinvestment in and failure of public utilities in SA why do you find this one interesting? In the case of SA the failure is almost entirely attributable to the policies and practices of the gove
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by castigatio 3y ago
I lay in bed many a night as a young adult thinking about killing myself - and this is an accurate description of my experience. I liked life. I wanted to experience things in life. But the pain of not being able to experience all the thing