chunkmonke99

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by chunkmonke99 7mo ago
I don't understand this line of reasoning. Like genuinely. So with AI coding (let's just limit ourselves to coding); are you saying that the Agent is going to prompt itself? Like it exists only to read your mind and create precise
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by chunkmonke99 7mo ago
Isn't that what a well run company does when creating a process? Bureaucracy and process, reduces the penalty of weak domain context and in fact is designed to obviate that need. It "diffuses" the domain knowledge to a set of
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by chunkmonke99 7mo ago
Good stuff. I hope Noah is ok, couldn't read the rest of the article ... I really don't know what to say anymore tbh.
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by chunkmonke99 9mo ago
I am not seeing any evidence of China "replacing teachers with AI" anywhere (did some googling/geminiing). Are there any sources on this? Seems like they are trying to introduce students to GenAI/ML principles and creati
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by chunkmonke99 9mo ago
I don't disagree, writing code will probably no longer be a thing in the near future. This is probably also true for all knowledge work (math, design, etc etc.) which is literally anything that can be "reduced" to mechanical
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by chunkmonke99 9mo ago
Wait you used Claude Code to recreate patents and schematics? Are the schematics for this easily available somewhere? Was Claude just able to one-shot this?
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by chunkmonke99 9mo ago
more pointedly: the commenter presumes that the friends are unhappy with their lives. Also that some them would be better served performing back-breaking menial low-wage labor while otherwise being illiterate. Any PhD (even one in specializ
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by chunkmonke99 9mo ago
Would you think it would be better for "society" to allow more people to go into finance and law? Or that advanced knowledge should be gate kept by only the select cognitive elite that are most adept at playing the "glass bea
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by chunkmonke99 9mo ago
No one really knows. But a few things I think about myself. 1). There are many many people there couldn't probably already write more lines of code than me and work for much much cheaper (in India or wherever). Same is true for you (pr
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by chunkmonke99 9mo ago
Hahah absolutely!! Man that brings back memories.
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by chunkmonke99 9mo ago
I don't think there is anything more than the standard advice. Just stay curious, make friends/build a community, keep learning, stay healthy. Why not get the AoE? you can also, check out "Practical Electronics for Inventors&
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by chunkmonke99 1y ago
So TLDR: I am not sure we learned a lot about how humans learn language with LLMs: all we learned as that it can be done by "something" but we already knew that. These specific technologies are Products designed to sell things and
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by chunkmonke99 1y ago
Yes I know of this "study" AFAIK it has not been subjected to peer-review and uses a lot of suggestive language. Other studies have shown that these things use large bags of heuristics which isn't surprising given that are tr
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by chunkmonke99 1y ago
That is a fair point. I do not disagree that building (tenuous at best) models of Neurons can help inform science and engineering and vice-versa. Much of "classic" digital signal processing and image processing was an interplay be
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by chunkmonke99 1y ago
Oh man I was not aware of this aspect of Turing's work thank you for sharing!! Honestly, trying to reverse engineering something to understand how it works is interesting and potentially worthwhile! To me it's obvious that "b
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by chunkmonke99 1y ago
No. I am saying that the broader scientific community probably cannot run experiments on ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini as they would be able to on say a mouse's brain or even on human subjects with carefully controlled experiments and tha
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by chunkmonke99 1y ago
Are we sure that is what is happening? Can you really do any meaningful "science" when the subject understudy is a black box that is under a shroud of secrecy? What has been learned from LLMs regarding human cognition and is there
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by chunkmonke99 1y ago
I love this koan! Thank you for sharing and appreciate the response. I'm not entirely convinced that these models aren't already capable of asking novel questions (you can instruct them to do just that) and depending on your views
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by chunkmonke99 1y ago
But we have AGI? We will have an intelligence super explosion by 2027 and a country of super geniuses just sitting around waiting for your command to "solve death" in 3 years after that. /s Hopefully more forward thinking dev
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by chunkmonke99 1y ago
Yeah I agree! I use GPTs (Gemini 2 series and o3 etc.) and they are excellent! But even they sometimes don't quite get the nuance of things or subtly misses the point! There are certain "meta-cognitive" limitations ... I woul
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by chunkmonke99 1y ago
I think the point is that universities and public research broadly speaking tolerate a lot of risk that private institution are not built to shoulder. I'm no AI historian but ANNs were an intellectual backwater after the 1st/2nd A
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by chunkmonke99 1y ago
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by chunkmonke99 1y ago
LLMs have broad adoption since like 2 years ago: my GF and sister both have used previous models to write (successful) grant applications with previous iterations so "AGI" has been here since chatgpt's initial release if that
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by chunkmonke99 1y ago
I really like Gemini 2.5 and the price is excellent!!! I find it very fun and useful! The AGI narrative is annoying and exhausting ... because it's as though we are just sitting around waiting for some "eschatological product anno