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by computably 2mo ago
Except, of course, LLMs are not humans, and they do not learn or "reason" in a way which even remotely resembles humans. Plus obviously humans can still overfit to a specific style of test.
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by computably 2mo ago
> Are there examples of where we have collective decided not to pursue knowledge? Successfully? Intrinsically, the knowledge humans choose not to pursue will not be much publicized. There's limited value in calling attention to it a
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by computably 2mo ago
Applying the term NIMBYism to anti-AI and anti-DC sentiment is a gross abuse of terminology. Datacenters don't need to be in anybody's residential neighborhood.
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by computably 3mo ago
LLM output is non-deterministic. Even if the attack fails 50% or even 99.9% of the time, at YT's scale it's a pretty huge issue.
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by computably 3mo ago
> Naively, this probably takes a lot more RAM (not to mention all the other computing resources) than to just have another HTTP handler sitting idle on some computer somewhere. CF Workers uses V8 isolates rather than (OS/HW-level) V
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by computably 3mo ago
Inserters have a max throughput of 120/s each chest-to-chest, 12 inserters can (un)load a single cargo wagon so 1440/s per-wagon. So 6:1 belts:wagons, a massive speed advantage over long distances, and much more flexible M:N distr
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by computably 3mo ago
Huh? I thought a stacked belt holds 4x60=240/s edit: It does seem to be 240/s: https://wiki.factorio.com/Transport_belt_capacity_(research)
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by computably 3mo ago
I feel your comment is deeply ironic... Just shy of self-awareness. Have you considered that the conceit of the fictional character is representing that reality?
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by computably 3mo ago
> It applies its knowledge to create bespoke solutions to the problem you pose to it, and is able to self evaluate its progress towards the completion criteria. It imitates applying knowledge. The imitation may be uncanny, but assigning
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by computably 4mo ago
Presumably they meant that they'd sacrifice some material value for some animals, not that every animal on Earth has infinitely more value than inanimate goods. > infinities cannot be compared That's either a mathematically
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by computably 4mo ago
> but this is the first time I’ve experienced software that feels like it’s actively trying to be disrespectful It sounds like they use plenty of software so they must be incredibly lucky, picky, or both.
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by computably 4mo ago
Except LLMs are simulacra of actual intelligence. Frequently in a single conversation working on a single narrowly scoped task, I am both surprised by a few insights and cursing at how it can miss obvious issues. The "raw intelligence&
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by computably 4mo ago
> If someone will sell you a service for a dollar bill or three quarters, why wouldn't you take the three quarters? Because one day they'll send you an email informing you the new rate is $1.50, and if you missed the email, tha
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by computably 4mo ago
Storage is multiple orders of magnitude slower than RAM. Pretty sure it'd be more like 10s/tok than anything reasonable.
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by computably 4mo ago
Akshually, they said "harness," and not "test harness." There's no particular reason "agent harness" can't have practically the same definition, substituting test-specific concepts for agent-specific
46.
by computably 4mo ago
> can't you just let people enjoy things? Dumping slop into the public commons deserves criticism.
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by computably 4mo ago
"Best" is subjective. But "caring about their users"? Their response to RtR alone shows they care about their margins more than their users.
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by computably 5mo ago
> We fit continuous theories to discrete measurements--and the good ones fit really well!--but until we can measure it how can we actually know? Well, physicists came up with quantum mechanics because they found a way to distinguish a ge
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by computably 5mo ago
> An instance of a number that has a special meaning. Not really. There are infinitely many infinities. Infinite numbers are not particularly more special than real numbers, complex numbers, matrices, functions/operators, etc.
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by computably 5mo ago
> It's deeply distressing to watch people fall into AI psychosis. It's unclear what you're saying here... Yes, AI-induced psychosis is a real problem and the frontier labs' mitigations are ineffective, to put it mildl
51.
by computably 5mo ago
> I suppose they'd be comparably successful. Yes, so, not particularly.
52.
by computably 5mo ago
A strange view. The trade-off has nothing to do with a specific ideology or notable selfishness. It is an intrinsic limitation of the algorithms, which anybody could reasonably learn about. Sure, the exact choice on the trade-off, changing
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by computably 5mo ago
> Also by the way, caching does not make LLM inference linear. It's still quadratic, but the constant in front of the quadratic term becomes a lot smaller. Touché. Still, to a reasonable approximation, caching makes the dominant ter
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by computably 5mo ago
> That's super interesting, isn't Deepseek in China banned from using Anthropic models? Yet here they're comparing it in terms of internal employee testing. I don't see why Deepseek would care to respect Anthropic&#x2
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by computably 5mo ago
> It seems basically impossible for everyone to have overhired, for the simple reason that qualified workers do not appear and disappear from nowhere. There is a population of qualified workers in the software sector, and only new grads
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by computably 5mo ago
About as sure as one can be. It's neither logically nor physically impossible, but the claim that trees are conscious is practically unfalsifiable and is not supported by any substantive evidence. It has nothing to do with "fast&q
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by computably 5mo ago
> Knowing how the sausage is made does nothing for me. Considering that this is nowadays a substantially less common background, and probably trending that direction indefinitely, this reads more as you being desensitized. It's not
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by computably 5mo ago
First off, I believe veganism is, probably, morally correct. However, I lead a morally imperfect lifestyle. I get around by driving or being driven in a car, even when it would only be moderately less convenient to walk or bike or take tran
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by computably 5mo ago
> What if they were conscious? Well, they're not. > If they aren’t but still a lifeform, that makes it perfectly okay? According to Jains: No. Violence against plants, insects, and possibly even certain microorganisms is consider
60.
by computably 5mo ago
I would say this is abstracting the behavior.

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