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by dlkf 2y ago
What country are you referring to? The American middle class is objectively very wealthy: https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/no-the-us-is-not-a-poor-societ...
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by dlkf 2y ago
I mean, the matrices obviously change during training. I take it your point is that LLMs are trained once and then frozen, whereas humans continuously learn and adapt to their environment. I agree that this is a critical distinction. But it
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by dlkf 2y ago
> Previous generations of neural nets were kind of useless. Spotify ended up replacing their machine learning recommender with a simple system that would just recommend tracks that power listeners had already discovered. “Previous genera
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by dlkf 2y ago
> Current AI systems have no internal structure that relates meaningfully to their functionality In what sense is the relationship between neurons and human function more “meaningful” than the relationship between matrices and LLM functi
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by dlkf 2y ago
Now do drug-development.
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by dlkf 2y ago
If you take a vote of 10 random people, then as long as their errors are not perfectly correlated, you’ll do better than asking one person. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ensemble_learning
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by dlkf 2y ago
If we did this fifty years ago, we’d be having this discussion by snail mail.
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by dlkf 2y ago
There is no epistemological collapse. Access to accurate information has never been so fast nor so easy. To be sure, lies are spread on the internet - but people believed all sorts of bullshit before the internet. Those who want to claim th
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by dlkf 2y ago
I implore everyone reading this to google the Sokal hoax before decide whether these guys are worthwhile.
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by dlkf 2y ago
Concrete Island by JG Ballard Libra by Don Delilo Deep Water by Patricia Highsmith
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by dlkf 2y ago
Assuming you value 10 days at the cost of 1-2 AC units.
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by dlkf 2y ago
The main difference is that the media report will be read.
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by dlkf 2y ago
Would new developments (or old developments that had gone underappreciated) in an adjacent stem field count as ”added cultural context” ?
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by dlkf 2y ago
A neat list, but there is a bias toward authors who published one controversial (and not necessarily good ) argument that got a ton of rebuttals. Williamson is the worst offender.
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by dlkf 2y ago
The article is rife with references to a mediocre tv show, but it doesn’t contain a single example of the principle as applied to a firm. The author is an expert in something, but it isn’t business.
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by dlkf 2y ago
It’s interesting to consider whether a simulated rainstorm is in fact possible. Not a crude numerical simulation like those used for forecasting, but one fine-grained enough to accurately predict the trajectory of every drop.
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by dlkf 2y ago
In the regions where it works (PNW, Quebec, etc) we could easily build more. The hurdles are regulatory. The regulation isn’t baseless - a dam will affect the local ecosystem adversely. But that’s a tradeoff we choose rather than a fundamen
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by dlkf 2y ago
Why is green in scare-quotes?
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by dlkf 2y ago
> It means that google doesn't have to aquire-hire your team, they can just poach all of them wholesale. Imagine a skilled worker taking a new job that pays better. What a nightmare scenario.
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by dlkf 2y ago
Does the page 404 for anyone else? Is this a Europe thing?
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by dlkf 3y ago
> Literally any definition of something infinite can always be reduced to a procedure that recursively transforms or observes some prior state. You can’t generate R this way. This is a consequence of Cantor’s proof.
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by dlkf 3y ago
Your critique of the use of ”bigger” in your strawman applies equally to your own use of ”longer” - neither loop will ever terminate. So in what sense is either one longer? The diagonal proof is arguing that there is no bijection from N to
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by dlkf 3y ago
I’m not sure that you can. What I’ve read is that in a lot of fields, the community is small enough that you have a reasonable idea whose work you are reviewing even if the author’s name is redacted.
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by dlkf 3y ago
It’s debatable to what degree ”attention” in LLMs relates to ”attention” in psychology. See Cosma Shalizi’s note on this http://bactra.org/notebooks/nn-attention-and-transformers.ht...
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by dlkf 3y ago
I’m not accusing Whitehead of the fallacy, I’m talking about the parent post. Parent is suggesting that if we don’t take Deleuze seriously, we should also not take Whitehead seriously. (Despite Whitehead being a fav of the analytic crowd.)
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by dlkf 3y ago
Motte (principia) and bailey (process philosophy).
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by dlkf 3y ago
Can we please stop stating things that are obviously false? One can easily make a good case that software engineers are not oppressed without lying.
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by dlkf 3y ago
I think this is actually pretty well-established, eg https://news.crunchbase.com/layoffs/analysis-big-tech-pandem...
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by dlkf 3y ago
Hume wrote morality is better felt than reasoned. There is a large tradition in virtue ethics following Hume (eg Bernard Williams) who defend our moral intuitions, our prioritization of family, etc.
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by dlkf 3y ago
> I know it's easy to ridicule the sheer stupidity the board acted with (and justifiably so), but take a moment to think of the other side. If you truly believed that Superhuman AI was near, and it could act with malice, won't

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