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by dwallin 11d ago
I’m just trying to understand, there’s an issue you’ve been unable to deal with for a month, and Astra not being able to handle it in 36 hours is disqualifying?
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by dwallin 2mo ago
> How does a person even make the claim that the abolition of slavery didn't happen? We don't have slavery now, so if we ever did, we obviously ended it. On the other hand, if you make the claim that slavery didn't happen,
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by dwallin 3mo ago
Instead of one large channel throughout the whole print, why not multiple small 2-4 layer bridges?
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by dwallin 3mo ago
Moving prices is not the same as moving the market, and famously the market might cause them to go insolvent faster then the market goes rational. Which would mean that they weren’t actually rational and this is all circular reasoning?
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by dwallin 4mo ago
You don’t need to make that argument. “I changed the font when reviewing to one that is easier for me to read.”
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by dwallin 5mo ago
Yeah, they only “proved” hallucination is inevitable by defining it to be any case where the llm doesn’t provide the “correct” answer. By this definition, an LLM deciding not to answer is also a “hallucination”.
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by dwallin 5mo ago
Some people point at LLMs confabulating, as if this wasn’t something humans are already widely known for doing. I consider it highly plausible that confabulation is inherent to scaling intelligence. In order to run computation on data that
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by dwallin 6mo ago
The question is not whether the alternative is perfect, the question is can it be made better than the status quo. It’s not that hard to come up with potential mitigations for the problems you state. - A taxable threshold, so people who can
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by dwallin 6mo ago
So if I email the company a TOS and say that continuing to allow me to use the tool should be considered acceptance of my new TOS that should be valid? Sometimes it's amazing to see the legal contortions people use to justify bad behav
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by dwallin 7mo ago
When did Ben Thompson go so far down the path to autocratic sympathizer? This is such an anti-democratic, anti-free market, anti-free speech view on this whole situation. First, everything revolves around a core conceit that "Might mak
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by dwallin 7mo ago
It’s a non-clause that is written to sound like they are doing something to prevent these uses when they aren’t. “You are not allowed to do illegal things” is meaningless, since they already can’t legally do illegal things. Plus the adminis
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by dwallin 7mo ago
This is such a bad faith question, it's annoying to see it come up again as if there's any utility to asking it. The question itself never specifies that the car you would be driving is the same one that you need to be washed. The
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by dwallin 7mo ago
Given that these tendencies are not evenly distributed throughout the population, you can have structures that leverage the large mean to mitigate the worst tendencies of the extreme tails. Given that the natural state of things is that pow
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by dwallin 7mo ago
A important point though is that llm code generation changes that tradeoff. The time/opportunity cost goes way down while the productivity penalty starts accumulating very fast. Outcomes can diverge very quickly.
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by dwallin 7mo ago
When it comes to new emerging technologies everyone is searching the space of possibilities, exploring new ways to use said technologies, and seeing where it applies and creates value. In situations such as this, a positive sign is worth wa
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by dwallin 8mo ago
IMO this is a mistake, for basically the same reason you justify it with. Since most people just want the code to work, and the chances of any specific repo being malicious is low, especially when a lot of the repos you work with are truste
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by dwallin 1y ago
Very much agree with this. Looking at the dimensionality of a given problem space is a very helpful heuristic when analyzing how likely an llm is going to be suitable/reliable for that task. Consider how important positional encodings
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by dwallin 1y ago
Seems like a case where directly going from sunlight to heat would be a better approach for this, instead of converting to electricity first.
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by dwallin 1y ago
In order to make better ai tools for generating specific parts of a song, you ideally want models that understand what good music sounds like when put together. These sorts of "generate whole songs" are a predecessor to more speci
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by dwallin 1y ago
I would say that the partial counterpoint to that is, for most people their values are also largely tribe based, in that their values are not purely fixed, but rather tend to adapt to loosely track the tribal consensus. Very few are the one
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by dwallin 1y ago
The biggest click bait is the “It” which can clearly be seamlessly replaced with BYD, providing vastly increased utility at basically no increased complexity; no hard value determination needed. Intentionally removing useful information in
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by dwallin 1y ago
I agree that what ai music needs to become an industry tool is the ability to create, access and remix parts, but I think tools like Suno have more of the right idea vs tools like this. In order to be able to write intermediate parts proper
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by dwallin 1y ago
As best as I can tell your gut feeling and anecdotal experience here is not supported by evidence / data. One particular example that had a good breakdown: https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article
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by dwallin 2y ago
There are a couple of things that human’s in general are bad at, and intuition is unhelpful, even if you are otherwise an intelligent, learned person. Two I see pop up a lot are Statistics and Systems Thinking. In particular with Systems T
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by dwallin 2y ago
The constitution also explicitly sets up formal departments with specific purviews, with heads that need to be approved by congress. It also outlines that the president has the right to get the opinion of said principal offices about their
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by dwallin 2y ago
You can group your first three (food, water, shelter) under your fourth (survival). Then your next two examples are cases of how people feel. On top of that you can find plenty of clear evidence for situations where humans choose feelings o
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by dwallin 2y ago
For one, I’ve seen interactive Gaussian Splatting interior flythroughs in the Google Maps app.
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by dwallin 2y ago
The cost of having excess compute is less than the cost of not having enough compute to be competitive. Because of demand, if you realize you your current compute is insufficient there is a long turnaround to building up your infrastructure
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by dwallin 2y ago
There's a nugget of something clever here but it's missing something, there's too much luck and not quite enough skill for a golf game. My first thought was selecting from various dice with different distributions to represen
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by dwallin 2y ago
> I can't take an Andy Warhol painting, modify it in some way and then claim it's my own original work. This is a hilarious choice of artist given that Warhol is FAMOUS for appropriating work of others without payment, modifyin

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