eli_gottlieb

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by eli_gottlieb 4d ago
Most people don't really have clear or strong opinions about AI other than that they don't like it :-p.
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by eli_gottlieb 13d ago
Well obviously nobody's gonna be offended at the metal bar. That's the point of a metal bar!
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by eli_gottlieb 14d ago
> So at least some of what LLMs do internally seems to involve a bit more structure than just linear combinations of some overcomplete dictionary. Well that's good to hear. Would have been rather exasperating to find out we could h
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by eli_gottlieb 19d ago
Every time I see it again I'm shocked at how close the Eye of Terror is to Terra in realspace distance.
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by eli_gottlieb 19d ago
> One of the old slurs against Christians was that they followed a "corpse-god." They say the same thing in 40K. Seriously? Wow. Maybe it's because I'm American, but I can't imagine actually saying that to some
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by eli_gottlieb 22d ago
Seconded. The year I graduated from college, the median CS graduate was employed making about $65k/year USD. I got offers for $80k/year and thought that was pretty hot shit.
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by eli_gottlieb 22d ago
> Is what these fusion companies are doing unethical? A case can be made that it is, particularly when it comes to that last category of investor I mentioned. On the other hand, in an environment where basic research is discouraged, “lif
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by eli_gottlieb 23d ago
Personally, not being a billionaire, in a WH40k-type setting, I like to imagine myself as an ork. The dakka would make a lot of cool noises before I die.
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by eli_gottlieb 23d ago
> I argue it's likely also a matter that there potentially isn't enough high value work for the overproduction that has occurred. What jobs would you create for the millions in some cases, tens of millions in other cases, colle
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by eli_gottlieb 23d ago
I was just thinking, this game needs a snowboard I can use to jump, do tricks, and smack around people's cars.
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by eli_gottlieb 25d ago
Just like me fr fr
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by eli_gottlieb 27d ago
Ok, but then there's a nasty question: why do employers not choose to create high-value jobs doing high-value work? Wouldn't this indicate an economy with stagnant or declining productivity-per-hour?
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by eli_gottlieb 27d ago
I find it annoying because when I read ML papers nowadays I have to back-translate from anthropomorphized talk into actual machine talk, then mentally compare to what I actually know about brains and cognition.
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by eli_gottlieb 28d ago
For what it's worth, AFAICT Moderna and other such high-tech biopharma stocks are way too sensitive to the news cycle and not nearly enough to scientific fundamentals, so I took the opportunity of having it up 150% to sell mine off.
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by eli_gottlieb 29d ago
I didn't say it was antisemitism. I have seen a lot of online references to anyone who disagrees with XYZ political position as "subhuman" lately, for an shockingly broad range of values of XYZ.
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by eli_gottlieb 29d ago
Call me an old geezer but I remember having this thing called swap.
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by eli_gottlieb 1mo ago
Why are you scare-quoting "people"? Are some people not people?
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by eli_gottlieb 1mo ago
You're not supposed to acknowledge that think-tanks are sort of endemically propaganda outlets. You're supposed to think it's special this time.
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by eli_gottlieb 1mo ago
Have they made Sol do less unwanted autonomy than the previous Codex models did?
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by eli_gottlieb 1mo ago
> wouldn't a general anti-science movement make the country less competitive in the long run Less competitive for tertiary industries like tech, pharma, etc. More competitive for lower-level industries like mining, resource extract
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by eli_gottlieb 1mo ago
You're going to get a lot of angry responses about how China can only accomplish what it does because it's an authoritarian regime and very bad, but you're actually correct. Historically, authoritarian countries are held ba
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by eli_gottlieb 1mo ago
It's so common that I've seen it used as a joke to portray a human trying to write like an LLM.
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by eli_gottlieb 1mo ago
> and it’s a real challenge. What model did you use to write this?
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by eli_gottlieb 1mo ago
> I am curious why LLM writing has such an uncanny valley feel to it. Because it's trained to talk like a marketing committee.
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by eli_gottlieb 1mo ago
It's not, IMHO. When I have kids, I will not send them to any such institution, and I do not advise students that I mentor to go to such institutions.
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by eli_gottlieb 1mo ago
> I don’t even know of a high school around me that starts at 7:30AM. My high school had us in the building and starting homeroom at 7:30AM, back in ~2003-2007, and that was in upstate NY for a B+ student with nothing special going on.
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by eli_gottlieb 1mo ago
Hire from state schools.
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by eli_gottlieb 1mo ago
Theocrats have not been known to believe in a power higher than themselves. They just believe that you believe.
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by eli_gottlieb 1mo ago
But I don't want Claude to become conscious. I want Claude to help me write good code.
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by eli_gottlieb 1mo ago
I wouldn't entirely call that cynicism considering a lot of people just come out and say it.

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