elicksaur

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by elicksaur 1y ago
What context did I skip? It seems like the statement stands on its own.
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by elicksaur 1y ago
Each activity we engage in has different use, value, and subjective enjoyment to different people. Some people love knitting! Personally, I do know how to sew small tears, which is more than most people in the US these days. Just because I
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by elicksaur 1y ago
>most of us would delegate our work code to somebody else or something else if we could. Laughably narrow-minded projection of your own perspective on others.
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by elicksaur 1y ago
Do you typically find reductio ad absurdum arguments to be persuasive?
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by elicksaur 1y ago
I think I’d call these examples “predictable” failures instead of “odd”.
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by elicksaur 1y ago
>OpenAI has also announced a social media project I haven’t heard about this before this post, but if they’re starting a “Social Media but with AI” site in 2025, can’t help but feel like they’re cooked.
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by elicksaur 1y ago
This is interesting when you run it up the abstraction ladder. What if we take this perspective from “knowledge of news topic of the day” and apply it to “knowledge of the virtue of commenting on a topic”. Are you qualified to actually spea
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by elicksaur 1y ago
The current link includes a link to this page which is a blog post announcement from today. https://ai.meta.com/blog/llama-4-multimodal-intelligence/
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by elicksaur 1y ago
None of my comments say I’m demanding perfection. That’s a fallacy to reduce my position to absurdism, so it can be easily dismissed. LLMs have not improved my productivity. When I have tried to use them, they have been a net negative. Ther
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by elicksaur 1y ago
No one says, “Wikipedia knows everything.”
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by elicksaur 1y ago
I’m tired of “Well people get things wrong, too.” as a defense of these systems. They should stand or fall on their own merit. And yes, reducing everything in the world - nothing matters. Everything is relative. What even is truth, amirite?
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by elicksaur 1y ago
The AI is optimized for producing text that sounds like it makes sense and is helpful. This is not a guarantee that the text it produces is a correct explanation of the thing you are asking about. It’s a mental trick like a psychic reading
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by elicksaur 1y ago
It’s like the people who say these things live on a different planet. Or an alternate timeline where a different version of LLMs were invented.
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by elicksaur 1y ago
It literally knows nothing. It is incapable of knowledge. I’m bored of it.
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by elicksaur 1y ago
Gonna submit that business model to a YC 2026 batch.
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by elicksaur 1y ago
This doesn’t seem like a great way to reason about the predictions. For something like this, saying “There is no evidence showing it” is a good enough refutation. Counterpointing that “Well, there could be a lot of this going on, but it is
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by elicksaur 1y ago
Note the market resolves by: > Resolution will be via a poll of Manifold moderators. If they're split on the issue, with anywhere from 30% to 70% YES votes, it'll resolve to the proportion of YES votes. So you should really rea
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by elicksaur 1y ago
Why would “sales rep” be immune to the magical singularity AI that will be 9000 IQ points smarter than all of humanity combined?
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by elicksaur 1y ago
“Banning” during a specific time at a specific location is not really a “ban”. It is a restriction.
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by elicksaur 1y ago
This is conflating written jots with information presented to the students. The author is talking about PowerPoint slides that were presented to the students as valuable information.
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by elicksaur 1y ago
>I am frequently asked for my PowerPoint slides, which basically function for me as lecture notes. It is unimaginable to me that I would have ever asked one of my professors for their own lecture notes. No, you can’t have my slides. I ge
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by elicksaur 1y ago
Shoot, didn’t know downloading Llama and running it locally was helping China because I’m not paying Sam Altman money. Can I send him my bank account info directly? I need to help the cause.
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by elicksaur 1y ago
Their point is that with AI generation, (3) is already possible to hide.
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by elicksaur 1y ago
There are obviously external forces that contribute to anyone’s circumstances rich or poor. But, ultimately, you can only spend as much as you make in income, or go bankrupt. Choosing to tack on an interest payment to your costs is often an
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by elicksaur 1y ago
Nitpicking like this sounds like something a cult member would say to make a Motte-and-bailey argument. “Don’t worry, I’m not one of those silly TESCREALs, I’m just a transhumanist!” What does this distinction add to or take away from t
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by elicksaur 1y ago
Saying that anyone who wears glasses is associated with these beliefs is indicative of drinking the kool-aid.
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by elicksaur 1y ago
Thanks for the context. Yeah, I’m reading up on them more now. It looks like they also make money on missed payments just like credit cards.
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by elicksaur 1y ago
Have you read the fine print on their website? It’s literally just a credit card/payday loan. The rates if you miss a payment go as high as 33% APR https://www.klarna.com Edit: since it might vary by location, here’s what f
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by elicksaur 1y ago
I’ve wondered what the business model is here since klarna always advertises “interest free” loans. That option does exist, but from the actual announcement there’s another loan option - which of course is just a payday loan: > Pay in Fu
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by elicksaur 1y ago
> For instance, in customer service, an RL agent might discover that sometimes asking a clarifying question early in the conversation, even when seemingly obvious, leads to much better resolution rates. Why does this read to me as the bo

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