hackinthebochs

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by hackinthebochs 8d ago
>pacing between the us labs? what does that do for china? I've seen no indications that China is in any kind of race with the US. They seem to be content to be 6 months behind and just copy what we do. They would probably be content
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by hackinthebochs 8d ago
>endless abundance of solutions and ideas cannot coexist with a healthy society. This really cuts to the heart of the problem with AI. Not only does AI undermine the monetary economy, it undermines the intellectual economy. What is human
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by hackinthebochs 8d ago
Yes, reasoning with models and making inferences are perfectly acceptable forms of evidence. But you can model the world based on ones knowledge and experience and infer when some event doesn't fit the typical pattern, then form belief
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by hackinthebochs 8d ago
I believe the sun will rise tomorrow without "evidence" (again, narrowly construed). We all do. It's only those who abuse the idea of epistemic hygiene who claim otherwise, usually with ulterior motives.
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by hackinthebochs 8d ago
It is not reasonable to not believe anything unless there is "evidence" (narrowly construed as an observation incompatible with the negation of some state of affairs). Beliefs have a wide spectrum of characterizations, and not all
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by hackinthebochs 9d ago
If you're betting the farm on there being a wall on the current trajectory of LLMs, I suggest you hedge that bet.
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by hackinthebochs 9d ago
I would say most people do in fact need a life of purpose and fulfillment through some aim larger than themselves that has intrinsic value, can reinforce self worth, etc. I think very few people will find purpose and fulfillment through and
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by hackinthebochs 10d ago
We could also just stop research into LLMs. Or keep them air gapped. Tell me how that's going? For any real-world action required to allow an AI to escape some manner of containment, there will always be a person willing to do it out o
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by hackinthebochs 12d ago
>without an actual understanding of what they're doing. At what point do you start to question your assumptions that are causing you so much cognitive dissonance? But to answer your question: to predict the next token really well yo
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by hackinthebochs 12d ago
The stacked transformer paradigm picks out points in circuit design space. It is very possible this architecture has no inherent limitations on what it can compute in principle.
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by hackinthebochs 13d ago
Yes, they have some alien failure modes. But that should be expect, they are an alien intelligence. I might be willing to grant that a lack of ability to reflect on its own level of knowledge is a demerit to it being generally intelligent.
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by hackinthebochs 13d ago
But it's not relevant as a metric to gauge distance to human intelligence. Humans see individual letters, LLMs do not. If I asked you the relative activation of the cones in your retina as I showed you some solid color image, you could
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by hackinthebochs 13d ago
Tokens are the most basic input unit of an LLM. But tokens don't generally correspond to words or letters, rather sub-word sequences. So Strawberry might be broken up into two tokens 'straw' and 'berry'. It has trou
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by hackinthebochs 18d ago
>You said “Given causal closure, any causal influence is explained by prior physical events, thus bypassing any relevance of this special property.” You're taking the sentence out of context and missing the work it is doing. Given s
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by hackinthebochs 19d ago
A corollary of causal exclusion is that two causally identical systems have identical explanations for identical physical events. If you posit some property of a substrate purported to be relevant for consciousness, it will either have a ca
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by hackinthebochs 19d ago
It only takes a finite number of rules to generate a mapping between unbounded strings of finite symbols. The brain doesn't contain an infinite amount of information after all.
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by hackinthebochs 19d ago
Causal integration + causal closure is a wrap for non-abstract theories. The so-called biological theories of consciousness are just wishful thinking.
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by hackinthebochs 20d ago
One's subconscious drives much of your thoughts, yes. But important decisions are conscious mediated if only because consciousness has veto power. A lack of veto is a tacit endorsement of the action. That is control.
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by hackinthebochs 20d ago
The democratization of intelligence is irrelevant if there isn't also a corresponding democratization of raw resources. In the before-times, labor and intelligence were bottlenecks to turning raw resources into wealth. This is what dro
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by hackinthebochs 20d ago
It's really the only live option once the issues are properly understood. Causal closure: a physical event is explanatorily exhausted by prior physical events. Causal exclusion: if physical properties fully cause/explain everythin
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by hackinthebochs 20d ago
If you're referring to the Libet experiments, they have been wildly overinterpreted. The conceptual problem with the common interpretation is that detecting a readiness potential prior to a report of a conscious intention to act does n
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by hackinthebochs 20d ago
This just alters the thought experiment. What the thought experiment offers is a book of opaque rules, just instructions on how to transform symbols into more symbols without any concern for their meaning. What you're offering is a tra
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by hackinthebochs 20d ago
>How does a person's brain containing all the facts, information, and skills that it needs to have a fluent conversation in Chinese imply that the person understands Chinese? How does it not!? Notice that the man while having memori
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by hackinthebochs 20d ago
>So why would it be different for the brain? If nuclear energy can’t arise from abstract relationships, why would consciousness or anything else? Because consciousness isn't something the brain produces like a hormone or an excited
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by hackinthebochs 1mo ago
Pair programming is the extroverts answer to the solitariness of software development. They love it while everyone else is hating their existence. It works for short stints to solve specific problems but anything beyond that is just gratuit
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by hackinthebochs 1mo ago
I really don't know where you're coming from. You seem to be imagining that the law requires some kind of cryptographically validated age attestation. The law requires nothing of the sort. It's just an age field associated wi
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by hackinthebochs 1mo ago
>Also children can "come upon" devices Yes, this mechanism isn't perfect, but is a substantial improvement over the status quo. >and now that's stuck with the verified age set. This inference is nonsensical. >If
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by hackinthebochs 1mo ago
>but why can't the websites just ask me for my self declared age? Because children just click through the age gate when it suits them. With this legislation, a parent that purchases the device and creates an account for the child ca
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by hackinthebochs 1mo ago
Why are you people in such a hurry to have facebook et al collecting government IDs?
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by hackinthebochs 1mo ago
Parents already have the ability to do this, at least when it comes to porn. The fact is that most parents aren't doing it. Hence the push for legislation that increase the uptake of content blocks for minors.

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