herculity275

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by herculity275 2mo ago
It's clearly co-written by an AI
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by herculity275 2mo ago
This entire post was written/prompted as a pitch for the author's own concurrency framework. These types of "current state of the world - bad, my solution - good" posts have been annoying for far longer than LLMs have be
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by herculity275 3mo ago
It has dual HQs. The one in Dublin is tiny (or at least it was the last time I visited), all the executive leadership is based in SF.
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by herculity275 1y ago
There seems to be a prevalent pop psych view that a bunch of these conditions (Autism, ADHD, Anxiety-Depression, OCD) are sort of clustered together and people who manifest one will often manifest symptoms of others. It gets muddier because
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by herculity275 1y ago
> The moment our hearts shattered? It belongs to us. I'm ambivalent about a lot of other cited examples (could be AI, could just be bad ghostwriting) but this particular sentence does have very distinct AI smell.
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by herculity275 1y ago
Reminds me, there was a Stephen King interview from a ~decade ago where he observed that when he passes away his son (Joe Hill) could probably keep publishing under his name for at least a few years since he's perfected imitating King&
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by herculity275 1y ago
My issue with that as a reader is that when I purchase a book authored by Suzanne Collins I expect it to have been actually written by Suzanne Collins, not by somebody she contracted to imitate her style.
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by herculity275 1y ago
Most people use Echos as voice controlled music players with occasional smart assistant functionality, this shouldn't be too hard to replicate in OSS. You could argue that the extend to which they're not making you buy into the
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by herculity275 1y ago
"Please stop referring to this thought experiment because it has possible interpretations I don't personally agree with"
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by herculity275 1y ago
> how long it'll take to Neuralink to turn their army of computer connected paraplegics into some Mechanical Turk-esque Grok clean up It's really hard for me to imagine that making more logistic sense than the current state o
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by herculity275 1y ago
Once Elon gets a robotic arm, steel teeth and prosthetic eyes that's when we know we're in real trouble.
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by herculity275 1y ago
At this stage in the war keeping your social spaces free of malicious users seems like a much higher priority than providing the other side's civilians with accurate information. Russians can access all the info in the world with a sim
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by herculity275 1y ago
Tbf a lot of the thought experiments around human consciousness hit the same exact conundrum - if your body and mind were spontaneously destroyed and then recreated with perfect precision (a'la Star Trek transporters) would you still b
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by herculity275 1y ago
> even people that some people decry as bad and terrible people (for example Elon Musk) still can make amazing leaders None of the leaders in this conversation are good people . Elon's controversies are way past the point of "
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by herculity275 1y ago
The goalposts seem to have shifted to a point where the "AGI" label will only be retroactively applied to an AI that was able to develop ASI
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by herculity275 1y ago
Depends on what your definition of "good jobs" is but I know plenty of people from no name unis in third world countries who landed well paying jobs in FAANG thanks to the current process.
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by herculity275 1y ago
I can think of a few reasons, most obviously that it's a security nightmare - you've got a non-employee accessing and modifying your company's code and possibly having access to customer data. Some shops might not care about
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by herculity275 1y ago
> with a "maverick" view of how organizations worked derived from reading Warhammer books or something Did they want to serve the god emperor of SAAS?
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by herculity275 1y ago
Do you want the industry to go back to only hiring from the top ~20 schools and by word-of-mouth networking? Coz that's the only viable alternative to the current interview process.
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by herculity275 1y ago
I see a version of this reply every time somebody mentions that cannabis is not entirely harmless. Without getting into the weeds (lol) of what is and is not brain damage, surely you can recognize that habitually blazing extremely potent st
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by herculity275 1y ago
Having had my share of experiences in my 20s going out sober with both drunk and stoned friends I can attest that tipsy people are usually a lot more coherent than the comparably stoned ones.
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by herculity275 1y ago
You parsed it wrong - it's a large budget feature film. A feature film is a theatrical movie too long to be called a short film: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feature_film
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by herculity275 2y ago
Most of them have pivoted to LLMs since that's where the money is
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by herculity275 2y ago
I used to think that but newer models' increasing coherence coupled with the astonishing success of RLHF makes me think that LLMs that can effectively intuit "reality" will emerge fairly soon.
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by herculity275 2y ago
It really sucks that "Saddam has WMDs" broke an entire generation of Americans into knee-jerk contrarianism regarding any global conflict US is involved in. What's the "WMD" equivalent here - what do you think the m
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by herculity275 2y ago
Eh the movie works as an allegory for the Climate Change because they add contrived reasons as to why the Capital would be against blowing up the asteroid. In a non-allegorical setting where such reasons don't exist I can see the curre
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by herculity275 2y ago
This is godawful slop written by someone who seems to have a cursory enthusiast's understanding of either of these topics.
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by herculity275 2y ago
My worry is that all these recent capabilities attempt to minimize hallucinations by relying on extensive web search, however web itself is being actively degraded by unfiltered LLM output. After a certain point running your research agent
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by herculity275 2y ago
To be fair Meta is not an ordinary business and Zuck is not an ordinary CEO.
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by herculity275 2y ago
Very nice! I fiddled with this idea a few months back but the models available at the time were woefully slow on a macbook. Will definitely give this a spin, there's a large category of web serials and less popular translated novels th

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