huurtehoog

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by huurtehoog 1d ago
I know it is always relative. I'm merely pointing out that there was never an absolute decline in manufacturing employment, which is a frequent argument in automation. I often state that the entropy never vanishes and that implies that
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by huurtehoog 3d ago
I find it endlessly fascinating that information cannot be destroyed and we keep finding more and more ways to read the universe at every scale!
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by huurtehoog 3d ago
Because they aren't. All the intelligence, alignment vs misalignment, hallucinations, conspiracy, cheating, coordination, "agency", that we see in the text generated by large language models is a semantic projection. That the
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by huurtehoog 4d ago
Any day now I remember when C was a "high level language" and model driven development would give us IDEs where coding would be on a "higher abstraction level" and code would be just "generated" ad hoc and disp
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by huurtehoog 4d ago
Yeah you're right. There has been an erosion in domain expertise there. > The accounting profession is facing a severe crisis due to a shortage of accountants. https://www.cpajournal.com/2023/12/01/the
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by huurtehoog 4d ago
Yeah I know it's not obvious. And very lucrative and very freeing, having this sort of knowledge and leveraging it. Especially after clients have suffered the new found arrogance of non-experts riding on LLM output. Look, let me be per
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by huurtehoog 4d ago
The code is ultimately the codification (ha!) of domain knowledge in precise, non-ambiguous ways. It has extrinsic, non essential complexity yes. But including ever more complexity in the process, by depending on complexity-slinger systems
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by huurtehoog 5d ago
I never go by pay. I won't fix bad systems whatever their provenance because trying to understand poorly coded software is very unpleasant. I go by interesting problems and I like being able to chose from more options due to lessened e
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by huurtehoog 5d ago
I always ask for sources. LLM analyses often fails by being simplistic or wrong in comparison with the sources it provides. More often than not, to the point that it is wasteful to ask it for analysis so I only ask for sources now and do my
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by huurtehoog 5d ago
My point is that they always use quotes when quoting even if it is verified by them to be true. Reporting discourse is different from reporting fact, and I do not know the BBC for reporting unverified discourse or facts.
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by huurtehoog 5d ago
I don't wish anyone any reckoning. But I can see and feel less competition for my niche knowledge and I welcome it.
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by huurtehoog 5d ago
I experience quite the opposite. I'm quite excited about the value my skills are gaining in relative terms. An entire generation of potential competition is getting addicted to the subsidized corporate tooling. Voluntarily!
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by huurtehoog 5d ago
I have done that as well. Not a single time I asked an LLM for any sort of analysis that I could trust upon verification so I stopped doing that. If I need verify, much easier to just ask for suggestions of papers and books and do the analy
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by huurtehoog 5d ago
It has nothing to do with verification. They are simply reporting what sources have said: Houthis 'take control' of Perim Island - government source published at 09:00 Houthi rebels have "taken control" of Perim Island i
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by huurtehoog 5d ago
Inverted bias doesn't change much my view in practical terms
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by huurtehoog 5d ago
Thanks I was going by the date I glanced at the counter cover
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by huurtehoog 5d ago
Yeah I'm not talking about that one proof, I'm talking about the whole of mathematics. It's not manufacturing theorems, it's an ongoing conversation. It's poetry in the etymological sense, poesis, it's creative
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by huurtehoog 5d ago
Reading Snowcrash, the guy gave up coding because "back in the day" a hacker could do it all alone but now it was all about software factories. That was in a book written in 2000. Software is theory building, as Naur puts it. It&#
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by huurtehoog 5d ago
LLM tools tend confirm what you come to them with, be it unfounded conviction or doubt. I find them quite useless to tell me things I don't know, as verifying what they say shows that any non-trivial claims they make are usually oversi
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by huurtehoog 6d ago
I think I am make a much more basic point than what you're talking about but then again I am not sure what you're tying to say here...
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by huurtehoog 6d ago
That's true of the entirety of mathematics. Its validity is a social construct. That is not to relativize it entirely, but much of what was considered good and sound mathematics in the ancient Agean for example would now fall way short
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by huurtehoog 6d ago
There is a symmetrical presumption in the minds of people that the software representation in their screens is both accurate and capable of altering reality when changed. This is very often violated, obviously, and people find it jarring. A
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by huurtehoog 6d ago
This will either be normal crisis, in which case no point in panicking. Or it is existential, in which case, no point in panicking. If this turns out to be existential, what would anyone be able to do to prepare? Short of politically contro
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by huurtehoog 6d ago
AI, AGI, and intelligence itself are poorly defined. I invite you to add to the literature if you think you have any novel insight, and get it published. Otherwise I'd recommend digging deeper into history, cognitive science, philosoph
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by huurtehoog 7d ago
I'm not talking about OpenAI I'm talking about you > So don't be sad that this 90 year problem was solved, just be happy that is exactly what AGI should be. That sounds like a cult leader.
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by huurtehoog 7d ago
I think you're framing this as idealism vs materialism? The debate is fascinating. I tend to be more of an idealist but I recognize that science is predicated on materialism. I believe we ought to find a complete explanation for how th
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by huurtehoog 7d ago
> Failing to police the use of trademark is sufficient grounds to lose the trademark, which is why companies tend to be overly aggressive in suing people for violating the trademark. Not quite. There is no litigation requirement to renew
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by huurtehoog 7d ago
It's the difference between doing something and asking for something to be done. Forget all the technology involved. One of them is yours, you made it and know it. The other one is something you bought. Quite literally, something phone
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by huurtehoog 7d ago
I offer an alternative translation directly from the original hebrew: "Surely the testimony of misfortune will be imposed at any season"
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by huurtehoog 7d ago
There's a lot of unverified hearsay but the crux of the problem is that there is controversy around using this company's tools, the attribution of the resulting work, and the company for some reason competing with its users. The w

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