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by jordanpg 4d ago
In the podcast, Cal Newport repeats at least 20 times that agentic AI is nothing more than an LLM execution loop, as if this is some kind of trump card, taking for granted the usual stochastic parrot trope. At no point does he even conside
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by jordanpg 12d ago
Simple? Just wait until a federal court finds OpenAI or Anthropic immune under Section 230 for something an agent does.
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by jordanpg 29d ago
Also, even after you find precisely what you're looking for, there is no guarantee that what arrives will not be a cheap imitation or reduced-quality version of what you purchased.
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by jordanpg 2mo ago
Before reading The Stranger , I was headlong into the then-popular "New Atheism" movement, which came with a certain air of superiority of brainpower over the naive masses. But reading The Stranger had a profound impact on me,
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by jordanpg 2mo ago
Can confirm. Top of the article could be about my dad. Same flavor of cancer and everything.
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by jordanpg 2mo ago
Have not read it yet, but recently researched this question and came to this book as a readable overview of the latest thinking in cosmology, Battle of the Big Bang: The New Tales of Our Cosmic Origins by Afshordi and Halper [1]. The book a
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by jordanpg 3mo ago
I suspect this is happening a thousand times a day right now. But it will be many years before the first test case gets to a federal appeals court. In the meantime, there will be some unknown tens of thousands of new patents granted that
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by jordanpg 3mo ago
Software patent law and AI inventorship are separate legal issues. For example, an AI could invent a mechanical device which is a more "meat and potatoes" kind of IP. But the question of whether the AI, or the human invoking the
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by jordanpg 3mo ago
The plaintiff is Stephen Thaler who has made a career of this litigation all over the world. To my knowledge, he has notched only one win (i.e., granted patent) in South Africa, where patents are only cursorily examined [1]. The last word i
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by jordanpg 3mo ago
(simple, non-complicated consumer) Alternatives I'm aware of are: Amazon Fire TV Apple TV Smart TV built-ins Are there any others?
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by jordanpg 3mo ago
They have absolutely no idea what they are destroying or why. An entire generation of scientists will be lost. It is breathtaking to watch what will surely be someday labeled as one of the greatest acts of intentional, national self-destruc
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by jordanpg 3mo ago
I was just thinking about this. LLMs are nothing if not easy litmus tests for identifying bullshit jobs.
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by jordanpg 3mo ago
> If you had asked me this question years ago, I probably would have agreed with you. It is breathtaking to consider how many strong opinions of the young are like this. Strong opinions voiced every day around here. Strong opinions that
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by jordanpg 3mo ago
> If LLMs were around when I was a student, I would've also used them to "speed up" my homework assignments then proceed to fail all my tests. As a counterpoint, I was once a physics grad student. I didn't finish the
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by jordanpg 4mo ago
> The only possible answer in a republic is that people accountable to the political system are allocated that power. It's not that what's happening in the US with respect to science funding is not legal, it's just dumb.
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by jordanpg 4mo ago
That's a lovely thought but it assumes, as with so many other things about our republican form of government, that the political appointees are good faith actors, at least with respect to funding of science. There are many reasons to s
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by jordanpg 4mo ago
Unfortunately, these are agency rules. Congress can intervene, but only with major legislative action, which is unlikely. There will be hearings and Senators will express great concern, but the Administration will probably be able to do wh
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WH proposes rules giving political appointees final approval on research grants(scientificamerican.com)
316 points by jordanpg 4mo ago|619 comments
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by jordanpg 4mo ago
> Second, the update utility got stuck. Just frozen. Couldn't open it. I hadn't tweaked anything, hadn't installed anything unusual, hadn't deviated from the vanilla setup. Day seven of a fresh Fedora install and the
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by jordanpg 4mo ago
100% agree. The two examples are garden-variety computer problems and not articulated with any degree of precision for someone who claims to have attempted to troubleshoot them. It's either AI-generated or the author has only elementa
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by jordanpg 4mo ago
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by jordanpg 8mo ago
@kevinroose i follow AI adoption pretty closely, and i have never seen such a yawning inside/outside gap. people in SF are putting multi-agent claudeswarms in charge of their lives, consulting chatbots before every decision, wireheadin
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(Regarding AI adoption) "I have never seen such a yawning inside/outside gap"(twitter.com)
1 points by jordanpg 8mo ago|3 comments
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by jordanpg 8mo ago
Isn't that what GPTZero does?
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by jordanpg 8mo ago
If these are so easy to identify, why not just incorporate some kind of screening into the early stages of peer review?
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by jordanpg 8mo ago
My point still stands. The country will obviously not be permanently swarming with ICE agents violently grabbing immigrants off the street. There is going to be mission creep. If this isn't obvious then I don't know what to else I
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by jordanpg 8mo ago
Along the same lines, anyone who thinks this is just about immigration should ask themselves what all these tens of thousands of ICE agents are going to do when all the immigrants are finally deported. Are they just going to go home and go
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by jordanpg 8mo ago
People are, yes, but I'm not. I'm looking inward and trying to be honest about what it's going to take to get me on the street.
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by jordanpg 8mo ago
> Not sure being out in the street really does much. I agree; this phrase was just a stand in for doing something -- anything -- about the state of affairs I don't like. Other than things I can do from my couch like commenting on H
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by jordanpg 8mo ago
> Posting online literally is political activity. This guy's book convinced me otherwise: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/01/political-... "Political hobbyism" is things

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