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by kmmlng 8mo ago
You have a point. I would further add that private ownership of these things requires capital concentration that cannot be healthy for society. On the other hand, are we replacing public with private infrastructure here or is the private se
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by kmmlng 8mo ago
The end of the UN seems plausible if we continue to move from a rule-based world order to a power-based one. For the same reason, there is little chance we will see the end of the EU. No European country is sufficiently powerful to really m
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by kmmlng 10mo ago
The scaling laws are also power laws, meaning that most of the big gains happen early in the curve, and improvements become more expensive the further you go along.
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by kmmlng 10mo ago
LeCun has already proved himself and made his mark and is now in a lucky position where he can focus on very long term goals that won't pay off for a long time (or ever). I feel like that is the best path someone like him could take.
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by kmmlng 1y ago
I would say GPT itself is less an event and more the culmination of decades of research and development in algorithms, hardware, and software. Of course, to some degree, this is true for any novel development. In this case, the convergence
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by kmmlng 1y ago
Basically what we have done the last few years is notice neural scaling laws and drive them to their logical conclusion. Those laws are power laws, which are not quite as bad as logarithmic laws, but you would still expect most of the big g
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by kmmlng 1y ago
That's fair enough, there are problems with this way of thinking. I suppose you could say the take-away should be "Don't donate to charities where close to your whole donation will be absorbed as administrative costs". T
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by kmmlng 1y ago
I suppose in the beginning, it was about finding ways to measure how effective different altruistic approaches actually are and focusing your efforts on the most effective ones. Effective then essentially means how much impact you are achie
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by kmmlng 1y ago
> It seems that you're saying that a therapist will be "rubbish unless they use basic Cognitive Behavioural Therapy concepts" ? i.e. that this is the only valid approach to therapy? I believe the parent poster is saying th
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by kmmlng 2y ago
With many drugs that are used both therapeutically and recreationally, it is the case that the average recreational dosage is much larger. Ketamine is an exception here, as therapeutic doses are actually quite high. The common mistake here
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by kmmlng 2y ago
I think we have seen a general trend towards centralized platforms on the internet. Where you had many individual niche sites before, now you have a few all-encompassing platforms. There are some exceptions, but I generally find that many o
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by kmmlng 2y ago
Yes, there is additional context that is not explicitly stated in the question. It is clear that you are looking for a job to earn money and live your life and everyone already knows this, so there is no need to talk about. The question is:
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by kmmlng 2y ago
It's not like the US doesn't have a problem with affordable housing, so I don't see how this plays any role in the divide. Germany has plenty of applied research organizations, from universities (e.g. RWTH) to things like Fra
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by kmmlng 2y ago
This seems like the classic shifting of goalposts to determine when AI has actually become intelligent. Is the ability to communicate not a form of intelligence? We don't have to pretend like these models are super intelligent, but to
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by kmmlng 2y ago
I keep seeing this argument, but I don't buy it at all. I want a phone with an AGI, not a phone that is only AGI. Often it's just easier to press a button rather than talk to an AI, regardless how smart it is. I have no interest i
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by kmmlng 2y ago
This is clearly a joke, but just for completeness: This would be terrible idea as dosing is very important with this drug. Too little doesn't make sense, too much is extremely dangerous.
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by kmmlng 2y ago
It is true that Germany (and Europe as a whole) suffers from a less than ideal investment and innovation landscape. The companies you mentioned, however, worked on products that barely make any sense. It is clear that those kinds of compani
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by kmmlng 2y ago
> humans are infinitely better for this purpose and way cheaper to produce. Most of the western world is having demographic issues. We are having trouble getting people to reproduce in sufficient numbers to keep our societies going. This
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by kmmlng 2y ago
I feel like as an individual user, I'd rather have my social media data siphoned off by a foreign government than my own. On a societal level, having everyone's data siphoned off by a foreign government and being subjected to poli
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by kmmlng 2y ago
It does seem that there are periods and places where things are in equilibrium, or stable. At some point, something typically comes along and disturbs that balance. This can be seen in the fossil record, where you have lots of species going
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by kmmlng 2y ago
You sound like you have a good overview. Is there any chance you could point me into the direction of good literature? I'm used to reading scientific literature and would love to learn a bit more, ideally through reviews and meta-analy
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by kmmlng 2y ago
I've been applying to jobs for the last three months and many companies use systems that automatically parse your resume and then let you manually correct the parsed data. It's nearly always a mess, and I use a very straightforwar
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by kmmlng 2y ago
foobar2000 is actually available for Mac.
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by kmmlng 2y ago
I think it's important to distinguish between two directions here: 1) can someone figure out who I am based on my profile and 2) can someone find my profile if they know who I am. I care much more about the second, because the odds of
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by kmmlng 2y ago
Well, at least Google Scholar is aligned with Google's core business: search. It seems silly for Google to scrap search features. On the other hand, I'm not sure if Google Scholar is aligned with their real core business: ads.
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by kmmlng 2y ago
I think you both have a point. Clearly, something about the way we build LLMs today makes them inept at these kinds of tasks. It's unclear how fundamental this problem is as far as I'm concerned. Clearly, humans also need training
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by kmmlng 2y ago
I used to be in the same camp, but have since abandoned this position. The world has changed. Very serious people use the term "AI" nowadays. I don't find that it's a high-precision signal for identifying charlatans anym
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by kmmlng 2y ago
Would it have mattered in this case? The advent of LLMs would have endangered their position just the same, no?
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by kmmlng 2y ago
I always got the feeling that the distributions were different for men and women. Male professionals seem to be normally distributed, with a lot of mediocrity, some excellence, and some incompetence. In women, the mediocrity part of the pop
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by kmmlng 2y ago
That seems to be in support of the parent's point. So breaking up Google would have resulted in worse outcomes for consumers 10 years ago, but it would be even worse today? Then it wouldn't have made sense to break them up 10 year

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