lordnacho

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by lordnacho 3d ago
Why could you not use text to measure intelligence? Isn't that what we used to do? Have students write an essay, and then deduce that they had enough intelligence to put some thoughts together?
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by lordnacho 3d ago
But how do you falsify that? If LLM can always imitate closely enough to appear as-if, how can you ever separate it from whatever actual intelligence is?
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by lordnacho 5d ago
This is what I thought "Reality TV" should have been. Genuinely interesting content about real people in the real world. Somehow they managed to just create soap opera with bad actors instead.
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by lordnacho 6d ago
Well, a human is limited in how much they can formalize, as per the article. So if you're really careful, you can check over what they wrote. The computer could generate a huge document, how would you check that it's right?
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by lordnacho 6d ago
That's not a moat, that's a red queen? A moat allows the owner a degree of passivity. Eg, you own the desktop OS. You are already using this moat to get office software on every machine, while competitors either have to dance to y
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by lordnacho 6d ago
I think this is probably true, but a lot of creative things are small-c creative: you brainstorm, you come up with a bunch of vanilla stuff, you connect some of those ordinary ideas. The brainstorming thing, AI is really good at. "Gimm
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by lordnacho 6d ago
This is how your kids end up with a SCART cable. That box that you move every time you move house without opening it.
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by lordnacho 6d ago
How do you know that it's formalizing what you think it's formalizing? If your Lean 4 has a bug, won't you be proving something other than what you thought?
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by lordnacho 7d ago
Is it really the first generation though? The screen is obviously 1st gen for Apple, but you'd think the rest of it is not: OS, battery, camera.
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by lordnacho 7d ago
I'm in the market for one of those foldy phones. My use case is that I have terminals on various servers that I'd like to access when I'm travelling, and I'm often just doing short trips without my laptop. It's ofte
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by lordnacho 7d ago
They are beachhead products, aren't they? Plant your flag in case it gets big. Phones got big.
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by lordnacho 8d ago
Chesterton's Fence
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by lordnacho 8d ago
> In my mind an AI teacher can be like a traditional education package (syllabus, material, questions, keeping track of progression) but way more flexible. I don't see no reason why AI teachers shouldn't give Bloom's 2 sig
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by lordnacho 8d ago
And traditionally written code won't have those subtleties? Really?
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by lordnacho 9d ago
The decline seems to have started in the 2010s. Makes me wonder if this is connected to Jon Haidt's ideas about the impact of social media.
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by lordnacho 9d ago
I don't think you can dismiss the output quality so easily. Give yourself a few hours to write out some code in the old way. Can you really tell me that you could not have done a better job with AI in the same time? Eg, implement chess
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by lordnacho 9d ago
I'd say it was more to do with how incentives lined up among different actors. There's always risk somewhere in a financial system.
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by lordnacho 10d ago
I think he's alluding to having family money. So, even though you try hard to become a pianist, if you don't become famous, you're ok. A friend of mine did this, he lives in a massive house and just enjoys his music, teaches
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by lordnacho 12d ago
This was my question as well. The way I understand it, it's like a compiler, it implements rules, in this case logic/math rules that tell you whether something follows from assumptions you've given it. But how do you know you
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by lordnacho 14d ago
So you have 7 tons of Xenon as the detector, hoping that some dark matter will bump into a nucleus. How do you exclude other effects?
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by lordnacho 17d ago
I think I agree. I guess I don't know enough about chess to be sure, but the idea seems to be that although to novices a blindfolded player must reconstruct the board in his mind, that is not actually what is done by the expert. That i
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by lordnacho 19d ago
This reminds me of the 6 degrees of separation thing. People tell you that you can connect more or less everyone by 6 degrees. But what struck me was, for anyone you try this with, you know their names, so you've already restricted you
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by lordnacho 20d ago
Becoming a parent was probably the point in my life when I stopped thinking I was in control of everything. Before you become a parent, you think it's easy. You think you can just decide things for the kid, and that's the way it g
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by lordnacho 26d ago
The book can only tell you from its own reference frame. Time has passed since the book was published, a lot of relevant opinions have come out in the meantime. A publication also somewhat assumes what the reader knows, because it would tak
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by lordnacho 26d ago
But you did read and maybe watch the movie of Det Forsømte Forår. Interestingly we had a couple of much more recent books about young people in my school. But again, how would you know even about your own country without quite a lot of cont
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by lordnacho 26d ago
No way, there was simply no time for that. How would he have taught me economics anyway?
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by lordnacho 27d ago
As an old man I now think the art and humanities classes in school landed at the wrong time. You need context to really understand a book or a work of art. You want to know what kind of environment produced it, what it's talking to. Bu
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by lordnacho 28d ago
It's not a cost-benefit calculation. You just do it because you do it and you wouldn't be you if you didn't. Hard to put in words. And yes, you will feel like "WTF why did I do this" at times. A lot of people have p
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by lordnacho 29d ago
This makes me think of Factorio. When you make a breakthrough like getting robots, what do you do with it? Use it to make more robot factories. But in the real world, haven't we got to see whether all this investment will pay off? What
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by lordnacho 1mo ago
Nah, why would you say that? AI was in the news at least since ChatGPT 3, and you would have done well to buy eg Nvidia up to now.

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