lsedgwick

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by lsedgwick 3y ago
Fair, you're probably right in this case.
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by lsedgwick 3y ago
Please don't paste ChatGPT or BARD answers as HN comments in general? In this specific case, no, LLMs don't reliably know about themselves. They're trained on a big corpus of internet text, then trained by rough reinforcement
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by lsedgwick 3y ago
Do you think it's true? I got my hands on the pdf see no trace of it in table of contents or text searches.
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by lsedgwick 3y ago
You're right about the basic mistakes they can make - they can also excel at the same tasks if prompted differently. But I was making a slightly different point. The point is they can reason about things in a better-than-chance way (I
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by lsedgwick 3y ago
There are certainly emergent capabilities that come out of the training process of being able to predict next tokens, and it's shown that LLMs often can solve logic and math problems, riddles, etc. which are not in it's training d
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by lsedgwick 3y ago
I think the right context for thinking about the quoted advice is for a person's education. If true beginners didn't ever handwrite a recursion algorithm, a list sorting algorithm, a CRUD application, an assembly interpreter, a ne
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by lsedgwick 3y ago
Emissions tests are a poverty tax that play a strong role in punishing people trying to buy affordable old cars and either pushing the demand curve for new cars, or pushing poor people into illegality or carlessness.
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by lsedgwick 3y ago
hey man, please shoot me an email, I've not quite been in your shoes but would love to talk it out anonymously if you like, or at least just listen if you want to vent more. It's (hidden behind icloud for obvious reasons) chokers_
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by lsedgwick 3y ago
as many others now have said, you have great value (in my worldview, you have infinite value as a divinely created being, for that matter, not that I expect you to just believe me when I say that). Losing or never attaining success, money,
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by lsedgwick 3y ago
pardon the change in topic but what does GP stand for? is is like OP but for a comment thread?
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by lsedgwick 3y ago
I'm truly sympathetic towards the people affected, especially visa holders. But speaking solely of the macro effects, I have to say, I'm happy this day, stretching from last year to now, has come. We as a community were a very ann
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by lsedgwick 3y ago
Reminds me of Alan Turing's wildly undernoted remarks about ESP in his seminal essay "Computing Machinery and Intelligence" > I assume that the reader is familiar with the idea of extrasensory perception, and the meaning o
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by lsedgwick 3y ago
I guess this makes me a little demoralized about the utility of "anti-big-tech government actions," because to the extent any of these actions succeed, it's probably just sending a clear message to enhance state influence&#x2
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by lsedgwick 3y ago
I think this demonstrates a way in which all centralized power becomes, for good or for ill, partially absorbed into state power. A major country's government will always be able to exert lots of leverage against, e.g. tech companies,
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by lsedgwick 3y ago
Not to say companies should or shouldn't RTO etc, but the shocking freedom and flexibility of remote work in tech is such a gigantic class marker and insane lifestyle luxury that I'm surprised it's not more often identified a
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by lsedgwick 3y ago
Reminder that our regulatory apparatus allows these people to have phone numbers and make and receive phone calls without being able to be held accountable.
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by lsedgwick 3y ago
They're saying these were notes for a speech for a "communcations class" where he was cosplaying Gorden Gecko and not presenting his true beliefs? That so hard to believe. These notes could not more obviously be an internal m
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by lsedgwick 3y ago
This is a common failure mode tech people get into in debates: finding an extreme example as an analogy. There's lots of obvious differences of context and differences of degree which get swept over by a very abstract kind of stripped-
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by lsedgwick 3y ago
Either the site really doesn't support https (odd, since it is the very page that supplies the verification hashes!) or something more scary is actually happening and it's getting universally man-in-the-middled, which feels plausi
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by lsedgwick 3y ago
To add on with another question, are there systems (like password managers, or others) which have "double password" as a first-class feature? For instance, a hacky way could be if personA knows passwordA only, and personB knows pa
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by lsedgwick 3y ago
> Thomas Tymoczko has pointed out that there is nothing special about eight "buffalos";[2] any sentence consisting solely of the word "buffalo" repeated any number of times is grammatically correct. My favorite part o
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by lsedgwick 3y ago
fair. This was similarly amusing at least: > ERNIE’s opinions are surprising, to say the least. It believes the best American president is Richard Nixon: Impressive to see the RLHF penetrate deep enough into concept maps to teach the mod
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by lsedgwick 3y ago
> Bizarrely, this happens even when the question is completely unrelated to China: you get the same error message when you ask, “Why is Hawaii a part of the US?” Not bizarre at all, reveals they probably fine-tuned / RLHF'd on