matheusd

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by matheusd 6mo ago
Unfortunately, it doesn't look like this is sufficient. While I had great success with GrapheneOS in the past, bank apps in Brazil have started blocking it, even when the profile you run it under has Google services installed. So Graph
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by matheusd 8mo ago
How about this for an evaluation: Have this (trained-on-older-corpus) LLM propose experiments. We "play the role of nature" and inform it of the results of the experiments. It can then try to deduce the natural laws. If we did thi
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by matheusd 1y ago
(Not op) Maybe not you in particular, but I expect people to be more forthcoming in their writing towards LLMs vs a raw google search. For example, a search of "nice places to live in" vs "I'm considering moving from m
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by matheusd 1y ago
> Explains why RL helps. Base models never see their own outputs so they can't learn "this concept exists but I can't actually say it." Say "Neuromancer" to the statue, that should set it free.
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by matheusd 1y ago
> Humans are more efficient watt for watt than any AI ever invented. Indeed they are. For now. The long term trend is not in our favor.
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by matheusd 1y ago
> block cars in cities a couple of days per week, individually selected per person. The net result in São Paulo (Brazil) for (something that approaches) this is that people end up buying a second vehicle.
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by matheusd 1y ago
Local governments in BR have already made ads using generative AI that were shown during prime time TV hours[1]. You can argue that is a bad thing (local designers/content producers/actors/etc lost revenue, while the money wa
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by matheusd 1y ago
> in Brazil it is 20% (sugar cane based) 30% in 2025 for cars (from 27%), 15% biodiesel in diesel for trucks (from 14%). Source: https://www.em.com.br/politica/2025/06/7183470-governo-aumen... > The wh
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by matheusd 1y ago
"has existed long before humanity" isn't relevant for my argument. "Will exist long after humanity" -> maybe, maybe not. If we're smart, capable and humble enough, we could, in principle, intentionally outla
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by matheusd 1y ago
Pretty sure no bacteria will survive on earth after the sun expands enough to char it, yes. Even if I'm wrong, and it does survive _that_, then it eventually won't survive the sun spending its entire energy budget. We're the
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by matheusd 1y ago
> Choosing what traits one considers exceptional, will by definition select what species one considers exceptional. /Every/ other species that has /ever/ lived will cease to exist (at the latest, in a billion years or
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by matheusd 1y ago
You're right to doubt it! And indeed, accounting for externalities (unmeasured or unmeasurable) is a tough economic proposition. If it weren't hard to account for every single variable, creating a planned economy would be easier (
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by matheusd 1y ago
The counterpoint is that not doing so (implying some sort of infinite monetary loss if the entire human species is wiped out) would mean you want to spend every single unit of monetary value of the entire global economy to preventing this (
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by matheusd 1y ago
> I don’t think they can yet self improve exponentially without human intuition yet I agree: if they could, they would be doing it already. Case in point: one of the first things done once ChatGPT started getting popular was "auto-g
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by matheusd 1y ago
Is it though? It is my understanding that the quantum fluctuations that give rise to BBs will still exist, even after (and specially after) the evaporation of black holes (perhaps assuming no Big Rip).
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by matheusd 1y ago
Attempting to summarize your argument (please let me know if I succeeded): Because we can't compare human and LLM architectural substrates, LLMs will never surpass human-level performance on _all_ tasks that require applying intell
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by matheusd 2y ago
Interesting, I have the exact polar opposite perception. I accessed this through a Qubes AppVM (no GPU, limited memory and CPU budget) and the presence of videos makes this a very slow scrolling experience for me. In general, anything that
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by matheusd 2y ago
If a generic human glances at an unfamiliar screen/wall/room, can they accurately, pixel-perfectly reconstruct every single element of it? Can they do it for every single screen they have seen in their entire lives?
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by matheusd 2y ago
Maybe it's a liability issue, not a competency issue.
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by matheusd 3y ago
Unless there is a small enough number of them that they can coordinate and all follow the same strategy.
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by matheusd 3y ago
That ("_every_ money-making industry...") seems like a too strong statement and can be proven false by finding even a single counter-example. gwd's claim (AFAICT) is that _specifically_ OpenAI, _for this specific decision_ is
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by matheusd 4y ago
My favorite site re: end of the world/universe is the old timer http://exitmundi.nl
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by matheusd 4y ago
You cannot "generate evidence at will to meet any threshold of evidence" for this specific example ("all swans are white") because, unless you posit that there are swans in Kepler-422B, I can set my threshold of evidence
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by matheusd 4y ago
> You're describing certainty. This is a prediction, not reality. I was being concrete about atoms, in particular , not about what gets named as a "scientific fact" in general. Yes, in general you don't reach tha
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by matheusd 4y ago
Value != Price, so yes a Toyota may be more valuable than a Lamborghini. A Lamborghini is (in general) objectively _pricier_ than a Toyota. The "value" of a car has more dimensions than simply its associated market price. All of t
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by matheusd 4y ago
> Except atoms aren't atomic: they can be further subdivided Those are two different facts: 1. Atoms exist 2. Atoms can be divided GP was attesting to #1 being a scientific fact for which "no matter your threshold for
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by matheusd 4y ago
This is an excellent comment! And this is a *very* strong threshold to reach: > No matter what your threshold for evidence needed is, it can be met. I'm fearful of mentioning any specific current scientific controversy, but it seems
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by matheusd 4y ago
My own nonota: https://github.com/matheusd/nonota CLI TUI, just a list of tasks, track time across them or manually add the time. Backing is a yaml file, so you can adjust if needed. Runs anywhere you can use Go to com
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by matheusd 4y ago
This is excellent! You should make a T-Shirt with this quote on it!
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by matheusd 4y ago
We could ask! This is HN, which a non-insignificant cohort of various types of investors (angels, VCs, maybe bankers?) visit. So let's open a couple of Ask HN/Pool HN: Are you an investor? Did you invest in a coop-like startup? W

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