maxdoop

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by maxdoop 1y ago
Do you use AI tools at all? I am slightly astonished someone makes these sorts of comments in 2025. AI has been remarkably useful for many many things across many industries; I’m curious what you think
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by maxdoop 1y ago
And how would you define intelligence then?
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by maxdoop 2y ago
Black mirror episode about exactly this
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by maxdoop 2y ago
Do you enjoy … any fiction? Sheesh
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by maxdoop 2y ago
Erewhon is probably THEE most expensive place lol
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by maxdoop 2y ago
So how can you claim what an LLM is doing if we cannot define it regardless?
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by maxdoop 2y ago
What is reasoning? What is understanding? Do humans do either? How do you know?
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by maxdoop 2y ago
And how is what humans do any different ? What does it mean to understand ? Are we pattern matching as well?
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by maxdoop 2y ago
So then what is AGI?
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by maxdoop 2y ago
How much longer can I get paid $150k to write code ?
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by maxdoop 2y ago
Choice is different than free will. We have will, but it is not free. We will make choices.
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by maxdoop 2y ago
What will your next thought be? Think of a movie — why did that movie arise in your mind? It’s an illusion but that doesn’t negate we must operate as though our will is free!
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by maxdoop 2y ago
Majority of kids and teens do not care about that, as much as we’d assume. They are aware, but their day to day is what is important to them. Friends, relationships, drama — they are kids.
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by maxdoop 2y ago
Gary Marcus is unquestionably one of the most negative , and consistently wrong voices in the AI community. I do not understand why he is continued to be given credence or ears to anything he claims.
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by maxdoop 2y ago
Do you often discount studies and science when it comes to ideas that don’t align with your natural instinct? Is addiction a disease or a moral failure? Is depression a chemical imbalance or is it your own fault, maybe just “exercise and sm
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Ask HN: How would you orient your life if you could not have children?
3 points by maxdoop 3y ago|2 comments
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by maxdoop 3y ago
OK, it sounds like your experience was selfish simply because later ON you had children, and the time you spent alone was time you could've had with your eventual children. But what of someone who will not have children at all? How is
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by maxdoop 3y ago
What of the people that have children but those children do not contribute in any meaningful way to society? Is the implication here that every child born must somehow be a net-positive to society? I see what you're saying about the re
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by maxdoop 3y ago
"I'm not giving anyone else a chance" -- there is no "anyone else". There is nothing being robbed, as there is no other party that literally exists in the universe.
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by maxdoop 3y ago
There are studies that show quote plainly that people with kids are unholier than those without. The difference is much later on life when the happiness “winner” switches to the group with children. One theory aside from the obvious is that
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by maxdoop 3y ago
How is it selfish to not have kids? Selfishness implies another party; if the kid doesn’t even exist, what is selfish?
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by maxdoop 3y ago
Which version do you use? People often say things like your comment and 99.9% of the time, it’s poor prompting or a lower GPT version. GPT-4 is remarkably helpful for many coding tasks. If you can’t find use for it, that likely is more of a
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by maxdoop 3y ago
Do you really think current AI progress is nothing more than an NFT repeat?
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by maxdoop 3y ago
Why does being a man or woman even matter? Do we really need a DEI hire for the board of some of the most groundbreaking tech in years? I’m not saying Larry Summers has some perfect resume for the job; but to assume he was brought on BECAU
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by maxdoop 3y ago
Do you think people said she has no qualifications because she is a woman, or is it possible people say that because her resume is quite short ? It seems like people taking such comments as misogynistic are actually projecting misogyny int
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by maxdoop 3y ago
Out of curiosity, because I am trying to learn how to explain to non-tech people what AGI is — how would you describe or define AGI?
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by maxdoop 3y ago
How would you define “thinking”? I’m not at all claiming an LLM thinks, but so many people on HN make this claim and I wonder what they even mean by “think”.
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by maxdoop 3y ago
Is there any progress in AI that you find significant or what do you think would qualify as a “breakthrough”?
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by maxdoop 3y ago
How HN continues to not expand current progress into any decently significant future timeline is beyond me. It’s grade school math NOW. But what are the potentials from here?
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by maxdoop 3y ago
Are you saying GPT-4 is not much different than GPT2?

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