mikepalmer

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by mikepalmer 12d ago
suggestions: switch L-R directions like Defender dogfights with the red baron vertical and horizontal (have to stall through them) hoops ability to shoot up buildings levels with different goals... then you fly somewhere else to the next le
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by mikepalmer 12d ago
Love the flight dynamics, super fun game!! Now can you make GTA VII??
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by mikepalmer 2mo ago
Half the thread is arguing about whether OpenAI staged this or whether theyre being sincere, as if OpenAI has agency. openai is just an optimizer maximizing paperclips (valuation, capability lead, reg position). so it built a model that max
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by mikepalmer 3mo ago
on the other hand, now we have claude mythos... which is wtf returns even for a very large number of instructions...
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by mikepalmer 4mo ago
Richard Dawkins is primarily a _showman_ who wants to sell books, and secondarily extremely sure of his own convictions, to a fault. In _The God Delusion_ he took an uncompromising atheist position partly to invite attention and attacks - w
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by mikepalmer 11mo ago
I hate articles that don't define their acronyms! Lazy? Intentionally exclusive? So that others don't also have to look it up, it's Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG). They even say it's "a topic that we didn’t ex
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by mikepalmer 1y ago
And how do you know it's irreducible? In the sense of knowing there's no short program to describe it (Kolmogorov style).
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by mikepalmer 1y ago
"LLMs are not intelligent and they never will be." If he means they will never outperform humans at cognitive or robotics tasks, that's a strong claim! If he just means they aren't conscious... then let's don't
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by mikepalmer 2y ago
> You can iterate your way out of a valley if you know which way is up. love this, I think this is my new personal motto!
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by mikepalmer 2y ago
aider https://aider.chat/ basically does this already. % aider [...] > do this on command line: ffmpeg cat\ meets\ skunk.mp4 normalize audio without reencoding video to video2.mp4 To normalize the audio without re-encod
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by mikepalmer 2y ago
Love this. The adhd spirit is inspiring. Right at the end of the article: "There is also an extra colon mark in the line just below." pretty sure that's a semicolon!
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by mikepalmer 2y ago
> We can stop thinking of theories as being real or not in a binary sense, and merely ask how well they compress the data. Of course, different theories can achieve the same compression by compressing different aspects of the data! Your
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by mikepalmer 2y ago
Agree, "spooky action at a distance" isn't spooky at all if you just accept it as physical!
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by mikepalmer 2y ago
Near the end: "I believe that the quest to understand the reality of the universe must contend with the truncations imposed by the perceptual and cognitive limitations of the mind." Totally agree with him. Interestingly AGI will h
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by mikepalmer 2y ago
"... with the aim of enabling the company’s AI... to plan ahead enough to navigate the internet autonomously and reliably to perform what OpenAI terms “deep research...” Nice... let the AGI loose on the internet... what could go wrong?
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by mikepalmer 2y ago
Yawn. Evaluated in terms of Graham's hierarchy of disagreement, this article employs the techniques of: contradiction, ad hominem, and name-calling
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by mikepalmer 2y ago
What if we take AI out of the equation. Should the voice actress who voiced Sky (call her A) be unable to do any voice work because she sounds too much like SJ? How about if the production company that made "Her" wants to make &qu
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by mikepalmer 2y ago
I dunno, it's hard to agree that the outputs contain "no emotion" when you see these examples (scroll down): https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/09/opena... In particular, the p
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by mikepalmer 3y ago
100% yurt. Yurts in cold climates is a thing. Sometimes they just have a smoke hole in the roof instead of a chimney. All the pictures are at weird angles, they're printed on a ball! :-) https://www.google.com/search?q=
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by mikepalmer 3y ago
Here's one from the inside with a wood stove, thanks airbnb: https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/17261315?adults=1&children=0&in...
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by mikepalmer 3y ago
Why did no one guess "yurt" (with smoke coming out the chimney)? Pictures of yurts here, first one with a chimney: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yurt
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by mikepalmer 3y ago
Context: LLMs learn all the amazing things they do by predicting the next token in internet data. A shocking amount can be inferred from the internet by leveraging this straightforward (I won't say "simple"!) task. There was
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by mikepalmer 3y ago
One reason to discuss job displacement is that otherwise you sound like a nutcase ("we're all going to die!")... which causes most people to dismiss you out of hand. If you talk about job loss, more people see something plaus
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by mikepalmer 3y ago
Surely we can agree there is risk? (You do imply it's powerful, "this tech is literally the most exciting development of my lifetime".) Also can we agree "It's not up to a handful of researchers to endanger the live
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by mikepalmer 3y ago
Your idea is also voiced in Forbes magazine. https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattnovak/2023/03/29/the-real-r... Search "Graham's hierarchy of disagreement" which is popular on HN. Your c
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by mikepalmer 4y ago
Regarding Chomsky's characterization of LLMs "gorging on hundreds of terabytes of data" compared to the "miniscule data" required for a child to learn a language: The brain is evolved, so the the "gorging"
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by mikepalmer 4y ago
> ChatGPT does not think, know, care, intend, speak, commnuicate, etc. These are statements of faith. They can't be proven or disproven by any experiment. "I think therefore I am." applies to just me. I'll never know
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by mikepalmer 4y ago
This dude is a riot! Wish I could write like that! The overall concept is hysterical, article has great momentum, and many zingers throughout.
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by mikepalmer 6y ago
Yes, the topic of the article is human extinction, and one can be pedantic and say, why stray off topic? However, conceptually close is near-extinction, with unfathomable suffering and waste, destruction of nearly all human culture, nearly
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by mikepalmer 7y ago
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