mvr123456

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by mvr123456 7mo ago
Something I've been thinking about for years, and fully expected to see earlier. Even though reasoning with LLMs is still largely broken, the "flag logical fallacies and cognitive biases" task feels like something trivially d
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by mvr123456 7mo ago
Sure, it's typical Wolfram, inviting the typical criticism. If you can understand what he's talking about at all then you won't be very convinced it's new. If you can't understand what he's talking about, th
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by mvr123456 7mo ago
I suppose evangelism still has some value if you have a big enough platform. There's always frog-boiled obliviousness to deal with or the next gen coming up and trying to figure out which problems are real and which are old people yell
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by mvr123456 7mo ago
This reminds me of how you can create fair coins from biased ones and vice versa. You toss your coin repeatedly, and then get the singular "result" in some way by encoding/decoding the sequence. Different sequences might ma
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by mvr123456 7mo ago
> The combined effect of knots on our technology and understanding of the world is fascinating. Knots as code, code as knots: https://arxiv.org/abs/1009.2107
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by mvr123456 7mo ago
Looking at LLMs as a less-than-completely-reliable compiler is a good idea, but it's misleading to think of them as natural-language-to-implementation compiler because they are actually an anything-to-anything compiler. If you don&#x
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by mvr123456 8mo ago
Since it's an old debate that a lot of smart people spent a lot of time thinking about, the best short / simple answer you'll see for it is "you might want to read some more about it". A few keywords here are quali
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by mvr123456 8mo ago
The intro is really good and stands alone. I'd point any outsider to this as a decent description of hacking, programming, software engineering, prototyping in general.
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by mvr123456 9mo ago
This is going to happen and is real stuff we could be working towards with the tools that we already have. No need for AGI vaporware, no waiting around for the perfect agentic playground. Not even necessarily a big requirement for excelle
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by mvr123456 9mo ago
> perfect distillation of a uniquely American problem [..] but how is this going to get power online faster than just installing solar and batteries? I like the part where when considering a complex topic, "it became clear" to
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by mvr123456 10mo ago
> The data shows millennials as a whole are better off than boomers were at their age. Perhaps true if you go east far enough, seems objectively wrong for the majority of the west though. Honest question, if you think this and it isn&#x
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by mvr123456 9y ago
Signup doesn't actually work for this thing, just an error that shows a Justin Bieber quote.