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by oliveshell 2y ago
:eyeroll:
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by oliveshell 2y ago
> “Call these LLMs stupid all you want but…” Make defensive comments in response to LLM skepticism all you want— there are still precisely zero (0) reasons to believe they’ll make a quantum leap towards human-level reasoning any time soo
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by oliveshell 2y ago
Sadly Youtube has been actively blocking Invidious instances for a while now. These days it only works for me ~50% of the time.
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by oliveshell 3y ago
The fact that this comment was grey from downvotes when I found it is the most HN thing on the planet.
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by oliveshell 3y ago
Thank you for this. The greed-fueled magical thinking around AI is absolutely out of control at the moment.
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by oliveshell 3y ago
I made a reply about rolling my eyes to this comment that got flagged (rightly so); this was unproductive and impulsive and I admit I shouldn't have done it. I'm not sure how HN handles replies to flagged comments, so I'm pos
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by oliveshell 3y ago
I'd've liked very much to give you one, but your blanket dismissal of what I consider to be a very important step for the field of AI ethics as the work of "Innovation Sponges" reveals that we fundamentally disagree abou
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by oliveshell 3y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html ^ Go read the comment guidelines. Really read them. I dare you (rhetorically, not really: I won't read any further replies from you so save your breath) to then assert
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by oliveshell 3y ago
Dude, the core tenet of this forum is making a good-faith [1] effort to really understand the fantastically complex issues at play here, and then to communicate about them honestly in a collaborative, rather than competitive, spirit. You
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by oliveshell 3y ago
Sorry, but what on earth does any of this actually mean ? You appear to be arguing in unequivocal favor of a short-termist, purely profit-driven way of doing business, which is a viewpoint that, to me, needs a whole lot more cogent suppo
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by oliveshell 3y ago
If you find it crippling, you haven't at all understand what he meant. It's just gratitude . Nothing "crippling" about that.
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by oliveshell 3y ago
"Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar." -Sigmund Freud
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by oliveshell 3y ago
Amen.
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by oliveshell 3y ago
> ”…without proof, it's just as plausible as…” You may be interested to know that people whose job requires them to be epistemologically rigorous do not think in this way: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesia
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by oliveshell 3y ago
Oh no, a slippery slope of compassion! To wit, the long title of the bill: "An Act to make provision for an Animal Sentience Committee with functions relating to the effect of government policy on the welfare of animals as sentient be
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by oliveshell 3y ago
I take your point, but this feels pretty defeatist to me. I don’t personally believe that “we have not historically done this well, if at all” is a good reason to stop trying to manage the negative externalities of emerging technology— quit
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by oliveshell 3y ago
Oh— I see now you were making reference to a comment I made in reply to someone else. Yes, that was something that I said and I stand by it. I do not see any reason to be concerned about AI as an existential threat at the present moment. I
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by oliveshell 3y ago
I didn’t dismiss anything. I didn’t say anything was alarmist. Please don’t put words in my mouth. You didn’t say anything about societal problems. You wondered if the growth will ever stop, and I tried my best in good faith to give the r
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by oliveshell 3y ago
I cannot imagine a scenario where it doesn’t drop off. The massive recent improvements in GPT’s performance are a result of giving the model enormous numbers of parameters and a wealth of training data. That’s it. Surely this paradigm canno
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by oliveshell 3y ago
What sort of professions? I think it might really help with writers’ block. But “handicapped without it” in “ many professions”? Without detailed support, this reads as a rather absurd and zealous statement.
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by oliveshell 3y ago
If you’re in an open powerboat, your best chance would be to apply full throttle and get the hell away from the storm as fast as you can, like the parent commenter did. If you manage to find yourself in a lightning storm in a small, open sa
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by oliveshell 3y ago
Good use case! We’re still decades from AGI in my opinion, and the Chicken Little types ought to pace themselves, is all I’m saying.
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by oliveshell 3y ago
Oh, please. Its not that we don’t wish to ever hear about the technology again. We’re just sick of the current wave of breathless, manic speculation from nincompoops engaged in magical thinking.
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by oliveshell 3y ago
These properties also cause some people to attempt injecting or swallowing colloidal silver as a purported panacea, sometimes with unintended results: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argyria
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by oliveshell 4y ago
My main exposure to Ruffle has been through its use on Homestarrunner.com, where it’s been deployed to maintain a working archive of their old cartoons (complete with interactive Easter eggs, which obviously isn’t possible on YouTube). It
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by oliveshell 4y ago
You can do anything at Zombocom
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by oliveshell 4y ago
This reminds me of how I felt when I was 14 years old and I discovered what oxytocin was on an episode of Boston Legal. The fact that feelings of love and closeness could be prompted by a mere chemical was deeply saddening to me. It wrecked
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by oliveshell 4y ago
>It's easy to point the finger at what is wrong and provide no alternative. I'm not sure there is one, that is realistic. "It's often been said that Democracy is the worst form of government— except for all the others
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by oliveshell 4y ago
I feel I get a lot of value for the $60 I pay annually to read The New Yorker online. [1] It's not perfect, but it's become essentially the only place I consume "long-form articles about interesting stuff"-type conten
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by oliveshell 4y ago
> it's looking like one of them could be something like an LLM I love your enthusiasm in this direction (I really do). But here's some free advice I won't be able to prove for a long time: Anyone who is currently convinced

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