pegasus

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by pegasus 4d ago
All you get is a new, likely to be useless fact, together with the opaque proof of that fact. There are no known or forseeable applications to the finding that there are singularities in the idealized flow. What you lose OTOH, are the man
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by pegasus 4d ago
You don't seem to have grasped Terry Tao's (and others') criticisms. Basically they are saying that the advancement you get is illusory. Most of the time, it doesn't give you any new capabilities or deep understanding,
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by pegasus 4d ago
There can't be that many math museums in Paris...
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by pegasus 14d ago
And yet you terminated. Which would be the correct thing to do if Marxist philosophy would be wrong on all counts, as you explicitly state. Which of course, it isn't.
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by pegasus 18d ago
They're probably referring to tech like reasoning models, or agent harnesses for example, which are arguably slowly moving things towards the symbolic end of the spectrum.
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by pegasus 2mo ago
Sure, but the same must be true for these models as well. They must be doing some form of reasoning, even if it's not formally correct and it relies instead on all kind of half-assed heuristics which only work inside certain unexami
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by pegasus 2mo ago
Human languages aren't just a set of more or less arbitrary conventions relating groups of sounds with meanings. Language is probably humanity's greatest and most advanced technology, making most of the other ones possible. And
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by pegasus 2mo ago
Indeed.
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by pegasus 2mo ago
Sure, I'm all for opening the whole enchilada. But at least Chinese AI development is more open than the US one. And not just on the weights front, but AFAIK also more open when it comes to the techniques used and lessons learned i
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by pegasus 2mo ago
Regardless of the motivations behind the paper, the fact is that they are right. It's a topsy-turvy world where America closes up and China opens, and I hope it gets corrected soon. And besides, it seems to me like the ethical choice.
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by pegasus 2mo ago
I guess the question of why counterexamples are so rare and/or hard to find is still left to be investigated.
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by pegasus 2mo ago
I feel the same. When those large datacenter projects were being considered, the necessity for building new power lines should have been included in the ask. Instead they built the centers, then "notice" the system is straining a
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by pegasus 2mo ago
> What I'd really wish for is an EU browser that 'just works'. Have you tried Zen Browser? It's entirely open source but the core team and sponsor are European, and it's actively positioning itself as the Europe
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by pegasus 2mo ago
That difference is not essential to the question at hand. An open book test based on an erroneous book would give the same results as this test, even if it wouldn't penalize blank answers.
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by pegasus 2mo ago
Yep, a possibility that has found support with Roger Penrose, who wrote two books about it.
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by pegasus 2mo ago
I don't see how stealing IP is inconsistent with a sympathy for openness. If anything, it's the opposite. "Information wants to be free" and all that. They were just liberating those secrets ;)
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by pegasus 2mo ago
That's just one surface feature of how fascism manifests at the level of economic policy, it doesn't capture the essence of the movement. You wouldn't expect Mussolini to have the introspective capacity to actually understan
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by pegasus 2mo ago
"Mussolini's model"... Wikipedia has a whole page on the definition of Fascism [1]. Also worth reading is Umberto Eco's article on this subject, which also has its own wikipedia page [2]. Spoiler alert: it's not as
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by pegasus 2mo ago
Watercolors in SVG?
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by pegasus 2mo ago
Isn't steering the agent the new journey? Why shouldn't that provide "little intrinsic rewards"?
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by pegasus 2mo ago
Prefill isn't supported in the major commercial models anymore. Probably in order to thwart jailbreak attacks.
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by pegasus 2mo ago
Not only is AI art often slop, it's also often theft. Or maybe even always theft. And it's both of these things that account for this newfound ability to create something normally time-intensive in seconds. Imagine I want to h
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by pegasus 2mo ago
It's because they are post-trained to be agreeable, which is clearly a desirable trait in a model. I think the correct way around this is converting the conversation from first- and second-person direct, to third-person indirect, maki
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by pegasus 2mo ago
> From Shannon's theory, it's abundantly clear that "information" is just a mathematical description That's a very narrow and technical definition of information. It's what people refer to by the word when t
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by pegasus 2mo ago
Why shuffle, though?
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by pegasus 2mo ago
> Finally, to claim that information is somehow the important fundament of existence is patently absurd to me, since it would've similar to arguing that miles have some very special epistemic and ontological status. As the sibli
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by pegasus 2mo ago
This, a thousand times. As the ratio of code to human writing necessarily [1] goes up, they become not just smarter, but more precise and technical, which requires them to use more jargon. You could say they become more nerdy. Hence, text
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by pegasus 2mo ago
The Church-Turing thesis (the fact that all models of computation we've been able to come up with are equivalent) gives the necessary weight to that claim.
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by pegasus 2mo ago
This stance is very tempting because it appears so straightforward and no-nonsense. But there are issues which undermine it in my mind. Because, at a closer inspection, it itself doesn't seem informative, in the end coming down to a q
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by pegasus 2mo ago
You're encountering the "contrarian dynamic" which dang described in this post (which also explains why your own anti-contrarian comment reached the top) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24215601

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