pharke

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by pharke 4y ago
Given a choice between pre-industrial life and our current lifestyle, the choice is obvious.
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by pharke 4y ago
Explain how a language model can “evolve” into AGI.
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by pharke 4y ago
LLMs will never be AGI
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by pharke 4y ago
We currently live in a world that has been “unrecognizably transformed” by the industrial revolution and yet here we are.
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by pharke 4y ago
Could’ve said the same for any major technological advance. Luddism is not a solution. If these models are easily run on a laptop then yes some people are going to hurt themselves or others but we already have laws that deal with people doi
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by pharke 4y ago
They charge per 1k tokens so you must have high volume somehow, are you maxing out the prompt length every time? That’s the only thing I can think of besides sending a ridiculous number of requests that would cost that much in an evening.
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by pharke 4y ago
You could have saved some money by writing tests. How much text were you sending at a time? I’ve been summarizing multiple 500 word chunks per query in my app as well as generating embeddings and haven’t broken $10 over the course of a coup
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by pharke 4y ago
> I argue that the diminished sway of the Catholic Church, nearly 30 years before the French Revolution, was the key driver of the fertility decline > ...the Catholic Church, threatened by the spread of the Protestant Reformation, too
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by pharke 4y ago
Blaming the Catholic church specifically for high birth rates is a misstep especially since the author compares to England which has a long and varied history with Protestantism. The argument should be reframed around religiosity in general
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by pharke 4y ago
It's very much in their interest, if the information their models provide is impossible to verify then it severely limits its uses. You essentially can't use it as a source for anything that requires any type of citation or reliab
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by pharke 4y ago
Why would someone only ask an LLM questions when they were in the market to buy a book? Most people I know don't buy books in order to look up the answer to a question, sure some people buy reference books and use them but that's
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by pharke 4y ago
You can also invert this and say that without a system like ChatGPT it is physically impossible for most people to find or use those 570GB of data. A search engine can only get you so far and over time they are becoming less useful as the n
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by pharke 4y ago
I'm of the opinion that all kids books should be heavy on metaphor and allegory and all of the other important and joyful aspects of language. Restricting children to books that have been "written at their level" or "mad
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by pharke 4y ago
I've also played a few indie VR games that are using it. It's not like you have to be some technical wizard to enable it, you just need to make sure you aren't stomping on your FPS with a bunch of other stuff at the same time
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by pharke 4y ago
https://twitter.com/iBrews/status/1570844710155190275
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by pharke 4y ago
On the price point, the original iPhone retailed for $499USD which in inflation adjusted dollars today would be $714USD. The Quest 2 is significantly cheaper than that as a standalone device. The Quest Pro is much more expensive but is targ
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by pharke 4y ago
Nah, Microsoft and Meta are obviously partnering up. This is likely just a symptom of that with Meta getting buy in from Microsoft to use Meta's VR platform. I agree that Horizon is the worse of the two but that doesn't mean they&
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by pharke 4y ago
If we're talking about galactic distances and timescales I don't see why we couldn't safely assume enough technological advancement for either aliens or humans to modify their own biology to the point where centuries would be
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by pharke 4y ago
That's not a great starting assumption. How would the economics of travelling hundreds or thousands of light years in order to "consume" (whatever that means) other life forms work out? What is the benefit? How would it be wo
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by pharke 4y ago
I would have to assume that they know this and are in fact only looking for messages that are purposefully sent at very high power. It's also why they favor listening at the hydrogen line since transmissions at that frequency stand the
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by pharke 4y ago
I think that's a pretty bad choice of comparison. For one, they're two products under the same company. Secondly, Visual Studio is a bit of a dinosaur that suffers (and somewhat benefits) from a long history so it's easy for
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by pharke 4y ago
All y'all in here worrying about once an eon events when CMEs be like "shit I'm late for my centennial"
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by pharke 4y ago
Nuclear weapons which are optimized for wide surface area destruction or bunker busting are not very effective. Nuclear bombs like any bomb can be tuned to produce a variety of effects. See Nuclear shaped charges https://en.w
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by pharke 4y ago
That made me smile, I think a few teams may drop the juniors and keep the seniors but there's going to be a bunch of places that drop the seniors and proceed with an army of juniors equipped with GPT helpers.
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by pharke 4y ago
> The real threat that I see is that the AI will leave the boring part to us Do you enjoy writing code just for the sake of writing code? The thing I enjoy about programming is the results of the programming. Code is just the language I
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by pharke 4y ago
Yes, this person is an expert manager.
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by pharke 4y ago
For a vegetarian burger option, nothing beats a potato patty burger done to perfection. It's incredibly simple, essentially just mashed potatoes formed into a patty, breaded and fried. It can be seasoned to your liking with herbs, garl
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by pharke 4y ago
Mines aren't run with pickaxes and donkeys anymore. Take some time to educate yourself.
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by pharke 4y ago
I could be wrong, I'm not an expert on the matter by any means, but I think the reason traditional nuclear reactors are so heavily fortified against attack is specifically because of the threat of a catastrophic meltdown if their cooli
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by pharke 4y ago
Money is information. If maintainers eschew their own marketing, sales, and (paid) support then they lose access to this information. When someone else interprets the information provided through payment and non-payment their interpretation

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