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by ptdn 2y ago
It may sound absurd, but that doesn't make it so. There are good reasons to believe that at least in many cases (some of them being complex decisions), the conscious thought process is either ineffective or counterproductive. Obligator
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by ptdn 2y ago
The last century has involved the fastest reduction in severe poverty ever seen in human history, and it's not stopping anytime soon. We're allowed to also do other things.
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by ptdn 3y ago
The context windows of LLMs are now significantly larger than 2048 tokens, and there are clever ways to autopopulate context window to remind it of things.
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by ptdn 3y ago
Iran is not considered part of the Arabic world and is a completely different branch of Islam.
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by ptdn 3y ago
Yes, of course. Existing bodies of freshwater can be put to use. Counterpoint: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aral_Sea
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by ptdn 3y ago
Is this a weird behavior? I've always been this way.
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by ptdn 3y ago
superpower by 2020!
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by ptdn 3y ago
The mods for modern games involve making those games better for a specific audience. I've played a bunch of Stardew Valley and Minecraft mods. High-end Minecraft graphics and massive content packs make for an interesting (if buggy) exp
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by ptdn 3y ago
The golden age of moddable games ended a long time ago, and it's a major shame. Mods for Starcraft, Warcraft III, Half Life, etc. spawned thousands of sophisticated game modes that turned into dozens of independent games.
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by ptdn 3y ago
Social media delenda est. Reputation systems, politico-cultural tribalism, and human cognitive vulnerability w/r/t viral information have turned the entire cultural landscape into anarcho-1984.
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by ptdn 3y ago
Don't look at me. I was screaming about COVID in January 2020. The lib moral panic changing directions on a dime without a change in intensity was disorienting.
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by ptdn 3y ago
I am compelled to point out that in one of the info pages, the site includes screenshots of a conversation with ChatGPT where the author claims to trick AI detection by generating text with a lower temperature. But asking ChatGPT, through t
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by ptdn 3y ago
It does mention a hope for long-term durable immune response, but the point about being able to pre-emptively roll out a universal vaccine is probably more important. This would lower the total rate of infections by a lot and allow people t
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by ptdn 3y ago
I don't know that ChatGPT would be very successful at it, but I could imagine a multimodal LLM being extremely useful. There are tens of thousands of untranslated tablets.
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by ptdn 3y ago
Yes, of course. The only people with good debugging skills are the people who have spent a lot of time debugging their own code (or the code of others). However, in an LLM-dominated environment, it may be plausible for someone to develop st
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by ptdn 3y ago
I suspect that a coordination between a human programmer and an LLM doesn't require strong programming skills, but it does require strong debugging fundamentals. A month ago I had ChatGPT write a function in Racket just given a text de