pyridines

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by pyridines 26d ago
I get what you're saying. The thing itself is just math. I'll just say it depends on how you define intelligence. If at some point we're be able to simulate a human brain with 100% accuracy, I would say that it is intelligent
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by pyridines 26d ago
Okay, I guess you're right that its ability to do this is just correlational, which doesn't imply it has any understanding. However, you have to conclude that some tasks which we used to believe required intelligence don't ac
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by pyridines 26d ago
The very fact that it is able to search within a meaning-space demonstrates that it understands semantics, to some extent. Philosophically, that is profound, for something that is just one big matrix multiplication. Drawing connections betw
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by pyridines 26d ago
This looks interesting, but would you mind saying a sentence or two about why before I commit to an hour-long video? It looks like it shows how they work internally, which is sort of a non sequitur. Brains also work mechanistically. I'
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by pyridines 26d ago
I just can't accept that it possesses no intelligence. It is not equivalent to human intelligence, obviously, but how can a system without some semblance of rational thinking solve open math problems? Even composing earlier human wor
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by pyridines 1mo ago
That makes sense, though it sounds like it would still be feasibly cheap to only track a handful of users or organizations
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by pyridines 1mo ago
> Can a watermark be traced back to me or my organization? > No. The watermarking applies to Claude and its outputs. It doesn’t identify anything to do with individual users But there's nothing stopping them from doing this in th
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by pyridines 2mo ago
The wording in this post seems much more... restrained? than usual. Maybe Anthropic is afraid of exaggerating the capabilities and consequences of their new models to avoid government scrutiny and sanctions. > we’ve intentionally avoided
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by pyridines 2mo ago
What I hate about my new Toyota's volume knob is that there is no indication of volume level in the UI, and the knob itself doesn't ratchet. So I have absolutely no feedback about how much louder or quieter it's going to get
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by pyridines 3mo ago
> no need to tear them down after a couple of decades Where are people constructing buildings that need to be torn down after a couple decades? This is a refrain I've heard about construction (in the US?) several times in discussion
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by pyridines 3mo ago
IME it's Claude that pushes back, and Codex that just does the thing. It's happened once or twice where I've told Claude bluntly and directly "do this" and it responded "no, here's why that's a bad
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by pyridines 3mo ago
An image model could probably generate gore as long as there was, say, both PG-13 violence and surgery photos in the training set. There's probably no way to prevent the ability of the model to generate disturbing imagery without als
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by pyridines 5mo ago
'censorship' may be too strong a word, but there is something unprecedented about this. AI tools are supposed to be general-purpose and able to assist with all sorts of tasks. It's expected that they are restricted when it co
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by pyridines 7mo ago
In my experience, an agent with "fresh eyes", i.e., without the context of being told what to write and writing it, does have a different perspective and is able to be more critical. Chatbots tend to take the entire previous conve
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by pyridines 7mo ago
It is ridiculously more expensive and complicated under the hood, technically, but to the user, the sheer convenience of being able to text the computer "hey, when I get an email like X, inform Y and do Z" and that's it , yo
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by pyridines 8mo ago
Some nitpicking. > Modern JavaScript applications aren't just a few scripts anymore — they're sprawling codebases with thousands of dependencies, complex module graphs, and extensive build pipelines. This has been true for at l
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by pyridines 10mo ago
Animal intelligence is often underestimated, (e.g. there's a famous test that shows that chimpanzee working memory is better than ours) but our use of language is qualitatively different from other animals. Some animals have rudimentar
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by pyridines 11mo ago
> spaghettification is also a non-issue, as long as the framework defines clear containers for spaghettis Sorry, but I disagree strongly with this. When there is, inevitably, a bug that the LLM can't fix, someone's going to hav
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by pyridines 1y ago
they're referring to the infamous Corporate Memphis style which is frequently used in big tech branding: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_Memphis
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by pyridines 1y ago
It's not unreasonable to briefly forget details like that, especially when you're dealing with a multi-language codebase where "how do I make a log statement?" requires a different pattern in each one.
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by pyridines 1y ago
Another American holiday coming up with an equally useless name is Fourth of July. Nobody seems to have a problem with that name, and nobody I know calls it Independence Day. Neither Fourth of July or Juneteenth are great names out of conte
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Chicago Sun-Times prints summer reading list full of fake books(arstechnica.com)
27 points by pyridines 1y ago|0 comments
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by pyridines 2y ago
I was dumbfounded too, but NBC explains in this same article: > "The law banning TikTok [...] allows the president to grant a 90-day extension before the ban is enforced, provided certain criteria are met."
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by pyridines 2y ago
I agree - if I was a student, I would be very tempted to use an LLM for this sort of coursework-irrelevant busywork assignment, especially if I had other work on my plate. It's not so hard to rationalize using it for this type of thing
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by pyridines 2y ago
A shame there's only one doctor left :(
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by pyridines 3y ago
Oh, that's nothing. I present to you a 1 byte program that outputs the complete works of Shakespeare: a The interpreter, written in Rust (for performance), evaluates the command `a` by printing to STDOUT a particular payload included i
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by pyridines 3y ago
Here's my two cents, not directed towards you, but to the discussion in general. If someone wants to lease a product to you, and you would rather they sell it, that doesn't give you the right to pirate it. When the only way to buy
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by pyridines 3y ago
I'm reminded of the Itchy and Scratchy clip where they each pull out bigger and bigger guns on each other, until finally the earth explodes.
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by pyridines 3y ago
I'm shocked at how many bugs and UI issues I've encountered with the Quest 3 and the associated ecosystem (mostly the web store and android app). I can't help but think of Jonathan Blow's talk Preventing the Collapse of
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by pyridines 3y ago
they don't care because the replacements are 70% as good but cost 90% less

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