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by quonn 1y ago
"Prediction" is hardly more than another term for inference. It's the very essence of machine learning. There is nothing new or useful in this concept.
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by quonn 1y ago
There was this BusinessWeek cover about OOP, almost 35 years ago: https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!diR3!,f_auto,q_auto:...
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by quonn 1y ago
Ronaldo competes in a sport that has 250 million players (mostly for leisure purposes) worldwide, who often practice daily since childhood, and still comes out on top. Are there 250 million AI specialists and the ones hired by Meta still co
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by quonn 1y ago
I‘m trying to find something resembling a reasoned argument in your comment, but there‘s nothing except profanity. I did not point out exceptions and the chicken example is merely an illustration of one of my points. And who says we are tal
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by quonn 1y ago
Of course. The whole study is about cities, even the first sentences already make this very clear. It has nothing to do with normal gardens, nothing _at all_.
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by quonn 1y ago
I said backyard, not some urban garden.
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by quonn 1y ago
Wrong. - mass unethical treatment (assuming you do not mean the fact that animals are killed) is related to the conditions which are related to price - health risks can be minimal depending on the amount and type of meat you eat - the CO2 i
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by quonn 1y ago
> Humans are tearing themselves apart and the only thing worth betting on is AI that can [...] end scarcity Scarcity, wow... - There is no scarcity in the rich world by historical standards. - There is extreme poverty in large parts of t
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by quonn 1y ago
I think I already answered those above. I draw the line between 3 and 4, possibly between 4 and 5. I don't know for sure. But there are good reasons to hold this belief. > the Buddhists call this nirvana, and it's quite difficu
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by quonn 1y ago
> you could fix your car 40 years ago, but you can’t now, because of scaled corporate processes. You can fix your car just fine - just not the electronics. And those were to a large degree added for safety reasons. It is due to the compl
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by quonn 1y ago
But nobody would dispute my basic definition (it is the subjective feeling or perception of being in the world). There are unsettled questions but that definition will hold regardless.
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by quonn 1y ago
Start here: https://udlbook.github.io/udlbook/
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by quonn 1y ago
> LLMs are not conscious because unlike human brains they don't learn or adapt (yet). That's neither a necessary nor sufficient condition. In order to be conscious, learning may not be needed, but a perception of the passing of
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by quonn 1y ago
> To claim that LLMs do not experience consciousness requires a model of how consciousness works. Nope. What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence. Hitchens's razor. You know you have consciousness
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by quonn 1y ago
> A brain is also "just proteins and currents," This is actually not comparable, because the brain has a much more complex structure that is _not_ learned, even at that level. The proteins and their structure are not a result o
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by quonn 1y ago
I don‘t think so. My impression with LLMs is that they correct typos well. I would imagine this happens in early layers without much impact on the remaining computation.
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by quonn 1y ago
Instant transfers have been available for many years. they were not free, but most banks supported doing them.
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by quonn 1y ago
> pretty damn hard sending money in the EU too You literally enter an IBAN and the transfer will appear in the other account the next day. And if you need the money in the target account immediately (within 10 seconds) you can do it, too
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by quonn 1y ago
Well, that could be an additional problem. My point was not that AI will necessarily be cheaper to run than $200, but that there is not much profit to be made. Of course the cost of inference will form a lower bound on the price as well.
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by quonn 1y ago
Charging $200/month is economically only possible if there is not a true market for LLMs or some sort of monopoly power. Currently there is no evidence that this will be the case. There are already multiple competitors and the barrier
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by quonn 1y ago
> Also there’s no laws on Mars - Earth treaties are irrelevant at that distance so he really could set himself up as the overlord and Emperor of a whole planet I think there are at least 3-6 states that either have the capability to send
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by quonn 1y ago
Is this sarcasm or not? edit: Yes it is.
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by quonn 1y ago
How do you get everyone to join - which is the important part?
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by quonn 1y ago
> I have a VW ID3. I have an ID4 so I can compare both. > I've not used a tesla so cannot do a direct comparison. That's all I need to know.
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by quonn 1y ago
I like the new look of the Y. I dislike the new look of the Model 3, though, which looked kind of cute and from the front somewhat like a Porsche and now looks sort of aggressive with the thin lights.
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by quonn 1y ago
It's not quite the same thing, though. Nobody would really care about the CEO's private opinions, no matter how unpleasant, but funding and running public campaigns for far-right parties (or threatening to do so even in Europe) is
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by quonn 1y ago
My point was the apology could be taken genuinely if he backs it up by somewhat painful actions (financially and in terms of control). Of course this is very unlikely to happen.
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by quonn 1y ago
> The choices are there. I have test-driven BYD, Volvo, VW and Tesla and extensively driving VW, Tesla and Volvo. Of course you see different brands, but it doesn't mean they are as good right now.
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by quonn 1y ago
There are very rarely any detours worth mentioning on highways anymore. I can confidently say this, because I regularly take trips across Europe, crossing 5 countries per trip (~3000 kms).
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by quonn 1y ago
I'll believe it when I see, say, a someone in a VW (or similar) driving across Europe without having to think about chargers, broken stations and cables, fiddling with different payment system card and having a screen that actually wor

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