ryanklee

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by ryanklee 3y ago
The saltines is basically inappropriate.
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by ryanklee 3y ago
The problem is with the person, not the tool. Get rid of people who can't think critically, replace them with people who can.
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by ryanklee 3y ago
And I didn't suggest how to do so. I implied that there is an issue with the quality of their coworkers, not ChatGPT.
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by ryanklee 3y ago
That sounds to me less of an issue with ChatGPT, and more with having colleagues that don't understand how to engage in reasonable discussion or evaluate information correctly.
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by ryanklee 3y ago
What matters is whether the suggestions are actually good, not where they came from.
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by ryanklee 3y ago
I don't understand what you're pushing back against, but I'm not standing there.
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by ryanklee 3y ago
I assumed it was in reference to llama.cpp. It's a weak assumption, though.
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by ryanklee 3y ago
It's an LLM technology that allows certain models to run on CPUs rather than big beefy GPUs. Makes running locally viable for consumers.
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by ryanklee 3y ago
Again, I acknowledge that citations have value and are important and desirable as a feature of how we communicate. But citations did not begin their rise a standard until the 1900s. The idea that knowledge production was not valuable until
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by ryanklee 3y ago
Imagine being an actual woman and having to deal with this bullshit all the fucking time. I have no idea how the hell they do it. Must be low-level torture.
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by ryanklee 3y ago
I didn't ignore it. But we do not require citations for every statement. Statements have value, citations notwithstanding.
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by ryanklee 3y ago
I don't have a position on that, and there's not one implied by my comment, which is why I am unsure why the commenter assumes one.
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by ryanklee 3y ago
This is not correct. You can get an LLM to improve reasoning through iteration and interrogation. By changing the content in its context window you can evolve a conversation quite nicely and get elaborated explanations, reversals of opinion
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by ryanklee 3y ago
There is a ton of arrogance everywhere on this subject. Anyone who doesn't see how complicated and nuanced and difficult figuring out what the hell is going on here really needs to sit down and think a little more carefully. There&#x27
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by ryanklee 3y ago
> cannot reason anybody out of something that they want to believe. Especially when your own reasons are not the slam dunk you think they are.
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by ryanklee 3y ago
I totally fail to see how you got that from my comment.
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by ryanklee 3y ago
We shouldn't need his alleged drug use as an excuse to eject Musk from public life and positions of power and responsibility. His abhorrent and disgusting behavior should be enough on its own.
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by ryanklee 3y ago
Please spell this out for me. I'm a very tech savvy individual, and as a parent who has spent hours and hours navigating the murk of disparate parental control systems, it is clear to me that what you say is only true if you commit to
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by ryanklee 3y ago
It absolutely is useful and one of the most significant points in this comment section. People are applying standards to LLMs that don't exist elsewhere. They don't exist elsewhere because they absolutely can't exist elsewher
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by ryanklee 3y ago
What are the citations actually required for though? Another way to ask this is: what value remains without them? I'll add this as well: humans produced valuable knowledge for thousands of years without the use or standard of citations
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by ryanklee 3y ago
> I never understood how many of the other kids were starting to smoke Human behavior is not generally a result of reasoning.
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by ryanklee 3y ago
Based on what?
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by ryanklee 3y ago
That is not correct. You can interrogate an LLM. You can evaluate its responses in the course of interrogation. You can judge whether those responses are coherent internally and congruent with other sources of information. LLMs can also off
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by ryanklee 3y ago
I'm not referring to hallucinations. I'm referring to novel relationships drawn between datum in the corpus that are a result of training and inference. This is apparent in something as simple as a summarization.
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by ryanklee 3y ago
We don't only reason from facts. We also reason from value. Further, reasoning that rests on facts that does not cite facts still has massive utility. (See people, all day long.) Citations are useful, but not required.
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by ryanklee 3y ago
> Nearly everything published What a bald exaggeration
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by ryanklee 3y ago
I don't think that's necessarily the case. I get the strong impression that even people who have much experience using LLMs have astoundingly little insight into what they are actually witnessing. This is often paired with astound
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by ryanklee 3y ago
Synthetic knowledge is not bullshit. Synthetic knowledge refers to propositions or truths that are not just based on the meanings of the words or concepts involved, but also on the state of the world or some form of experience or observatio
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by ryanklee 3y ago
The additional context doesn't do any work.
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by ryanklee 3y ago
Providing reasoning and providing citations are not the same thing. Reasons can be provided without citations; citations can be provided without reasons. LLMs have astounding utility citations notwithstanding.

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