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by sendes 1mo ago
Finally an important and realistic application of economic theory to real life!
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Tricki – a repository of mathematical know-how (2020)(tricki.org)
2 points by sendes 1mo ago|0 comments
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Efficient social learning is the human advantage over AI by Devid Deming(forklightning.substack.com)
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by sendes 4mo ago
> I think the "living community" thing is the answer to this. It' ecology. I agree. A body of knowledge, mathematical knowledge being one of them, is a give-and-take between its producers and consumers; a market for ideas.
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by sendes 5mo ago
This is an already apparent problem in academia, though not for the reasons the article suggests. It is not so much that the "tells" of a poor quality work are vanishing, but that even careful scrutiny of a work done with AI is go
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by sendes 6mo ago
> I'd say most people most of the time outsourced actual thinking to someone else. Someone else being human, until now. That may change. That's the whole point! But I concur with your general point on the upstream production of
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by sendes 6mo ago
A common error in historical thinking tends to see human tools essentially as a positive linear plot between time and progress. But these tools until AI had the common property of being enhancing of human cognition, because they couldn&#x27
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by sendes 6mo ago
> We assert that artificial intelligence is a natural evolution of human tools. While nowhere in the paper this is actually asserted but the abstract, a whiggish narrative of a genuinely unprecedented technology --such that it can replac
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Catching crumbs from the table by Ted Chiang (2000) [pdf](gwern.net)
4 points by sendes 6mo ago|1 comments
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by sendes 6mo ago
Or, as the author's preferred title, The Evolution of Human Science.
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Daron Acemoglu warns U.S. democracy won't survive unless these two things change(fortune.com)
8 points by sendes 7mo ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: What is your opinion on non-mainstream mobile OS options (e.g. /e/OS)?
6 points by sendes 8mo ago|4 comments
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by sendes 8mo ago
>its becoming very likely the user is becoming delusional or may engage in dangerous behavior. Talking to AI might be the very thing that keeps those tendencies below the threshold of dangerous. Simply flagging long conversations would n
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Computer scientist Yann LeCun: 'Intelligence is about learning'(ft.com)
12 points by sendes 9mo ago|4 comments
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by sendes 9mo ago
As an avid coffee-lover, I am sympathetic to the efforts to make coffee-brewing more of a science than an art. After all, it seems that doing so improves science just as much! https://today.ucsd.edu/story/coffee-and-tur
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by sendes 9mo ago
I see the hyperbole is the point, but surely what these machines do is to literally predict? The entire prompt engineering endeavour is to get them to predict better and more precisely. Of course, these are not perfect solutions - they are
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by sendes 9mo ago
Around May, Altman said to FT that his job was the "most important job maybe in history" (FT: https://www.ft.com/content/a3d65804-1cf3-4d67-ac79-9b78a10b6... ). He did come back from brink of death before as w
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by sendes 9mo ago
True, but the horses' population started (slightly) rising again when they went from economic tools to recreational tools for humans. What will happen to humans?