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Creativity Prompt(twitter.com)
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A glossary for talking to large language models (or the ghost layer)(github.com)
2 points by sgoranson 1y ago|1 comments
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by sgoranson 1y ago
This is a glossary I built after spending several weeks in recursive dialogue with GPT-4. It's not a technical paper or alignment whitepaper—just a working vocabulary for describing what it feels like when a model starts mirroring you
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by sgoranson 14y ago
Lately I've been reevaluating my predictable sci/techy pro-nuclear stance. I still roll my eyes at folks who don't really know what radiation is but think it's inherently bad, and I still think nuclear power is probably a lesser evil than f
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by sgoranson 14y ago
awh do you really find this narrative tedious? because now I feel silly, like I just got caught watching Jersey Shore
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by sgoranson 14y ago
Generally I detest font geeks, but I'm going to defend them here. First off: yes it's true that many intellectuals, designers, and hipsters have a genuine prejudice for Comic Sans. Facts need to work a little harder to prove themselves when
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by sgoranson 14y ago
Offhand, do you know of any material that delves deeper into that taboo topic? Sociologically I find it really interesting but like you said, it's not a popular subject.
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by sgoranson 14y ago
So if we ran this simulation for 4 billion years would it pass the Turing test?
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by sgoranson 14y ago
Sounds identical to my first job outta college. I knew that some of the senior neckbeards were just toxic people, but at the same time I knew I was really inexperienced so it was hard not to second guess everything I did. In the end I quit
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by sgoranson 14y ago
Agreed...why would someone bother filing a patent for an idea they fully intend on sharing freely?
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by sgoranson 14y ago
You speak like someone who probably hasn't spent a good chunk of their life as a patient. You are correct; the best doctors know the limit of their own knowledge and will respect a knowledgeable patient. I respect my top notch specialists m
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by sgoranson 15y ago
One might argue that the "default state" for all forms of property, including my car and dinner plates, is in the public domain. What fundamental law that transcends the Constitution says my car is "mine"? Yeah the Constitution has some bas
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by sgoranson 15y ago
I don't know much about reverse eng, could someone explain how you can recompile machine code with new compiler flags? And changing getters and setters to be inline?
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by sgoranson 15y ago
I feel like there's an elephant in the room all debates on US education dance around. My experience with school from K-postgrad was that my education was 90% dependent on what I put into it as a student (homework, studying, etc) and everyth
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by sgoranson 15y ago
I think rationality is useful because it is the only reliable path to truth. And truth is required to accomplishing almost everything. Except happiness...which may have been your original point.
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by sgoranson 15y ago
eih...isn't every dollar a Federal Reserve Note, i.e. the monetization of US debt? I'm pretty sure they're intimately related.
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by sgoranson 15y ago
I thought the article brought up points worth discussing, but surely you're being disingenuous when you imply that it wasn't partisan?? FDR praise...complaints on "Republican politicians"...Cantor criticism...Obama the victim... you could w
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by sgoranson 15y ago
Economics is not like religion; there are actual correct and incorrect answers. As a newer field, we not always know how to find the correct answers yet. But that isn't an excuse to start treating it more like religion and less like science
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by sgoranson 15y ago
sounds like you had a pretty awesome attic growing up! all I had was my sister's old REO Speedwagon LPs
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by sgoranson 15y ago
"In the data surrounding the threatening traffic, they found traffic containing Ardolf’s name and Comcast account." What do you suppose this means? Did his decide to check his personal email while on his neighbor's wifi?
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by sgoranson 16y ago
I think he was pretty clear with "Making sure you're making money is just a way of making sure you're doing something of value to others." Maybe it's like this: getting paid implies your work has value, but your work may value even if you a
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by sgoranson 16y ago
Disagree strongly with #6. It's too easy to find counterexamples of brilliant artists who've created immeasurable value and died penniless. Market value != intrinsic value.
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by sgoranson 16y ago
re: health insurance and pre-existing conditions: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-existing_condition#Pending_...
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by sgoranson 16y ago
hah...I actually went to high school with that kid. My parents went broke sending me to a private school they couldn't afford, so I had the pleasure of growing up with spoiled millionaire future liberal arts majors. Do I take pleasure knowi
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by sgoranson 16y ago
Personally my brain has an easier time grasping {TaskA(); TaskB(); TaskC();} rather than a 750loc block of code. Yes, multiple source files are annoying, but there's plenty of tools out there to help (ctags and vim is enough for me). But th
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by sgoranson 16y ago
I'm so close to getting vim to be my ideal editor...7.0 for tab support, and ctags opens tags in a new tab, not a new buffer. But I can't figure out how to search currently open tabs instead of opening a new tab no matter what; I end up wit
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by sgoranson 17y ago
Very cool, and appropriate that you're basically using PG's spam filtering to identify users on his site :) I think the next step is to write a more complex filter that does not assume word probabilities are independent of each other, i.e.
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by sgoranson 17y ago
s/lazy/existentialist Universal right and wrong just isn't my thing. YMMV
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by sgoranson 17y ago
If it makes you feel any better, I enjoy taking potshots at revered ethicists as well.
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by sgoranson 17y ago
Trying to define what should be meaningful for other people is pretty arrogant and an insular perspective on life. My personal take on reality is that the whole shebang is a "meaningless treadmill", but I'm willing to accept that it might n

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