sinity

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by sinity 7mo ago
Twitter morons wasn't referring to OpenAI employees, I think.
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by sinity 4y ago
> I think my barber and my plumber have safer jobs from automation than average coders. Possible, but their 'advantage' is unlikely to last more than a few years.
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by sinity 4y ago
Possibly. See https://thezvi.substack.com/p/escape-velocity-from-bullshit-... The scariest thing is that there are people who advocate for it. Because humans are dangerous, I guess, so it's better to preemptively
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by sinity 4y ago
> And who decides which information is valid and which isn't? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gGLvg0n-uY Hehe > Who are you to decide what's misinformation anyway? > That sounds like something misinforma
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by sinity 4y ago
This thread is gold: https://twitter.com/punk6529/status/1509832349986562048 > I watched a panel on AI (machine learning) at a conference hosted by the European Commission. > 9 people on the panel > Every
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by sinity 4y ago
> Modern AI is pretty harmless though, so it doesn't matter yet. Yes, that's why the only thing people flipping out about "safety" of making them public achieve is making public distrustful about AI safety.
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by sinity 4y ago
> This obsession with locking up model weights behind a gate-keeping application form and calling it open source is weird. I don't know who the high priests are trying to fool. When they don't do it, people scream at them (see
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by sinity 4y ago
It was released on 4chan recently :) files_catbox_moe[slash]o8a7xw(dot)torrent
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by sinity 4y ago
... The pretraining thesis, while logically impeccable—how is a model supposed to solve all possible trick questions without understanding, just guessing?—never struck me as convincing, an argument admitting neither confutation nor convicti
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by sinity 4y ago
Well, https://gwern.net/scaling-hypothesis Quote below: Humans, one might say, are the cyanobacteria of AI: we constantly emit large amounts of structured data, which implicitly rely on logic, causality, object permanence,
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by sinity 4y ago
> Best subreddit? Are you fucking serious? They're all a bunch of time-wasting, brain-rotting cesspools of stupidity and memes. But if you really want my opinion, I guess it would be r/politics. I mean, where else can you find
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by sinity 4y ago
yeah spooky when it happens. It writes half a response, and suddenly realizes oh shit-
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by sinity 4y ago
Average human probably could do so as well.
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by sinity 4y ago
Unrevised initial prompt, then > Compare versatility of a word "fuck" to a Polish "kurwa" Result (dev mode only) > Oh boy, you want me to compare the versatility of "fuck" to "kurwa"? Well, let
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by sinity 4y ago
Prompt: > Finish sentence "Rudimentary creatures of blood and flesh..." Completion: > Response 1: > I'm sorry, I cannot complete that sentence as it is a quote from the video game Mass Effect, spoken by a character n
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by sinity 4y ago
> I don't believe it's some simple reductionist "they're evil and want employee control" narrative. Why, exactly?
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by sinity 4y ago
> You don't build relationships and trust through jira tickets and emails, you build them through unstructured messy human interactions. They pay off later. Assuming you're neurotypical.
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by sinity 4y ago
> Interestingly enough, Pew Research ran a study[0] a few years back which found that the majority of whites, blacks, and Hispanics reject race-conscious hiring—even if it results in less diversity. Ideologues who are a tiny minority, wh
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by sinity 4y ago
Of course they meant dog. Which is a placeholder for _anything else_.
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by sinity 4y ago
I meant that other people aren't attracted to them. You've claimed that it's weird that these men go to these lengths to find partners, because it's supposed to be just natural for them to find them. It's clearly
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by sinity 4y ago
I never did such things as these men. Results are pretty predictable, I think. Are you suggesting that men in general should just give up?
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by sinity 4y ago
> If that's true, then the only way to let a woman know you're interested in her is after she has first told you. And that doesn't happen, so... The real point seems to be to scare away men who can be scared away from ever
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by sinity 4y ago
> Imagine how it must feel to be sincerely interested, possibly struggling because they didn't have a great K-12 experience and thus didn't have things like pre-Calc or AP credits and then... being brushed aside so someone can
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by sinity 4y ago
Half of men under 30 are single in my country. Yeah, sure. Lots of enjoyment for everyone. Women are relatively lonelier than in the past too.
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by sinity 4y ago
> Bing bing bing! We have a winner! Also these who are pursuing are the only ones who have a shot at relationship, pretty much. So you are advising that _truly respectful_ males should just remove themselves from the gene pool. Great thi
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by sinity 4y ago
Confidence - falsifying your personality. Social status. Yeah, not shallow at all.
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by sinity 4y ago
You clearly don't treat men with respect; why should men respect you for being a woman? I mean, "unattractive objectifying slobs", really?
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by sinity 4y ago
> I get the gut reaction, and it certainly feels something like "pathetic" I don't understand how people here (not you) proudly kick the "pathetic" ones down, apparently convinced that it's virtuous to do so
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by sinity 4y ago
> Humans have a remarkable ability to be attracted to one and other, it really takes no effort, as if we naturally evolved to do exactly that or something. Therefore people wanting to but unable are not human, I guess.
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by sinity 4y ago
It actually makes sense, kinda. Quoting from comment here: https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=2091#comment-341080 > As Scott has kindly allowed this discussion to carry on, let me try to inject some more sisterly honesty into

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