strogonoff

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by strogonoff 7d ago
That, and the very idea of direct access to the territory (needed for any sort of “lossless compression”, among other things) is moot since we only perceive it indirectly through the lens of our consciousness, which is anything but objectiv
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by strogonoff 7d ago
Consequentialism is not the only option. It invaded the mainstream thanks to effective altruism and friends, but deontological ethics is alive and well. Quitting your job instead of blowing up the office is well aligned with the latter.
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by strogonoff 14d ago
The moment there are no more unconfirmed hypotheses you can assume something is wrong with sciences. All provable models (theories, explanations) that we have, or could have, are by definition wrong or incomplete.
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by strogonoff 17d ago
Homegrown LLMs seem unlikely to be used by a significant fraction of LLM users, but yeah, there’s a blurred line. > Surely an LLM teaching someone chemistry falls into the same general category? I think the scale and the effort might bre
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by strogonoff 24d ago
Because an individual has free will and agency, and scale matters. If you teach someone chemistry, that someone probably has sense to not use it for criminal purposes. If you have a track record of teaching future terrorists specifically, y
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by strogonoff 25d ago
So, application process, inspections, background checks. Sounds like a good start?
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by strogonoff 25d ago
I don’t think anyone is talking about homegrown LLMs, this is commercial products for sale.
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by strogonoff 26d ago
Well, manufacturing guns is probably heavily regulated…
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by strogonoff 26d ago
There’s a difference between enabling another individual with free will and agency, and enabling an automated tool (as a bonus, then giving it to the masses & profiting from its use).
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What on Earth is Google doing?(digitaldigging.org)
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by strogonoff 1mo ago
"Raw” is not an acronym.
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by strogonoff 1mo ago
Finding consistency goes hand in hand with modeling reality, and every model by definition 1) is wrong (incomplete/incorrect/unprovable) and 2) exists in your head only.
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by strogonoff 1mo ago
All we can say is that the universe has been consistent so far, during the brief time we observed a small part of it given the instruments we have. We update our model(s) so that it keeps being consistent and predictable to us (that’s human
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by strogonoff 1mo ago
Django allowing queries to be anywhere is more or less in line with Python’s overarching “we’re all consenting adults here” ethos. There’s probably one correct way to do it, but if you want to shoot yourself in the foot then here’s your gun
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by strogonoff 2mo ago
When we give everyone a computer and want to restrict a group of people from some of its capabilities (for their own good), the consequence is a restricted computer. Not giving everyone that computer in the first place could help ensure i
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by strogonoff 2mo ago
If tech is disrupting X, that’s a problem with X” tends to be said by people who have X comfortably sorted themselves (e.g., already have a PhD that counts as it’s from the pre-LLM days). In the end it depends on whether one considers techn
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by strogonoff 2mo ago
Reducing your worth to mere productivity is myopic. Your worth is what you bring others, and while for some people it can include literal production for others it doesn’t have to. There’s wisdom, emotional support, and many other things.
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by strogonoff 2mo ago
An exclusive choice between maintaining free will and agency vs. achieving some definition of “success” makes for a good story. You’d think the choice would be blindingly obvious, and yet turns out it isn’t (or to some it is blindingly obvi
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by strogonoff 2mo ago
The argument that those who refuse to use an LLM will fall behind because they “won’t be able to produce as much” hinges on more LoC being an objective good and typing speed being a bottleneck, which always struck me as a suspicious line of
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by strogonoff 2mo ago
Measuring information entropy seems to have parallels with the incompleteness theorem and with the hard problem. As we approach the seams (so to speak) in our ability to model the system in its own terms, our otherwise precise maps become d
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by strogonoff 3mo ago
I do remember that we are promised to work less thanks to this tech, and yet somehow the opposite happens. We have to work more, and we are paid less (if we are able to get a job). > People who are chronically unemployed always sort of b
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by strogonoff 3mo ago
What’s this new trend with allegations how people have jobs for the sake of having jobs? People have jobs because this is an organised way for us to provide value to other humans and give our lives meaning; a way for us to express ourselves
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by strogonoff 3mo ago
Personally I thought opening doors was about the only thing they did—never seen them engage in any other activity. I am not sure you provide a counter-argument, IMO offering more people a way to earn money and do something useful (as oppose
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by strogonoff 3mo ago
To assume that the universe is disorderly presumes knowing some esoteric objective truth about how the universe works. Since the field of natural sciences does not provide that truth (by design), and practices that do aim to provide that tr
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by strogonoff 3mo ago
If comparing past industrialisation and automation events with hypothetical LLM dominance in the workforce, some of my questions would be: (0) how limited is the change to a specific industry (e.g., weaving vs. most of intellectual and crea
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by strogonoff 3mo ago
When I was in Bangkok a good while back, I was surprised how there’re doormen at shopping mall—humans to handle simple things which in many parts of the world would certainly not involve a person. A bit later I thought that it makes sense:
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by strogonoff 3mo ago
Looking just at ambient air temperature is an easy mistake to make. I used to be like that, always surprised why people whine so much near the coast in winter with their comfortable numbers and thinking I’m superhuman compared to them. I st
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by strogonoff 3mo ago
“A memory begins with tiny changes inside the brain” as truth statement is a basic fallacy of naive physicalism. There is no falsifiable way to ascertain in which direction causality points, nor is natural science even intended provide a de
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by strogonoff 3mo ago
I’m not sure it’s possible to truthfully describe what we are missing in reality with a photo. You can publish a photo with default automatic JPEG processing, say by a phone, and it will certainly look flat. You could also present a masterf
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by strogonoff 3mo ago
> How Big AI plans to profit from this intermediation is an open question. One AI company has suggested taking a cut of AI-assisted discoveries. The logistics and legalities would be boggling. Details—whatever. Interesting if t

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