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by swid 6d ago
> There is no near term commercial value How much do you think other AI companies would offer to get access to the transcripts of the generation that led to the proof? No doubt OpenAI will include it in their training data somehow and u
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by swid 3mo ago
If our own brains were insufficient to demonstrate the fallacy of the Chinese Room; the particles, molecules, cells, synapses, and so forth of our bodies cannot be believed to have understanding, but we recognize it in the sum of the part a
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by swid 3mo ago
It’s funny you defend your independence by giving explanations of how you changed your peanut butter buying habits. The point was we don’t care what kind of peanut butter you buy; it’s not a meaningful kind of choice to have.
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by swid 3mo ago
Because there is so much money for kindergarten teachers, paying an extra salary for a software dev for every kindergarten will certainly lead to better outcomes. The computer programs will make up for the lost teacher economically by teac
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by swid 6mo ago
This is very short sighted, and ignores the lethal trifecta insight. The LLM doesn’t need to know what it is actually doing (it might think it is searching the web, installing a dev tool, or sending observability data (like metrics), when i
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by swid 6mo ago
> I see no problem with betting on who will win a sports match... I do wonder - what if the sports teams or politician loses intentionally; which could either be to profit off the loss or due to threats from an actor who seeks to profit?
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by swid 6mo ago
This argument is also explored by the “Quantum Computing for the Very Curious” series that uses spaced repetition to teach an advanced topic. The series has been posted to HN more than once. I also find it convincing.
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by swid 7mo ago
There is no real such thing as a read only GET request if we are talking about security issues here. Payloads with secrets can still be exfiltrated, and a server you don’t control can do what it wants when it gets the request.
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by swid 7mo ago
Is the customer actually a chat bot though? That brand is renamed, but maybe after the training cutoff date.
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by swid 7mo ago
I personally have jested many times I picked my career because the logical soundness of programming is comforting to me. A one is always a one; you don’t measure it and find it off by some error; you can’t measure it a second time and get
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by swid 8mo ago
Being 100% uncertain is not the same as either option being equally likely. More like the probability of either option is undefined.
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by swid 8mo ago
If you had infinite compute and time could you not just simulate all of “earth” itself? I think the compute needed for that would be absurd and unreasonable to build, but such a simulation would obviously have natural selection going on in
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by swid 8mo ago
You don’t need consciousness to produce it though. The universe is not conscious, but the rules of how it works allows for them. I believe the universe is essentially computable, and therefore Turing machines can also support consciousnes
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by swid 8mo ago
I think you are just misinterpreting my use of the word simulation… I mean the computer is performing math which produces a simulation, but the consciousness still feels alive to itself; and is real. A simulation of a bomb does not produce
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by swid 8mo ago
This is a tired argument that is not worthy of all the long written articles about the impossibility of creating conscious machines. The universe itself appears to me to be some type of computer in a way. Physics cannot explain consciousn
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by swid 8mo ago
If you know you will be pruning or otherwise reusing the context across multiple threads, the best place for context that will be retained is at the beginning due to prompt caching - it will reduce the cost and improve the speed. If not, in
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by swid 8mo ago
I think the answer is that it would obviously be possible. For one, humans do it. And also AI shows a willingness to role play as any persona, so why wouldn’t it do such things when set up to do so.
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by swid 8mo ago
Every model update would be a breaking change, an honest application of SemVer has no place in AI model versions. Not saying using major.minor depending on architecture is a bad thing, but it wouldn’t be SemVer, and that doesn’t even cover
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by swid 9mo ago
Go Proverb: A little copying is better than a big dependency.
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by swid 9mo ago
The real problem is just managing identities for millions of people. Some of those people will voluntarily use their credentials for someone under 18. Some will sell their identities. There is no technical solution to that.
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by swid 9mo ago
This has no bearing on my comment
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by swid 9mo ago
He’s talking about zero knowledge proofs - it’s a neat use of graph coloring where you send an encrypted proof that a graph can be colored with three colors and no neighbors with the same color. The verifier makes a challenge to prove two
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by swid 9mo ago
Not really. There are ways to prove ownership of one of several hundred million tokens. If you give out this many tokens, the odds that some will be stolen or sold must be fairly close to 1.
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by swid 9mo ago
It surely is different. If you set the temp to 0 and do the test with slightly different wording, there is no guarantee at all the scores would be consistent. And if an LLM is consistent, even with a high temp, it could give the same PR th
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by swid 9mo ago
This isn't true in practice because you won't be able to control where allocations are made in the dependencies you use, including inside the Go standard library itself. You could rewrite/fork that code, but then you lose a
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by swid 10mo ago
My nephew was reading at age two… he is obviously a very special kid, but no one really pushed him to do that. Apparently this would kind of freak people out in public. I’m not sure if reading before age one is biologically possible, but I
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by swid 10mo ago
And productized in days!
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by swid 11mo ago
I'm going to ignore the actual names used here - you can use any name you want. I think this pattern is vulnerable to introducing bugs that allow security bugs. I'm imagining process being some kind of sanitization or validation
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by swid 11mo ago
There is no objectively correct way to do the merge, but there are ways that are obviously wrong.
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by swid 1y ago
Async/await themselves are not that much magic really, it's a bit of syntactic sugar over promise chains. Of course, understanding promises is its own bag. ChatGPT explanation: https://chatgpt.com/share/68c304

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