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by textninja 5mo ago
He’s proposing using LLMs (which model human behaviour) to study humans so the distinction is pedantic. You don’t call it speadsheetology just because someone opened Excel.
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by textninja 5mo ago
> The server that delivers the page never receives the content, never knows which site you are viewing, and has no way to find out. Let me tell you about a thing called JavaScript. > A site that was never put on a server can never be
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by textninja 2y ago
> Doooooooooo dooodeeedoooodeeee doooooooooo doooooooooooo bshshhhhhzhhhhhhzhhhh Anyone?
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by textninja 2y ago
The purpose seems clear to me from the explanation provided. Here's what I read between the lines. 1. Send out thousands of letters expecting some to be returned. They may be returned due to deliverability issues, or they may be return
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by textninja 2y ago
I took that to mean savings in developer hours (reduced, not eliminated) and assume the subscription price will be nominal at its lowest tier / usage.
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by textninja 2y ago
No, you’re right, it was chosen because “trust me bro”. Look, it may well be something he believes, and he’s free to prognosticate (or market) however he likes, but I see absolutely nothing to support the number outside of his own opinion.
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by textninja 2y ago
> when compared against other 4b and 8b parameter models I would genuinely champion the quality of their responses You clearly have some very specific models in mind. Even if the latest 4B and 8B models don’t move the needle on the “resu
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by textninja 2y ago
He added a lesser option, catastrophically harming humanity, so whatever he meant by the first is immaterial (“there’s a 70% chance of a hurricane or strong winds”). Furthermore, if it wasn’t a high number chosen for dramatic effect the est
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by textninja 2y ago
No, the number is made up and the facts don’t matter so the statement can easily be reimagined as an ad lib. > There’s a [arbitrary number] percent chance that [technology] will destroy or catastrophically harm humanity Try these: social
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by textninja 2y ago
> Sam Altman is revered as a tech god in this forum I don’t think that’s true. > I will likely get downvoted, but there's something deep within his character that doesn't seem genuine or sit well with me That’s actually an e
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by textninja 2y ago
Can a collection of around 1.5 billion interconnected cells that predictably respond to signals in their environment using simple rules? How about 86 billion? 36 trillion ? These are ballpark counts of cells in crow’s brain, a human’s brai
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by textninja 2y ago
Well, yes, reasoning and planning abilities exist on a spectrum, so it isn’t so much a matter of where to draw the line as a question of degree. As for LLMs, I think their reasoning and planning is some of the most powerful and human-like w
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by textninja 2y ago
It’s been downgraded to “a preponderance of evidence” from “beyond a reasonable doubt”.
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by textninja 2y ago
They absolutely can reason and plan; how do you suppose they predict the next token? That they’re not autonomously solving complex tasks is a bit of a straw man though, and with a bit of creativity we can easily imagine them being combined
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by textninja 2y ago
My tin foil hat is telling me that no publicity is bad publicity and LLMs are great at spinning dramatic yarns.
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by textninja 2y ago
A “SSHal credit score” tied to a pooled resource, yes, that will work out well! Kind of like how a used car purchase should come with all its tickets! EDIT: To this feature’s credit, it’s not federated centrally, so a DDOS to nuke IP reputa
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by textninja 2y ago
We used to use them for this all the time!
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by textninja 2y ago
> Yea, taking 5 seconds to rinse the bag out in the sink is _such_ an inconvenience. The old "you're just not doing it right" chestnut, where have I heard that one before! Hey, by any chance have you noticed how many of th
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by textninja 2y ago
> There’s huge business interest pushing the usage of environmentally damaging products forward because it generates money. The converse (pushing green products) is also true so we have to consider whether the environmental impact is as
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by textninja 2y ago
I can't trust a plastics poll that doesn't also ask who wants the old straws back.
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by textninja 2y ago
I’m taking this with a grain of salt because 85% of people adopting such a hardline environmentalist stance defies reason. I think the poll’s design and authors probably had something to do with it. Context matters!
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by textninja 2y ago
Haha, sure, you can call it that if you want, but foolish is cousin to fun, so one application of this tech would be as a comically overwrought way of communicating subtext to an adversary who may not be able to read between the lines other
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by textninja 2y ago
> If you make it do double duty as a poor-man's encryption, you are going to have a bad time. For the serious use cases you evidently have in mind, yes, it's folly to have it do double duty, but at the end of the day steganogra
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by textninja 2y ago
I was imagining the message encoded in clear text, not encrypted form, because given the lengths required to coordinate protocol, keys, weights, and so on, I assumed there would be more efficient ways to disguise a message than a novel form
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by textninja 2y ago
The weights of the LLM become the private key (so it better be a pinned version of a model with open weights), and for most practical applications (i.e. unless you're willing to complicate your setup with fancy applied statistics and e
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by textninja 2y ago
What you described sounds like a very cool idea - LLM-driven text steganography, basically - but intentional obfuscation is not the problem this tool is trying to solve. To your point about secrets with entropy similar to the surrounding te
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by textninja 3y ago
I wonder if human learning will be similarly impaired.
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by textninja 3y ago
My guess is the models will be ideologically driven and will robotically enact the governing agenda without humanity, compassion, or understanding. Hmmm. > unskilled, underpaid employees who don’t care One of these things is not like the
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by textninja 3y ago
I find the self-serve UI and overall experience with GCP to be superior, so to me it’s a bit like the premium you pay for a Mac over a PC. Granted I never needed or wanted to speak to a human, but their infamy in that respect deserves a spe
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by textninja 3y ago
It still takes a surprising amount of labour and artistry to get an AI to give you exactly what you want (see also: Pareto principle). Consumer expectations scale proportionally to technological progress, so demand for premium assets and

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