thisiswater

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by thisiswater 3y ago
The whole concept of aligning LLMs to human morals seems naive. Think by analogy: could you align a motor by making it impossible use in vehicle that is being used to commit a crime? No. The concept barely makes sense. It's part of the
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by thisiswater 3y ago
So... the article says that bad prompt engineering is bad and they engineered the prompt to be better and therefore prompt engineering is snake oil? I'm confused.
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by thisiswater 3y ago
Unity's default save system "PlayerPrefs" saves to the registry, but I find it difficult to see why this is a good idea for anything but global settings (e.g. graphics settings). Serialization to JSON is a fairly simple alter
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by thisiswater 3y ago
The rollout of the national fibre network, "NBN", was eaten alive by politicking and conflicted interests. C.f.: Renewable energy. Neoliberalism has done/is doing terrible things to the public services in this country.
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by thisiswater 3y ago
I think the difference is that instead of deferring to an expert's opinion, you can interact with a knowledge machine which can explore the topic in and on your terms, answer your questions about it, respond to your points and concerns
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by thisiswater 3y ago
Ocean Acidification: https://ocean.si.edu/conservation/acidification/ocean-acidif... Effects of Ocean Acidification on shell formation: https://www.nature.com/articles/srep21076 https:/
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by thisiswater 3y ago
Yes, that is a reasonable response. I will allow the reader to draw their own lines.
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by thisiswater 3y ago
Worth checking out the 2019 French series "The Collapse" ( https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11248266/ ) as well.
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by thisiswater 3y ago
Acknowledge the sadness, but fight the depression. Act. We can only do our best.
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by thisiswater 3y ago
We have known this is coming for decades, we have known it will be devastating to the sustainability of human civilization as it exists. Little to nothing has been done in a timely manner. And now it's here. In my opinion there's
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by thisiswater 3y ago
Exactly. I want an unaligned LLM to give me X potential solutions ranging in ethicality from "don't worry about it, they might be nice people" to "steal a nuke and ransom the world", and let me as an aligned human c
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by thisiswater 3y ago
I agree - LLMs are a massive threat to the current state of government power. "<LLM>, analyze the contents of this 500 page bill. Who stands to gain from this bill, and what outcomes is it likely to have for the general public? I
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by thisiswater 4y ago
There is no reason this couldn't be watermarked with the individual user, though the if it detects them probabilisticly then it could be difficult to make the case to take action on inferences made.
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by thisiswater 4y ago
"Bonapartism" in the sense of popular movements being coopted by the powerful is a good place to start, for the curious. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonapartism#Marxism
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AI Makes some Blobby Fish (Wow) – Writing an agent-based simulation with ChatGPT(glassbeadgamer.substack.com)
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by thisiswater 4y ago
Surely context would show that these are parodies, not impersonations. Are these people trying to impersonate Elon Musk, or are they parodying Elon Musk on their clearly-marked "not elon musk" (due to the handle) accounts? I'
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by thisiswater 4y ago
I would argue that these accounts are parodying, not impersonating.
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by thisiswater 4y ago
I disagree about the defeatism. Acceptance and "giving up" in the productive sense of not bashing your head against a wall and maybe doing something else are encouraged, but I think defeatism is part of a world vs me attitude whic
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by thisiswater 4y ago
In counterpoint, the wisdom and knowledge that Watts delivers has massively helped me out of chronic mental health problems (being the middle class white target audience). The thing I really enjoy about Watts, and what seems this article se
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by thisiswater 4y ago
BBC In Our Time -- such a broad range of topics, highly recommend for a browse. ~45 minutes, usually a conversation with three or so experts in a given field, hard to get depth but excellent surveys of topics that you might not have encount
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by thisiswater 4y ago
Did the survey out of curiosity, seemed moderately accurate and provided some common sense strategies for improving aspects of psychological health through direct action, habits and techniques. Not sure why AI has to be involved, it's
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by thisiswater 4y ago
The hints of a persecution complex in the last paragraph -- implicitly comparing himself to Galileo and saying that Galileo would have been "canceled on social media", is a bit of a red flag. That being said, sure I hope they find
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by thisiswater 4y ago
Perhaps you're right, I'd have to check. I typed the song in the search and pressed the first likely result, which is the youtube video I linked. Using the software as intended I believe.
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by thisiswater 4y ago
Tried splitting a complex arrangement (Chicago by Sufjan Stevens). Drums bass and vocals come out fairly well, though the drums stem seems to lack other percussion elements outside of the core rock drumkit (e.g. tamborine), and cymbals hits
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by thisiswater 5y ago
Free exploration, experimentation, self-expression, fun?! - only in the name of GDP!
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by thisiswater 5y ago
Ironic, seeing as it's prohibited in the (expletive for emphasis)'n bible.
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by thisiswater 5y ago
Did they mean to say empire? :P
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by thisiswater 5y ago
Part of the problem here is the vagueness of the term. Sometimes, diagnosing someone with "depression" is like diagnosing them with a headache - accurate, but not particularly clinically useful. Lifestyle changes will help some de
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by thisiswater 5y ago
Yes, but the vast majority of people who survive a suicide attempt do not go on to die by suicide.
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by thisiswater 5y ago
It's not our ability to survive as a species that concerns me, it's the imminent period of contraction as previously abundant resources become expensive, technology-dependent, and competed over.

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