willbudd

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by willbudd 3y ago
> It's not about "no downside"! That completely misunderstands. It's about a HUGE upside. Let's compromise and say it's both? You're right that the upper bound experienced may be a lot higher than most
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by willbudd 3y ago
Regardless of what cultural category may or may not apply, I find that line of thought rather unconstructive. This isn't about being anyone's opinion on suicide like some black and white binary stance whether you're "for
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by willbudd 3y ago
I feel like you and all the people replying to you are completely missing the obvious. To someone who has been depressed for many years, for someone who literally (according the article) contemplated jumping of the roof of a 10 story buildi
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by willbudd 3y ago
Will-free? Unless that's a play on my first name, I'm not sure I agree. I see no reason why AI would have any difficulty defining its own reward functions. Especially if it also has an abstract overarching reward function that&#x2
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by willbudd 3y ago
Yeah, that was sloppy phrasing on my part: I meant that in a top of the food chain / king of the jungle sort of way rather than any extinction events per se.
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by willbudd 3y ago
You jest, but that has a good likelihood of becoming the watershed moment. The moment AI is bootstrapped to the point where it surpasses human ability to advance the AI SOTA, it's pretty much game over—from a Darwinian point of view at
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by willbudd 3y ago
The real problem is a society that allows loans to exist where the loanee has no meaningful collateral. If an institution cannot fill its classrooms without stooping to such predatory financial structures then perhaps it just shouldn't
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by willbudd 3y ago
Entrusting 18 year olds with the maturity of life-long decision making, perfect foresight, astute self-knowledge, and uniformly competent parental guidance -- what could possibly go wrong, right?
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by willbudd 3y ago
I have no idea what you mean by "just linking the filesystem".
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by willbudd 3y ago
Of course it isn't, but limiting installation instructions to the creation of a single well-defined Docker container makes a whole lot of sense in terms of avoiding reproducibility headaches. And by extension, with regard to make devel
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by willbudd 3y ago
Wow, I don't think I've ever seen anyone dial a strawman argument to 11 quite like you just did. Nobody was talking about FDR until you hamfistedly brought him up in a reply to a post (indirectly) lamenting a period of history rif
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by willbudd 3y ago
Modelling the world is function approximation: the world is the function and the model is the approximation.
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by willbudd 3y ago
You honestly suggesting the inventors of the TPU bailed because they couldn't foot the compute bill?
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by willbudd 3y ago
I see what you mean, and it's indeed quite likely that texts containing such hypothetical scenarios were included in the dataset. Nonetheless, the implication is that the model was able to extract the conditional represented, recognize
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by willbudd 3y ago
> No it does not: if you google this and restrict the time to before 2021 (the learning cutoff date) you will find the same answer. Not entirely sure what you mean, but ...show me? Why not just share a link instead of making empty assert
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by willbudd 3y ago
Wasn't intended to be personal. Just a mediocre way of expressing that your assertion there is missing any form of argumentation, and therefore as baseless as it is unconvincing. I'm seeing an emergent capability of encoding highe
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by willbudd 3y ago
> That’s actually correct but an overfitted definition for learning. It holds certain hidden assumptions (i.e physical grounding) of the learner being human which makes it inapplicable to an LLM. Inapplicable why exactly? Because you say
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by willbudd 3y ago
Or maybe it did. Who knows. If "both Charles III and his son abdicate" could well be considered indicative of some large upheaval or scandal, at which point it is entirely conceivable that the Australian electorate reaches a conse
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by willbudd 3y ago
Au contraire. Learning an abstract logical relationship such as line of succession during training, and then applying substitution/reification during inference to deduce the new factual clause that Charles is king of the UK is exactly
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by willbudd 3y ago
That's a brilliant example. Thanks for sharing. It demonstrates in a very straightforward way that LLMs are capable of learning (and applying) relationships at the level of abstraction of (at least) 1st order logic. It implies that dur
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by willbudd 3y ago
My take-away from your take-away is that LLMs might well take away the one part of my job that I genuinely enjoy doing. Writing code, by hand, myself. Reasoning from first principles. This is also one of the reasons I transitioned to develo
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by willbudd 3y ago
Along the same line of thought, but flywheel energy storage would become quite appealing when the rotating mass can maintain stable levitation without any energy input (in the form of electromagnets or refrigeration as needed today).
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by willbudd 3y ago
Yeah, in that sense I think one of the next logical steps will be providing on-demand lightweight learning/finetuning of LLM versions/forks (maybe as LoRAs?) as an API and integrated UX based on user chat feedback, while abstracti
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by willbudd 4y ago
I feel like if you want a robust ID for your machines, using DNS instead of hardcoded IP adresses is a better idea. That way you can move services from edge to cloud and vice versa with a single nameserver update, instead of having to do so
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by willbudd 4y ago
SE isn't a social network. Trying to "socialize" on SE is like trying to start conversations with random strangers on the New York City Subway. That's just not what it's for.
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by willbudd 4y ago
Nothing special or insightful, but a few thoughts come to mind... 1) Having a limited vocabulary was one of the more long term challenges. What worked was simply developing a habit of consistently looking up any unknown words overheard or r
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by willbudd 4y ago
1. I guess it depends on the situation. I assumed N3 was very easy, because I passed N1 with ease. I don't really like to bring it up, because it sounds like bragging, but that's my experience at least. Maybe using the language in
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by willbudd 4y ago
Student visas and work visas (the stepping stones on the path toward permanent residency) are admittedly relatively tricky. Lots of pointless bureaucracy, and requests for "guarantors". Which basically amounts to finding some rand
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by willbudd 4y ago
As far as I know, naturalization only involves a basic language test at around the level of N3; which should be very easy if you picked up any Japanese at all during the years spent living in the country. The reason so few people acquire Ja
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by willbudd 4y ago
> It still has no general concept of a cavity, nor does it have a concept of "X is large enough to hide Y". This is what children learn (or maybe innately know), but which AIs apparently do not. I take it you don't have an

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