zoogeny

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by zoogeny 3mo ago
It would be nice if there was a listing of exactly what was included somewhere.
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by zoogeny 3mo ago
I am very ambivalent on this post. On one hand, I agree that excessive defensiveness stinks up a code base. On the other, I am a huge fan of local reasoning. Especially in the world of LLMs, I don't want to rely on my, my teammate&#x27
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by zoogeny 3mo ago
On my first run I aced all of the sections until the last and then I got some really weird ones (e.g. zenzizenzizenzic). When I ran it again I got 95% new words and I fumbled a couple in the earlier rounds but did a bit better on the final
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by zoogeny 3mo ago
I ran through it twice, first time 91 second time 90, score: 69,500. Midwit confirmed.
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by zoogeny 3mo ago
I'm not following your logic here. Are you basing your predictions on the predictions of CEOs? If I understand you correctly you are saying, CEOs predicted X and they were wrong. Now CEOs are predicting Y, and since they were wrong abo
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by zoogeny 3mo ago
I believe that the statement `a.x = 100;` is invalid since Record types are immutable. That is, the situation you are afraid of should be impossible.
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by zoogeny 3mo ago
I think I mostly got this, but just to test it, it would be like in Typescript where I might say: type Foo = { x: number; } type Bar = { x: number; y: number } type FooBar = Foo | Bar; function baz(x: FooBar) { if (&
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by zoogeny 3mo ago
> More generally than just Java, nullability is often a property not of a type but of a variable. This is a tangent, but I'm not sure I follow this. Can you give an example to make this clear?
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by zoogeny 3mo ago
> Stoicism in Ancient Rome was COMPLETELY about controlling your emotions, This is so false it deserves comment. For example, the SEP for Stoicism [1]. You'll notice that the first entire two sections are Physical Theory and Logic.
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by zoogeny 3mo ago
> Unless you break the hypothetical by adding some alternative option C That is kind of the point, isn't it? That my hypothetical scenario isn't realistic. Let's imagine two worlds. A world where individuals refuse the fal
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by zoogeny 3mo ago
I think the big lesson of this that hasn't yet been learned: it literally doesn't matter how moral Amodei or anyone else is at Anthropic. When push comes to shove, the US government can step in and take it away. They will either p
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by zoogeny 3mo ago
Credit where credit is due I suppose. I'm still concerned over the direction this is going but at least Anthropic is listening.
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by zoogeny 3mo ago
I think we are very disconnected on the topic of conversation here. Somehow you've confabulated my point with an attack on the prisoners dilemma or races to the bottom? The person I was responding to made the point that if you want to
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by zoogeny 3mo ago
We have 10,000+ years of human civilization at this point. There must be some other active ethical maxim operating other than "choose the lesser of two evils" to explain why there is so much cooperation amongst humans. Evidence is
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by zoogeny 3mo ago
That's a bit like asking how the defendant in a legal case is an interested party. Even if you think someone is guilty, it does make sense to allow them to at least submit their defense. And if they choose to use that time to advocate
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by zoogeny 3mo ago
Your logic doesn't hold up well to simple escalation logic. Company A founds itself on doing 0 harm to Area X. Competitor B shows up and starts finding success doing 10 harm to Area X, so Company A makes a "moral" decision: I
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by zoogeny 3mo ago
Totally understand on managing context length. But in a sense, the work is just providing the library of primary texts (and given the public domain nature of these kinds of works, that seems both ethical and legal) and some mechanism to inc
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by zoogeny 3mo ago
Imagine you are in the shower one day and you come up with the sketch of a possible innovation on model architecture, however there are some fine details and tricky implementations that you need to do in order to test it out. So you fire up
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by zoogeny 3mo ago
I accept your point, in the sense that I wouldn't suggest that they have any obligation to share their own research. What seems to be different here, is that they are saying they won't let you use their tool to do your own resear
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by zoogeny 3mo ago
It is very difficult to see this move as anything other than Anthropic pulling the ladder up behind itself. They can dress it up in "safety" all they want, I find it hard to interpret this in a charitable way. This reminds me of h
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by zoogeny 3mo ago
This is an interesting project and in some ways similar to an idea I had. My idea was actually just to aggregate primary texts (whatever public domain versions are available) for a wide range of philosophical and spiritual work and provide
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by zoogeny 3mo ago
I have not done any calculation on the capex but I'm guessing that SpaceX has. We're also just guessing on what these "datacenters" will look like. It is silly to think of them in the same way we see the football-field-s
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by zoogeny 3mo ago
Sure, but considering the size of the challenge it makes sense to figure out the parts that can be studied on the surface first. Challenges like procuring, challenges like setting up relationships with potential customers. You probably want
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by zoogeny 3mo ago
If xAI is a datacenter REIT, it is a special kind that has a promise that no other datacenter provider could dream of: LEO datacenters. As far-fetched as that may sound, the biggest profit center for SpaceX in my understanding was Starlink.
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by zoogeny 3mo ago
That sounds like a good attitude. I think that Kierkegaard was considering that this attitude has to be permanent. You can't praise yourself for having resigned yourself last year, last month or last week. You have to resign yourself e
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by zoogeny 3mo ago
I have an understanding/interpretation of the philosopher Kierkegaard's metaphor of the Knight of Infinite Resignation from his work Fear and Trembling [1] that relates to this. He tells the story of a Knight that falls in love wi
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by zoogeny 4mo ago
Yes, right now all we have are vibes/feelings. My point was that one benefit of the hype and the "CEO psychosis" is that we'll find out together fast. Uber, and companies like it, have the money to take the kind of risk
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by zoogeny 4mo ago
This is a contrarian view and I am a biased AI-maximalist. But I actually think these kinds of results are genuinely important. There is a lot of frustration and even anger over CEOs pushing AI onto employees and some schadenfreude when it
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by zoogeny 4mo ago
My own anecdote related to this idea was on a playthrough of Skyrim. I was between objectives and wandering through the map. I came across one of the ubiquitous caves which I decided to enter. I was attacked by some generic low-level bandit
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by zoogeny 4mo ago
You have at least two options: 1. Argue from ignorance. Never try unions in any other programming languages and completely disallow their use in C# codebases that you participate in. 2. Try them out and adopt an informed opinion. You may ev

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