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- Comment on lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month 3 weeks ago:
Can you think of any reason I’m not receiving a confirmation email when I register there?
- Comment on I'm looking for an article showing that LLMs don't know how they work internally 3 weeks ago:
People that can not do Matrix multiplication do not possess the basic concepts of intelligence now?
As a mathematician (at least by education), I think that’s a great definition, yes.
- Comment on I'm looking for an article showing that LLMs don't know how they work internally 3 weeks ago:
Because Blue Steel.
- Comment on I'm looking for an article showing that LLMs don't know how they work internally 3 weeks ago:
What I was saying is that one is based on the other
Not in any direct way, no.
- Comment on I'm looking for an article showing that LLMs don't know how they work internally 3 weeks ago:
They work the exact same way we do.
Citation needed.
- Comment on [Open question] Why are so many open-source projects, particularly projects written in Rust, MIT licensed? 3 weeks ago:
you don’t need to worry about trying to enforce it (
By the simple expedient of there being essentially nothing you can enforce.
- Comment on [Open question] Why are so many open-source projects, particularly projects written in Rust, MIT licensed? 3 weeks ago:
This assumes you wrote the project without company tools and on your free time.
Even then. some employment contracts try to take the piss and claim ownership of anything you produce while you’re employed. Clauses like that are unenforceable in many jurisdictions, but I’ve taken the liberty of redlining them before signing the contract. That means another half-day wating for Legal to look at it, but it’s worth it for the removal of ambiguity about what I intend to do. By the way, I’ve never had an offer withdrawn for doing that.
- Comment on [Open question] Why are so many open-source projects, particularly projects written in Rust, MIT licensed? 3 weeks ago:
And if you’re trying to maintain an open ecosystem, use GPL.
- Comment on [Open question] Why are so many open-source projects, particularly projects written in Rust, MIT licensed? 3 weeks ago:
A lot of corporations will specifically bar employees from using GPLv3 code out of fear it could force them to open source their proprietary code as well.
That’s based on a fundamental misunderstanding of GPLv3, or (more likely) bad faith.
- Comment on The New York Times Just Published Some Bizarre Race Science About Asian Women 3 weeks ago:
It’s not just skills, it’s also capital investment.
- Comment on Former Meta exec says asking for artist permission will kill AI industry 4 weeks ago:
They promised change, and delivered a coalition enabling the Tories to do what the Tories always do.
- Comment on Former Meta exec says asking for artist permission will kill AI industry 4 weeks ago:
Fine then, kill it.
- Comment on AI could already be conscious. Are we ready for it? 4 weeks ago:
That idea seems to me to mostly stem from religion.
It also was strongly pushed by Skinner and other behaviorists, though I’m not sure they’d agree that humans are conscious either.
- Comment on AI could already be conscious. Are we ready for it? 4 weeks ago:
How could you tell they do not experience consciousness if they exhibit or mimic all the traits of it?
How could you tell if a camera sees, if it exhibits or mimics all the traits of it?
- Comment on AI could already be conscious. Are we ready for it? 4 weeks ago:
It is constantly under assault from those who want AI to be conscious
Those people aren’t doing science when they want that, they’re trying to pump up their share price.
- Comment on AI could already be conscious. Are we ready for it? 4 weeks ago:
The problem I see so often with smart computer people is that they don’t understand that they don’t know shit about other things
Or maybe you’re not talking to the smart computer people at all.
- Comment on AI could already be conscious. Are we ready for it? 4 weeks ago:
Consciousness requires contemplation of self.
Fish are conscious. Do they contemplate selfhood? So throw that one back into the oven until it’s fully baked.
- Comment on AI could already be conscious. Are we ready for it? 4 weeks ago:
Emergent phenomena are still phenomena.
Ai exposes, I think, the uncomfortable fact that intelligence does not require a soul.
Nobody doing science is talking about souls when explaining what consciousness is.
give it 100 trillion parameters instead of 2 trillion and maybe
And maybe it’s got nothing to do with the number of parameters.
- Comment on AI could already be conscious. Are we ready for it? 4 weeks ago:
What a crock. An LLM is no more conscious than a spreadsheet. The Google engineer has bought into the hype.
You’re not creating life, pal. You’re just making call centers shittier than they already are.
- Comment on Trump calls US program helping boost internet access 'racist' 4 weeks ago:
He’s not zero-sum with Putin, though. He’s Putin’s lackey regardless of what it costs him or his precious reputation.
- Comment on Trump calls US program helping boost internet access 'racist' 4 weeks ago:
They just distort the language of empathy to enable their cruelty.
- Comment on Trump calls US program helping boost internet access 'racist' 4 weeks ago:
If it’s racist, why doesn’t Trump like it?
- Comment on VCs are starting to partner with private equity to buy up call centers, accounting firms and other "mature companies" to replace their operations with AI 4 weeks ago:
When VC and PE call a company or industry “mature” it means
It means they see a hog ready to be slaughtered.
- Comment on VCs are starting to partner with private equity to buy up call centers, accounting firms and other "mature companies" to replace their operations with AI 4 weeks ago:
The LLM would make queries to the rigid, non-hallucinating accounting system.
ERP systems already do that, just not using AI.
- Comment on VCs are starting to partner with private equity to buy up call centers, accounting firms and other "mature companies" to replace their operations with AI 4 weeks ago:
LLMs often use bizarre “reasoning” to come up with their responses. And if asked to explain those responses, they then use equally bizarre “reasoning.” That’s because the explanation is just another post-hoc response.
Unless explainability is built in, it is impossible to validate an LLM.
- Comment on VCs are starting to partner with private equity to buy up call centers, accounting firms and other "mature companies" to replace their operations with AI 4 weeks ago:
“I experienced imperfect health, had herpes. So don’t complain about your cancer.”
- Comment on VCs are starting to partner with private equity to buy up call centers, accounting firms and other "mature companies" to replace their operations with AI 4 weeks ago:
That deters people from using call centers, which saves the firm money.
- Comment on VCs are starting to partner with private equity to buy up call centers, accounting firms and other "mature companies" to replace their operations with AI 4 weeks ago:
When they bought a firm I worked at, their goal was to asset-strip the pension fund. Luckily they lost a big court case over that and were forced to repay their ill-gotten gains, though we were still worse off than we would have been because of the legal fees.
- Comment on VCs are starting to partner with private equity to buy up call centers, accounting firms and other "mature companies" to replace their operations with AI 4 weeks ago:
VCs are value extractors too, they just use a different methodology from the PE pigs.
- Comment on VCs are starting to partner with private equity to buy up call centers, accounting firms and other "mature companies" to replace their operations with AI 4 weeks ago:
Everyone is greedy.
No they’re not. Don’t assume your fucked-up values are universal.
It’s just rational maximization of profits.
Only psychopaths and students in intro economic courses think solely in those terms.
You do too.
No I don’t. I chose my current job because it’s technically interesting but allows me a better quality of life than the much better paying job I had before that. And it helps society rather than enriching some money-hoarders.