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This reads like something AI generated...

Examples: tptacek gets an 'A' for his comment on DF which the LLM claiming that the user "captured DF's unforgiving nature, where 'can't do x or it crashes is just another feature …

I am surprised the author thought the project passed quality control. The LLM reviews seem mostly false. Looking at the comment reviews on the actual website, the LLM seems to have…

Hacker News readers, and especially commenters, are number 1!

Have you read the literature? Do you have a background in machine learning or statistics? Yes. We know that LLMs can be trained by predicting the next token. This is a fact. You ca…

I mean, yeah, statistics works. It's not that surprising that super amazing statistical modelling can approximate a distribution. Of course, thoughts, words, arguments are distribu…

I'm not sure what you mean? Saying we understand the training process of LLMs does not mean that LLMs are not super impressive. They are shining testiments to the power of statisti…

I think the person you are responding to is using a strange definition of "know." I think they mean "do we understand how they process information to produce their outputs" (i.e., …

What do you mean? what do you think statistical modelling is? I am very confused by your stance. The aim of the function approximation is to maximize the likelihood of the observed…

How is that a misconception? LLMs are just advanced statistical modelling (unsupervised machine learning) with small tweaks (e.g., some fine-tuning for human preference). At the co…

You realize that they will gladly hallucinate science... You should check the papers it claims to reference as see if the claims it makes are actually backed up. In my experience, …

I don't think things get better over time. What is your source for that? Here's an article (with sources) describing a massive down trend in literacy and reading comprehension: htt…

Be careful. The models easily hallucinate problems and misdiagnose. For example, I had an issue with some GPU code, and it assured me, with utter conviction that my problem was cau…

You make a completely false equvilance. A car person would be some kind of car person hybrid if you read it literally. Car person is acting as a short hand for "Car obsessed person…

There's no such thing as capitalism without government. Depending on how the government regulates capitalism, you don't necessarily get wealth inequality.

To take the example of trans: yes. Multiple different groups have genuine concerns about trans issues. For example, you have trans people wanting to be respected and not victimized…

Chat Control seems unabashedly evil.

This particular type of authoritarianism is primarily from the left in the west. The EU, the UK, Canada, it is the political left implementing these policies, often using them to c…

Intolerance is the wrong framing. You should be understanding. People who throw the label "bigot" around are themselves bigots (convinced of the superiority of their own beliefs wi…

I don't understand how the removing of right wing users is described as a necessary good to create a safe and inclusive space, while the removal of left wing users is decried as ce…

Maybe I haven't worked on tricky enough problems, but I swear people massively hype-up the difficulty of coding. The vast majority of the time there is little difficult problem sol…

It confused me sufficiently that I consulted the original paper to check what type of AI algorithm the research used! That was my immediate reaction to reading the sentence. Out of…

There are two ways to interpret the sentence we are discussing: A: a grammatically incorrect statement, saying that "the AI used theory", when they mean that "the AI's design can b…

What makes it clear to you that they don't mean what they explicitly write? What are you defending and why? Philosophical discussions aside, it is entirely possible for current AI …

They write the "AI was probably using some esoteric theoretical principles." That is a direct quote of the article. If it was an LLM based model this could be a correct statement, …