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MakeAJiraTicket

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next word prediction is not curing cancer

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    Comment #48165518

    AI is accelerating an existing epistemic crisis in academia, creating a self-reinforcing loop of degraded knowledge.

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    Comment #48031595

    I love getting midway through reading a sentence and realizing it's LLM slop. There is no essay about Churchill being depressed or bricklaying to cure depression. I pray for an ast…

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    Comment #48031528

    Ask an LLM to list socially manipulative behavior and then ask it to go through the list and categorize which are done by men or by women more. It will twist itself into knots to a…

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    Comment #48004632

    I'm not in your situation, but I've hit the bottom of the despair and found the inner "fuck it we ball" within me. I don't know what's an option for you, but I'm learning bartendin…

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    Comment #47184252

    This is the expected result. "Do you see the connection?" is where it failed to actually bridge the connection. I don't know if pro mode is relevant, but they require someone prodd…

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    Comment #47176654

    Thank you! Gemini has consistently been the best performer that I've tried, but they always require the connection to be made explicit. The point of the test is that it is very low…

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    Comment #45552022

    The author explicitly states that there are other types of thought, this is about structured reasoning.

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    Comment #45545028

    LLM actions are divorced from that reward function, it's not something they consult or consider. Reward function in that context doesn't make sense.

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    Comment #45535266

    The Telexistence demo isn't so bad, but I have no idea why we're trying to make human robots generally. The human shape sucks at a most things, and we already have people treating …

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    Comment #45535233

    I have a function that compares letters to numbers for the Major System and it's like 40 lines of code and copilot starts trying to add "guard rails" for "future proofing" as if we…

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    Comment #45535220

    Defensive programming is considered "correct" by the people doing the reinforcing, and is a huge part of the corpus that LLM's are trained on. For example, most python code doesn't…