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> isn't this an attempt at 'neutral journalism'? Neutral journalism is not presenting the claims of all opposing parties, it's fact-checking the claims of both sides without a bias…

Whichis is fair and good, bc nobody would expect you to rebuild the actual rules of chess from the board alone. However it would still be useful if archeologists used the board to …

I believe the sweet spot that makes it practical and reliable will be combining LLMs with formal verification, although I doubt current hardware is up to the task (yet). LLMs basic…

> Which an unreliable answer is not. > Hallucinations are not a matter of some "details" being off. They are a matter of plausible, confident-sounding claims that are just plain wr…

> But the answers it gives are not reliable. They sound plausible if you don't know anything about the subject, but they're not reliable. Do not underestimate the utility of having…

Societal changes are slow beasts, they may very well take several centuries to develop. Nation-states were a direct consequence of the printing press, yet they didn't arrive until …

> They had this project called Cairo that was supposed to throw out that scruffy old file-based filesystem and bring in a shiny new Object Based File System instead. It never happe…

I would just reverse the architecture of the whole system. Build a classic deterministic program, and use LLMs as heuristics adapting the system to the environment - the functions …

Yes, my point is that those three arguments may be compelling but they assume that reality is correlated to the shape of their thoughts. What they have in common is that they all m…

I find Pascal's wager is of the same nature as Aquinas' Five Ways to prove God, or accelerationists about the inevitability of a Singularity: believing that your own rational argum…

No, I'm saying that they are not cause and effect but coevolution. Their agitprop could have such huge impact because of the conditions of workers in Zarist Russia and the Republic…

You think Lenin and Mao didn't have behind them an ideology in their societies that supported them? Why did people follow their orders then, mind control?

> I would argue plenty of significant societal changes were caused by the behavior of relatively small number of people Specific breaking points in history yeah, maybe. But that's …

Who gets to say that the demos is fundamentally flawed? Each in-group have their own opinions on what's a flaw. Society evolves through epiphenomena caused by the behaviour of the …

The problem with that thought is that Goole isn't creating a good solution, it's creating this specific one.

We're finally getting there. The model of web notebooks look a lot like Hypercard stacks in terms of usability; there's only missing someone packing them in and easy-to-use distrib…

Isn't that the same as compressing the whole book , in a special differential format that compares how the text looks from any given point before and after?

I can only speak for myself but for me, it's all about the syntax. I am terrible at recalling the exact name of all the functions in a library or parameters in an API, which really…

It is possible to try it, and some people do (high speed trading is just that, plus taking advantage of privileged information that speed provides to react before anyone else). How…

The word he's looking for is "formal system". For some reason he doesn't like doing mathematical demonstrations so he shuns the practice of doing them, and invented a new word to d…

You never lived the 90's

But both are doing the winning thing, which is more valuable than just the battle thing. Unless you do it just for fun and don't mind the result.

Sometimes that's because they're making it worthwhile, by connecting the thing with those who will benefit from it and explaining how to use it, which is as valuable as doing the t…

>A human rubber-stamping code being validated by a super intelligent machine is the equivalent of a human sitting silently in the driver's seat of a self-driving car, "supervising"…

Wikipedia is and has always been a wiki; reverting bad or controversial edits has always been expected from day one. Also Wikipedia has developed an editorial line of its own, so i…