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I wouldn't go quite so far but I would settle for being able to use Sora before they "solve physics"... I don't even know when I watched the shitty lightbulb head Sora clip but tha…

I don't work in tech either and completely agree. These processes aren't cyclical, they are non-ergodic, one off regimes that once we visit a specific regime, we will not return to…

I use to say please/thank you to gpt4 in 2023 all the time but it was because I was completely anthropomorphizing the model in various ways. I suspect it would be just as easy to w…

I was semi-retired two years ago and decided to do a LPN program to work part time, do something physical, something that felt like a moral win and good for society. I would have h…

Common programming problems will be solved because they can be approached in a probabilistic fashion by the very nature that they are common problems. I would expect harder problem…

I would have said this a year ago but R is a language for statisticians and not software engineers. It took me forever to understand this. Statistical Rethinking by McElreath is re…

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No, this is the field of complex systems. We already have this field. It is just too new though. We seem to conflate the sciences with the efficient market hypothesis instead of th…

While I mostly agree, we had state driver licenses almost immediately at the advent of the consumer automobile. I am not sure we could do that today. I think the push would largely…

The first part is true. It is ultimately a problem of thermodynamics. The distance runner or cyclist is not obese in your example. There is simply no way to exercise enough if obes…

There is also a problem of "stochastic parrot" being constantly used in a pejorative sense as opposed to a neutral term to keep grounded and skeptical. Of course, it is an overly b…

While I find value in LLMs they still overall seem unreasonably not that useful. It might be like trying to train a neural net in 1993 on a 60mhz Pentium. It is the right idea but …

Agree completely. From a user perspective too, I was a subscriber from the first day of gpt4 until about a month ago. I thought about subscribing for the month to check this out bu…

I agree but I have tried many times to intersect two ideas with a LLM that would be novel and the LLM can not do this at all. We shouldn't expect the stochastic parrot to be able t…

I have thought a lot about this and I suspect "I don't know" would be devastating to the model. The magic is in the fact that the model can't say "I don't know". The model would ha…

Frankfurt's use of bullshit is what has always came to my mind also but you make an excellent point. I think we really need a new word for this process because it really is just no…

GDP per capita in China in 1970 was $113 per year. That is not a typo. Talking about slaves in this context in a society that has seen the greatest wealth increase ever in a few ge…

I would imagine Doom and PageRank was the right person finding the right problem to work on at the right time in the right domain. If Page, Carmack and Zuckerberg were all trying t…

Exactly. I got online in 1995 and the promise was kept by the internet. I have taken so many free classes from Ivy league schools along with all the books, pdfs, tutorials, physica…

A huge issue with film is we went through this with audio 20 years ago. Recording time use to cost a huge amount of money and then DAWs put that in the hands of basically everyone …

I made a private blog that if something seems really valuable, I blog the prompt and output. Private so I don't waste time on the delusion of someone else reading it and everything…

The "or" is not correct IMO in the last part. It is very easy to believe things that just happen to increase your own wealth. He says crazy things that he believes, it manipulates …