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This is a simple n=low issue. You get a kid, and they are not extreme. Most kids will indeed respond to parenting. Don't you ever think about what would happen if your kid was born…

> Yes, you can decide that the child will eat vegetable and do their homework. You literally cannot. When I was 5, I was told I couldn't go out and play until I'd eaten my lunch. I…

Apologies in advance, but this reads like someone who hasn't actually had kids. Keep in mind that people who have kids still only have a small number, and there is luck involved. Y…

I would say that the mechanism for this is actually due to the nature of working with LLMs: they free your attention. Say you're working on a project, and it does an ok job like wh…

Are local models more snappy? I'm at a stage where I can work with the output of LLMs, and the next win is really just getting things written out quickly.

> Honestly, it feels like the emperor has no clothes on this topic, and the crowd defending LLMs to death are way too quick to call it a skill issue. I feel it's the other way arou…

But are those pernicious issues more common than what you would write yourself? Keeping in mind that you will get your LLM code back a lot sooner and have more time left over to ch…

I think I may have a minority view about surveillance. At least I need someone to explain something to me. Is the backlash really about privacy, or is the real problem a complete l…

I understand what you mean. Those are just some small examples. But I had this conversation with a friend today, and it goes something like this: 1) It was good for me to spend yea…

> how did you decide to pick the most trivial kind regression for this example? Why would this be a regression? You might just be writing a new line of code. > do you compile your …

How much of the identity of a mathematician is tied up in being the first to discovery? How much of it is the contest between smart people producing excitement? Maybe someone could…

> The other thing that the "LLMs write code camp" misunderstands is that writing was never the bottleneck. Understanding was. And understanding the code is still the bottleneck. Bu…

That's the digestion part, yes. It won't have friends because it isn't human, but it actually does have an interior life, aka a global workspace.

Doesn't matter. If they all go bust, I can still run an open weights model locally.

But this is exactly what you expect when you ask intelligence (machine or human) to fill in missing information. It picks some plausible, middle-of-the-road filler. If you were a r…

I presume running an electric shower includes heating up the water? Otherwise I don't understand how it could be so energy intensive. The energy is the mgh of the water lifted, plu…

Zitron might be right about the economics of it, maybe it really does come crashing down. But we won't be forgetting about it. Even if AI stopped progressing today, it will still b…

Yeah but you would just be doing the same thing: mashing up some known information about humans and Poland. You would pick plausible names like Marek or Piotr, plausible places lik…

No, it's the same as a camera recording it and digesting it.

But that's purely a matter of having sensors? Stick a camera and a touch sensor on the machine, now it is experiencing the world. Besides that, there is a lot of value in redigeste…

But how could something be a cultural trend without some sort of anchoring in history? I don't see why a computer (or a person) couldn't make up a plausible sounding story about a …

So now we'll have to investigate what "original" means? From what I can see, AI is absolutely able to create new work. Things that are not in the dataset, but look like they could …

That's what we all did in school, didn't we? Nobody did any original research, you didn't discover gravity, and you didn't participate in any historically significant events. Yet w…

To settle on a price, you need smart investors to be able to push it either way, which they need shorting and leverage for. Plus there's option traders who naturally need to go sho…