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Fair, you're probably right in this case.

Please don't paste ChatGPT or BARD answers as HN comments in general? In this specific case, no, LLMs don't reliably know about themselves. They're trained on a big corpus of inter…

Do you think it's true? I got my hands on the pdf see no trace of it in table of contents or text searches.

You're right about the basic mistakes they can make - they can also excel at the same tasks if prompted differently. But I was making a slightly different point. The point is they …

There are certainly emergent capabilities that come out of the training process of being able to predict next tokens, and it's shown that LLMs often can solve logic and math proble…

I think the right context for thinking about the quoted advice is for a person's education. If true beginners didn't ever handwrite a recursion algorithm, a list sorting algorithm,…

Emissions tests are a poverty tax that play a strong role in punishing people trying to buy affordable old cars and either pushing the demand curve for new cars, or pushing poor pe…

hey man, please shoot me an email, I've not quite been in your shoes but would love to talk it out anonymously if you like, or at least just listen if you want to vent more. It's (…

as many others now have said, you have great value (in my worldview, you have infinite value as a divinely created being, for that matter, not that I expect you to just believe me …

pardon the change in topic but what does GP stand for? is is like OP but for a comment thread?

I'm truly sympathetic towards the people affected, especially visa holders. But speaking solely of the macro effects, I have to say, I'm happy this day, stretching from last year t…

Reminds me of Alan Turing's wildly undernoted remarks about ESP in his seminal essay "Computing Machinery and Intelligence" > I assume that the reader is familiar with the idea of …

I guess this makes me a little demoralized about the utility of "anti-big-tech government actions," because to the extent any of these actions succeed, it's probably just sending a…

I think this demonstrates a way in which all centralized power becomes, for good or for ill, partially absorbed into state power. A major country's government will always be able t…

Not to say companies should or shouldn't RTO etc, but the shocking freedom and flexibility of remote work in tech is such a gigantic class marker and insane lifestyle luxury that I…

Reminder that our regulatory apparatus allows these people to have phone numbers and make and receive phone calls without being able to be held accountable.

They're saying these were notes for a speech for a "communcations class" where he was cosplaying Gorden Gecko and not presenting his true beliefs? That so hard to believe. These no…

This is a common failure mode tech people get into in debates: finding an extreme example as an analogy. There's lots of obvious differences of context and differences of degree wh…

Either the site really doesn't support https (odd, since it is the very page that supplies the verification hashes!) or something more scary is actually happening and it's getting …

To add on with another question, are there systems (like password managers, or others) which have "double password" as a first-class feature? For instance, a hacky way could be if …

> Thomas Tymoczko has pointed out that there is nothing special about eight "buffalos";[2] any sentence consisting solely of the word "buffalo" repeated any number of times is gram…

fair. This was similarly amusing at least: > ERNIE’s opinions are surprising, to say the least. It believes the best American president is Richard Nixon: Impressive to see the RLHF…

> Bizarrely, this happens even when the question is completely unrelated to China: you get the same error message when you ask, “Why is Hawaii a part of the US?” Not bizarre at all…