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merizian

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    Comment #45936745

    I disagree that legislation can't help. Fundamentally there's an education disconnect and unnecessary friction in setting up parental controls. Governments can better educate paren…

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    Comment #44492286

    > The reason why I in particular am so interested in continual learning has pretty much zero to do with humans. Sensors and mechanical systems change their properties over time thr…

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    Comment #44484927

    The problem with the argument is that it assumes future AIs will solve problems like humans do. In this case, it’s that continuous learning is a big missing component. In practice,…

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    Comment #43815834

    I prefer a more nuanced take. If I can’t reliably delegate away a task, then it’s usually not worth delegating. The time to review the code needs to be less than the time it takes …

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    Comment #42492221

    Because of mup [0] and scaling laws, you can test ideas empirically on smaller models, with some confidence they will transfer to the larger model. [0] https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.0…

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    Comment #42125246

    This reminds me of LLM pretraining and how there are so many points at which the program could fail and so you need clever solutions to keep uptime high. And it's not possible to j…

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    Comment #41519076

    You can buy a commercial license for OpenPose for $25K/year https://cmu.flintbox.com/technologies/b820c21d-8443-4aa2-a49...

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    Comment #41452629

    Even if the out of place hold were used, would you then conclude it to be causal? I still wouldn't rule out coincidence. Many discoveries happen as a result of investigating spurio…

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    Comment #40167265

    Another option that works for me: https://cordlessdog.com/stay/

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    Comment #38322023

    The fallacy being made in this argument is that computers need to perform tasks the same way as humans to achieve equal or better performance on them. While having better "system 2…