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Comment #49261307
IANAM but this might be unexplored territory because Jensen polynomials are no longer considered a "plausible route" to proving the Riemann Hypothesis. https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.0…
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Comment #48050342
I posted a comment very similar in spirit - we’ve adopted “perfect is the enemy of good” as the operative maxim instead of maximizing accountability and now we may need to flip as …
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Comment #48050308
This is not an AI problem this is a “move fast and break things” philosophical problem that has always been lurking in the low-risk, high-reward SaaS industry. It’s just been fed s…
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Comment #46615356
Argh went down right in the middle of me solving the Riemanm Hypothesis. If they claim AGI … I’ll take my million dollars! :)
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Comment #45074391
You mean this popup? https://imgur.com/afqMi0Z
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Comment #45067148
Training on personal data people thought was going to remain private vs. stuff out in public view (copyright or not), are two different magnitudes of ethics breaches. Opt OUT inste…
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Comment #45066980
Because they have terms of service they have to adhere to. We need laws to be lawful.
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Comment #45066970
No you don't. You don't have to assume people are going to be bad! We should not normalize it either.
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Comment #45066966
Don't normalize this. There are contractual obligations that we have to enforce in order to keep our privacy and humanity.
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Comment #45066557
!!!!!!!!!! this... all the times HIPAA and data privacy laws get ignored directly in Jira tickets too. SMH
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Comment #45066464
For those who do not, or cannot, read this announcement prior to September 28th (think people in the hospital, traveling, missed an email ..) is this not a total breach of contract…
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Comment #44262942
We think the universe had to "begin" because we "began" and tend to anthropomorphize. Is that necessarily true? The universe is under no obligation to have a beginning. Sail around…
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Comment #41086141
when a theory makes claims about events that fall outside of the physical system they become metaphysical: age of the universe, creator or not, teleology, interpretations of probab…
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Comment #41086121
A steel man version of scientism by definition has to be scientism, and I imagine that looks like strict determinisn/reductionism. I imagine it would go along the lines of "we ackn…
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Comment #41086013
I think a healthy dose of skepticism is warranted for claims like the age of the universe. The closer the measurements are to a human magnitude, the more likely they are to hold up…
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Comment #41085993
For sure. And that underscores the probabilities that are either are true.
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Comment #41083028
something that makes metaphysical claims. Like the age of the universe, and a universal telos or lack thereof.
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Comment #41083019
6,000 was the guess of technology 200 years ago. They had their reasons. Today 14 billion is the technology of our time. We have our reasons. My point is that technological progres…
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Comment #41081152
That would be interesting! I'd love for someone to tackle that.
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Comment #41081090
Certain?
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Comment #41080926
Can you BELIEVE people once thought the beginning of everything was 6,000 years ago? Thank goodness every sane person is unequivocally certain that it was actually 14 billion years…
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Comment #40199195
What do you all think about this? I spent a lot of time on it last year and then put it on the backburner but I was thinking of updating some of the levels to reflect this Practica…
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Comment #39573689
Isn’t LLMs too broad of a scope? This only applies to certain model types that fall under LLM right? Not trying to be pedantic, I’m curious.
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Comment #36670423
how does this compare to llama-index