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solid_fuel
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About solid_fuel
Not impressed with the LLM hype or whatever latest crypto token you're hockin'
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Comment #49251709
> The singularity is approaching. There have been apocalyptic preachers foretelling the end times for my entire life. Interesting to see how the language has changed, even as the p…
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Comment #49251691
> to the detriment of the whole club of stochastic parrot folk What an interesting and pointless way to refer to “experts who understand what an LLM actually is ”
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Comment #49202693
You don't think it's relevant to discuss what has been done with the resources from breaking these regulations? I think it's very relevant to the article. If this was about buildin…
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Comment #49201750
Many such cases
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Comment #49201593
Interesting, you encounter a fact you don’t like and just quit reading all together. What a curious way to engage with the world.
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Comment #49194009
I was hardly a heavy twitter user before acquisition but I recall generally being able to read threads and reply chains without logging in. I’m not sure exactly when that changed, …
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Comment #49193992
> None of those let a random person Hawk Tuah their way to reaching millions. Uh neither did "X"... She originally went viral on Tik Tok [0], and then built a following on Youtube …
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Comment #49191323
The web experience has improved? You can’t even view a thread any more without being logged in or using a 3rd party site. They’ve actively made the web experience unusable for most…
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Comment #49160441
That's always an open question. Fascism does frequently collapse into other authoritarian regimes, too. But fascism itself will always fail. It is a movement motivated by the petty…
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Comment #49160418
> What definition of fascism are you using? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism > Is China fascist? What a strange and completely irrelevant question.
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Comment #49159846
They’re not thinking . They like the cuts, and DOGE, and musk, and the feel of that boot coming down on the neck. So they’re making post hoc rationalizations for everything. It’s c…
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Comment #49159695
Fascism always collapses, the question is only how much will remain by the time that occurs.
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Comment #49152029
Well yes, I would say that furthers my point though. Cats, dogs, flies, toads... they all display an embodied behavior and internal motivation that LLMs completely lack. Cats and d…
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Comment #49152006
The above from `esikich` is just a classic response from LLM maximalists. I point out that LLMs and actual brains - like found in nature - are vastly different in architecture and …
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Comment #49147896
A strawman? Don’t be ridiculous. Hallucination remains an unsolved problem, and LLMs do not have any meaningful ability to recognize when a conversation has steered outside the tra…
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Comment #49140829
Good call. There’s no need to devote time to reading what nobody took the time to write.
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Comment #49131809
No, the other comments pointing out that LLMs do not have senses and because of that they do not "experience" an apple at all are correct. When given a sequence of tokens e.g. "an …
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Comment #49131598
> Imagine a calculator program that computes billions of two number multiplications accurately by looking up prior examples but fails on simple multiplications often as it doesn’t …
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Comment #49092314
> Why are you resistant to adding a sentence to the article that notes that Claude Code uses the rewrite? It's not your article, bud. They have already addressed your concerns, and…
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Comment #49092304
> If you install bun you're still getting the zig version. > I don't see major reasons to doubt the rust rework, especially as so much capital and token investment is being thrown …
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Comment #49092283
Eating a mountain one teaspoon of sand at a time is impressive too, but I don't see why it means I should respect the act.
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Comment #49092266
Professional app development requires an understanding of security.
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Comment #49092088
His actions were certainly motivated by both his racism and contempt for people from poor countries. Frankly he should spend the rest of his life in a small cell somewhere.
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Comment #49091660
> not when the proposed solution is some kind of global authoritarian communism Please make an effort to engage more substantially with reality, especially on this forum.
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Comment #49077819
They declared bankruptcy on the original code base so hard that they decided to chuck it all in the trash. I wouldn't hold my breath expecting support for their existing users.