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If our own brains were insufficient to demonstrate the fallacy of the Chinese Room; the particles, molecules, cells, synapses, and so forth of our bodies cannot be believed to have…

It’s funny you defend your independence by giving explanations of how you changed your peanut butter buying habits. The point was we don’t care what kind of peanut butter you buy; …

Because there is so much money for kindergarten teachers, paying an extra salary for a software dev for every kindergarten will certainly lead to better outcomes. The computer prog…

This is very short sighted, and ignores the lethal trifecta insight. The LLM doesn’t need to know what it is actually doing (it might think it is searching the web, installing a de…

> I see no problem with betting on who will win a sports match... I do wonder - what if the sports teams or politician loses intentionally; which could either be to profit off the …

This argument is also explored by the “Quantum Computing for the Very Curious” series that uses spaced repetition to teach an advanced topic. The series has been posted to HN more …

There is no real such thing as a read only GET request if we are talking about security issues here. Payloads with secrets can still be exfiltrated, and a server you don’t control …

Is the customer actually a chat bot though? That brand is renamed, but maybe after the training cutoff date.

I personally have jested many times I picked my career because the logical soundness of programming is comforting to me. A one is always a one; you don’t measure it and find it off…

Being 100% uncertain is not the same as either option being equally likely. More like the probability of either option is undefined.

If you had infinite compute and time could you not just simulate all of “earth” itself? I think the compute needed for that would be absurd and unreasonable to build, but such a si…

You don’t need consciousness to produce it though. The universe is not conscious, but the rules of how it works allows for them. I believe the universe is essentially computable, a…

I think you are just misinterpreting my use of the word simulation… I mean the computer is performing math which produces a simulation, but the consciousness still feels alive to i…

This is a tired argument that is not worthy of all the long written articles about the impossibility of creating conscious machines. The universe itself appears to me to be some ty…

If you know you will be pruning or otherwise reusing the context across multiple threads, the best place for context that will be retained is at the beginning due to prompt caching…

I think the answer is that it would obviously be possible. For one, humans do it. And also AI shows a willingness to role play as any persona, so why wouldn’t it do such things whe…

Every model update would be a breaking change, an honest application of SemVer has no place in AI model versions. Not saying using major.minor depending on architecture is a bad th…

Go Proverb: A little copying is better than a big dependency.

The real problem is just managing identities for millions of people. Some of those people will voluntarily use their credentials for someone under 18. Some will sell their identiti…

This has no bearing on my comment

He’s talking about zero knowledge proofs - it’s a neat use of graph coloring where you send an encrypted proof that a graph can be colored with three colors and no neighbors with t…

Not really. There are ways to prove ownership of one of several hundred million tokens. If you give out this many tokens, the odds that some will be stolen or sold must be fairly c…

It surely is different. If you set the temp to 0 and do the test with slightly different wording, there is no guarantee at all the scores would be consistent. And if an LLM is cons…

This isn't true in practice because you won't be able to control where allocations are made in the dependencies you use, including inside the Go standard library itself. You could …