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He’s proposing using LLMs (which model human behaviour) to study humans so the distinction is pedantic. You don’t call it speadsheetology just because someone opened Excel.

> The server that delivers the page never receives the content, never knows which site you are viewing, and has no way to find out. Let me tell you about a thing called JavaScript.…

> Doooooooooo dooodeeedoooodeeee doooooooooo doooooooooooo bshshhhhhzhhhhhhzhhhh Anyone?

The purpose seems clear to me from the explanation provided. Here's what I read between the lines. 1. Send out thousands of letters expecting some to be returned. They may be retur…

I took that to mean savings in developer hours (reduced, not eliminated) and assume the subscription price will be nominal at its lowest tier / usage.

No, you’re right, it was chosen because “trust me bro”. Look, it may well be something he believes, and he’s free to prognosticate (or market) however he likes, but I see absolutel…

> when compared against other 4b and 8b parameter models I would genuinely champion the quality of their responses You clearly have some very specific models in mind. Even if the l…

He added a lesser option, catastrophically harming humanity, so whatever he meant by the first is immaterial (“there’s a 70% chance of a hurricane or strong winds”). Furthermore, i…

No, the number is made up and the facts don’t matter so the statement can easily be reimagined as an ad lib. > There’s a [arbitrary number] percent chance that [technology] will de…

> Sam Altman is revered as a tech god in this forum I don’t think that’s true. > I will likely get downvoted, but there's something deep within his character that doesn't seem genu…

Can a collection of around 1.5 billion interconnected cells that predictably respond to signals in their environment using simple rules? How about 86 billion? 36 trillion ? These a…

Well, yes, reasoning and planning abilities exist on a spectrum, so it isn’t so much a matter of where to draw the line as a question of degree. As for LLMs, I think their reasonin…

It’s been downgraded to “a preponderance of evidence” from “beyond a reasonable doubt”.

They absolutely can reason and plan; how do you suppose they predict the next token? That they’re not autonomously solving complex tasks is a bit of a straw man though, and with a …

My tin foil hat is telling me that no publicity is bad publicity and LLMs are great at spinning dramatic yarns.

A “SSHal credit score” tied to a pooled resource, yes, that will work out well! Kind of like how a used car purchase should come with all its tickets! EDIT: To this feature’s credi…

We used to use them for this all the time!

> Yea, taking 5 seconds to rinse the bag out in the sink is _such_ an inconvenience. The old "you're just not doing it right" chestnut, where have I heard that one before! Hey, by …

> There’s huge business interest pushing the usage of environmentally damaging products forward because it generates money. The converse (pushing green products) is also true so we…

I can't trust a plastics poll that doesn't also ask who wants the old straws back.

I’m taking this with a grain of salt because 85% of people adopting such a hardline environmentalist stance defies reason. I think the poll’s design and authors probably had someth…

Haha, sure, you can call it that if you want, but foolish is cousin to fun, so one application of this tech would be as a comically overwrought way of communicating subtext to an a…

> If you make it do double duty as a poor-man's encryption, you are going to have a bad time. For the serious use cases you evidently have in mind, yes, it's folly to have it do do…

I was imagining the message encoded in clear text, not encrypted form, because given the lengths required to coordinate protocol, keys, weights, and so on, I assumed there would be…