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Comment #49238137
Your comment implied that. Don’t have to say everything directly. You don’t need AI hallucination to connect things logically.
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Comment #49174903
This not understanding "understanding". > maths are internally coherent and entirely theoretical Nope. This kind of wish-washy thinking is not what we mean by understanding. https:…
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Comment #49173700
Sorry, but this is only partially informed. 1. The U.S. produces a massive share of global manufactured goods, ranking second globally behind China in total value added. 2. Only lo…
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Comment #49162657
This is a vacuous argument. If everything is a “probabilistic input output machine” then what exactly are you claiming? You should look into mathematical definitions of probability…
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Comment #49142218
Banning social media for kids before banning junk food for kids when you have a childhood obesity/health crisis just shows which companies greased the hands that made the laws http…
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Comment #49141338
That's for your safety and well-being citizen. Sometimes less information is more information.
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Comment #49141272
Usually these commenters are not from the US but get energized by US topics and misunderstand scale of things. E.g., they come from countries with a single nationalized entity for …
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Comment #49141253
Look up when American companies got banned and when TikTok and Huawei got banned. American companies have been banned decades earlier. > Also are you going to simply ignore the fac…
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Comment #49141007
Doesn’t China heavily restrict competition in its domestic markets? Probably only North Korea is worse. China is one of the most restrictive countries but expects full access to US…
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Comment #49138810
I think you are just agreeing with me and restating the inputs to my argument. I didn’t say LLMs are capable of zero reasoning. An approximation is just an approximation no matter …
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Comment #49138805
This is a great resource https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handbook_of_Automated_Reasonin...
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Comment #49131073
It is not semantics. For decades, logic and CS researchers have known what reasoning is. LLM folks suddenly can’t claim an approximation of that is what constitutes full scale reas…
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Comment #49131064
Don't humans make mistakes too? Never understood this argument. Humans get simple multiplication wrong often, so ok for computers to make mistakes multiplying numbers?
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Comment #49078253
Much much worse: see Tibet or Hong Kong
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Comment #49078250
As someone from India and someone who knows people from Tibet, Chinese hegemony will be much much worse. There is no HN equivalent in China where users advocate that US hegemony wi…
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Comment #49035058
Did you read the links I attached? Are you saying China is better in human rights? Read the news in the past few years?
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Comment #49035033
Who said blatant distillation was wrong? It just shows that Chinese “labs” are dependent on the US. Also, from a scientific perspective, distillation is decades old and contributes…
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Comment #49031328
*Shuts off Internet access to Chinese labs (womp womp, no blatant distillation of US models)*
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Comment #49030898
> because they're so much better cars than our domestic brands Is that objectively true? True after factoring in harms they do to human rights and the environment? Nope. https://ww…
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Comment #49030883
Isn't the median income per capita higher in the US. European companies are likewise free to pay tariffs or not do business. EU does much more to protect its market compared to US.…
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Comment #49015977
Not really. Go ask someone in Tibet/HongKong/Taiwan/Japan/India if China isn't breaking rules and bullying them. If China had US's powers/economy, it would be a much bigger bully. …
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Comment #48986454
China goes even further lol https://m.economictimes.com/industry/renewables/china-wto-co...
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Comment #48986443
No country in the world is full free market economy. It is always a spectrum. We are discussing Chinese models. Now look at how much foreign competition the Chinese government prev…
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Comment #48986127
I replied to a comment with a structured informal proof on HN. A well established user here was adamant that I used AI because apparently humans never ever wrote proofs. This was a…