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> Representatives are merely messengers No, that is not how representation works. The representative represents , i.e they act in the absence of the citizen. They are not the human…

> In a democracy, consumers and the government are the exact same thing. This is a straw man. Consumers are represented by representatives who should have their interests in mind, …

No, this is not the way to go. Consumers cannot possibly understand all potential ways in which they can be screwed over, and even if they could, it is entirely likely that there a…

> You are moving the goalpost here if you think the chess AI was AGI Indeed I would be, but I don't, so I'm not. What I'm saying is that nobody understands either creativity or int…

> Why do you think that? From (highly upvoted) parent: > LLMs are text-prediction engines. They are not Artificial Intelligence, and shouldn’t not be treated in any form or fashion…

> brains are next token predictors Of the vast uncertainties and philosophical exercises that we must face to bridge the chasm between where we are now, and where we will be when w…

> they will keep making strong statements about things they don't understand until they are fundamentally changed If ever there was a human quality. Also, your explanation of "dumb…

> But if that actually solves it then Solves what? Chess? No thats not AI, its just a chess bot. Turing test? No, thats not AI, its just a dumb token predictor. Why would the goalp…

> I don't think LLM will ever stop being dumb without such an introspective part to them. The very second they add this part, it will "just be a dumb token predictor with introspec…

It can be a token predictor and still tell me exactly how my life will proceed from now until the indefinite future, or be the most intelligent conversational entity you have ever …

Right, it follows naturally that one can never meaningfully discuss that which can only be settled by proving negatives. Hence the total lack of debate on religious topics, as ever…

Does a dog possess intelligence? Does a bird? Does a cricket? An amoeba? I hate AI slop as much as the next guy but the amount of tribalism over AI is taking near-religious forms. …

> Malicious compliance is a result of incompetent drafting Aha ok, so your judgement of an entire governmental apparatus, trying to influence and predict millions of people in hund…

You are right, and this is why not everything should be a stock. Whatever they will cut to avoid emitting "a bad sign", may involve: * firing people * making services worse * sacri…

> pruning off failing things is not only good, it's the core of capitalism It's quite serious that you see "being good" as something inferior to "the core of capitalism". Also, the…

I am eagerly awaiting your grassroots campaign to define legislation that would tackle such uses, and also eagerly awaiting it backfiring because of malicious compliance.

> So you like the law, but don't like how it didn't actually solve the problem it was trying to solve? (Not the person you replied to) I'm not sure where all of this is coming from…

> DuckDB wouldn't really know what to do with a Sure it would, you can attach a multi-table sqlite database in duckdb > that does not mean just because it came first I agree with m…

except you need flatbuffers to access that blob

Not sure why this got so many upvotes, also the landing page is not great, its better to look at the paper (see link below). Seems to be a columnar storage format that addresses so…

I don't think you have encountered the problems that this class of formats solves. Try looking up columnar storage formats, the pros and cons are pretty well defined these days. It…

Knowing little about cpp modules and nothing about Gabriel Dos Reis, I expect a more design-by-committee type explanation for the result: the module system was probably a victim of…

Its not. Any interview question where you are looking for a specific answer is already suspect, but especially if you don't properly provide context for the question in what you wo…

> So, removing one monster means removing that item from those 20 arrays. Removing from an array is not the same as resizing, which is what I commented on. Resizing is a very delib…

"an", not "the" alternative. Consciousness can be not-emergent but also not metaphysical, think sci-fi-type undiscovered physics or matter.