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watutalkinbout

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    Comment #49250217

    Yep, it's a facsimile of a filtered subset of all human behaviour.

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    Comment #49204608

    I agree. The end goal is unlimited abundance (for a handful of people). Let's not pretend that capital is actually directly efficiently, tulip.

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    Comment #49161894

    LLMs traverse an assembled surface of human knowledge. You can't find things on a map that aren't there, but maybe you can draw a route nobody used before.

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    Comment #49161798

    It isn't an implementation for neurons, unless you believe in a designing god. Matrices are an implementation detail in reconstructing the surface of human knowledge. It's a comple…

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    Comment #49161358

    It's like Musks duplicitous argument about unlimited abundance. We have a lot of abundance now, we just keep accelerating it all into the hands of fewer and fewer people - whose re…

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    Comment #49108945

    Empirically, yes. You seem to be equating flatness with surface hardness. Tarmac isn't unforgiving to walk on because it's flat, it's because it has no give.

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    Comment #49099957

    Sure, but I'd imagine the average human could walk substantially further on flat modern roads in modern footwear than on cobblestone with ancient sandles. You use 10–20% more energ…

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    Comment #49095919

    Cobblestones aren't walk friendly.

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    Comment #49095910

    That said, as someone who has walked on cobblestone - a modern road in modern boots is different to an ancient road in ancient boots. I'd bet money the 'real' travel times would di…

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    Comment #49065460

    Dived with them in the Red Sea. They can get pretty massive, and it can be slightly unsettling close up. They are odd creatures.

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    Comment #48918417

    We don't allow kids to smoke, presumably that's also something to do with limiting their agency?

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    Comment #48728075

    I think you completely missed my point.

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    Comment #48714681

    Maybe don't just 'inject' it. Maybe use it to increase outcomes.

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    Comment #48697204

    'Fooling', essentially to deceive or trick, is defined as causing someone to believe an untruth - at least in British English it does. LLMs don't hold beliefs (neither do mechanist…

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    Comment #48689647

    They simply appear to "exhibit intelligent processing". The intelligence is in what created the data. It's a surface that's being traversed in a complex way. The LLM doesn't 'under…

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    Comment #48671637

    You can't fool an inanimate object. An LLM is (effectively) just a really, really elaborate "choose your own adventure" book. It's not "working through" problems, it's just tracing…

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    Comment #48671622

    Copyright is about exclusive publication, production, sale, or distribution. An LLM is just a really, really big, really, really elaborate "choose your own adventure" book. You are…

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    Comment #48669039

    An AI company stealing intellectual property?! Oh, the inhumanity!

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    Comment #48664489

    These aren't the same thing. You can't fool an AI because it isn't using its own judgement.

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    Comment #48664446

    You're describing a tool. Tools can do very useful things, but they aren't intelligent.

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    Comment #48649828

    Algorithms and data that emulate responses aren't smart. A 5 year old knows if you want to wash your car, you need to take it to the car wash.