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Re: Spinning Up in Deep RL

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And now we're going to need a turing test captcha.

And/or add a new bullet to the guidelines: "Please don't assume that a comment is auto generated without solid proof".

Add another bullet next to that: don't submit generated comments.

Re: Spinning Up in Deep RL

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"Pray, who is the candidate's tailor?" -Hilbert Who is responsible for OpenAI's UI/UX design? It is immaculate and should be the standard for the community. I'm always dazzled by the impeccable standards of OpenAI with regards to tone, presentation, accessibility. The documentation is both familiar but distinct, an impressive achievement! I have my own personal qualms on OpenAI's ethics and virtues but am nevertheles…

I assume this comment is generated? The link is a standard Sphinx doc.

I wonder if the fact that we now can't trust anything we read is good or bad. Maybe it'll lead to critically thinking about everything.

Re: Spinning Up in Deep RL

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I assume this comment is generated? The link is a standard Sphinx doc.

I wonder if the fact that we now can't trust anything we read is good or bad. Maybe it'll lead to critically thinking about everything.

Could you ever?

Re: Spinning Up in Deep RL

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I wonder if the fact that we now can't trust anything we read is good or bad. Maybe it'll lead to critically thinking about everything.

Could you ever?

I meant in the specific sense of trusting the basic humanity of HN, not the general veracity of the internet at large.

Re: Spinning Up in Deep RL

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Could you ever?

I meant in the specific sense of trusting the basic humanity of HN, not the general veracity of the internet at large.

I would want to say that comments should be judged solely on their content, but yes, "redis works for us" is a different message from an account that you know is CTO at some big corp instead of some random one.

Web of trust is inevitable either way. I just hope it won't be owned by any huge company. Most likely it will be practically shared by a few of them, like the Internet or web standards.

After playing some with GPT-3 though I noticed I work a lot of like it though. Unrelated comments about web of trust are a great example.

Also, dude, I see you in almost every comment thread, how do you consume HN? Some clever scripts or lots of tabs and lots of refreshing?

Re: Spinning Up in Deep RL

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I meant in the specific sense of trusting the basic humanity of HN, not the general veracity of the internet at large.

I would want to say that comments should be judged solely on their content, but yes, "redis works for us" is a different message from an account that you know is CTO at some big corp instead of some random one. Web of trust is inevitable either way. I just hope it won't be owned by any huge company. Most likely it will be practically shared by a few of them, like the Internet or web standards. After playing some with…

Haha, I think I'm just more likely to comment than anyone else. I just read HN a few times during the day, nothing extravagant.

It might be confirmation bias (or maybe we just like the same things), if you look at my history I only leave a few comments a day.

Re: Spinning Up in Deep RL

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If that comment is generated, I will quit my current job and work full time on AI. I don't believe it.

All the blogs posted by e.g. this user [0] were generated by GPT-3. [1] Some of those reached the top of HN. That comment indeed looks a lot like it is generated. It has correlated a bunch of words, but it did not understand that the link between UI and AI is tenuous. It is probably one of the few comments where it is so glaringly obvious. There are likely a lot more comments around which are generated but which went…

Isn't gpt3-generated prose always seeded by some words or sentences? I'm curious what the poster used as seed, and why/if they chose to focus on UI?

Would it be possible to use gpt3 to "beautify" existing prose without changing its meaning? Now that would be useful!

Re: Spinning Up in Deep RL

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If that comment is generated, I will quit my current job and work full time on AI. I don't believe it.

All the blogs posted by e.g. this user [0] were generated by GPT-3. [1] Some of those reached the top of HN. That comment indeed looks a lot like it is generated. It has correlated a bunch of words, but it did not understand that the link between UI and AI is tenuous. It is probably one of the few comments where it is so glaringly obvious. There are likely a lot more comments around which are generated but which went…

Incredible. People in those threads are accusing the "author" of being GPT-3, and other commenters are chastising them for being so disrespectful as to suggest such a thing.

Re: Spinning Up in Deep RL

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Do you have a source for this? Not nitpicking, i actually need it for a project...

I believe he's referring to the absurdity of this statement, especially in relation to SpinningUp (it doesn't have any UI as it's a RL library, and the docs site are generated using standard Sphinx doc generator)

OP might have just clicked through to the main OpenAI site and mixed the UI part in. The bulk of the comment is about documentation and presentation in general and viewing that in the context of the general great UX of OpenAI.

I know that GPT3 is impressive, but I'm not as convinced as some of the other commenters here that it's a generated comment. If a similar comment were posted on a non-AI related post, nobody would bat an eye.

Is there an equivalent to Hanlon's razor for AI? "Don't attribute to an text generation AI, which could be adquately explained by slightly nonsensical speech".

Re: Spinning Up in Deep RL

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And now we're going to need a turing test captcha.

I'd be more worried about bots gaming the voting. I'm perfectly happy to share this website with intelligent machines if they make insightful comments. Whether odomojuli's post was written by a human, robot or dog is rather immaterial. It's the content of the post that makes it good or bad. It can be evaluated without knowing the author.

>I'm perfectly happy to share this website with intelligent machines if they make insightful comments.

Not me. Not without total attribution so I know it's a bot and whose. There is no AI generated text etc without an agenda - implicit or explicit; benign or sinister.

Advancing the conversation is one thing but when u can't tell between a Russian GRU bot let loose to promote trigger words and some 4chan teenager who had a bad day at school then the online forum as a mode of expression is dead.

A 4channer is entitled to their opinion however wrong. A bot acting like it's human needs to be hunted, killed, and erased.

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