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monsieur, what good is a new-born baby?
LLMs are not intellence. They are not AGI. They do not have the reasoning skills of a baby. This is not something they will "grow into". No amount of additional training data in the world will turn LLMs into AGI. Any argument to the contrary is pure, 100% copium to justify the hundreds of billions of dollars industry has poured into this technology.
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Well, it isn’t great. Computers are logic, and LLM tools are not really able to derive logic from language. Is there is enough logic q&a yeah they manage to produce something like what people talk about. My experience with this has been terrible, I find them useless.
monsieur, what good is a new-born baby?
Good luck.
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No, we cryptocurrency people don't agree. It's actually hard to get them to agree on anything. Even whether it should be under state control or not. Labelling the ethereum fork (I assume you are speaking of the DAO) as criminal is interesting. They simply executed the contract according to the terms of code which isn't necessarily illegal. At the time, ETH was a hundredth of its current size (losing 1/3rd its value o…
Similar excuses, of course, would justify the government taking your fiat money away. Hacking the DAO was objectively criminal activity, since it was illegal. Ethereum agreed to fork to within a margin of error. I know this because the post-fork version of Ethereum is much bigger.
Yes, similar reasons would justify taking your fiat away. I do sympathize with the Ethereum Classic crowd and generally agree with the code is law idea. The investors very well knew the risks.
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Similar excuses, of course, would justify the government taking your fiat money away. Hacking the DAO was objectively criminal activity, since it was illegal. Ethereum agreed to fork to within a margin of error. I know this because the post-fork version of Ethereum is much bigger.
Objectively unethical, subjectively criminal activity. In 2016, it was unregulated software code during a "code is law" mentality. The regulatory agencies hadn't caught up (the IRS had laid claim in 2014 then revised in 2019). Yes, similar reasons would justify taking your fiat away. I do sympathize with the Ethereum Classic crowd and generally agree with the code is law idea. The investors very well knew the risks.
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Likewise. The idea that I can elevate others like others have for me is exhilarating. My childhood was a little bleak in some ways like the author of this post. Not as bleak. But definitely lean times, sick parents, lots of time alone on the internet. Without that, who knows what would have happened to me. I don’t think but I know deeply that I can help others, both through my experience as a kid being helped and thr…
I don't consider the term 'self-taught' to mean that you didn't learn from others. Before the Internet, the local library was the primary source of information. People would go spend an enormous amount of time reading and browsing books written by other people to learn a skill. I would consider those people to be self taught.
> I am certain they never intended to inspire a 12 year-old kid to find a better life. i can't speak for everyone, but as one of the people writing tutorials and faqs and helping people learn to do things with free software during the period miller is talking about, that is absolutely what i intended to do. and, from the number of people i knew who were excited to work on olpc, conectar igualdad , and huayra linux, i…
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I've imagined this future, and I did think of one possible workaround that may or may not be feasible: morse code. One of my motives for learning it is, you can "copy" morse code by any of your senses except taste. I've imagined where I may be blind, or deaf, or even both. As long as I have the sense of touch somewhere about my body at the bare minimum, and can move a finger, I could communicate via morse code. I kno…
You would need someone who understands Morse to notice and interpret. The same dexterity can also operate a pen, and this is the option I have more often seen used. Neither is likely to be a much richer channel than the other, I think.
Expected something a lot more dark. But this sounds like the best thing that would be written under that heading. Probably because not too current-day
The part about why it happened seemed plenty dark.
It's fascinating how someone can feel like they've been "raised by the internet," almost as if it’s a parent in this digital age. I'm curious to learn more about how that experience shapes a person!
Makes me think of intellectualization...
> In psychology, intellectualization (intellectualisation) is a defense mechanism by which reasoning is used to block confrontation with an unconscious conflict and its associated emotional stress – where thinking is used to avoid feeling.
> Like rationalisation, intellectualization can thus provide a bridge between immature and mature mechanisms both in the process of growing up and in adult life.[14]
> Donald Winnicott, however, considered that erratic childhood care could lead to over-dependence on intellectuality as a substitute for mothering;[15] and saw over-preoccupation with knowledge as an emotional impoverishment aimed at self-mothering via the mind.[16]
It's certainly a form of dissociation, but I think in the case of the author, and others with a similar sentiment here, it's more conscious and intentional, than unconscious.
Surely a conscious choice to escape into intellectualism/information at a young age could lead to training of your thought processes/patterns such that it does become an unconscious act. Regardless of choice, I think it's an interesting parallel to draw, still...
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i don't agree, but that's probably just because you don't know what you're talking about, which is probably because you're here to do ideological battles instead of share knowledge (for evidence, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41687424 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41685852 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41681866 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41678925 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id…
Thanks, you have really raised the quality bar for discussion by combing through another user's comments and cherry-picking ones you don't like. Especially complaining about comments on political posts being political. And complaining about the same thread multiple times is chef's kiss . The rest of your comment was only added an hour after the comment was originally posted, presumably because you realised in hindsig…
Many of your comments over the latest 48 hours do as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41786408 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41786370 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41779059 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41778991 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41776695 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41776658 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41776343 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41775045 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41775030
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