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I wholeheartedly agree. Doesn't look organic at all. Guess it's the quality of Hacker News these days: blog spam.
Adam Mastroianni is pretty popular in these parts. I don't see a reason to suspect why this post wouldn't be organic.
I swear the UFO is coming any minute
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#52I have always like C. P. Cavafy's famous poem about this, Waiting for the Barbarians , because of what it emphasizes about why people want these things to be true. Doom is an abdication of responsibility. https://simonsarris.com/h/barbarians
“Now, there's this about cynicism, Sergeant. It's the universe's most supine moral position. Real comfortable. If nothing can be done, then you're not some kind of shit for not doing it, and you can lie there and stink to yourself in perfect peace.”
~ Borders of Infinity, Lois McMaster Bujold
Re: I swear the UFO is coming any minute
#53I have always like C. P. Cavafy's famous poem about this, Waiting for the Barbarians , because of what it emphasizes about why people want these things to be true. Doom is an abdication of responsibility. https://simonsarris.com/h/barbarians
I have associated "Waiting for the Barbarians" with people who think they know better showing up somewhere to conquer. I guess that could also be UFOs.
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#54In the cult, straight up "waiting for it", and by "it", haha, let's just say, AGI.
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#55> A blogger named Croissanthology re-ran the study with nearly 10x as many participants (446 vs. 45 in the original). The effect did not replicate. No replication is perfect, but no original study is either. And remember, this kind of effect is supposed to be so robust and generalizable that we can deploy it in court.
This should not be used in court today, but I do believe there is also a big component of cultural antibodies developing over time - and thus the study can't be replicated by definition.
In 1975 a sober high-quality source suddenly writing bait "BREAKING: politician SLAMMED diplomat on issue" would register as interesting. Now, people are constantly drowning in information presented that way.
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#56"Well, it's not quite the conflagration I'd been banking on. Never mind, lads, same time tomorrow... we must get a winner one day."
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#57Seems applicable to AGI
I don't know about AGI, but these models are automating a lot of work. I think but do not know that we'll have higher level work that sits atop it. I don't know if/when we won't be needed to orchestrate that work. I'm worried that if we don't have open source models that are up to par with the work-automating models that we'll have a rosy future. One of my biggest fears right now is big capital owning all the big mod…
That was my opinion before the boat left the shore. We needed an open source boat that we could control.
Now, however, I don't think that we have that option. Pretty much everyone in tech was coerced to board a single boat of commercial AI.
My concern is what happens if it hits an iceberg. It's not like we can go back to pre-LLMs now.
Re: I swear the UFO is coming any minute
#58I have always like C. P. Cavafy's famous poem about this, Waiting for the Barbarians , because of what it emphasizes about why people want these things to be true. Doom is an abdication of responsibility. https://simonsarris.com/h/barbarians
A related literary work, at least depending on how you think about 'related' with regard to literature/poetry: Waiting for the Barbarians by JM Coetzee.
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#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
> but we still wouldn't say the sentence is false. Yes "we" do. It's false. It's false not because it's a lie but because it's very poorly worded and under specified. Inside of a work attempting to communicate a highly specific idea it's a genuine mistake. It invites ambiguity and misunderstanding. > 99.9% of people Good for them. What's the point here? Are you attempting to bully me by suggesting I'm not part of you…
I was attempting to say you're uselessly pedantic, but apparently subtlety didn't work.
Take your judgement somewhere else. No one asked for them. You're being rude, bullying, and arrogant. Which is worse than "useless."
I would rather, all day, deal with "useless pedantry" than deal with your kind of attitude. You are the worse type of person that vistis hacker news. Perhaps a different forum would suit your, uh, "needs," a little better.
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#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
I was attempting to say you're uselessly pedantic, but apparently subtlety didn't work.
Take your judgement somewhere else. No one asked for them. You're being rude, bullying, and arrogant. Which is worse than "useless." I would rather, all day, deal with "useless pedantry" than deal with your kind of attitude. You are the worse type of person that vistis hacker news. Perhaps a different forum would suit your, uh, "needs," a little better.
That's a coincidence, I thought the exact same of you.