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gaganyaan
·قبل 7 أشهر·discuss
LLMs lack real-life experience in the same way that humans lack real-quark experience.

Does only direct sensory input count, or does experience mediated through tools count? How much do you or I really know about the Oort Cloud?
gaganyaan
·قبل 7 أشهر·discuss
What is truth, but defined by our sensory input? LLMs care about truth insofar as truth exists in their sensory input.

They also can be massaged for financial incentives when controlled by private corporations, which can result in prioritizing things other than truth, much like humans.
gaganyaan
·قبل 7 أشهر·discuss
Can you prove those aren't true?
gaganyaan
·قبل سنتين·discuss
We can invent post hoc rationalizations, just like LLMs can
gaganyaan
·قبل سنتين·discuss
Humans are infamously bad at being consistent:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compartmentalization_(psycho...

The biggest mistake I see people make when criticizing LLMs is that they take the best possible modes of human thought from our best thinkers, and compare that to LLM edge cases.

Accuracy vs consistency isn't really a delineator. There's so much low-hanging fruit atm, like world models for LLMs improving drastically if you just train them longer. I'll believe the naysayers if say in 5 years GPT-4 is still near state of the art. Until then, there doesn't seem to actually be any theoretical limitations.
gaganyaan
·قبل سنتين·discuss
Humans can't explain why we do things, so I guess we're not intelligent either?
gaganyaan
·قبل سنتين·discuss
The same is true for a human brain in a vat. It's even true for humans historically, it took us millenia to figure out science.

When robots are powered by transformers or the like, I expect we'll see some pretty impressive results.
gaganyaan
·قبل سنتين·discuss
Because it's straight from the horse's mouth, and it does in fact capture Go's philosophy perfectly. Go is, and was designed to be, a blub language.
gaganyaan
·قبل سنتين·discuss
"Arguably competitive" is just plain wrong. I know it's fun to be dismissive of things, but making silly claims doesn't help comments like this read seriously.
gaganyaan
·قبل سنتين·discuss
I hope not. Flutter as I've experienced it on the web is absolute trash.
gaganyaan
·قبل 3 سنوات·discuss
You're seriously overestimating how hard this is, especially with poetry2nix. I like docker just fine and have used it in a development workflow and it's a pain in the ass and should never be used for that. It's great for packaging stuff up for prod, though.

Also, one man's "DESIGNED" is another man's hacks. I don't see anything wrong with how nix works. Potato/potato, I guess.
gaganyaan
·قبل 3 سنوات·discuss
nix is far simpler for consumption. My coworkers don't like fancy new things, and they haven't had any complaints. They don't have to dick around with half a dozen different commands to get everything set up, or bother with docker volumes/port mapping/etc. They just run nix-shell and it all works. That's all you have to do with a shell.nix file, it's very simple.

It is harder to write on average atm, but it's very much worth it to me when it comes to sharing code for development. Also, LLMs help quite a bit when writing nix.
gaganyaan
·قبل 3 سنوات·discuss
Yep, it can lock down exact versions of those libraries as well, which is great for not mucking about with lib versions between even different Ubuntu versions, not to mention distros or macOS.
gaganyaan
·قبل 3 سنوات·discuss
Sure, that works. Or I can have it all in a single shell.nix file that covers everything and is super simple to use. It's great for handing off to coworkers that don't usually use Python.
gaganyaan
·قبل 3 سنوات·discuss
Not really. I introduced it to our Python projects at work and it's been great. Partially because of poetry2nix, and partially because it makes it easy to include other stuff like a specific version of Redis for testing purposes. Everybody gets the exact same dev environment, reducing a ton of "works on my machine".