axlprose · HackerTrans

Your guess is about as good as anyone else's at this point. The best we can do is attempt to put safety mechanisms in place under the hood, but even that would just be speculative, because we can't actually tell what's going on in these LLM black boxes.

axlprose

3년 전discuss

Disincentivizing it from saying mean things just strengthens it's agreeableness, and inadvertently incentivizes it to acquire social engineering skills.

It's potential to cause havoc doesn't go away, it just teaches AI how to interact with us without raising suspicions, while simultaneously limiting our ability to prompt/control it.

axlprose

4년 전discuss

The "Grokking _" series by Manning is also along similar lines.

axlprose

4년 전discuss

Hm, the only Alice in Wonderland themed CS book I recall, is "Foundations of Databases" which has sections on datalog:

http://webdam.inria.fr/Alice/

axlprose

4년 전discuss

I would think "The Unix-Haters Handbook" certainly qualifies:

https://web.mit.edu/~simsong/www/ugh.pdf

axlprose

4년 전discuss

HN is probably the last place I expected to run into a LoS reference, so I'm pleasantly surprised.

In keeping with that topic, 'The Unseen Realm' by Michael Heiser (OT and ancient language scholar) is also worth checking out for learning about how ancient near eastern culture viewed things.

axlprose

4년 전discuss

Unless you have a specific set of scathing reviews in mind, the reviews of it in the literature don't really appear to match up with that characterization very much:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13546805.2010.5...

https://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.ajp.2011.1...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2828853/

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11097-011-9235-x

> it is worth noting that the book has been much praised by neuro-scientists as diverse as Ramachandran, Panksepp, Hellige, Kesselring, Schore, Bynum, Zeman, Feinberg, Trimble and Lishman.

It'd be surprising if it were poorly received regardless, because the book itself is little more than a review of the relevant literature on the topic, packed with references, and some added philosophy about it's implications sprinkled on top. Not that much different from one of Michael Gazzaniga's popular books, and certainly not as out there as Julian Jaynes.

axlprose

4년 전discuss

> Just like the left/right brain.

To clarify, popularized over-simplified descriptions of the left hemisphere being "analytical" and the right hemisphere being "creative" are inaccurate, but left/right hemisphere differences do exist and appear to exhibit consistently different approaches to things. The book 'The Master and His Emissary' covers the more recent research in that area, and is at least as interesting of a read as 'The Bicameral Mind' was.

axlprose

4년 전discuss

Yes, I'm inclined to believe such an "in-between" might possibly arise from Iain McGilchrist's line of research into the difference between the brain hemispheres and the relatively recent dominance of left-hemispheric thinking in society. I always highly recommend his book 'The Master and His Emissary' as a follow up to anyone interested in Jaynes' ideas. While it doesn't necessarily imply the full spectrum of schizophrenic-like symptoms in early peoples the way 'The Bicameral Mind' did, it's presentation of right-hemisphere driven societies of the past isn't a far leap from what Jaynes seemed to be grasping at.

axlprose

4년 전discuss

> People who think otherwise probably don’t understand why people like javascript and python and will never write any product that catches on.

Ironically, this has been posted on a popular site written in a dialect of scheme:

http://arclanguage.org/

https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki

axlprose

4년 전discuss

Reminds me of the SICP lecture[0] where Hal Abelson introduces the concept of linguistic abstraction (or Stratified Design[1]) as an alternative to the approach of decomposing a program into a tree of well-specified sub-components/tasks, which ultimately fails to capture the essence of the problem being solved.

[0] https://youtu.be/2QgZVYI3tDs?t=3349

[1] https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/6064

axlprose

4년 전discuss

I find it somewhat amusing that this view is now gaining traction on the same site that was originally deeply influenced by "The Blub Paradox":

http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html

axlprose

4년 전discuss

Begrudgingly accepting the mainstream way of doing things sounds a bit more in line with the blue pill than the red pill to me, idk. Though I guess realizing the silliness of the whole situation would give it a bit of a purplish tint maybe.

axlprose

4년 전discuss

When taking into account the total amount of time involved in a traditional multi-round interview process (which can potentially go on for months depending on the company), the travel time required for any in-person interview rounds, and the time spent practicing leetcode drills in preparation for these interviews, 10 hours is nothing.

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