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ActivePattern
·4 dni temu·discuss
A lot of people in this thread think they're being clever by pointing out that a bookstore can't sell "banned" books. But it's common for bookstores and libraries to feature titles that have been banned in some jurisdictions. It's a small way to push back against censorship and promote freedom of information and critical thinking.
ActivePattern
·4 dni temu·discuss
It took a few minutes to get the hang of, but it does work very nicely! Being able to adjust length without any re-tying is a great feature
ActivePattern
·2 miesiące temu·discuss
Seeing this makes me wonder if Grok uses Claude conversations for training.

It's otherwise kind of surprising that they both converge on very similar phrases (e.g. "API integration is kicking my ass") that aren't anywhere in the prompt.
ActivePattern
·2 miesiące temu·discuss
Automatic coding systems have way too much economic value to be considered a "fad". I don't think you need to be Nostradamus to predict that we're never going back to manual coding. Sure, the systems will evolve and improve, but they're certainly not going anywhere.
ActivePattern
·3 miesiące temu·discuss
You're describing "modularity" or "loose coupling" in code. But it rarely implies you can just delete files or directory. It usually just means that a change in one component requires minimal changes to other components -- i.e. the diff is kept small.
ActivePattern
·3 miesiące temu·discuss
He's most definitely talking about a white homeland [1][2]

[1] https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1962406618886492245 [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remigration
ActivePattern
·3 miesiące temu·discuss
Reinforcement Learning by Sutton & Barto is an excellent introduction by two of the founders of the field.

Read here: http://incompleteideas.net/book/the-book-2nd.html
ActivePattern
·4 miesiące temu·discuss
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ActivePattern
·4 miesiące temu·discuss
The win is in how many weights you process per instruction and how much data you load.

So it's not that individual ops are faster — it's that the packed representation lets each instruction do more useful work, and you're moving far less data from memory to do it.
ActivePattern
·7 miesięcy temu·discuss
I still don't understand is why they don't even make an attempt to apply overlayers, when (as the author notes) there is ample secondary evidence that it would be present. It's not like there isn't already some element of inference and "filling in the blanks" when reconstructing how something was painted from the scant traces of paint that survived.
ActivePattern
·7 miesięcy temu·discuss
I assume you didn't read the article, since that's their exact point...

"Since underlayers are generally the only element of which traces survive, such doctrines lead to all-underlayer reconstructions, with the overlayers that were obviously originally present excluded for lack of evidence."
ActivePattern
·7 miesięcy temu·discuss
> I can only say being against this is either it’s self-interest or not able to grasp it.

So we're just waving away the carbon cost, centralization of power, privacy fallout, fraud amplification, and the erosion of trust in information? These are enormous society-level effects (and there are many more to list).

Dismissing AI criticism as simply ignorance says more about your own.
ActivePattern
·7 miesięcy temu·discuss
I've never heard the caveat that it can't be attributable to misinformation in the pre-training corpus. For frontier models, we don't even have access to the enormous training corpus, so we would have no way of verifying whether or not it is regurgitating some misinformation that it had seen there or whether it is inventing something out of whole cloth.
ActivePattern
·8 miesięcy temu·discuss
Yes, as is implied by the word "improvements"
ActivePattern
·8 miesięcy temu·discuss
You started this by objecting to my wording ("among the most") when I said fish/chicken are the most sustainable meat options. They are, by a wide margin. Beef’s footprint is roughly 10× higher, so swapping a beef meal for chicken or fish cuts ~90% of those emissions. That’s not a "slightly less bad choice".

Calling harm reduction "silly" because tofu exists just shifts the target. We can hold two thoughts at once: (1) plant-heavy diets are best, and (2) for the vast majority who aren’t going vegan tomorrow, steering from beef to chicken/fish dramatically reduces damage right now. Dismissing that because it’s not maximal purity guarantees we leave real cuts on the table.
ActivePattern
·8 miesięcy temu·discuss
I agree it’s worth comparing beef sources! That was my point about within-category differences and harm reduction. Saying "tofu is cleaner" doesn’t make beef comparisons pointless - just like the existence of bicycles doesn’t make car fuel economy comparisons pointless. We should compare across categories and within them, so people who aren’t switching today still choose the lower-impact option.
ActivePattern
·8 miesięcy temu·discuss
I don't think it's "unserious" to recognize that >85% of the world's population eats meat.

If you're quibbling about wording, all I meant was: farmed fish and chicken are among the most sustainable meat sources.

I'm not making a statement that people should eat meat, but many people do eat meat, so it's worth comparing which meat sources are better than others. I think it would be great if more people knew that beef produces 10x the greenhouse gases than chicken/fish do.
ActivePattern
·8 miesięcy temu·discuss
That take’s outdated. In the US/EU, routine antibiotics in fish farming are banned [1]. Growth hormones aren’t used in edible fish. Farmed salmon’s feed changed (more plant oils), but it still delivers high omega-3s and usually less mercury than wild [2].

[1] FDA “Approved Drugs for Use in Aquaculture” — https://www.fda.gov/media/80297/download

[2] Jensen et al., Nutrients 2020 — https://doi.org/10.3390/nu12123665
ActivePattern
·8 miesięcy temu·discuss
On the contrary, farmed fish is among the most sustainable protein sources for those not willing to go full vegetarian [1]

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/ghg-per-protein-poore
ActivePattern
·9 miesięcy temu·discuss
Hah, why don't you try implementing your 3 little functions and see how smart your "AGI" turns out.

> not a particularly capable AGI

Maybe the word AGI doesn't mean what you think it means...