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dsjoerg

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Chess.com, Two Sigma, GGTracker, Vindigo, stuff like that

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dsjoerg
·4 dni temu·discuss
Decisions are about tradeoffs. 2% of users staring at a broken screen is bad, of course. But what is the _cost_ of not using nested CSS? The responsible way to make a decision is to consider both sides of the tradeoff.
dsjoerg
·15 dni temu·discuss
Those who pay no attention to history are surprised when things change. It's the temporal equivalent of never leaving your home town. Very provincial. Then one day change comes and they're all shocked pikachu face.
dsjoerg
·15 dni temu·discuss
I feel the opposite. Interacting with humans, I definitely pay a social tax - I have to negotiate the feelings of the people involved. With LLMs there is no social tax, I can be as blunt as I like. But there are other taxes to pay with LLMs; they don't learn, they BS relentlessly, there is less fun and camaraderie.

But "social tax"? No, there is not a social tax.
dsjoerg
·16 dni temu·discuss
If you allow a likely guess with no evidence to play the role of fact, you're just as bad as the AIs
dsjoerg
·16 dni temu·discuss
it's "trivial" in the sense of "I can launch the app in 2 minutes," but "non-trivial" in the sense of "I have a working, synced password manager across my devices with good security practices."
dsjoerg
·16 dni temu·discuss
> Interestingly, there were no consequences for the execs that made this 'mistake'

The article makes no such claim. What is your source? Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. Or, are you just making things up that you believe are likely, like an AI would?
dsjoerg
·29 dni temu·discuss
This is good, however that first sentence needs to be removed, it's too factual and orients the reader too much.
dsjoerg
·w zeszłym miesiącu·discuss
This is very jumbled argumentation.

Is his claim "nobody has proven LLMs are conscious" or "I can prove that LLMs aren't conscious" ?

He goes back and forth.

Proving a negative about consciousness would require a settled theory of consciousness that nobody has, including him.
dsjoerg
·2 miesiące temu·discuss
There are no countries that come close to actually paying for it. There are countries that pay for 5% of it, and in those, indeed they don't have significantly higher fertility rates.
dsjoerg
·2 miesiące temu·discuss
Yes. Societies have been using their women's children as a positive externality for generations, but now the logic of capitalism and societal freedom has caught up, and now societies would rather collapse than support women and families economically for the work of childrearing.
dsjoerg
·2 miesiące temu·discuss
I don't understand, why post to HN a link to a Khan academy class that's at least 13 years old?
dsjoerg
·2 miesiące temu·discuss
That's why I write my own assembly language. Compilers just atrophy your skills!
dsjoerg
·3 miesiące temu·discuss
don't hate the player, hate the game
dsjoerg
·3 miesiące temu·discuss
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dsjoerg
·4 miesiące temu·discuss
the location of the ship of course is not secret. but there is finer grained data about the people, the devices and what they're doing that could be gathered. and inferences made from that data. i would only allow this data to leak out if i could somehow use it to deceive my enemy.
dsjoerg
·4 miesiące temu·discuss
it's mind boggling. personal mobile phones have potentially anyone's software running on them and that can connect to the internet means that literally anyone could be tracking and gathering who knows what data from your operation. it's an indication of the greatest unseriousness.
dsjoerg
·4 miesiące temu·discuss
"just" is doing a lot of work there. There's a stack, and everyone is fighting and racing to figure out which parts of the stack are commodities and which have protectable IP.

For example, years ago someone might have said: "Software programs are "just" some instructions on top of a computer, which does the actual computing work. The software companies don't own the computer. The next version of the computer might not even be capable of running the software." And for some kinds of software, they'd be right. Some programs turned out to be more replaceable than others.

I assume the GetViktor folks are hoping that some combination of know-how and learnings from real customer interactions and data will help them build or find a sustainable competitive advantage in some niche.

> They don't own the LLM model. You're just one silent update from not delivering what you promised.

This is true but a small risk IMO. Worst case they can shift to open-weight LLMs for inference. I would bet on LLMs being an increasingly commodity part of the stack.
dsjoerg
·4 miesiące temu·discuss
It's because of this hard problem that I'm thinking I should keep using Viktor (getviktor.com) instead of running this OpenViktor.

The company may not do a perfect job of security either, but I figure they'll do a better job than I can as a solo practitioner.
dsjoerg
·4 miesiące temu·discuss
it's not viktor.ai it's getviktor.com
dsjoerg
·4 miesiące temu·discuss
Strongly agreed. However, some developers have trouble writing clearly and reading lots of text, and therefore prefer oral and interactive + real-time transmission of the information. Those developers, I suppose and hope, are discovering that they can talk out loud to their agents, explain everything interactively, and then the agent can create whatever longer-term artifact it wants to record the understanding. Multi-modal interfaces FTW?