It can be really frustrating viewing threads like this sometimes. I've not once seen an interest rate swap priced in anything other than float/double, and that's relatively simple even compared to some of the crazy instruments out there.
Like, sure, probably don't use floats for everything, but what are the odds that your greeks are gonna be nicely expressable as simple rationals?
You could do a two stage process, a blinded text review and an unblinded review that can only be failed if you have a vigorous lack of knowledge about your work.
I highly doubt anything like that will be implemented though.
I think it's very field dependant. In maths and biology I've seen very few professors that could reasonably be described as maximialists here; computer science really seems to be the outlier. My impression is that impactful CS professors tend to be more strongly associated with either maths, or the field that their cs research is being used in.
Arts faculty on the other hand seem to basically just be a popularity competition.
Israel Palestine single-voterism is particularly frustrating to me because of the weird way it has to infect completely irrelevant topics. As a particularly crazy example, I remember people arguing about Israel Palestine in the context of the Australian Aboriginal Voice to Parliament debate, a debate about an internal representation mechanism for Australian Aboriginal people, incredibly few of which have any ties to either Israel or Palestine, and a group which I considerably doubt represent a single soldier on either side.
Nearly everyone I know puts sunscreen on their hands. Here in Australia, the world melanoma capital, sun safety is drilled into you as a kid, to the extent that "no hat no play" used to be official policy in most schools.
In my experience, US citizens are completely blind to how much stuff like this makes citizens of other countries hate their government (which often, unfortunately, bleeds over to hate for US citizens; not that I condone hating any group of people based on the actions of their state)
The US has spent the last 12ish years betting that they're the only country that matters, but the end of result of that is that somehow when I talk to Australians in my age group the average person has a more positive opinion towards China even than the US.
Way back before instruct models it was pretty difficult, but for the last couple of years I haven't needed anything more complex than the type of text that I might send in a detailed email to a colleague.
There's something interesting here, where the very thing that prompted the LLM boom (transformer networks) was the thing that introduced a higher level of information integration into neural networks; under the somewhat mainstream theory (not to say uncontroversial, though) that consciousness is a function of Integrative Information (IIT), it could be said that transformers are in a real way more conscious than previous architectures.
The thing I've never understood about the ai investment model is the upside. What's the point of valuations that only make sense if you've built a digital god, when at that point you've literally got a digital god. I can't imagine the tangible value of money being high in that scenario
I find that a lot of arguments against emergent consciousness seem to just come out of an atheist rephrasing of abrhamic priors about the existence of a "soul". In personal chats, I've found people from East Asian countries (minus Korea, which makes sense) to be much more open to the idea of machine consciousness.
I don't really get the value proposition of groq as a user, the performance is really poor for the token price. Data centres on the other hand are becoming a commodity, and I don't see any reason a priori to invest in groq specifically for something like that.
Lots of bugs seem to be fundamentally quite local, but potentially with global trigger conditions. Heart bleed for example could've been avoided even if you could only read small segments of the codebase at a time, but could only be triggered with more context.
I suspect that a combination of ai and memory safe languages will really shine in the next decade.
Like, sure, probably don't use floats for everything, but what are the odds that your greeks are gonna be nicely expressable as simple rationals?