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I appreciate when somebody speaks with conviction about their beliefs.

I learned this from the Frank Zappa song "Baby Snakes" which contains the lyrics:

They live in a ho-ho-hole

(Tiny hole)

That is usually empty

(Usually empty, tiny too)

They live by a code

(Dit dit dit dit)

That is usually SMPTE

Which stands for

Society of Motion Picture & Television Engineers

This page could act as effective counterpoint to the claim that the model is dangerously smart.

I am so sick of reading this horseshit AI writing. It's like eating vaseline.

In case it gets edited, the title of the HN submission is "Steve Wozniak cheered after telling students they have AI – actual intelligence".

I laughed when I read this, imagining a weird act of self-congratulation in front of a silent audience.

to not use an LLM?

Hacker News moment

thumb of the mind

An apt choice of words given the subject's unique blessing

"The screeching of peeling tape is a familiar albeit annoying sound."

I don't find it annoying, I quite like it. The only time I've experienced "ASMR" was from somebody peeling tape next to me.

At that point why not just have an actual deterministic transpiler?

Everything that has been "invented" was invented by humans and on some level depends on the laws of nature to function.

I recently bought whey protein powder that doesn't come from milk. It was synthesized by human-engineered microbes. Did this invention "arrive"?

Yes and exactly the same thing could be said for the invention of compact discs. You're just describing "history".

No I'm fairly certain it was invented and that this style of breathless science fiction roleplay will be looked back on as an embarrassing relic of the era.

I'd personally be very sceptical that the human brain could derive much meaning from smell beyond "smells bad don't eat" or "reminds me of something", but I guess I would have said the same about creating smells via ultrasound so what do I know.

Very cool, although I found the link to LLMs toward the end to be a little odd.

I suggest you reflect on the value you are placing on aesthetics, and where this way of thinking ultimately leads.

Sounds like reactionary nonsense to me. It's just some names. It's not indicative of the debasement of society.

Can you give an example of an artwork you think is acceptable?

In a sharp peak, micro optimizations would give you a clearer signal where the optimum lies since the gradient is steeper.

I would refuse to even engage with the piece on this level, since it lends credibility to the idea that the creative process is even remotely related to or analogous to gradient descent.

I wouldn't call it technical

Fair. Perhaps I should have said it gives the illusion of being technical.

Yes, you articulated my issue in a much better way than I managed to!

Respectfully, I have no idea what you're talking about. Dead Poets Society is a story and the message of the story isn't that Robin Williams' character is bad.

Are you saying my perspective is anti-socialist? What is "refined" art?

Perhaps a controversial view on this particular forum but I find the tendency of a certain type of person* to write about everything in this overly-technical way regardless of whether it is appropriate to the subject matter to be very tiresome ("executing cached heuristics", "constrained the search space").

*I associate it with the asinine contemporary "rationalist" movement (LessWrong et al.) but I'm not making any claims the author is associated with this.

It isn't a generational thing. The choice of emoji is a generational thing, but people of all ages do it. AI most certainly does not use emoji in the same way a young person does (unless you encourage it to, but even then it comes across as cringeworthy). If anything it's closer to how a middle-aged person uses them.

I'd also say the use of text emoticons has all but died out in anything other than ironic usage, or in situations where it's difficult to use unicode emoji (e.g. games or this very site)

When text is very obviously generated by AI it communicates to the reader that there is nothing of value to be read. It always writes in the same vapid, overly enthusiastic, overly verbose way. It's grating and generally conveys very little information per word. It's a cliché at this point, but if nobody bothered to write it then why would I bother to read it?

There is a 0% chance that the vast majority of this site and the repo that was linked elsewhere was written by a human. I would have zero confidence in anything about this language, and frankly your former colleague should be embarrassed about putting this out.

Edit: I just noticed in another comment: "Perfect for : Trading systems, industrial control, Medical devices, aerospace applications". I'd go further than embarrassed, and say this person should be ashamed of themself and take this down.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you're saying but applications like this tend to be horrible to use. How do you handle somebody navigating in two tabs at once? What about the back button?

If this was enough to temporarily replace breathing I wonder how that would feel if you were otherwise healthy. I imagine not breathing would instinctively feel quite strange and even distressing.

I guess? I would argue that a thought doesn't "capture" anything though, because unlike language it's not a representational tool.

A painting of a landscape can capture details of the landscape it's representing. The landscape itself doesn't capture anything, it just is.

The sentence is the result of a thought. The sentence in itself does not capture every process that went into producing the sentence.

I think it explains quite well why LLMs are useful in some ways but stupid in many other ways.