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Do you use Grok multiple times per day? Is Grok solving Erdos problems?

Why would they sell it for less when they could sell it for more?

We’re witnessing “American exceptionalism” transform from a brash claim to a whiny demand in real time.

I think you won’t get [cathedral],..

even if you do get [cathedral], [bazar] will run circles around you…

Because it’s hooked up to a microphone in your kitchen & your kid is arguing with you about what lunch they want & they say “Hey [agent], what day is pizza day at [school]?”

Tell me, is the deployment of that famous talking sand at all resource-constrained?

We aren’t even mining asteroids near Earth’s orbit. Space colonization is a ketamine dream. There’s no extraterrestrial economy. Earth is all we have. One pie.

In a phrase: Worse Is Better

My concern with something like this is content marketing or other forms of surreptitious advertising.

Will you clearly indicate “boosted” authors/publishers/pieces?

Corporations and governments are made of actual people.

Hand-waving away the complex incentives these superhuman structures follow & impose.

Yeah, it's on codeberg https://codeberg.org/uzu/strudel

Glad we agree that the “builder” without craft is just looking for the nearest exit.

In the United States, the working poor are considered deserving of their burdens in an immutable, moralizing, Calvinist way. “They make bad choices.” “They have bad culture.” “They have bad genes.”

Today’s public benchmarks are yesterday’s training data.

I cannot understand this prideful resentment of theory common among self-described practitioners.

Even if existing theory is inadequate, would an operating theory not be beneficial?

Or is the mystique combined with guess&check drudgery job security?

If you like it or it makes you feel something, that's all that matters.

You’re right!

Even jazz uses 6-2-5-1's over and over.

You’re not even wrong! I wonder if jazz does anything else besides that?

A major floodplain in Michigan has a similar problem with dioxin contamination.

https://www.michigan.gov/-/media/Project/Websites/mdhhs/Fold...

In another world, macros could have filled the role that programmable yaml fills today.

You’re narrowly addressing LLM use cases & omitting the most problematic one - LLMs as search engine replacements.

I tire of this disingenuous comparison. The failure modes of (experienced, professional) humans are vastly different than the failure modes of LLMs. How many coworkers do you have that frequently, wildly hallucinate while still performing effectively? Furthermore, (even experienced, professional) humans are known to be fallible & are treated as such. No matter how many gentle reminders the informed give the enraptured, LLMs will continue to be treated as oracles by a great many people, to the detriment of their application.

Why are they attempting to model LLM update rollouts at all? They repeatedly concede their setup bears little resemblance to IRL deployments experiencing updates. Feels like unnecessary grandeur in what is otherwise an interesting paper.

The negative tone of some comments here betrays that techno optimist suggestion that tech will solve environmental issues. Clearly, the incentives just aren’t there!

There’s a decent supercollider implementation as well

https://github.com/everythingwillbetakenaway/DX7-Supercollid...

These results speak towards the absence of an audience for poetry as much as they do the aptitude of LLMs for creative writing.

Would you feel comfortable pushing generated code to production unaudited?

Intent is immaterial

How did you measure your ability to concentrate?

fwiw

What do you think this sort of observation is worth?

This is the fantasy of brownfield redevelopment. The reality is that remediation is always expensive even when it doesn’t depend on novel innovations.

Can you link this idle observation directly to the operation of LLMs or is this more anthropomorphizing boosterism?

We do represent much of our cognition in language. Sometime I feel like LLMs might be “dancing skeletons” - pulleys & wire giving motion to the bones of cognition.