> you don't like to read? I assumed that people who enjoy software would be into intellectual stimulation but I've learned that this is wrong. So HN is OK with being extremely condescending toward others as long as it's…
> If a few CEO's wind up working at 7-11 to make rent money, all the better. There are CEOs who have only ever failed abysmally their entire careers, and they generally only ever make more money. Accountability is for…
> UBI is non-starter no matter what Sam Altman believes. Do you mean it's a non-starter in the current political climate? Or that you personally just don't think it will work?
I am criticizing a common pattern of thought that I observe, including in the post I responded to. "I'm against X in general, but in this case X is warranted" is a very dangerous thought process, and I believe a good…
> there are plenty of software developers who offer lifetime purchases. In fact there was a time that subscriptions for software were virtually unheard of. There's a big difference between software you buy, run on your…
I've taken the stance that garbage is garbage, whether written by a human or an AI. It's not like the internet wasn't chock full of insipid philosophy and astroturfing before LLMs were around. It seems like people are…
You're not in favor of adding regulation, except when it comes to issues you understand and care about. All the oversight and regulation about everything you don't care and/or know about is big bad government overreach.…
> all I heard was Biden-flation Listen to different sources then. It's weird to complain that when you listened to overt pathological liars, all you heard were lies.
> the best way to get cars off the road is to replace many if not most of their occupants with AI. I'm so confused by this. Instead of one person driving a car to the store and parking, now the car is driving itself to…
What a hellscape we've created for ourselves. My job is to get out of the way of an AI agent? People were writing bad code before, but at least they were looking at it. It is very difficult to judge whether the code AI…
> They want it their way, despite there being multiple ways to Rome, and will cut off the conversation with orders, not arguments I don't know about your experiences, but insisting on this point can be a death sentence.…
The difference is that Squenergy is not conserved.
A good abstraction? As in one? I'd go so far as to say the process of discovering and refining abstractions is the most important part of software engineering. A large project has dozens of abstractions, and some of…
Measuring output is what this whole post is about. 1. "If you have poor output, you won't last long. Here's what 'poor output' looks like..." 2. "But what if they have poor output because they're working three jobs?" 3.…
> I am the furthest thing from an Anarchist I know this is beside the point but I'm quite amused by this statement. Are you saying you're a totalitarian? I'm not trying to poke at you here; I'm genuinely interested what…
Absolutely: missing in-person learning due to COVID. Less attention span due to growing up in a distracting environment. A lower bar to entry due to removal of standardized testing and indirectly from No Child Left…
The understanding is inside of the system, in LLMs and in the Chinese Room. I agree with Daniel Dennett that it's preposterous to say that Chinese is not understood in any meaningful sense in the Chinese Room scenario…
It is clear that consciousness is independent of the substrate if you don't believe in magic. We could make a very dumb biological calculator out of a few genetically-engineered neurons that would very obviously not be…
> Are you conforming/obeying when you believe the Earth is round? That the sky is blue? No, I am incorporating multiple different lines of evidence from multiple sources, including my eyes, into a framework of knowledge…
> remember, they were pulled over for driving erratically Maybe. Or they were pulled over for being black, or having tattoos, or being really hot, or because they criticized police brutality on social media, or because…
I mean, what I describe absolutely does exist, that's how LLMs work. The question is whether the relative weights are actually a good measure of confidence, and as the other reply to my comment points out, there are…
> inhibit the police's ability to arrest drunk drivers They have breathalyzers and blood tests. Field sobriety tests are not there to help police arrest drunk drivers, they're there to help police arrest whomever they…
The final output of the neural network part of an LLM is a vector with weights for every token, that is then usually softmaxed and picked from. Can we not quantify the uncertainty by looking at the distribution of…
I think you're conflating opinions about when math is useful with opinions on the nature of math itself. Formalism does not assume that "all rules are equally valid". You can be a staunch formalist and yet still believe…
If this doesn't happen, are you going to accept that you were wrong, or are you going to ignore it and be off spreading unfounded anger about some other imagined offense?
> you don't like to read? I assumed that people who enjoy software would be into intellectual stimulation but I've learned that this is wrong. So HN is OK with being extremely condescending toward others as long as it's…
> If a few CEO's wind up working at 7-11 to make rent money, all the better. There are CEOs who have only ever failed abysmally their entire careers, and they generally only ever make more money. Accountability is for…
> UBI is non-starter no matter what Sam Altman believes. Do you mean it's a non-starter in the current political climate? Or that you personally just don't think it will work?
I am criticizing a common pattern of thought that I observe, including in the post I responded to. "I'm against X in general, but in this case X is warranted" is a very dangerous thought process, and I believe a good…
> there are plenty of software developers who offer lifetime purchases. In fact there was a time that subscriptions for software were virtually unheard of. There's a big difference between software you buy, run on your…
I've taken the stance that garbage is garbage, whether written by a human or an AI. It's not like the internet wasn't chock full of insipid philosophy and astroturfing before LLMs were around. It seems like people are…
You're not in favor of adding regulation, except when it comes to issues you understand and care about. All the oversight and regulation about everything you don't care and/or know about is big bad government overreach.…
> all I heard was Biden-flation Listen to different sources then. It's weird to complain that when you listened to overt pathological liars, all you heard were lies.
> the best way to get cars off the road is to replace many if not most of their occupants with AI. I'm so confused by this. Instead of one person driving a car to the store and parking, now the car is driving itself to…
What a hellscape we've created for ourselves. My job is to get out of the way of an AI agent? People were writing bad code before, but at least they were looking at it. It is very difficult to judge whether the code AI…
> They want it their way, despite there being multiple ways to Rome, and will cut off the conversation with orders, not arguments I don't know about your experiences, but insisting on this point can be a death sentence.…
The difference is that Squenergy is not conserved.
A good abstraction? As in one? I'd go so far as to say the process of discovering and refining abstractions is the most important part of software engineering. A large project has dozens of abstractions, and some of…
Measuring output is what this whole post is about. 1. "If you have poor output, you won't last long. Here's what 'poor output' looks like..." 2. "But what if they have poor output because they're working three jobs?" 3.…
> I am the furthest thing from an Anarchist I know this is beside the point but I'm quite amused by this statement. Are you saying you're a totalitarian? I'm not trying to poke at you here; I'm genuinely interested what…
Absolutely: missing in-person learning due to COVID. Less attention span due to growing up in a distracting environment. A lower bar to entry due to removal of standardized testing and indirectly from No Child Left…
The understanding is inside of the system, in LLMs and in the Chinese Room. I agree with Daniel Dennett that it's preposterous to say that Chinese is not understood in any meaningful sense in the Chinese Room scenario…
It is clear that consciousness is independent of the substrate if you don't believe in magic. We could make a very dumb biological calculator out of a few genetically-engineered neurons that would very obviously not be…
> Are you conforming/obeying when you believe the Earth is round? That the sky is blue? No, I am incorporating multiple different lines of evidence from multiple sources, including my eyes, into a framework of knowledge…
> remember, they were pulled over for driving erratically Maybe. Or they were pulled over for being black, or having tattoos, or being really hot, or because they criticized police brutality on social media, or because…
I mean, what I describe absolutely does exist, that's how LLMs work. The question is whether the relative weights are actually a good measure of confidence, and as the other reply to my comment points out, there are…
> inhibit the police's ability to arrest drunk drivers They have breathalyzers and blood tests. Field sobriety tests are not there to help police arrest drunk drivers, they're there to help police arrest whomever they…
The final output of the neural network part of an LLM is a vector with weights for every token, that is then usually softmaxed and picked from. Can we not quantify the uncertainty by looking at the distribution of…
I think you're conflating opinions about when math is useful with opinions on the nature of math itself. Formalism does not assume that "all rules are equally valid". You can be a staunch formalist and yet still believe…
If this doesn't happen, are you going to accept that you were wrong, or are you going to ignore it and be off spreading unfounded anger about some other imagined offense?