I find it endlessly fascinating that information cannot be destroyed and we keep finding more and more ways to read the universe at every scale!
Because they aren't. All the intelligence, alignment vs misalignment, hallucinations, conspiracy, cheating, coordination, "agency", that we see in the text generated by large language models is a semantic projection.…
Any day now I remember when C was a "high level language" and model driven development would give us IDEs where coding would be on a "higher abstraction level" and code would be just "generated" ad hoc and disposable.…
Yeah you're right. There has been an erosion in domain expertise there. > The accounting profession is facing a severe crisis due to a shortage of accountants.…
Yeah I know it's not obvious. And very lucrative and very freeing, having this sort of knowledge and leveraging it. Especially after clients have suffered the new found arrogance of non-experts riding on LLM output.
The code is ultimately the codification (ha!) of domain knowledge in precise, non-ambiguous ways. It has extrinsic, non essential complexity yes. But including ever more complexity in the process, by depending on…
I never go by pay. I won't fix bad systems whatever their provenance because trying to understand poorly coded software is very unpleasant. I go by interesting problems and I like being able to chose from more options…
I always ask for sources. LLM analyses often fails by being simplistic or wrong in comparison with the sources it provides. More often than not, to the point that it is wasteful to ask it for analysis so I only ask for…
My point is that they always use quotes when quoting even if it is verified by them to be true. Reporting discourse is different from reporting fact, and I do not know the BBC for reporting unverified discourse or facts.
I don't wish anyone any reckoning. But I can see and feel less competition for my niche knowledge and I welcome it.
I experience quite the opposite. I'm quite excited about the value my skills are gaining in relative terms. An entire generation of potential competition is getting addicted on the subsidized corporate tooling.…
I have done that as well. Not a single time I asked an LLM for any sort of analysis that I could trust upon verification so I stopped doing that. If I need verify, much easier to just ask for suggestions of papers and…
It has nothing to do with verification. They are simply reporting what sources have said: Houthis 'take control' of Perim Island - government source published at 09:00 Houthi rebels have "taken control" of Perim Island…
Inverted bias doesn't change much my view in practical terms
Thanks I was going by the date I glanced at the counter cover
Yeah I'm not talking about that one proof, I'm talking about the whole of mathematics. It's not manufacturing theorems, it's an ongoing conversation. It's poetry in the etymological sense, poesis, it's creative. Why…
Reading Snowcrash, the guy gave up coding because "back in the day" a hacker could do it all alone but now it was all about software factories. That was in a book written in 2000. Software is theory building, as Naur…
LLM tools tend confirm what you come with them, be it unfounded conviction or doubt. I find them quite useless to tell me things I don't know, as verifying what they say shows that any non-trivial claims they make are…
I think I am make a much more basic point than what you're talking about but then again I am not sure what you're tying to say here...
That's true of the entirety of mathematics. It's validity is a social construct. Gödel showed you need to agree on definitions to even do any valid mathematical construct. Truth is also ill defined. That's what I don't…
There is a symmetrical presumption in the minds of people that the software representation in their screens is both accurate and capable of altering reality when changed. This is very often violated, obviously, and…
This will either be normal crisis, in which case no point in panicking. Or it is existential, in which case, no point in panicking. If this turns out to be existential, what would anyone be able to do to prepare? Short…
AI, AGI, and intelligence itself are poorly defined. I invite you to add to the literature if you think you have any novel insight, and get it published. Otherwise I'd recommend digging deeper into history, cognitive…
I'm not talking about OpenAI I'm talking about you > So don't be sad that this 90 year problem was solved, just be happy that is exactly what AGI should be. That sounds like a cult leader.
I think you're framing this as idealism vs materialism? The debate is fascinating. I tend to be more of an idealist but I recognize that science is predicated on materialism. I believe we ought to find a complete…
I find it endlessly fascinating that information cannot be destroyed and we keep finding more and more ways to read the universe at every scale!
Because they aren't. All the intelligence, alignment vs misalignment, hallucinations, conspiracy, cheating, coordination, "agency", that we see in the text generated by large language models is a semantic projection.…
Any day now I remember when C was a "high level language" and model driven development would give us IDEs where coding would be on a "higher abstraction level" and code would be just "generated" ad hoc and disposable.…
Yeah you're right. There has been an erosion in domain expertise there. > The accounting profession is facing a severe crisis due to a shortage of accountants.…
Yeah I know it's not obvious. And very lucrative and very freeing, having this sort of knowledge and leveraging it. Especially after clients have suffered the new found arrogance of non-experts riding on LLM output.
The code is ultimately the codification (ha!) of domain knowledge in precise, non-ambiguous ways. It has extrinsic, non essential complexity yes. But including ever more complexity in the process, by depending on…
I never go by pay. I won't fix bad systems whatever their provenance because trying to understand poorly coded software is very unpleasant. I go by interesting problems and I like being able to chose from more options…
I always ask for sources. LLM analyses often fails by being simplistic or wrong in comparison with the sources it provides. More often than not, to the point that it is wasteful to ask it for analysis so I only ask for…
My point is that they always use quotes when quoting even if it is verified by them to be true. Reporting discourse is different from reporting fact, and I do not know the BBC for reporting unverified discourse or facts.
I don't wish anyone any reckoning. But I can see and feel less competition for my niche knowledge and I welcome it.
I experience quite the opposite. I'm quite excited about the value my skills are gaining in relative terms. An entire generation of potential competition is getting addicted on the subsidized corporate tooling.…
I have done that as well. Not a single time I asked an LLM for any sort of analysis that I could trust upon verification so I stopped doing that. If I need verify, much easier to just ask for suggestions of papers and…
It has nothing to do with verification. They are simply reporting what sources have said: Houthis 'take control' of Perim Island - government source published at 09:00 Houthi rebels have "taken control" of Perim Island…
Inverted bias doesn't change much my view in practical terms
Thanks I was going by the date I glanced at the counter cover
Yeah I'm not talking about that one proof, I'm talking about the whole of mathematics. It's not manufacturing theorems, it's an ongoing conversation. It's poetry in the etymological sense, poesis, it's creative. Why…
Reading Snowcrash, the guy gave up coding because "back in the day" a hacker could do it all alone but now it was all about software factories. That was in a book written in 2000. Software is theory building, as Naur…
LLM tools tend confirm what you come with them, be it unfounded conviction or doubt. I find them quite useless to tell me things I don't know, as verifying what they say shows that any non-trivial claims they make are…
I think I am make a much more basic point than what you're talking about but then again I am not sure what you're tying to say here...
That's true of the entirety of mathematics. It's validity is a social construct. Gödel showed you need to agree on definitions to even do any valid mathematical construct. Truth is also ill defined. That's what I don't…
There is a symmetrical presumption in the minds of people that the software representation in their screens is both accurate and capable of altering reality when changed. This is very often violated, obviously, and…
This will either be normal crisis, in which case no point in panicking. Or it is existential, in which case, no point in panicking. If this turns out to be existential, what would anyone be able to do to prepare? Short…
AI, AGI, and intelligence itself are poorly defined. I invite you to add to the literature if you think you have any novel insight, and get it published. Otherwise I'd recommend digging deeper into history, cognitive…
I'm not talking about OpenAI I'm talking about you > So don't be sad that this 90 year problem was solved, just be happy that is exactly what AGI should be. That sounds like a cult leader.
I think you're framing this as idealism vs materialism? The debate is fascinating. I tend to be more of an idealist but I recognize that science is predicated on materialism. I believe we ought to find a complete…