Excuse my ignorance, but how does context memory provide an insight into a model's inner workings? I mean this: > It is given sets of paramaters/data and infers a response based on it's acceptable confidence level. The…
Spoiler: turns out the commenter I was asking about this had an issue with Wikipedia re: marxism and the Middle East / Israel. The mention of marxism is puzzling, but re: the Middle East / Israel, I think it's…
Thanks for the honest reply. Based on what you're saying, I think your real issue is that your own ideology and biases clash with whatever you perceive about Wikipedia. If Wikipedia had a less "marxist perspective of…
So no examples must be provided at all, the vague claims of various terrible flaws in Wikipedia must be accepted prima facie? I disagree. And it's funny because lots of people believe contradictory things about…
> I feel like that is the kind of response that is an example that could be used for "sealioning" on Wikipedia. Not at all. Mainly because this is asking for the first line of examples, not repeatedly bogging down the…
How do you propose an encyclopedia applies the scientific method? It's an encyclopedia, not a research lab. Wikipedia specifically rules out original research (which is good, because imagine all the crackpots they would…
What's the ideological bias you identify in Wikipedia? If you name it, we can discuss whether we agree with you or not.
Are other encyclopedias or sources of information less or more likely to fall prey to this kind of bias? Maybe in Wikipedia it's just more open, so you notice it more? I've also noticed bias, especially in anything…
> No, it is not meant to work that way. Yes, it is. Science builds models that try to make falsifiable predictions about the world. You observe, note the predictions failed (if they did) and either fix the model or…
It is sad because this is how science is meant to work, but propagandists will use it as evidence to dismiss it as some sort of liberal conspiracy. This is what the commenter you're replying to means by "doubt". Science…
> Isn't all of this true for a human-used internet as well? Yes, but if you read this "semantic" info directly from a site, you can judge the site and its potential biases, and decide for yourself "this sells Louis…
There's nothing left for your imagination to fill in if there's official content (or expanded universe stuff) making it explicit for you. As an example, nothing George Lucas did compares to what I wondered about the…
Good point on Tolkien, though I would argue it's different because the Silmarillion was written for his own satisfaction, not his fans, and actually it was The Lord of the Rings which was initially written as "another…
> We have to be careful about letting fiction inform our worldview too much. Agreed. But would our AI entrepreneurs, so busy building the Torment Nexus, pay heed?
Agreed, and also: what's with the obsession with filling every possible gap in stories, leaving nothing to the imagination? I remember when the Butlerian Jihad and the Clone Wars from Star Wars were complete mysteries.…
I disagree. The article is making claims about software renderers of the time vs hardware accelerated renderers of the time, as they typically worked. It's missing the point completely to believe the author of a blog…
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I'm not disputing the technical details of anything you're saying. I don't think the author of TFA is, either. So when you say "this is incorrect", and also: > Software renderers can do bilinear filtering. What do you…
> I isn't "simulated" by GPUs, it is a rendering mode that GPUs had since before they were called GPUs. Yes, of course. That's what I meant. I didn't mean "simulate" as in fake, I meant it more as in "replicate the same…
It's not ridiculous. It's also perfectly clear from TFA, one has to go out of their way to misinterpret this. E.g. > Software renderers generally sample textures pixel by pixel, so every texel stays a crisp square.…
> Certainly the author of this piece seems to believe that. That's unfair, especially if you read his other articles. > Someone unfamiliar with graphics ... is probably not the intended audience of a hobbyist,…
But in practice, this didn't happen, which is what TFA seems to be all about. So it's not incorrect to talk about software renderers (of the time) vs hardware accelerated graphics (of the time) and how they were used in…
> This is incorrect Incorrect how? It's correct in that software renderers of the time TFA describes mostly looked like this, and GPU renderers didn't (of course, they weren't called GPU back then), and there's a reason…
"Nothing to do" is a bit strong. It has something to do, and the explanation is in the history of how these games worked. Can it be simulated on GPUs? Sure. But it was typical of software renderers of that era, and NOT…
I'll bite. What is it that you're describing? Do you work in robotics or what? Sounds interesting, regardless of the debate about sentience.
Excuse my ignorance, but how does context memory provide an insight into a model's inner workings? I mean this: > It is given sets of paramaters/data and infers a response based on it's acceptable confidence level. The…
Spoiler: turns out the commenter I was asking about this had an issue with Wikipedia re: marxism and the Middle East / Israel. The mention of marxism is puzzling, but re: the Middle East / Israel, I think it's…
Thanks for the honest reply. Based on what you're saying, I think your real issue is that your own ideology and biases clash with whatever you perceive about Wikipedia. If Wikipedia had a less "marxist perspective of…
So no examples must be provided at all, the vague claims of various terrible flaws in Wikipedia must be accepted prima facie? I disagree. And it's funny because lots of people believe contradictory things about…
> I feel like that is the kind of response that is an example that could be used for "sealioning" on Wikipedia. Not at all. Mainly because this is asking for the first line of examples, not repeatedly bogging down the…
How do you propose an encyclopedia applies the scientific method? It's an encyclopedia, not a research lab. Wikipedia specifically rules out original research (which is good, because imagine all the crackpots they would…
What's the ideological bias you identify in Wikipedia? If you name it, we can discuss whether we agree with you or not.
Are other encyclopedias or sources of information less or more likely to fall prey to this kind of bias? Maybe in Wikipedia it's just more open, so you notice it more? I've also noticed bias, especially in anything…
> No, it is not meant to work that way. Yes, it is. Science builds models that try to make falsifiable predictions about the world. You observe, note the predictions failed (if they did) and either fix the model or…
It is sad because this is how science is meant to work, but propagandists will use it as evidence to dismiss it as some sort of liberal conspiracy. This is what the commenter you're replying to means by "doubt". Science…
> Isn't all of this true for a human-used internet as well? Yes, but if you read this "semantic" info directly from a site, you can judge the site and its potential biases, and decide for yourself "this sells Louis…
There's nothing left for your imagination to fill in if there's official content (or expanded universe stuff) making it explicit for you. As an example, nothing George Lucas did compares to what I wondered about the…
Good point on Tolkien, though I would argue it's different because the Silmarillion was written for his own satisfaction, not his fans, and actually it was The Lord of the Rings which was initially written as "another…
> We have to be careful about letting fiction inform our worldview too much. Agreed. But would our AI entrepreneurs, so busy building the Torment Nexus, pay heed?
Agreed, and also: what's with the obsession with filling every possible gap in stories, leaving nothing to the imagination? I remember when the Butlerian Jihad and the Clone Wars from Star Wars were complete mysteries.…
I disagree. The article is making claims about software renderers of the time vs hardware accelerated renderers of the time, as they typically worked. It's missing the point completely to believe the author of a blog…
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I'm not disputing the technical details of anything you're saying. I don't think the author of TFA is, either. So when you say "this is incorrect", and also: > Software renderers can do bilinear filtering. What do you…
> I isn't "simulated" by GPUs, it is a rendering mode that GPUs had since before they were called GPUs. Yes, of course. That's what I meant. I didn't mean "simulate" as in fake, I meant it more as in "replicate the same…
It's not ridiculous. It's also perfectly clear from TFA, one has to go out of their way to misinterpret this. E.g. > Software renderers generally sample textures pixel by pixel, so every texel stays a crisp square.…
> Certainly the author of this piece seems to believe that. That's unfair, especially if you read his other articles. > Someone unfamiliar with graphics ... is probably not the intended audience of a hobbyist,…
But in practice, this didn't happen, which is what TFA seems to be all about. So it's not incorrect to talk about software renderers (of the time) vs hardware accelerated graphics (of the time) and how they were used in…
> This is incorrect Incorrect how? It's correct in that software renderers of the time TFA describes mostly looked like this, and GPU renderers didn't (of course, they weren't called GPU back then), and there's a reason…
"Nothing to do" is a bit strong. It has something to do, and the explanation is in the history of how these games worked. Can it be simulated on GPUs? Sure. But it was typical of software renderers of that era, and NOT…
I'll bite. What is it that you're describing? Do you work in robotics or what? Sounds interesting, regardless of the debate about sentience.