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Comment · 12 days ago
Don't really love the data-harvesting potential of that.
Comment · 19 days ago
I don't lament LLM's because they are a better or automation of an approach to doing my tasks. I lament them because they are built on loose foundations, limited understanding, misunderstood function and risk, data theft, and shaky legal grounds. I'm an engineer, my job is to deal with and reduce complexity not accept it blindly without soberly weighing all the pros and cons after building a solid understanding.

We also don't know how this approach will pan out and the extent of its final functionality. Some people think it'll just get better, but nothing in the world scales linearly forever, why would this?

We will likely construct a general solution machine one day and help us create resource abundance, and with that lead to a world where we can work on a completely new foundation of a human philosophy and social structure to live in, but there's no guarantee we're on that path with this garbage, and it's a moral failure to just accept that we are and deem ourselves replaced prematurely.

Comment · 19 days ago
They appear to have a pretty well-defined modding interface that didn't rely no unity's custom data structures. I'd suspect this project was started some time back, not just a one-shot port. Can't say whether or not any LLM's were used on tested in this project, but I get the feeling they set themselves up for making it portable from the start via some good old fashion thinking.

LLM's are still kinda shit at porting large in-house game projects. They can quickly and easily mangle codebases.

Comment · 19 days ago
Love that they have Z-fighting in their main video
Comment · 19 days ago
Didn't know it was a documentary.
Comment · 20 days ago
Like a cryptographic "vouch/trust" chain? I trust you, you trust someone else, then I at least know there's a second order of connection/trust.
Comment · 26 days ago
I've been pondering this too. Just making a dialect of a language so different the llm's would fail. And then never release any descriptions or examples of it so there won't be any data to steal.
Comment · 1 month ago
Yeah, I'm curious about which ones are a problem. I could see there being some incompatibility, and the details are more interesting than sweeping statements.

Some regulations would have to be normalized and agreed upon between the countries for trade open up. Can't have different quality standards and ways of evaluating and declaring them.

Comment · 1 month ago
If I train my 1000 billion parameter blank AI on this text and only this text over and over again, we may get 99% there.
Comment · 4 months ago
Steve Jobs didn't invent the PC. It's reductionist and offensive to single him out and thanking him for that.

Computers didn't "figure out the maths". People did the math, the computers did the calculations.

Human knowledge is nowhere complete, it's silly to think so, and by extension it's silly to think the LLM's have anything near a complete knowledge set.

They don't even have access to all of current human knowledge, much less so future knowledge. A lot of text and information is locked away from the public internet and the internet altogether.

Not all types of useful ideas for applications have been invented, that's ridiculous, there are plenty of ideas that people haven't had yet. There are however a massive amount of shitty copies of the same shitty ideas.

Comment · 4 months ago
Yeah i also want to know what the adaption is. Because so far all I'm seeing is removal of the natural incentive to build deeper understanding of the systems. So in the future only the people who are really curious and want to know for knowledge sake are going to know enough to deal with the blind spots of the automatons.

Knowing how the things the LLM's are touching appears to be the only skill of value. Because using these things are trivial for anyone who is familiar with computers, what adaptation and catching up is there beyond waiting and observing what works and then just applying that?

"But the LLM's will know everything" well then we aren't needed at all, just put it on a loop and leave it running. At this endpoint there's nothing to adapt to, only direct means of allocating necessary resources to yourself for subsistence.

Comment · 4 months ago
Sweden has 14 sick days no questions asked before you need a doctors note. The German way of having to call your doctor for a flu note is a little odd to me. You do loose the first day's pay (the meme is that too many people were off sick when there was a world cup finals or something), and then 80% pay.
Comment · 4 months ago
I agree. I had such a strong revelation reading C Programming Language book, and the Lua Programming Language book (which is suspect is heavily influenced by the C book). It's so clear and concise while not skipping important details, answering all of the readers questions that come up. Kerningham et al really knows how to write and the value of doing so well, respecting the reader.

There's just so much shitty technical documentation out in the world.

Comment · 4 months ago
I love reading docs. It's the best way to get as close as I can to understanding the intent and context of a piece of software. I feel like adding an LLM between myself and the original text for anything else than search is just adding risk and noise.

Am I the only one feeling this way?

Comment · 14 years ago
It sounds like the user had removed the tweets from his account to hide them from public viewing. (I might be wrong here, not the point)

But, is there some law or other reason that Twitter would continue to store tweets that have been removed by its users?

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