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Let's say you collect stamps. I think it's a stupid and morally irresponsible way of using your free time (you should be socializing or doing sports or learning something new). Just being honest with my opinion.

This is all ok. The problem is when we start firing people or shunning them for stuff we don't like.

So Chinese LLMs are bad actors, but USA LLMs are the good guys?

I don't see it that way, but I'm sure from an American perspective that how it seems.

This sounds like a very negative comment and with many generalizations. Please consider thinking about what your comments bring to the discussion

>Since this theorem is true for the standard model of the natural numbers but not provable

I've always found the provable vs true comparison confusing. How can we say the statement is true under the standard model if we cannot prove it? I understand that it could be true, but how do we know it? If it's proven with second order arithmetic, then this implies it is true under the standard model too?

Or are there statements true independently of the axiomatic system you use to prove them? (Apologies if this is too off-topic)

The point is not whether it can be modeled (it can), but whether you can get a closed form solution for it (you can't...or we don't know how for now)

I see a lot of people asking "what year it is" or some other question that tests knowledge lf current events. To me it sounds like a misunderstanding of what an LLM + retrieval augmentation does.

If the LLM is only fed the HR documents that have multiple dates, why would you expect it to answer that correctly? Why is it relevant that it answered it correctly.

"are you a human?" "No, I'm a model trained by OpenAI"

Nearly fooled me

Not in India, but I've seen parents here sit down at a restaurant table and shove a cell phone in front of a toddler the second they sit down. They don't allow the kid to even get bored, try to do other stuff or interact with the kid. In my experience, a 1-2-3 year old kid doesn't have the "cellphone have cartoons, gimme!" unless they've been educated to expect that.

Does that seem like a bad habit to impose on your kids + you not engaging with them? It does to me. Am I gonna call (the equivalent to) child services? No. Do I make other probably equally bad choices for my kids? Quite likely.

No need to get defensive.

Or maybe there's no secret sauce for intelligence and if the system / organism can display all that functionality then should just say it's intelligent.

I don't have a strong opinion either way, but I'm not convinced by the "secret sauce" / internal monologue school of intelligence.

If we want to be pragmatic, we should just think about smart tests and just assume it's intelligent if the system passes those tests. It's what we do with other people (I don't really know if they feel inside like I do, but given they are the same biological beings, it sounds quite likely)

Faang salary only exists on the US. Even the richest countries in Europe don't have those salaries for programmers (maybe if you work on finance or some niche subject).

In this part of the world, we're more worried about what the US government can do to us than what the Chinese can do.

In other words, for many people in the world that wouldn't be an issue, it's already in the hands of a country that had invaded or intervened far more countries than China in the past few decades

Not an argentinean, but I don't think that's the right way to look at it.

You can exchange dollars in any country and in many you can directly pay in stores if the storekeeper is flexible. You wouldn't call that a parallel dollar economy.

The only additional point in Argentina is thay they have an official exchange rate that is way way different from the true exchange rate (ie the one that arises from demand and supply). That's why you can exchange dollars through the official channels and get, say, 500 pesos, or you can exchange from an unofficial one and get 1000 pesos

The language is not dumb. The writing system that people chose is...not that great (and you can call it dumb if you like). There was a choice between respecting phonetics or maximizing some other objective (respecting etymology or being consistent with older pronunciation or whatever). Being based on a latin script maybe wasn't ideal, but languages like swedish or german did a better job and invented letter when needed.

If you take the distribution of writing systems, I'm not sure English is particularly bad (the modern version has spaces and punctuation! Not bad, right?). It's not great either.

>English does not have a regulatory body like Spanish or German have.

Spanish does have a regulatory agency (RAE) that we choose to follow, but AFAIK, they don't say anything about pronunciation. Spanish from Spain, Mexico, Colombia all have different pronunciations and not one is more official than the other. There's a certain sense of what's "normal" or nearer the center of gravity for most speakers, but I think that's true for English too (new zealand or south african English is less "standard" than a Midwestern accent or BBC English)

The didn't recently have a president looking to undermine the very fabric of democracy. That already makes it better than the USA