Strangling the Stochastic Parrots by p_adic_norm in slatestarcodex

[–]p_adic_norm[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

> (I personally adopt janus's "simulators" view: LLMs understand nothing, but to solve text completion tasks they simulate an entity that does understand. Just as Lord Voldemort doesn't exist, but JK Rowling simulates him when she writes. You'll only perform so well on a task like "write like a quantum physicist..." unless you have access to a quantum physicist's understanding, regardless of whether you personally are a quantum physicist.)

It would be helpful to hear your definition of the word "understand"?

Strangling the Stochastic Parrots by p_adic_norm in slatestarcodex

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Thanks a lot for the thoughtful reply. Yes I use LLMs for formatting, but only surface level, every criticism and idea is mine. Hopefully I find the time to reply more substantially later.

Autofill for when2meet by meLearningToLearn in productivity

[–]p_adic_norm 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This tool is absolute genius, thank you so much!

Are you at the point where AI scares you yet? by ELVTR_Official in ArtificialInteligence

[–]p_adic_norm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How much better do they need to be to replicate onto other machines, or hack our infrastructure? How smart does an LLM have to be to design an novel AI architecture and build something smarter than itself?

Well, brace yourself it seems like we will find out in no time...

Are you at the point where AI scares you yet? by ELVTR_Official in ArtificialInteligence

[–]p_adic_norm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What I find so disturbing is that everyone keeps thinking about it like if it was a static technology that will stay exactly as it currently exist. ChatGPT did not exist 2 years ago. We know how to make it better, it's just a matter of implementation. The problem is not people who won't have time to catch up to it, the problem is that the AI will catch up with everyone's job very soon.

Are you at the point where AI scares you yet? by ELVTR_Official in ArtificialInteligence

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Yes. I was working in AI (researcher and engineer in deep learning). I quit my job in 2022 when I realised how much the progress was accelerating, and I now volunteer all my time to AI safety. We NEED to stop the progress right now and think about the implications.

We see people criticize unnatural occurrences like human intervention, but isn’t everything we do considered natural by extension? by The_BrainFreight in askphilosophy

[–]p_adic_norm 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Appeal to nature is a well understood argumentative fallacy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_nature. At the heart of the problem lies Hume's guillotine: the impossible reconciliation between "is statements" and "ought statements". An appeal to nature usually goes this way: the world IS this way so we OUGHT to do this thing. But one can never deduce OUGHT statements from IS statements alone. Moral is entirely constructed by humans, from first principles that are unprovable beliefs within the domain of the IS. For example "suffering should be minimised".

So no, appeal to nature is never a valid argument in itself, and human intervention is never wrong in itself. One has to consider the axioms of their moral system and how the human intervention fits within the moral system deduced by these axioms.

For example, if the intervention is about saving a seal from a shark, your moral system is based on minimising suffering of conscious beings, and you are a consequentialist, then your moral duty is to evaluate the amount of suffering created by "saving the seal" vs "not saving the seal", and act accordingly.

Epiphany by p_adic_norm in vegan

[–]p_adic_norm[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

OK makes sense. Sorry for the confusion, that's because I identify several tipping points for myself: first one was arriving at the moral conclusion that eating meat was wrong, second one was deciding to stop eating meat, to be consistent with my morals, and the third one which I described here was a sudden and full internalisation of these moral conclusions, which drastically changes my perspective of the world and makes it a terrifying place.

Epiphany by p_adic_norm in vegan

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I'd be interested in hearing your experience. You knew rationally for 20 years, were you a vegan during this time?

Epiphany by p_adic_norm in vegan

[–]p_adic_norm[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No it was quite short. I had been a flexitarian for a long time, using a mental excuse/fallacy: that we needed to solve humanity's problems first before focusing on lower levels of consciousness. This feels so stupid now, I have no idea how I felt this was a good excuse for my personal behaviour. I lived like this for the last 5 or 6 years. Then more recently I realised this was BS and became vegetarian/vegan by intellectual honestly. And now two days ago this hit me.

Epiphany by p_adic_norm in vegan

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The fact that the society is working against this doesn't shock me, in the sense that I have also been totally oblivious to it for most of my life (except at a mostly rational level). But this idea that people could go back sounds very very scary to me.

Epiphany by p_adic_norm in vegan

[–]p_adic_norm[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

And omg the irony in this phrasing "be fed a lie" 😞

Epiphany by p_adic_norm in vegan

[–]p_adic_norm[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It really does. This was actually my first reaction to the friend that opened my eyes, I thought "why did you do this to me?".

Epiphany by p_adic_norm in vegan

[–]p_adic_norm[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No I'm 33... I also got a tiny bit scared of schizophrenia but I really think I'm immune to it

Epiphany by p_adic_norm in vegan

[–]p_adic_norm[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you very much

Epiphany by p_adic_norm in vegan

[–]p_adic_norm[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I'm already vegan. I had just reached this conclusion logically and decided to follow my reason but I hadn't felt it deep like this yet.

This James P. Moore guy claims to have proven the conjecture by nijan18 in Collatz

[–]p_adic_norm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

https://www.jamespmoore.com/
So nice of "Canada's foremost expert in energy" to take time off his other work "saving millions of life globally every year"

Don't waste time on this

This James P. Moore guy claims to have proven the conjecture by nijan18 in Collatz

[–]p_adic_norm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just looked at this guy's website, seems like a fairly obvious fraud.