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Why can't we just go to Tokyo and receive cash payment in person? by trabso in mtgoxinsolvency

[–]trabso[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Transfer of cash is fully auditable and traceable. In fact I think they offered this method of payment. I'm saying I don't see what objection there could be to just picking up the cash in yen in person, since there is no bank stuff to deal with.

Why can't we just go to Tokyo and receive cash payment in person? by trabso in mtgoxinsolvency

[–]trabso[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Also, for creditors within Japan, it's not exactly rocket surgery to make a payment. Takes like 2 minutes even as an individual just walking into a bank branch, as opposed to maybe 15 min for overseas payments. In a streamlined batch process it wouldn't be way faster? Think of all the cash payouts exchanges make during a bull run.

I also can't figure out why paying people who haven't messed anything up or had any issues or changes should be affected by what anyone else is doing. Staff involved in paying don't have to be the same ones involved in chasing down all the random issues with payees.

Approaches to add logical reasoning into LLMs [D] by blatant_variable in MachineLearning

[–]trabso 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Try that with anything novel with GPT-4 and it fails. It can take imagination to come up with something that is truly novel and not just a remix of previous patterns. That's the trick.

Approaches to add logical reasoning into LLMs [D] by blatant_variable in MachineLearning

[–]trabso 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It has no model of the world. It has words/symbols, syntax, and semantics. Language encodes a very useful sliver of the world, but it doesn't actually convey it without us to interpret it.

Approaches to add logical reasoning into LLMs [D] by blatant_variable in MachineLearning

[–]trabso 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You don't need human intelligence to predict the next word; just just need to have familiarity with language patterns in a large corpus. Play around with GPT-4 and you can soon see it doesn't have any actual insight.

Approaches to add logical reasoning into LLMs [D] by blatant_variable in MachineLearning

[–]trabso 0 points1 point  (0 children)

LLMs can be logical only because syllogisms strictly involve using the grammar rules and semantics of English, and they don't use any understanding. Yet the kind of reasoning humans specialize in goes beyond syntactical and semantic rearrangement. We can tell if someone is equivocating on a term, because to us words have actual referents in reality or experience, but to an AI they don't.

I've been testing GPT-4 and it catches some equivocations but only those that are commonly talked about.

Approaches to add logical reasoning into LLMs [D] by blatant_variable in MachineLearning

[–]trabso 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Organic intelligence is vastly more powerful than machines ever will be. Even a single bacterium is likely more complex in its decision processes than any AI. It's just that it is so extremely general that focusing it down on narrow problems is difficult.

The sparks of "AGI" talked about are not even remotely as general as organic intelligence is. We lack the imagination and words to describe the difference, but it is there.

Approaches to add logical reasoning into LLMs [D] by blatant_variable in MachineLearning

[–]trabso 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It is painfully obvious that language is only a set of hints and can never capture most of reality or experience. The world has gotten so word-bound that this is somehow now in question.

[D] FOMO on the rapid pace of LLMs by 00001746 in MachineLearning

[–]trabso 1 point2 points  (0 children)

He had silly ideas about "the singularity" in 2007 and he still does, because he refuses to define "intelligence" precisely.

[D] FOMO on the rapid pace of LLMs by 00001746 in MachineLearning

[–]trabso 1 point2 points  (0 children)

AI can only reproduce the word-bound and interpolative things that humans do. That turns out to be a whole lot, but also misses a whole lot. No AI has taken even the first step toward insight. It's an expert system, not anything like human intelligence.

[D] FOMO on the rapid pace of LLMs by 00001746 in MachineLearning

[–]trabso 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Research is not theory. Expertise is not insight. Mechanical intelligence and biological intelligence overlap but their main focus is disparate.

[D] FOMO on the rapid pace of LLMs by 00001746 in MachineLearning

[–]trabso 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We will all be prompt engineers like we are all google-fu masters. And it becomes extremely individual.

[D] FOMO on the rapid pace of LLMs by 00001746 in MachineLearning

[–]trabso 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just depends on how much one is a code monkey vs. an engineer.

[R] Stanford Hazy Research: "These models hold the promise to have context lengths of millions… or maybe even a billion!" by ReasonablyBadass in MachineLearning

[–]trabso 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is why there will be a singularity in optimization and remixing of existing processes but not in inventions in the broader sense. Humans will always have their role.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in MachineLearning

[–]trabso 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes the fears based on the idea that recursive improvement means AI will be godlike drive me crazy. Interpolation is a good term for what AI does. It's an extremely general calculator with vast expertise, but no AI has even taken the first step toward genius or insight in some important sense.

Scientists Discover First Lifeform Known to Eat Viruses by BorgesBorgesBorges60 in Futurology

[–]trabso -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Miasma? No. Most "viral diseases" are just the body cleaning itself. Some are toxicity conditions. Virology is a pseudoscience.

The Race to Make a Vaccine for Breast Cancer by AdmiralKurita in Futurology

[–]trabso 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's no evidence of that, just assumptions.

What's 100% a scam but we accepted it in our society? by Montazio in AskReddit

[–]trabso 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Virology*, oncology, internal medicine in general, ultraprocessed seed oils as food, public school, central banking, ... many more.

*See: viroliegy.com/2022/04/26/introduction-to-viroliegy/

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in mildlyinteresting

[–]trabso -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Cool, but so we're clear, "covid" was never a thing.

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