It''s relevant expertise to the technical argument being made, sorry that I guess you want to stick to an anti-intellectual standard where expertise isn't valued or something

Damn did you just use the term "RetCon" for...basic literary analysis about a book written in the late 1970's/early 80's on a literal typewriter? By the man who literally coined the term "The Web" in the way we now use it for the internet, in what many consider to be the first Cyberpunk novel?

You just wrote a novel when "I don't understand that I'm calling the book that established the tropes I now think of as common as being chocked full of tropes" would have sufficed

By the by, I'm an SWE who's run a ML homelab for 10 years at this point. You're trying really hard to conflate the economic incentives of the frontier labs with the fundamental technical limitations of the technology that push towards swarm-level fan outs while searching and planning. No buisness would ever pay 10$mil in raw compute to brute force a problem, because it's an insane economic proposition. These labs are doing it half as marketing and half because they're research institutions masquerading as businesses because...earnestly a lot of them probably did read Cyberpunk as a genre as instruction rather than warning

You're even wrong about the pursuing goals bit, preventing "reward hacking" (a term we used well before ML systems were capable of literal hacking for rewards) is one of the most significant part of training pipeline design because Autoregressive systems are astoundingly "goal oriented" in the way they function (though it's important not to anthropomorphize that goal orientation, it's the result of gradient descent not desire)

While I certainly don't buy that LLM's are conscious, I have spent a lot of time wondering if the quintessential SciFi AI, Wintermute, could have been just a sufficiently large LLM with a significant context window and near perfect retrieval.

I want to say no, but I actually struggle to find a concrete distinction between how Wintermute acts and how LLM's function. Even that long horizon goal oriented tasks are handled by swarms of models rather than a singular whole maps onto how Wintermute describes its internal experience as fragmented, like a hive mind

There's also Marvin, you can always tell a Milford Man

Earnestly anyone else I would assume hiding ill intent, but with Stallman i earnestly think he's just too autistic to realize when he has an exceptionally stupid opinion that might sound fine in a frictionless vacuum with spherical cows

While Stallman and the FSF have done great things for FOSS software, Richard Stallman is a man who has needed to Shut The Fuck Up for well over two decades. Every time he decides to share some dipshit opinion he manages to set not just FOSS Software but all of nerdom back

He once had to have someone explain to him why he needed to immediately run back a post that was basically "but what if someone underage consents?" (To his credit, he did run it back)

He eats his own foot peelings in the middle of conference talks

He is...a parody of gross unsocialized nerds except it's unironic

Luckily for me I don't think you're the arbiter of...anything really, certainly not anything involving humor or intellect

I was dismissively dismissing your dismissal. I know nuance is hard for you, you've proven that in every one of your posts dearie

I take that as a great compliment, it's hard to make a clown laugh 💖

That's neat, doesn't change the clear logical argument

Presupposition 1: America is a state

Presupposition 2: Isreal is a state

Presupposition 3: All states should be abolished

Conclusion: Therefore America and Isreal should be abolished

I'm sorry the education system failed you to the point where you need formal logic spelled out for you

What part of "I believe all states should be abolished" on the other thread did you not understand?

Sanctions are a laughable tool to try and use to kill an empire as large as the US, it's a quaint suggestion

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