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New comment by dlkf in "Annual 'winners' for most egregious US healthcare profiteering announced"

dlkf — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 04:02:04 +0000

What country are you referring to? The American middle class is objectively very wealthy: https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/no-the-us-is-not-a-poor-societ...

New comment by dlkf in "Does current AI represent a dead end?"

dlkf — Sat, 28 Dec 2024 20:37:14 +0000

I mean, the matrices obviously change during training. I take it your point is that LLMs are trained once and then frozen, whereas humans continuously learn and adapt to their environment. I agree that this is a critical distinction. But it has nothing to do with “meaningful internal structure.”

New comment by dlkf in "Does current AI represent a dead end?"

dlkf — Fri, 27 Dec 2024 21:36:23 +0000

> Previous generations of neural nets were kind of useless. Spotify ended up replacing their machine learning recommender with a simple system that would just recommend tracks that power listeners had already discovered.

“Previous generations of cars were useless because one guy rode a bike to work.” Pre-transformer neural nets were obviously useful. CNNs and RNNs were SOTA in most vision and audio processing tasks.

New comment by dlkf in "Does current AI represent a dead end?"

dlkf — Fri, 27 Dec 2024 21:28:51 +0000

> Current AI systems have no internal structure that relates meaningfully to their functionality

In what sense is the relationship between neurons and human function more “meaningful” than the relationship between matrices and LLM function?

You’re correct that LLMs are probably a dead end with respect to AGI, but this is completely the wrong reason.

New comment by dlkf in "More men are addicted to the 'crack cocaine' of the stock market"

dlkf — Tue, 24 Dec 2024 07:59:48 +0000

Now do drug-development.

New comment by dlkf in "OpenAI O3 breakthrough high score on ARC-AGI-PUB"

dlkf — Sat, 21 Dec 2024 02:50:21 +0000

If you take a vote of 10 random people, then as long as their errors are not perfectly correlated, you’ll do better than asking one person.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ensemble_learning

New comment by dlkf in "Why America's economy is soaring ahead of its rivals"

dlkf — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 08:03:28 +0000

If we did this fifty years ago, we’d be having this discussion by snail mail.

New comment by dlkf in "In Praise of Print: Reading Is Essential in an Era of Epistemological Collapse"

dlkf — Thu, 28 Nov 2024 22:16:40 +0000

There is no epistemological collapse. Access to accurate information has never been so fast nor so easy. To be sure, lies are spread on the internet - but people believed all sorts of bullshit before the internet. Those who want to claim there is a crisis don’t have a principled argument as to how things are worse.

New comment by dlkf in "In Praise of Print: Reading Is Essential in an Era of Epistemological Collapse"

dlkf — Thu, 28 Nov 2024 22:11:27 +0000

I implore everyone reading this to google the Sokal hoax before decide whether these guys are worthwhile.

New comment by dlkf in "What were the best books you read this year?"

dlkf — Thu, 28 Nov 2024 21:58:59 +0000

Concrete Island by JG Ballard

Libra by Don Delilo

Deep Water by Patricia Highsmith

New comment by dlkf in "America's new millionaire class: Plumbers and HVAC entrepreneurs"

dlkf — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 13:00:57 +0000

Assuming you value 10 days at the cost of 1-2 AC units.

New comment by dlkf in "California bans legacy admissions at private universities"

dlkf — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 13:17:15 +0000

The main difference is that the media report will be read.

New comment by dlkf in "What Does It Mean to Learn?"

dlkf — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 06:22:11 +0000

Would new developments (or old developments that had gone underappreciated) in an adjacent stem field count as ”added cultural context” ?

New comment by dlkf in "The most cited authors in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy"

dlkf — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 19:32:20 +0000

A neat list, but there is a bias toward authors who published one controversial (and not necessarily good) argument that got a ton of rebuttals. Williamson is the worst offender.

New comment by dlkf in "The Gervais Principle, or the Office According to “The Office” (2009)"

dlkf — Sun, 11 Aug 2024 12:08:22 +0000

The article is rife with references to a mediocre tv show, but it doesn’t contain a single example of the principle as applied to a firm. The author is an expert in something, but it isn’t business.

New comment by dlkf in "Artificial consciousness: a perspective from the free energy principle"

dlkf — Sun, 21 Jul 2024 20:36:47 +0000

It’s interesting to consider whether a simulated rainstorm is in fact possible. Not a crude numerical simulation like those used for forecasting, but one fine-grained enough to accurately predict the trajectory of every drop.

New comment by dlkf in "So you want to rent an NVIDIA H100 cluster? 2024 Consumer Guide"

dlkf — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 21:04:42 +0000

In the regions where it works (PNW, Quebec, etc) we could easily build more. The hurdles are regulatory. The regulation isn’t baseless - a dam will affect the local ecosystem adversely. But that’s a tradeoff we choose rather than a fundamental limitation.

New comment by dlkf in "So you want to rent an NVIDIA H100 cluster? 2024 Consumer Guide"

dlkf — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 15:50:53 +0000

Why is green in scare-quotes?

New comment by dlkf in "Why YC went to DC"

dlkf — Mon, 03 Jun 2024 20:04:46 +0000

> It means that google doesn't have to aquire-hire your team, they can just poach all of them wholesale.

Imagine a skilled worker taking a new job that pays better. What a nightmare scenario.

New comment by dlkf in "Arthur Whitney releases an open-source subset of K with MIT license"

dlkf — Sun, 02 Jun 2024 07:07:12 +0000

Does the page 404 for anyone else? Is this a Europe thing?