Hacker News: gnaritas99

New comment by gnaritas99 in "Orca 2: Teaching Small Language Models How to Reason"

gnaritas99 — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 16:54:38 +0000

You are simply incorrect. They can reason.

New comment by gnaritas99 in "Is my toddler a stochastic parrot?"

gnaritas99 — Thu, 16 Nov 2023 00:34:51 +0000

Humans come on pre-trained hardware. An LLM embodied with senses would have all the data it ever needs starting from a similar pre-training.

New comment by gnaritas99 in "Ask HN: Are You Religious?"

gnaritas99 — Sun, 05 Nov 2023 23:43:01 +0000

You're the one not realizing, it's that final belief that makes it a religion, that other shit you mention isn't religion, it's just world view and lifestyle neither of which are traits unique to religion. "How to live life" is not religion.

New comment by gnaritas99 in "Systemd.timer, an Alternative to Cron"

gnaritas99 — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 21:50:41 +0000

No, having a special way to tail your special log file isn't a feature, tail is a general utility used system wide for this for decades; breaking this is idiotic no matter what you grew up with.

New comment by gnaritas99 in "The Ethereum merge is done"

gnaritas99 — Tue, 20 Sep 2022 18:14:30 +0000

"If scaled up" presumes incorrectly that the costs are somehow linearly bound to the number of transactions, they are not, so that whole line of reasoning is flawed.

New comment by gnaritas99 in "The Ethereum merge is done"

gnaritas99 — Tue, 20 Sep 2022 17:57:28 +0000

That's rather the point; tech breakthroughs happen when there is a drive to achieve something, increased demand for solar causes that pressure to strive and thus increases the likelihood of innovation. The more panels that are built, the better we get at building them, innovate, repeat.

New comment by gnaritas99 in "Hyperbolic Growth"

gnaritas99 — Sun, 18 Sep 2022 04:55:19 +0000

Oh, terminal, yea that's one where I agree, they want company more than anything; but even that will eventually fall prey to AGI. People will be best friends and family with AGI's; grow up with them, presuming we don't go down the Terminator route; people are very quick to anthropomorphize anything remotely reminiscent of human behavior.

New comment by gnaritas99 in "Hyperbolic Growth"

gnaritas99 — Sun, 18 Sep 2022 04:48:01 +0000

Hugs would have been a great example, human contact is the point; not true with massage, not unless you're being creepy. They're there for your muscles, not to turn you on and fill some emotional need.

New comment by gnaritas99 in "Hyperbolic Growth"

gnaritas99 — Sat, 17 Sep 2022 19:46:56 +0000

Neither of those examples are a good illustration of your point as many and probably most will prefer the machine in both scenarios. I don't get a massage for an emotional experience with the masseuse; I'd prefer the likely much cheaper and higher quality and consistent machine massage. Ditto with a permanent caretaker as it'll allow you to feel far more independant; most of us don't want to feel like a burden on other people. However, you do have a valid point, just not good examples imho.

AGI will make the vast majority unemployable, it'll be a disaster and those jobs won't simply be replaced by new ones: people who think this haven't thought through it very deeply at all.

New comment by gnaritas99 in "U.S. appeals court rejects big tech’s right to regulate online speech"

gnaritas99 — Sat, 17 Sep 2022 18:59:57 +0000

All court activism is corruption; their job is not to make law or have political opinions of any sort, they should be slaves to the text of the law, not bending it to their will.

New comment by gnaritas99 in "House Democrats to propose ban on lawmaker stock trading – report"

gnaritas99 — Thu, 28 Jul 2022 18:46:18 +0000

If you want the people who make the rules we must live by to be constrained by the median salary, then you're begging for them to be utterly incompetent people as anyone competent will not take such a low paying job when they can easily make far more on the market. Like it or not, labor is a market and you must pay competitively for the best, and you want the best in congress, not the median. 174k is low pay for top people, mid level execs in public companies make that; you have to do a lot better.

New comment by gnaritas99 in "House Democrats to propose ban on lawmaker stock trading – report"

gnaritas99 — Thu, 28 Jul 2022 18:22:57 +0000

It might suit them, but it doesn't suit us. The desire for public service is in no way a qualifier for competence.

New comment by gnaritas99 in "House Democrats to propose ban on lawmaker stock trading – report"

gnaritas99 — Thu, 28 Jul 2022 18:20:41 +0000

If you don't pay as well as the market pays, you're not going to get competent people. This notion that good people would do it anyway is naive.

New comment by gnaritas99 in "House Democrats to propose ban on lawmaker stock trading – report"

gnaritas99 — Thu, 28 Jul 2022 18:12:20 +0000

> On average in a free market those with more resources are better organized and know what’s best for the country.

No, they don't, and there's not a rational or logical reason to infer they do.