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New comment by nebukhadnezzar in "Leaving China"

nebukhadnezzar — Sun, 19 Mar 2023 22:40:04 +0000

Full mask off now, who would want to live in a democracy if you can live under the boot of an authoritarian narcissistic personality cult.

New comment by nebukhadnezzar in "Leaving China"

nebukhadnezzar — Sun, 19 Mar 2023 22:29:02 +0000

What do you win or get out of the attempts to rewrite atrocities like they have never happened in history? What did the victims that died that week do to you? https://imgur.com/a/q8ZIS

New comment by nebukhadnezzar in "Peter Norvig critically reviews AlphaCode’s code quality"

nebukhadnezzar — Fri, 16 Dec 2022 23:18:29 +0000

>Whether they apply "reasoning" or "extremely multidimensional synthesis across hundreds of thousands of existing solutions" is a question of semantics. >but practically it doesn't seem to matter.

I don't think you should dismiss it so lightly. This sounds like someone saying the theory of computation doesn't matter...

New comment by nebukhadnezzar in "Peter Norvig critically reviews AlphaCode’s code quality"

nebukhadnezzar — Fri, 16 Dec 2022 23:01:34 +0000

These arguments do matter since the system often confidently <> incorrectly, and people still incorrectly believe that the system actually deduces semantic meaning behind it's output. The system has no grounding in truth whatsoever. It's impressive nonetheless, but it's still a large lookup table for pattern matching. I'm convinced bruteforcing these LLMs won't give us anything near AGI. We're going to need to start funding more alternatives too, which often are shadowed by these large bruteforce models.

New comment by nebukhadnezzar in "Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT"

nebukhadnezzar — Sun, 04 Dec 2022 14:35:26 +0000

GPT can not ground its statements into reality

New comment by nebukhadnezzar in "Should traffic lights be abolished? (2021)"

nebukhadnezzar — Thu, 15 Sep 2022 14:50:38 +0000

Because anti-car people understand that it is absurd to (mainly in cities) sacrifice so much space, environment, and health to accommodate car people's laziness. People living in the city have to sacrifice clean air to support the suburban car commutes. This is absurd. Many car-minded people are simply to lazy to take alternative modes of transportation, even if they exist and are really well implemented (as they are in most European cities).

The Netherlands does this properly. But as a European having traveled to the USA it is mind boggling how car centric cities are. With all the inefficient and extremely costing infrastructure investments car centric cities require.

A solution for people like you would be to park your car near the city borders and take public transport. But I don't know a single car owner who isn't too lazy to just drive straight into the city.

Having designed our cities around the car will be really frowned upon in the future. It's crazy how much people who use alternative modes of transportation sacrifice (in tax and health) to support this.