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New comment by reader5000 in "2023 ACM Turing Prize awarded to Avi Wigderson"

reader5000 — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 18:16:11 +0000

I think his argument assumes the existence of pseudorandom generators which map a small amount of "true" random bits to a large amount of bits that look random to any polytime observer. The "derandomization" is that we just have to check all possible states of the seed bits which hopefully will be logarithmic in the size of the problem so you can do exhaustive checking.

New comment by reader5000 in "Persistent interaction patterns across social media platforms and over time"

reader5000 — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 17:33:04 +0000

Mainstream corporate media is at least an order of magnitude more toxic than anything on the internet.

New comment by reader5000 in "Ask HN: Why can't image generation models spell?"

reader5000 — Sat, 16 Mar 2024 17:31:40 +0000

My intuition would be that both text and fingers are high frequency parts of the image and most image patches across most images don't have that amount of frequency. Text and fingers are relatively rare in images compared to e.g. clouds and textures on surfaces. Because of the rareness and difficulty of text image patches the models just don't dedicate that many parameters to it.

This could be entirely wrong however.

It would be interesting what would happen on a dataset with nothing but text.

New comment by reader5000 in "ArXiv Papers as Audiobooks"

reader5000 — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 21:19:11 +0000

Visual reading of dense papers also leads to failing to understand concepts or distractions.

New comment by reader5000 in "Porn Sites Need Age-Verification Systems in Texas, Court Rules"

reader5000 — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 14:20:58 +0000

Theres all sorts of statistics about the increasing amount of men that are virgins into their 20s and beyond, declining marriage rates, declining birth rates, "inceldom" etc. etc.

Its certainly plausible that at least for some subset of people becoming porn addicts when they enter puberty is disrupting their ability to form relationships as an adult.

Having said that its not really clear censorship is the answer. Probably over time phenotypes overly sensitive to porn addiction will just go extinct.

New comment by reader5000 in "Google to pause Gemini image generation of people after issues"

reader5000 — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 13:34:08 +0000

How is "stereotype" different from "statistical reality"? How does Google get to decide that its training dataset -"the entire internet" - does not fit the statistical distribution over phenotypic features that its own racist ideological commitments require?

New comment by reader5000 in "Linear Algebra Done Right – 4th Edition"

reader5000 — Sun, 29 Oct 2023 22:08:52 +0000

I think in the modern era a very good piece of advice, particularly for those of us without gorilla-like stamina to comb through a math text, is to go on your favorite video website and watch through multiple videos on the topic.

New comment by reader5000 in "So far, AI is a money pit that isn't paying off"

reader5000 — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 17:38:34 +0000

I'm not sure why they don't charge per usage.

New comment by reader5000 in "A New Mode of Cancer Treatment"

reader5000 — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 16:36:45 +0000

> I think one missing step is to fuse training and inference regime into one, just as in animals

It's not clear it is one. Sleep is training (replay from hippocampus). Wake is inference.

New comment by reader5000 in "Regular use of Vitamin D supplement is associated with fewer melanoma cases"

reader5000 — Sun, 30 Jul 2023 21:31:03 +0000

People who avoid the sun are less likely to care about health overall and therefore less likely to take vitD supplements?

New comment by reader5000 in "What we know about LLMs"

reader5000 — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 13:19:32 +0000

I think 8 months is a little short for the utility of a new tech to be fully realized and utilized. I'm pretty sure there were still horses on the roads long after 8 months after the Model T first went on sale.

New comment by reader5000 in "OpenAI starts testing ChatGPT premium"

reader5000 — Fri, 13 Jan 2023 16:34:23 +0000

The ai censorship is of the modern "social justice" form, which does not find roots in "waspy Protestants".

New comment by reader5000 in "How songwriters felt watching the new Beatles documentary"

reader5000 — Thu, 09 Dec 2021 16:32:34 +0000

I've somewhat had this phenomenon, with the added observation that if I listen to the recording multiple times it will "click" and will sound good again. Then I wonder if it actually sounds good or what.

New comment by reader5000 in "Gender and Race Preferences in Hiring at Silicon Valley Tech Firms [pdf]"

reader5000 — Thu, 12 Nov 2020 14:18:45 +0000

https://apnews.com/article/9105661462

New comment by reader5000 in "GPT-3 and Scaling Trends"

reader5000 — Thu, 04 Jun 2020 11:10:24 +0000

Recurrent neural nets is the general term for nets with memory as you describe. Indeed LSTMs, a type of recurrent net, used to be state of the art on language tasks until the GPT transformer models. I'm sure somebody somewhere is working to make a transformer with recurrency. The neural turing machine mentioned in another comment is such an example but it seems to have been abandoned.

The main problem with recurrent models is its hard to train them with backprop. For example the GPT-3 can handle sequences up to ~2000 tokens? I'm not sure what the largest sequence LSTMs could be trained on but it was probably less.

New comment by reader5000 in "Why do companies with unbounded resources still have terrible moderation?"

reader5000 — Fri, 04 Oct 2019 12:07:49 +0000

Reading this made me realize that the internet needs to be decentralized as soon as possible.

New comment by reader5000 in "YouTube shuts down music companies’ use of manual copyright claims"

reader5000 — Sat, 17 Aug 2019 02:01:11 +0000

It's a gray area because "hate speech" isn't a valid concept. 1A already excepts for inciting violence but that's not what radicalized censorship-extremists mean when they use the term. They specifically mean anything that is not canon to their current worldview.

New comment by reader5000 in "YouTube shuts down music companies’ use of manual copyright claims"

reader5000 — Sat, 17 Aug 2019 01:57:00 +0000

Does anybody have a definition of "hate speech" other than "points of view that I disagree with"? And if your definition is going to be something like "encouraging harm against groups of people" can you then point me to a single quote from a "hate speech" site demonstrating this?

New comment by reader5000 in "Study finds Reddit’s ban of its most toxic subreddits worked (2017)"

reader5000 — Sun, 28 Apr 2019 18:46:18 +0000

Free speech improves the human condition. Therefore, by your own argument, the authorities have the moral obligation to forcibly censor your own anti-free speech comments.

New comment by reader5000 in "Study finds Reddit’s ban of its most toxic subreddits worked (2017)"

reader5000 — Sun, 28 Apr 2019 16:26:39 +0000

Inasmuch as different parts of society disagree on how to "improve" it, one part does not have the right to censor the other.