Hacker News: throwawaytemp29

New comment by throwawaytemp29 in "Inductive or deductive? Rethinking the fundamental reasoning abilities of LLMs"

throwawaytemp29 — Mon, 02 Sep 2024 08:24:41 +0000

That is certainly true, for some definition of 80%.

New comment by throwawaytemp29 in "Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store in the European Union"

throwawaytemp29 — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 08:37:00 +0000

Three whole countries. You left out one. Everyone makes mistakes. :)

New comment by throwawaytemp29 in "Why does sleep become more elusive as we age?"

throwawaytemp29 — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 05:14:58 +0000

Me too. I had a 26 hour schedule for like a month once. It seems fine til it isn’t.

New comment by throwawaytemp29 in "Eddiots"

throwawaytemp29 — Sat, 15 Jul 2023 21:54:10 +0000

I don’t think the Italian one means what you think it means.

New comment by throwawaytemp29 in "Experimenting with olivine crystals in the ocean to increase CO2 absorption"

throwawaytemp29 — Wed, 28 Jun 2023 15:57:46 +0000

Given US has around 4% of the worlds population, this is not possible.

New comment by throwawaytemp29 in "Rate The Landlord: Anonymously share information with tenants like you"

throwawaytemp29 — Sun, 30 Apr 2023 15:49:07 +0000

Capitalism = exploitation? That seems like the point they are trying to make. And it’s mostly not wrong, although we haven’t found a better way. Perhaps more accurately, human behavior = economic behavior = exploitation, regardless of the economic system.

Expanding it out, I doubt it’s specific to humans, more like a property of known life forms.

New comment by throwawaytemp29 in "We aren't close to creating a rapidly self-improving AI"

throwawaytemp29 — Sat, 29 Apr 2023 15:57:23 +0000

So his argument is that the AI needs humans (to create data) to rapidly improve. So then it becomes: step 1: ai enslaves humanity step 2: ai forces humanity to create lots of data for it step 3: profit?

New comment by throwawaytemp29 in "Incognito ChatGPT with no account required"

throwawaytemp29 — Sun, 23 Apr 2023 21:30:40 +0000

Didn’t work for me, gave me the error: Unexpected error. Try again later.

Which, um, I won’t.

New comment by throwawaytemp29 in "19 random digits is not enough to uniquely identify all human beings"

throwawaytemp29 — Tue, 18 Apr 2023 00:54:28 +0000

Eleanor and Fake Elaneanor would disagree, although that was time of death.

New comment by throwawaytemp29 in "New health insurance “transparency data” looks suspiciously wrong"

throwawaytemp29 — Wed, 29 Mar 2023 02:20:20 +0000

I always believed that nurse practitioners would be just about as good at primary care as a doctor. But fuck me my nurse practitioner is useless. Like tons of British Columbia residents I don’t have a family doctor, so thought this would work. But they are afraid to do anything. At least a doctor will be confidently wrong like chat gpt.

New comment by throwawaytemp29 in "Ask HN: What is a specific use of GPT-4 that you think is remarkable?"

throwawaytemp29 — Mon, 27 Mar 2023 17:39:04 +0000

You can run into issues with long running threads. It only has so much context (I think around 4K words). It doesn’t have all the context of all the thread. My understanding is that it is summarizing the thread and resubmitting it as part of the prompt each time.

It took me a while to figure out why it kept forgetting things from earlier in the thread.

I’m looking forward to when you can have a bigger context or explicitly set some sort of context that is persistent.

New comment by throwawaytemp29 in "Venus is volcanically alive, new find shows"

throwawaytemp29 — Thu, 16 Mar 2023 14:39:49 +0000

And if they murder us, and intentionally forget us out of spite?

Like if they have a society, maybe their founding myths will involve a baby robot created by some (non-human) robot deity, or if they are more rational a pseudo-scientific story of evolution from a toaster.

New comment by throwawaytemp29 in "A little bit of slope makes up for a lot of Y-intercept (2012)"

throwawaytemp29 — Sun, 12 Feb 2023 22:25:47 +0000

Isn’t the integral of the blue curve higher though? Like if I want to maximize total utility over the displayed time the blue would be higher.

Also time has value, getting something earlier is generally better due to compound interest. Even some vague utility function like fun can display such a property of being better earlier, due to being able to remember the memory for longer.

New comment by throwawaytemp29 in "Ejaculation frequency and prostate cancer (2022)"

throwawaytemp29 — Sun, 29 Jan 2023 23:49:16 +0000

Phew

New comment by throwawaytemp29 in "Mars Now"

throwawaytemp29 — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 21:24:51 +0000

Lol - let’s have a Mars colony without digging.

New comment by throwawaytemp29 in "Tell HN: If you have trouble focusing on projects/meetings, see a psychatrist"

throwawaytemp29 — Wed, 30 Nov 2022 15:38:49 +0000

100% this. I have been struggling with this for the last 5 years and only after my son was diagnosed with ADHD did I realize that I have it as well. Just having an explanation for the challenges makes life easier and I don’t have to beat myself up about it so much.

New comment by throwawaytemp29 in "Programmimg Pearls (1985)"

throwawaytemp29 — Fri, 25 Nov 2022 07:10:19 +0000

Y10K bug! Only 4 digit dates.