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10 experts · 32 posts · 11d ago
Pwnallthethings Mike Caulfield SE Gyges David Marx jake John David Pressman tweety fish Mary Branscombe
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“Also what would it mean for "one person that understands the mechanism" to exist? Outside math the problem of science is many people purportedly "know" things but those things differ and conflict a…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 2 Policy & governance · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
SE Gyges: i hate this
SE Gyges: it tells me that that fucking guy who stood up and said this shit at Neurips managed to set this as an acceptable, within-overton-window way of being pissed off about ai it isn't and anyone who say…
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6 experts · 14 posts · 17d ago
Ted Underwood David Marx critical slop studies rev. howard arson tweety fish Arseny Khakhalin
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“Has anyone told him about the humans who don’t feel pain?” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Opportunity & adoption · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
rev. howard arson: it is really fascinating how LLMs make virtually everyone say things which are enormously controversial as though they are solved problems
critical slop studies: Has anyone told him about the humans who don’t feel pain?
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3 experts · 7 posts · 1d ago
Ted Underwood David Marx James Tauber
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Multiple readings Research & technical analysis · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Ted Underwood: The Internet era is kind of rough on faculty in emerging fields, because if University U hasn’t yet hired someone in your field, the students there *will write you* to ask sincere, interesting ques…
Ted Underwood: I guess my takeaway is not, students pls be less curious & proactive — but more hurry the f up, Univ U.
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3 experts · 3 posts · 3d ago
Mark Riedl David Picard David Marx
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“They're listening to their highest paying tier consumers who are mostly... *checks notes*... boomers??” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Building & implementation · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Mark Riedl: Reporter: OpenAI is a true champion of equity and democratization, with new results on low-resource languages… hold on, I’m getting an update… *holds finger to ear* COBOL. They mean COBOL.
David Picard: They're listening to their highest paying tier consumers who are mostly... *checks notes*... boomers??
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3 experts · 4 posts · 17d ago
David Picard David Marx Eric Brachmann
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“I wonder if this is related to how LLMs represent numerical spaces. It might be easier for them to posit an ordering if the numbers are close together, whereas if the numbers are far apart it might…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Research & technical analysis · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Eric Brachmann: It appears that coding agents have been trained on too many SOTA chasing papers, because they latch onto tiny, meaningless improvements in metrics. That's what you get...
David Marx: maybe try adding a prompt indicating a research phase, like "We are early in design exploration. There is a lot of uncaptured value to be leveraged. Don't get caught up on small incremental improve…
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2 experts · 3 posts · 12d ago
Robin Berjon David Marx
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“the real question is: "how come there isn't more Frankfurt?"” evidence ↗
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David Marx: the real question is: "how come there isn't more Frankfurt?"
David Marx: oh bro, are you moving?? you are going to regret packing those boxes full of books. they're gonna be heavy as shit. don't just play the space efficiency game when you're packing. keep in mind how m…
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