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3 experts · 20 posts · 22h ago
Colin tj mahr 🤘 coty.bsky.social
Colin: Alright. Let me resolve this once and for all. The simple fact is that there are a few different things that can be reasonably meant by “thinking” and mixing them up is what’s making everyone mad.
Colin: One is, “that thing people do with our brains when we are awake”. Whatever LLMs do, I think it bears at best a superficial resemblance to this in its entirety. Implying that LLMs do this makes some…
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4 experts · 8 posts · 7d ago
Emily Riederer Carlos Scheidegger tj mahr 🤘 emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social
Carlos Scheidegger: quarto-hub is really coming together, y'all! I'm so excited to share some of this with you at conf next week. Check out our upcoming collaborative wysiwyg editor working on a fully-styled Quarto 2 …
Carlos Scheidegger: We haven't started to work on the Positron extension for Quarto 2 (which underlies the collab editor). The short answer is "you'll be able to choose". A pure-web experience won't beat the performan…
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3 experts · 6 posts · 7d ago
Colin tj mahr 🤘 Singularity's Bounty e/cc
Colin: the biggest surprise of LLMs—and I don't fault Bostrom for failing to anticipate it, because it's a big surprise—is that the highlighted sentence appears to be exactly the wrong way around
Colin: we have actually not the faintest idea how to create an AI "whose sole fundamental goal is to count the grains of sand on Borocay" whereas we seem to have a pretty promising lead on the one with hu…
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