Peritract (u/Peritract)

Peritract commented on YouTube made AI enhancements to videos without warning or permission bbc.com/future/article/20... · Posted by u/jakub_g

brookst · 5 days ago

Would you say the same thing about the internet?

Peritract · 5 days ago

People voluntarily visit the internet because it gives them things they want. This is an article about unwelcome changes being automatically made.

Those things are different.

Peritract commented on Writing with LLM is not a shame reflexions.florianernotte... · Posted by u/flornt

Peritract · 5 days ago

If you truly felt it wasn't shameful to write with AI, you wouldn't write an article trying to justify it that ignores a bunch of reasons people find it shameful.

No one is stopping you using AI, but there's an adolescent tone here of 'and you have to approve of me' that I don't care for. You have the right to act the way you wish; you don't have the right to be praised for it.

As it happens, I do think writing with AI (outside of translation as a method of last resort) is shameful. It's an embarrassing abdication of a basic task, a signal both that you can't complete basic tasks unaided, and that you don't understand that communication isn't solely performative.

If it's your right to use AI to write those super-difficult emails, then it's my right to judge you for it.

Peritract commented on YouTube made AI enhancements to videos without warning or permission bbc.com/future/article/20... · Posted by u/jakub_g

Peritract · 5 days ago

If AI is as wonderful and world-changing as people claim, it's odd that it's being inserted into products exactly like every other solution in search of a problem.

Peritract commented on The Minecraft Code (2024) [video] youtube.com/watch?v=nz2Le... · Posted by u/zichy

tmtvl · 8 days ago

Where did that come from? 'You aren't allowed to prevent others from sharing this thing' is completely different from 'you have to share this thing'. 'Everyone is allowed to share everything' is a freedom, not a restriction.

Whether or not it's a freedom people should have is a difficult question to answer because we don't know what the modern world would be like without copyright (I expect creators would try and get paid for creating more works so it might look like how nowadays some shows end in cliffhangers to give the creators some leverage over the publishers to say 'look, people want to know what comes next, maybe you should let us do another season').

Peritract · 8 days ago

People have always been allowed to share their own things; what you're demanding is the sharing of other people's things. It's not piracy if the owner chooses to share.

Peritract commented on The Minecraft Code (2024) [video] youtube.com/watch?v=nz2Le... · Posted by u/zichy

vintermann · 8 days ago

That should be the default assumption. It's restrictions which require justification in a liberal society, not freedoms.

Peritract · 8 days ago

"Everyone has to share everything" is a restriction, not a freedom.

Peritract commented on Yet Another LLM Rant overengineer.dev/txt/2025... · Posted by u/sohkamyung

hodgehog11 · 21 days ago

This is interesting philosophy, and others have better critiques here in that regard. I'm a mathematician, so I can only work in what I can define symbolically. Humans most certainly ARE statistical models by that definition: without invoking the precise terminology, we take input, yield output, and plausibly involve uncertain elements. One can argue as to whether this is the correct language or not, but I prefer to think this way, as the arrogance of human thinking has otherwise failed us in making good predictions about AI.

If you can come up with a symbolic description of a deficiency in how LLMs approach problems, that's fantastic, because we can use that to alter how these models are trained, and how we approach problems too!

> What that means in practical terms for programming problems of this kind is that, we can say "I don't know", which the LLM can't, because there's no "I", in the LLM, no unified subject that can distinguish what it knows and what it doesn't, what's within its domain of knowledge or outside.

We seriously don't know whether there is an "I" that is comprehended or not. I've seen arguments either way. But otherwise, this seems to refer to poor internal calibration of uncertainty, correct? This is an important problem! (It's also a problem with humans too, but I digress). LLMs aren't nearly as bad as this as you might think, and there are a lot of things you can do (that the big tech companies do not do) that can better tune it's own self-confidence (as reflected in logits). I'm not aware of anything that uses this information as part of the context, so that might be a great idea. But on the other hand, maybe this actually isn't as important as we think it is.

Peritract · 21 days ago

> I'm a mathematician, so I can only work in what I can define symbolically.

This is a limitation of you, not an argument. Of course everything will look the same to you if that's the only way you can represent them.

We have more disciplines than mathematics because mathematically is not the only valid way to explore things.

Peritract commented on GPT-5 openai.com/gpt-5/... · Posted by u/rd

onlyrealcuzzo · 23 days ago

> Human intelligence is markedly different from LLMs: it requires far fewer examples to train on, and generalizes way better.

Aren't we the summation of intelligence from quintillions of beings over hundreds of millions of years?

Have LLMs really had more data?

Peritract · 22 days ago

By that argument, so are LLMs. They also wouldn't exist without all our ancestors.

Peritract commented on The untold impact of cancellation pretty.direct/impact... · Posted by u/cbeach

drewbeck · a month ago

"freedom of association" and "freedom of speech" are governmental concepts, used to limit the behaviors of governments.

They are not some core, universal rights that every individual must respect when interacting with other individual.

The accused in this case absolutely still has the citizen rights of association and speech. He can gather with people and he can publish his thoughts. The fact that a bunch of individuals have decided they don't want to gather with him is in no way a reduction of his rights.

Peritract · a month ago

To be clear, I agree with you -- that was the point I was making.

There's no right to being accepted, and no right to make people approve of your actions.

It's not actually a problem in society that needs fixing if people decide not to associate with someone on the basis of their behaviour.

Peritract commented on The untold impact of cancellation pretty.direct/impact... · Posted by u/cbeach

lelanthran · a month ago

> Are you okay with that because it was a system, even if imperfect?

What makes you think I'm okay with the current system? Upthread I even said "if you are unhappy with the way things are, petition to change them instead of mobbing".

Just because I hold the opinion that evidence matters does not mean that I am a bad person.

Peritract · a month ago

I haven't said I think you're a bad person; it's bold to accuse someone of a misreading based on your own misreading.

People aren't required to only critique a system using the tools that system provides; progress is often made when people step outside of the system (e.g. Rosa Parks) rather than quietly accepting it. There's evidence for that in countless civil rights campaigns.

Peritract commented on A Hitchhiker's Guide to the AI Bubble fluxus.io/article/a-hitch... · Posted by u/dreamfactored

exasperaited · a month ago

> GenAI will remove constraints.

I think this really hits on the difference in our understanding because constraints are what cause actual creativity and art to happen.

A lack of constraints is why big-budget movies are so tedious. Lower budget movies are better because of their constraints.

Peritract · a month ago

Jaws is an iconic horror film partly because the mechanical shark kept breaking, forcing them to do more with atmosphere and less with animatronics.