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bwoj commented on Unsold Cybertrucks Are Piling Up at a Decaying US Shopping Mall   vice.com/en/article/unsol... · Posted by u/belter
nradov · 3 months ago
That's not how valuations work.
bwoj · 3 months ago
Untrue. Unsold inventory must be represented on the balance sheet as an asset. Marking down the value of 1000’s of cybertrucks will drop the book value of the company. It will impact various financial ratios that are used to estimate value. Worse yet, a public admission that they can’t sell these things can undermine the confidence which is the only thing propping up the stock’s value right now.
bwoj commented on Arizona laptop farmer pleads guilty for funneling $17M to Kim Jong Un   theregister.com/2025/02/1... · Posted by u/Bluestein
jollyllama · 4 months ago
ADP could probably find a lot of these pretty quickly.
bwoj · 4 months ago
Sure, but why would they? They’re profiting too.
bwoj commented on Why does everything look infantilized?   assemblagenyc.substack.co... · Posted by u/futuraperdita
bwoj · 4 months ago
WTF does yassified CPG even mean?
bwoj commented on An Overwhelmingly Negative and Demoralizing Force   aftermath.site/ai-video-g... · Posted by u/Doches
im3w1l · 5 months ago
I unironically agree with that idea.
bwoj · 5 months ago
You’re probably wasting time commenting here instead of having your AI do it.
bwoj commented on An Overwhelmingly Negative and Demoralizing Force   aftermath.site/ai-video-g... · Posted by u/Doches
im3w1l · 5 months ago
If you are not building AI into your workflows right now you are falling behind those that do. It's real, it's here to stay and it's only getting better.
bwoj · 5 months ago
That’s such outdated thinking. I’m using AI to build AI into my workflows.
bwoj commented on Court filing: DOGE aide broke Treasury policy by emailing unencrypted database   theregister.com/2025/03/1... · Posted by u/rntn
mmh0000 · 5 months ago
heh. That's cute.

You may not "want" that. However, given the lack of consumer privacy laws in the US, anybody willing to pay can buy it from a data broker[1].

[1] https://www.experian.com/small-business/target-prospects

bwoj · 5 months ago
That sounds like an admission that it’s a bad thing and not an argument about why Musk’s department should be allowed to do more of the same with even less oversight.
bwoj commented on Court filing: DOGE aide broke Treasury policy by emailing unencrypted database   theregister.com/2025/03/1... · Posted by u/rntn
GoldenMonkey · 5 months ago
what hyperbole. it’s just names and a dollar amount.
bwoj · 5 months ago
My credit report is just names and dollar amounts too. I don’t want the whole world having access to it.
bwoj commented on Gödel's theorem debunks the most important AI myth – Roger Penrose [video]   youtube.com/watch?v=biUfM... · Posted by u/Lockal
jltsiren · 6 months ago
Heuristics implemented within a formal system are still bound by the limitations of the system.

Physicists like to use mathematics for modeling the reality. If our current understanding of physics is fundamentally correct, everything that can possibly exist is functionally equivalent to a formal system. To escape that, you would need some really weird new physics. Which would also have to be really inconvenient new physics, because it could not be modeled with our current mathematics or simulated with our current computers.

bwoj · 6 months ago
To be fair, I muddled concepts of formal/informal systems versus completeness and consistency. I think if you start from an assumption that ANN is a formal system(not a given), you must conclude that they are necessarily inconsistent. The AI we have now hallucinates way too much to conclude any truth derived from its “reasoning.”
bwoj commented on Gödel's theorem debunks the most important AI myth – Roger Penrose [video]   youtube.com/watch?v=biUfM... · Posted by u/Lockal
xpe · 6 months ago
> But the inferences of the resulting neural nets is not an algorithm.

Incorrect.

The comment above confuses some concepts.

Perhaps this will help: consider a PRNG implemented in software. It is an algorithm. The question of the utility of a PRNG (or any algorithm) is a separate thing.

bwoj · 6 months ago
On one level, yes you’re right. Computing weights and propagating values through an ANN is well defined and very algorithmic.

On the level where the learning is done and knowledge is represented in these networks there is no evidence anyone really understands how it works.

I suspect maybe at that level you can think of it as an algorithm with unreliable outputs. I don’t know what that idea gains over thinking it’s not algorithmic and just a heuristic approximation.

bwoj commented on Gödel's theorem debunks the most important AI myth – Roger Penrose [video]   youtube.com/watch?v=biUfM... · Posted by u/Lockal
zja · 6 months ago
Yeah I don’t know why GP would think computability theory doesn’t apply to AI. Is there a single example of a problem that isn’t computable by a Turing machine that can be computed by AI?
bwoj · 6 months ago
It does apply to AI in terms of the computers we compute neural networks on may be equivalent to Turning machines but the ANN networks are not. If you did reduce the ANN down to a formal system, you will likely find that in terms of Godels theorem that it would be sufficiently powerful to prove a falsehood. Thus not meeting the consistency property we would like in a system used to prove things.

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