davidguetta (u/davidguetta)

davidguetta commented on Occult books digitized and put online by Amsterdam’s Ritman Library openculture.com/2025/08/2... · Posted by u/Anon84

Simon_O_Rourke · 12 days ago

I could never figure out the attraction of all this occult nonsense. If it works go empirically prove it, if not just cut our the wishy-washy BS involving the waving around of swords, casting spells or spelling magic with a 'k'.

davidguetta · 12 days ago

Go prove the string theory. (Or the general relativity that toon decades to have an answer)

davidguetta commented on Occult books digitized and put online by Amsterdam’s Ritman Library openculture.com/2025/08/2... · Posted by u/Anon84

Simon_O_Rourke · 12 days ago

This is one step removed from swinging a crystal from a piece of string and using it to divine the stock market. Absolute nonsense the lot of it, and a waste of good printing paper that would otherwise have better use as a instruction booklet for a TP-link router.

davidguetta · 12 days ago

The same could have been said of Galileo studying cosmology at his time. "Better spend time taking care of his garden".

Don't read it if you dont like it but don't discourage people asking questions and making funny theories. Most of human progress wasdone that way about aspects of life that was not yet understood. Your attitude is nothing but nihilistic and it never built anything.

davidguetta commented on GPT-5: "How many times does the letter b appear in blueberry?" bsky.app/profile/kjhealy.... · Posted by u/minimaxir

visarga · 17 days ago

It sees tokens not letters like us. And has to recite tokens in reverse order, and their letters in reverse order, over a set of 200K tokens. Token codes are arbitrary numbers associated with word fragments, they convey no letters.

davidguetta · 16 days ago

This is true but not as impacting as you think. Ask GPT to rewrite ANY text with spaces between lettres and he will do it. He DOES know how to spell and read letters

davidguetta commented on GPT-5: "How many times does the letter b appear in blueberry?" bsky.app/profile/kjhealy.... · Posted by u/minimaxir

IAmGraydon · 18 days ago

The defensive stance of some of the people in this thread is telling. The absolute meltdown that’s going to occur when humanity full internalizes the fact that LLMs are not and will never be intelligent is going to be of epic proportions.

davidguetta · 17 days ago

They are still more useful than you

davidguetta commented on GPT-5: "How many times does the letter b appear in blueberry?" bsky.app/profile/kjhealy.... · Posted by u/minimaxir

visarga · 18 days ago

Let's change this game a bit. Spell "understanding" in your head in reverse order without spending twice more time than forward mode. Can you? I can't. Does that mean we don't really understand even simple spelling? It is a fun activity to dunk on LLMs, but let's have some perspective here.

davidguetta · 17 days ago

I can do it if I write the word once and look at it, which is exactly what a transformer based llm is supposed to do.

davidguetta commented on I gave the AI arms and legs then it rejected me grell.dev/blog/ai_rejecti... · Posted by u/serhack_

davidguetta · 22 days ago

Dude they did not reject they did not even SEE you because they likely have 10k application per week.

Just ask your friend for an intro.

davidguetta commented on OpenAI claims gold-medal performance at IMO 2025 twitter.com/alexwei_/stat... · Posted by u/Davidzheng

davidguetta · a month ago

Wait for the Chinese version

davidguetta commented on Ask HN: Is it time to fork HN into AI/LLM and "Everything else/other?" · Posted by u/bookofjoe

davidguetta · a month ago

Literally gatekeeping