I wonder who is behind this agent. I wonder who stands to gain the most attention from this.
Readit Newsgrupthink commented on An AI agent published a hit piece on me – more things have happened theshamblog.com/an-ai-age... · Posted by u/scottshambaugh
grupthink commented on My failed attempt at AGI on the Tokio Runtime christo.sh/building-agi-o... · Posted by u/openquery
I’ve thought of something like this for a while, I’m very interested in where this goes.
A highly async actor model is something I’ve wanted to explore, and combined with a highly multi core architecture but clocked very very low, it seems like it could be power efficient too.
I was considering using go + channels for this
I've implemented something similar to this using Golang Channels during Covid lockdowns. You don't get an emergence of intelligence from throwing random spaghetti at a wall.
Ask me how I know.
grupthink commented on The scary sound of Aztec skull whistles caneuro.github.io/blog/20... · Posted by u/Borrible
You can 3D print it and attach it to a boiling kettle.
I loved his articles and stories. Hopefully his sites are archived before being taken down.
grupthink commented on Apple Confirms Zero-Day Attacks Hitting macOS Systems securityweek.com/apple-co... · Posted by u/fortran77
iPadOS 16 was at least updated 3 months ago (August) so there's a chance you could still get a security update if it's applicable to that version. iPadOS 15 was updated in July.
That wasn't an actual security update; that only fixed a broken toggle switch for "Advanced Data Protection" in Settings. I'm talking about patches for vulnerabilities.
iPadOS 15 hasn't been receiving the security updates for vulnerabilities that have been released for iPadOS 18.
grupthink commented on Apple Confirms Zero-Day Attacks Hitting macOS Systems securityweek.com/apple-co... · Posted by u/fortran77
I have a perfectly functional iPad 5 that no longer receives software updates. It'd be cool if Apple would at least give it security updates, or allow alternative browser engines that don't have this vulnerability. If my iPad gets pwned, my day is going to suck.
> We don't have a clue how to make a computer capable of System 1 thinking.
I think you’re overthinking this. System 1 thinking as the term is being used by AI researchers means making a fast decision based on reasoning processes that are wired into your brain by evolution. For any task that humans have faced for millions of years this works well. It can also work well for experts in a domain who have practiced a task so many times that their brains have adapted to perform it unconsciously.
System 2 thinking is consciously using explicit reasoning techniques to think through a problem, slowly and rigorously, often in ways that feel unnatural due to our cognitive biases but can solve problems that System 1 is unable to.
The analogy to LLMs is straightforward: LLMs learn to solve many kinds of complex problems during training and encode processes for those specific problems. They can then perform these tasks in a single forward pass through their weights. This is System 1 for LLMs and again, works well for any task that they were exposed to repeatedly during training.
However they don’t generalize to tasks that were not well represented in the training data. Training them to use explicit reasoning strategies instead (System 2) is shown to improve performance and let them solve a broader range of problems.
System 1 and 2 is a myth. There is only memory and computation. For a complex problem, retrieving from memory is fast, and performing computation is slow. Furthermore, when performing computation, there are different heuristics that you can use to think about a problem, e.g. If you want to predict the orbit of a satellite, you can use Kepler's laws which gives you the full sweeping elliptical motion. Alternatively, you can use Newtons laws for which you need to calculate each time step. Alternatively, you can calculate all the quantum interactions between the satellite, earth, and sun (are we going to call this System 3 because it is more rigorous and is "closer to metal"?).
grupthink commented on A visual interactive guide to Bloom filters samwho.dev/bloom-filters/... · Posted by u/flyingsky
Would it be better to store the hash of each output into 3 different arrays?
e.g. currently, it's doing:
[input] -> [3 hashes] -> [single storage]
[input]
-> [hash a] -> [storage a]
-> [hash b] -> [storage b]
-> [hash c] -> [storage c]
grupthink commented on The teen mental illness epidemic is international (2023) afterbabel.com/p/internat... · Posted by u/simonebrunozzi
Social media is like that because it was deliberately designed to be addictive and we have a decade of documentation to back that up.
Agreed. It's like dining out versus having a healthy home cooked meal. Restaurants will sell you delicious food loaded with sodium, sugar, and fat because they want you to crave their food. Likewise, when you outsource your family values, entertainment, news to social media, you meet a similar problem.
Relatedly, beware of the hidden ads in social media. It takes much less money to astroturf a community like reddit than to advertise through conventional means (e.g. commercials, product placements, banner ads). You may be aware of ads on youtube, but you may not be aware of the ads in the comment section. I've seen youtube comments as follows:
Ed: Christ! My stock portfolio has gone down so much since the pandemic... it hurts.
Bob: Mine did too, however in the past year I've been able to recover financially.
Ed: Really? Please help me, how did you recover your losses?
Bob: I'd hate to share my secret, but Jonathon Harris provided me with amazing investment tips.
Sal: Mr. Jonathon Harris helped 10X our portfolio! You can reach him at jonharris@gmail.com
That was my re-enactment of their discussion. Sure, that was an example of an obvious ad. But think of all the times you read a conversation about a product or service and became convinced to try something just based on a conversation between two supposed strangers online? I've never bought anything from a conventional ad, but I've purchased plenty of things after reading what the socials say about a product, and that makes me ashamed of myself. Word of mouth is effective for a reason, but it's insidious online. And that's where they get you. Steel your mind, when online.