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mrbgty commented on New research on anesthesia and microtubules gives new clues about consciousness sciencedaily.com/releases... · Posted by u/isaacfrond

Aqueous · a year ago

In just 2-3 years we've gone from primitive LLMs to LLMs reaching Graduate PhD-level knowledge and intelligence in multiple domains. LLMs can complete almost any code I write with high accuracy given sufficient context. I can have a naturalistic dialog with an LLM that goes on for hours in multiple languages. Frankly (and humblingly, and frighteningly) they have already surpassed my own knowledge and intelligence in many, probably most, domains. Obviously they aren't perfect and make a lot of errors - but so do most humans.

mrbgty · a year ago

If LLMs are capable of writing code and code is what they are created with, what's keeping LLMs right now from entering into a loop where they are themselves creating new AI with more advanced concepts than we've ever known?

mrbgty commented on New research on anesthesia and microtubules gives new clues about consciousness sciencedaily.com/releases... · Posted by u/isaacfrond

Aqueous · a year ago

What's odd about the current moment is that in the very same era in which it seems there is conclusive evidence (LLMs) that quantum explanations are not necessary to explain at the very least linguistic intelligence as advanced linguistic intelligence is possible in a purely classical computing domain, there is at the same time an insistence elsewhere that consciousness must be a quantum phenemonon. Frankly I am increasingly skeptical that this is the case. LLMs show that intelligence is at least mostly algorithmic, and the brain is far too warm and wet for quantum effects to dominate. Why should intelligence be purely classical but consciousness (another brain phenemenon) be quantum? It lacks parsimony.

mrbgty · a year ago

> it seems there is conclusive evidence (LLMs) that quantum explanations are not necessary to explain at the very least linguistic intelligence as advanced linguistic intelligence is possible in a purely classical computing domain

Any reference explaining this? It isn't clear to me that LLMs have proven advanced linguistic intelligence

mrbgty commented on Anger Does a Lot More Damage to Your Body Than You Realize wsj.com/health/wellness/a... · Posted by u/elsewhen

naasking · 2 years ago

> I’m not sure why people have come to the conclusion that certain emotions must be entirely avoided

I don't think "avoided" is the right term for these teachings, but the emotion itself is generally not fruitful, particularly since it urges you to dwell on it. Injustice should be addressed because it's unjust, not because you're angry at the injustice. What does the anger add to the equation? Maybe motivation? Maybe it's important to explore why the injustice by itself is not sufficiently motivating.

mrbgty · 2 years ago

As with most things in life, there's an appropriate balance somewhere. People tend to say anger = bad because we have mostly experienced inappropriate anger on one extreme and have found that it isn't healthy for you.

mrbgty commented on Ex-Googler says company's AI panic is like Google+ fiasco all over again the-decoder.com/ex-google... · Posted by u/Matrixik

mrbgty · 2 years ago

What is the moat for AI? Right now, it's enormously expensive to produce an LLM but doesn't AI produce results which, in the long run, will make it easier and easier for any company to produce the same?

mrbgty commented on Apple cuts 600 jobs after dropping self-driving car plans bbc.com/news/articles/c98... · Posted by u/voisin

JoeAltmaier · 2 years ago

And still Apple has no idea how to make a car, because cars are extremely different than phones.

Yes there are some incidental parts that Apple has skill at making. Perhaps they should provide touch-panels for the car controls? The interface would be better than what's out there.

The most significant evidence that Apple isn't a car manufacturer is, that they have just thrown up their hands and cancelled the project, with essentially the defense that "We don't know how to do anything involved in making a car" e.g. distribution, manufacturing, certifications and on and on.

mrbgty · 2 years ago

Fair enough and all points I agree with

mrbgty commented on Apple cuts 600 jobs after dropping self-driving car plans bbc.com/news/articles/c98... · Posted by u/voisin

JoeAltmaier · 2 years ago

Except for the wheels and seats and oil and grease. Just like.

mrbgty · 2 years ago

Not a very friendly comment and I didn't think electric vehicles needed oil.

Vehicles are doing more and more processing - the work of servers. Distributing moving servers around the world to process data at that specific location is useful and becoming more and more so.

mrbgty commented on Apple cuts 600 jobs after dropping self-driving car plans bbc.com/news/articles/c98... · Posted by u/voisin

pfdietz · 2 years ago

They're using more and more computing, but they are not changing into devices that are primarily for computing.

mrbgty · 2 years ago

Can you think of any applications for having servers primarily used for processing data on location that are distributed around the world in locations that normally can't have buildings sitting there or that might benefit from moving with traffic?

mrbgty commented on Apple cuts 600 jobs after dropping self-driving car plans bbc.com/news/articles/c98... · Posted by u/voisin

causi · 2 years ago

It was very obvious the Apple car project was never going to happen. So obvious that it never even felt real when I read the headlines. Apple is not a car company and Apple is not willing to transform itself into a car company.

mrbgty · 2 years ago

I'm not sure how obvious it was or that it still won't happen in the future. Cars have been becoming more and more like a computing device.

mrbgty commented on The window for great-grandmothers is closing memoirsandrambles.substac... · Posted by u/yakkomajuri

CalRobert · 2 years ago

If you haven't read the article, it's about how people having kids later means you won't meet your great grandparents.

My mom had me when she was 23, and her mom had her at 22. I'm in my forties and still have two living grandparents, and am very grateful for them. I remember a lot of days where my grandmother watched me and my sister, and she was able to do that because she was only in her late 40's herself and plenty mobile. I knew two of my great grandmothers, one of them only dying in my teens.

Not everyone can rely on parents to help with childcare, but it is worth keeping in mind that if you wait until your mid 30's they might not be able to catch a running toddler like they could a decade earlier.

My mom also managed to have a really good career, though she went to night school when I was around 6 and worked her ass off in general. But, she had a high earning partner to support her.

I don't really have a single point here, except that I worry we've ignored the less-obvious downsides to people delaying childbearing until their mid 30's.

mrbgty · 2 years ago

Good points to think about. One I consider is that traditions and family roots are often good for people to feel connected and find meaning although traditions should be questioned from time to time.

I think having family members of varying ages alive at the same time does help people feel connected, safe, and confident in having meaning and purpose. (Not that people can't have those things otherwise, it's just without that support)

mrbgty commented on Modifying mouth bacteria to remove cavities luminaprobiotic.com/... · Posted by u/23pointsNorth

mrbgty · 2 years ago

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