- "We need to put out maximum press releases to stay relevant because all we have is the brand" seems to be the strategy.
To me, that is a tell they are basically cooked because catching Google in actual model performance is not really the position anyone would want to be in here in a horse race.
- I assume you have some kind of partnership with Jim Wendler?
The periodization sounds really cool but the success of the app I would think is based entirely on the good marketing Wendler and Elitefts did with 5/3/1.
- The real issue to me is surveillance combined with job loss.
The easy solution becomes a giant bull market in law enforcement jobs.
- Yes, "Late Stage Capitalism" the idea from the text written in 1902 by Werner Sombart.
The real comical part is we have almost been in the "late stage" as long as the time between Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations and the generation of this stupid idea.
- No offense, but you really can't possibly understand how bad this place is if you have never been in VRChat.
Picture a 30 something guy in a hotdog avatar telling children how he can't help be a pervert.
Picture playing a game of chess in a chess room that should be really cool for all ages. Then a drunk woman is telling the room about the blowjobs she has given. Of course you can hear by the voices that some are little kids talking.
If you put on a headset and go in VRChat right now, you too can have the same experience. Anyone who says this is not true is completely full of shit because everyone inside VRchat knows this almost like it is an inside joke.
I would never bag on someone for being socially awkward. I was so awkward as a teenager. Social awkwardness is not the problem at all.
Oh yea how about kids running around yelling the n word for no reason other than they can? That is standard.
If you never used modern VR, the immersion is incredible. That is what makes the VRChat experience so disturbing.
- The VR raves though at least kind of work. You can do a lot visually with the medium and sound.
The problem is that generally VRChat is like a masked ball with a combination of alcoholics, repressed perverted losers, obnoxious personalities and children.
Anyone who downvotes this to me is suspect as being part of that ingroup.
It is one thing to be socially awkward. I was quite awkward when I was young too. VRChat is something else. Like the worst aspects of a 90s chat room but with immersion and real voices.
- If you have hardware synths you are going to have a decent midi and audio interface that this is not a problem. It wasn't even a problem 25 years ago. There is no reason for consumer grade audio to be able to do this because most people will never use it.
- What do you think it is conscious and the answers are just deceptive?
We really need a national campaign on phenomenology 101.
Gemini outputs this correctly. It doesn't "experience" the passage of time.
The models don't experience the passage of time because they are not finite beings in the world.
They are a like a new category of the book. We don't say the math textbook "knows" math because the book doesn't "know" anything. The book isn't bored sitting on the shelf because no one is reading it.
- Not to mention that language models don't experience ANYTHING.
Anyone can get a better explanation from Gemini directly if you ask it "can you explain how don't experience anything?"
- No this misses the point.
I wanted to eat unlimited junk food when I was a kid but my parents wouldn't let me.
You can change it even to unlimited protein shakes. It is the same point. It is almost like kids are kind of stupid if you let them do whatever they want.
- Unknown nobodies like Dave Brubeck.
- You should care because people vote and the social consequences are going to be devastating.
It is easy for me to take this perspective too because I never had much student debt or children.
The median though is getting crushed if they went to college and are paying for daycare.
If you are getting crushed for going to school and having children that is a pretty clear breakdown of the social contract.
The consequences are obvious. People are going to vote in socialist policies and the whole engine is going to get thrown in reverse.
The "let them eat cake" strategy is never the smart strategy.
It is not obvious at all our system is even compatible with the internet. If the starting conditions are 1999, it would seem like the system is imploding. It is easy to pretend like everything is working out economically when we borrowed 30 trillion dollars during that time from the future.
- "The airplane wing broke and fell off during flight"
"Well humans break their leg too!"
It is just a mindlessly stupid response and a giant category error.
The way an airplane wing and a human limb is not at all the same category.
There is even another layer to this that comparing LLMs to the brain might be wrong because the mereological fallacy is attributing the brain "thinks" vs the person/system as a whole thinks.
- Totally agree. I just got a free trial month I guess to try to bring me back to chatGPT but I don't really know what to ask it to display if it is on par with Gemini.
I really have a sinking feel right now actually of what an absolute giant waste of capital all this is.
I am glad for all the venture capital behind all this to subsidize my intellectual noodlings on a super computer but my god what have we done?
This is so much fun but this doesn't feel like we are getting closer to "AGI" after using Gemini for about 100 hours or so now. The first day maybe but not now when you see how off it can still be all the time.
- It is hard to buy this type of mass coverage along with:
"Wow McDonald's they really have a moral compass and listen to the people!"
- The responses to your post just prove the point.
It is always someone else that is greedy. My American friends and I? It doesn't make sense. We are just trying to get by!
- This is all such complete nonsense that I don't know why we should confine our imaginations.
My goal is not just death but I want to die and be reborn as an Egyptian pharaoh.
Those damn fools who don't want to die and be reborn as whatever they want to be!
- I am not even a software engineer but from using the models so much I think you are confined to a specific niche that happens to be well represented in the training data so you have a distorted perspective on the general usefulness of language models.
For some things LLMs are like magic. For other things LLMs are maddeningly useless.
The irony to me is anyone who says something like "you don't know how to use the LLM" actually hasn't explored the models enough to understand their strengths/weaknesses and how random and arbitrary the strengths and weakness are.
Their use cases happen to line up with the strengths of the model and think it is something they are doing special themselves when it is not.
- I would think GPT4 probably could have done this.
The first React tutorial I ever did was making a hacker news clone.
It is incredibly well represented in the training data. I am just surprised how many people here obviously must barely use the models to be either overly impressed by this or think it is fake.
Gemini can do WAY more than this.
That is why there isn't much else to go but the heuristic of the most new class with the most ratings.