- yubblegumI think they should criminialize porn instead and leave the machines alone. Since that industry (conspiracy theories aside) value money above all else, massive fine and taxes on the owners of porn production is the way to go imo.
- Porn is damaging at multiple levels, specially for young adults to say nothing of "children".
+Should be clear is that exposing children to porn or normalizing porn in no way promotes "healthy economies" either.
- > I think, powers that be do not want to repeat -the mistake- they made with the interbwz.
But was it really.
- Complete clickbait. There is not even a transitory appearance of a "how". tldr; table is rebuilt at some point prior to the great cycle's end. How the table is built and just how did the Maya make the calculations? Crickets.
- https://old.reddit.com/r/NewIran/comments/1oy91ju/the_islami...
Here is a short video to tell you all you need to know about what sort of people are now running Iran, and just what they think of the average captive Iranian over whom they misrule, while you wait for the books.
- Grok apparently has a sense of humor: "it's part of broader water management strategies including prayers and conservation".
- Nothing baffling about it. Religion was used by a clerical class to marshall the lumpen masses with promises of free handouts in this world and paradise in the next. Their own thinking set (of the ruling clique) are bound by ideology - whether as matter of actual belief or means of governance - so they do not make any decisions based on national interest or reason. It is the ideology that does the 'thinking'.
(Sounds familiar? Warning bells for other locals, maybe? ..)
Most educated Iranians you know, btw, are (drum roll) in diaspora, for good reasons.
- The problem unfortunately is not unique to Iran or even a specific flavor of irrational, this is understood.
- IRI's security goons operate freely in US. They are brazen about harrassing diaspora. We don't get to hear all the stories for obvious reasons but it happens a lot. Huge mistake is to assume you are safe in US and discussing the mafia regime openly on social media. They actually will show up at your door.
- Interestingly enough for this morning's walk I was musing over the tension between the hypotheses that: 'LLMs can map between languages in the vector space' (thus languages are ~equivalent); and 'Language affects thoughts' (as in German is good for Philosophy and English for getting things done).
If both these thoughts are true, then it would appear that languages have topological characteristics. We can (topologically) map from one to another, 'thoughts' (that is a complex of words) form 'paths on the language manifold' and certain paths may be more 'natural' in one topological form than the other.
- The very fact that you merely see this as "a new productivity source" support my sense of the disconnect I mentioned.
Human beings have patterns of behavior that varies from person to person. This is such an established fact that the concept of personal character is a universal and not culturally centered.
(Deterministic) machines and men fail in regular patterns. This is the "human flaws" that you mentioned. It is true that you do not have to be Einstein but the point was missed or not clearly stated. Whether an Einstein or a Joe Random, a person can be observed and we can gauge the capacity of the individual for various tasks. Einstein can be relied upon if we need input on Physics. Random Joe may be an excellent carpenter. Jill writes clearly. Jack is good at organizing people, etc.
So while it is certainly true that human beings are flawed and capabilities are not evenly distributed, they are fairly deterministic components of a production system. Even 'dumb' machines fail in certain characteristic manner, after certain lifetime of service. We know how to make reliable production systems using parts that fail according to patterns.
None of this is true for langauge models and the "AI" built around them. One prompt and your model is "brilliant" and yet entirely possibly it will completely drop the ball in the next sequence. The failure patterns are not deterministic. There is no model, as of now, that would permit the same confidence that we have in building 'fault tolerant systems' using deterministically unreliable/failing parts. None.
Yet every aspect of (cognitive components of) human society is being forcibly affected to incorporate this half-baked technology.
- Sorry, your comparative analysis (beyond its rather strange disconnect with your fellow Human beings) ignores the fact that a "stellar" model will fail in this way whereas with us humans, we do get generationally exceptional specimens that push the envelope for the rest of us.
To make this crystal clear: Human geniuses were flawed beings but generally you would expect highly reliable utility from their minds. Einstein would not unexpetedly let you down when discussing physics. Gauss would kick ass reliably in terms of mathematics. etc. etc. (This analysis is still useful when we lower the expectations to graduated levels, from genius to brilliant to highly capable to the lower performance tiers, so we can apply it to society as a whole.)
- I think you are overmodulating the conclusions bit here. It is more than just "attempts".
Possibly the difference in our views here have to do with what degree of (collective mind) control is of sufficient utility to various interested parties. Does one need to "run" the world or "100% control everything". I doubt it. I am thinking of the analogy of shifting the course of rivers here, where the (collective) river ends up behaving in the expected manner, and (individual) water molecules are (relatively) free to do wheelies or flow the other way or whatever remains possible within the overall boundaries of the river and its 'set course'.
- > a giant leap in natural language processing, useful in some situations and the biggest scam of all time.
I agree with this assessment (reminds of bitcoin frankly), possibly adding that the insights this tech gave us into language (in general) via the embedding hi-dim space is a somewhat profound advance in our knowledge, besides the new superpowers in NLP (which are nothing to sniff at).
- Isn't it amazing that all our jobs are being gutted or retooled for relying on this tech and it has this level of unreliability. To date, with every LLM, if I actually know the domain in depth, the interactions are always with me pushing back with facts at hand and the LLM doing the "You are right! Thanks for correcting me!"
- Top Gun is obvious stuff. Recently they are doing SEO too. "Project Monarch" for example is mostly known to the younger generation as a (fictional) CIA project to kill Godzilla ... I love the openning sequence of that film - obfuscating all sorts of stuff. Nothing wrong with "high brow conspiracist" which in straight forward language is more like 'looking into top down efforts to social engineer society and control masses'. Or you going to actually argue that has never been a thing in US and the West?
- Rockets as Rorschach tests...
- I was just admiring the beautiful design of this rocket. This looks like something Apple/Jobs would send to space. It's quite an elegant machine.