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Artist, husband, father, left politics, dog and cat person, former archaeologist, amateur musician & songwriter.
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For anyone who doesn’t know, the English word “dandelion” comes from the French “dent-de-lion” meaning “lion’s tooth” because of the jagged shape of the leaves. So it would have originally been pronounced exactly that way.
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Earns you a follow!
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This is a caricature of my argument. Instruments like the LHC are _extensions_ of our senses. Neither would be of any use in the absence of sentient beings like humans to sense their outputs. This is what the zen koan about a tree falling in a forest with no one there to hear it is about btw.
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(3/3) It’s no accident that the word for “experiment” and “experience” are the same in a number of languages. That’s because ultimately our ability to verify things is rooted in our (preferably repeatable) experience of sense data.
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(2/3) After millennia of believing some truly wacky things, people have developed an elaborate methodology to avoid deluding themselves. It’s called the scientific method. It’s based on experiments.
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(1/3) People who make up sources and data _know_ that they are lying. LLMs don’t.
Honest errors can be checked by peer review.
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(3/3) For a LLM this distinction between that which has actually been sensed and that which has merely been confabulated from the training data simply doesn’t exist.
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(2/3) A human being would know that, for example, they had made up a non-existent research paper precisely because they would know that they’ve never actually seen it. (i.e., the absence of corroborating sense data).
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(1/3)Sense data is only trivial in that LLMs obviously lack it. But it is not trivial to error checking/reality testing and its lack is the root of LLMs so called hallucinations.
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Earns you ban immediate follow!
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And a federal crime.
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Atheism is a religion the same way not collecting stamps is a hobby.
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Thanks!
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Judge Wilkinson: "If today the Executive claims the right to deport without due process and in disregard of court orders, what assurance will there be tomorrow that it will
not deport American citizens and then disclaim responsibility to bring them home?" storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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I was going to reply “Don’t forget my amazing what?”
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Because New York was originally New Amsterdam, a Dutch colony, the Dutch term, anglicized as “cookie” became common in the British American colonies, but not in Britain itself, where the word taken directly from French “biscuit” continued in use right up to the present.
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(2/3) Thus “biscotto,” “biscuit,” “biscocho,” all meaning twice cooked (in Italian, French, and Spanish respectively).
Cookie is from the Netherlandish “koekje” (“little cake”) the diminutive of “koek” (“cake”).
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(1/3) In romance languages, the common term derives from a phrase meaning “twice cooked,” because this sort of baked good was originally (and often still is) made by first cooking the dough partially in a loaf, then slicing the loaf, separating the slices, and baking it once more.
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Vader Derangemrnt Syndrome
ammirite?
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Thank you!
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Can confirm. 😂
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I believe the firings and the AI have the same purpose: to get humans out of the loop of evaluating contracts. To automate the process of spending government money. To rig up a computer that sends taxpayer dollars directly to the broligarchy.