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@danilo

Is that what the guy in the video is doing?

@ireneista @Gorfram @datarama @alessandro @talya

It's all over the place I really doubt it's useless.

@Gorfram @datarama @alessandro @talya

We have a common ancestor with arthropods, but it was long long long ago. The fact that dreaming may be shared, even if it's very different by such very different creatures hints at something profound and fundamental about being an organism with a brain and an nervous system and bilateral symmetry who interacts with the world and makes choices.

Having that in common is enough for both of us to need to sleep and also probably need to dream.

@Gorfram @datarama @alessandro @talya

Ants and bees probably dream too.

I suspect they would review the things they learned about the space and resources around their nest, making memories of the locations of things more permanent.

This is on the assumption that a purpose of dreaming is to refine and organize memories and things learned during the day.

@Virginicus @Smoljaguar

I wonder if there is an API for any of the free models. Although I hate interacting with cloud APIs

@dogfox
listen, coffee, I have committed *so many* crimes and I don’t really know why I’m telling you this, but I think I’m going to just keep committing more.

@elight @the5thColumnist @Urban_Hermit

Because the popular models people will encounter have been trained to work this way.

@dogfox

I know! I’ve yelled “stop talking OMG stop talking!” so many times

@ItWasntMe223

This is so true. I still read some news paper articles, but I have become concerned about *who* I’m reading in a way that was not true in the past.

Simply reading the headlines on th NYT isn’t something I do often anymore. I’m leery of the editorial focus of many news sites.

@alessandro @talya

No one is enough of a polymath and no one has enough time to avoid trusting others. This isn’t really a bad thing, but we have to be open to the reality that there are some things that “everyone knows” that are simply wrong.

@alessandro @talya

I think with topics where one isn’t an expert it can be more important to know what “most people” in your social circle *think* is true than it can be to know what is really true.

Knowing an iconoclastic truth, but not having the expertise to explain it to others isn’t very useful. Moreover without that expertise you will struggle to evaluate the validity of the unpopular opinion.

So, people reach for the popular option and hope it is correct.

@the5thColumnist @Urban_Hermit

I’m trying to avoid loaded phrases like “bullshitting machine” I’ve had a lot of people roll their eyes and shut down on me because “well you just hate AI” as if this is a matter of personal taste.

In reality I struggle to see how I could find value in exposing my curiosity to a system with these limitations. I will insulate myself from those times when a simple obvious question brings me up short— it just seems really dangerous to me.

@the5thColumnist @Urban_Hermit

People, even people who have terrible mostly wrong ideas tend to have some guiding set of values. Even if you don’t learn much from their opinions you can learn about the philosophy that informs those opinions.

Asking an LLM *why* it said any fact or opinion is pointless. It will supply a response that sounds like a human justification but the real “reason” is always the same “it was the response you were most likely to accept as correct”

@cshlan

He’s *really* funny.

@Urban_Hermit

I think when some people are presented with these kinds of errors they think “the LMM just made a factual mistake” they think with more data and “better software” this will not be a problem. They don’t see that what it is doing is *foundationally different* from what they are asking it to do.

That it has fallen to random CS educators, and people interested in these models to desperately try to impress upon the public the way they are being tricked makes me angry.

The most exciting and pivotal moments in research are those times when the results do not meet your expectations.

We live for those moments.

If an LLM is not reliable enough for you to trust unexpected results then it is not reliable enough to tell you anything new: it’s incapable of telling you anything that you don’t at (some level) already know.

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“If the LLM produces a wild result, something that doesn’t meet with my expectations *then* I’ll turn to more reliable sources. I’m not blindly following just anything that says”

People feel that this being a “responsible user of new technology”

I think it is actually the opposite.
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@llewelly @molly0xfff

For someone who doesn't invest in anything I'm endlessly fascinated by "financial instruments" and all of the weird and sometimes perverse things that can be done with money.

I don't think it's that important to keep track of all of this in great depth. It's like a soap opera for me I guess.

Who do you turn to for financial news? My favorites are:

Patrick Boyle: He is an academic out of NYC and a college teacher in business. He has a remarkable dry sense of humor and explains modern markets very clearly and carefully. He doesn't shy away from "bad news" Isn't interested in hype.

Coffeezilla: A pretty prominent guy who cut his teeth chasing down crypto and rug-pull scams. For some reason he can get anyone to talk to him.

There are others but these two I'm cheerful to recommend.

@markmccaughrean

Is there an audio book version? If so is there a place you'd rather we'd buy it?

In general is there a better way to buy this from your perspective?

Looks like a very cool book.