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Is there a distinction between LLM’s and AI, or do we consider LLM’s to exhibit intellect?

I remeber Sam Altman pointing out in some interview that he considers GPT to be a reasoning machine. I suppose that if you consider what GPT does to be resoning, then calling it AI is not so far fetched.

I feel it’s more like pattern recognition though rather than reasoning, since there’s no black box ”reasoning” component in an LLM.
Why on earth not? What terrible horrors did your parents think would befall you if you watched Rizzo?

Except for fleeting glimpses I never watched the Muppet Show so Rizzo is only a name to me.

Also check my reply to nightowl_games about being cold. Reckon during one visit to Calgary I was even colder (damn freezing in fact). No wonder rats don't want to live in Alberta. :-)
GitHub now offers "artifact attestation"[1], which would be ideal for this use case. It records what build process binaries originated from, so they can still be published elsewhere while remaining verifiable.

[1] https://github.blog/changelog/2024-06-25-artifact-attestatio...
I have a friend who's a pastor. As a basic rule of a good sermon he always quoted the old addage: "Tell them what you’re going to tell them, tell them and tell them what you’ve told them".
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@ Jensson: As the others have said.. You might mean something else with your statement, but you cannot escape that the very definition of money is owed debt: A bank note is in essence an IOU: "This represents value you can redeem later".
You may have some idea you want to communicate about avoiding 'having a lot of debt' or owing more than you are worth, but money in human history has always been a mechanism of debt in its very nature. It represents being owed something else of value.
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They do, but the targets are rival drug dealers etc, not megacorp CEOs. (Except maybe in Russia.)
He died doing what he loved: increasing shareholder value.
Having private security around all the time makes it way harder to cheat on your spouse.
Old Soviet joke:

A man goes to a newspaper stand every day, buys a copy of Pravda, glances at the front cover, curses, and throws it away.

After a few weeks of this the seller asks what's going on: "why do you always look at the cover but never inside? Can I help you?"

"I'm looking for an obituary."

"An obituary? But those are in the back and you're only looking at the front!"

"Oh no, the obituary I'm looking for will be on the front page."
Read the rest of the longest thread here. It's not "my" understanding, it's the result of learning from different traditions, combined with the path my life has taken me. I prayed really, really hard when I was 7yo, with tears rolling down my cheeks; it changed my life. Those changes have led me to having a most interesting, if difficult at times, life.

What is important is that I love everyone in the purest sense of the word, in that I want everyone to be happy. I'm also a lifetime hardcore software engineer (or at least trying to be), so I see things from a systems analysis and integration perspective, so I see our world's problems as solvable, should everyone work together cooperatively, instead of wreaking destruction competitively.

Happiness for one and all is possible, but we have to try, each one of us. The future is not having a single form of religion, but understanding that God's Will for us is to love one another, from within all our different cultures and paths.

Compassion is the only viable and sustainable path forward for the human race, but it's gonna get bumpier before it gets smoother. Steel youselves while there's still a relative peace.

"The Way goes in." --Rumi
I think, for being a interpreted language, Ruby is quite fast now.
You don't believe hitmen exist?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_the_Jackal

Granted, it may be extremely, extremely rare. But it does exist.

Plus I have to wonder if you really think all the people in Russia who "fell out of a window" actually fell out of windows.
Because in US and Canada the "poor" think that the middle class (millionaires at best) is the reason why they're poor.

And the middle class thinks it's the poor taking handouts why they're not richer.

When it's the actual billionaires behind all of it.
His innovation was to deploy AI models to automate claim denials. The system didn't make him to do that. He's responsible for the deaths of thousands and is rightly receiving 0 sympathy for his demise.
I mean that's less of a reasoning capability problem and more of an architectural problem as afaik it's to do with the way that words are broken down into tokens, strawberry becomes straw + berry, or something like st-raw-b-erry as per the tokeniser.

An LLM trying to get the number of letters will just be regurgitating for the most part because afaik it has no way to actually count letters. If the architecture was changed to allow for this (breaking certain words down into their letter tokens rather than whole word tokens) then it may help, but is it worth it?
You can't get more adversarial than PvP MMORPGs
Cartels have sicarios but not in this country. Drug gangs aren't really the 'professional' type of killings.
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You are wrong. In order for you to make sense of what you are saying, you first must REDEFINE f(x) to be f(x) = (x^2 - 1)(x - 1) when x != 1 and define f(1) = 2. Of course, then f will be continuous at x = 1 also.

A function is continuous at x = a if it is differentiable at x = a.

You do understand the concept, but your precision in the definitions is lacking.
I'm not really scared of it it just seems a little bit useless.
You're totally right to be concerned about security. That being said, it's been almost a year since that happened, and we made a TON of changes to prevent this from ever happening again.
In reading other discussions, I came across this recent gem from a different company:

November 14, 2024 - In an unprecedented move, Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield plans representing Connecticut, New York and Missouri have unilaterally declared it will no longer pay for anesthesia care if the surgery or procedure goes beyond an arbitrary time limit, regardless of how long the surgical procedure takes. The American Society of Anesthesiologists calls on Anthem to reverse this proposal immediately.

https://www.asahq.org/about-asa/newsroom/news-releases/2024/...
The real gem of the article is the interlude. E.g., reaching back to C days and pointing out that "It's either copy, or pointer". Once someone has that mental model solidly in hand, all the syntax sugar in the world cannot harm you.

Also "It was an ergonomic advancement." hides a lot of the overwrought syntax sugar in C++ that causes it to be such a weird language if you come from elsewhere. But still an excellent insight into the state of affairs.

I think the "Apparently" language makes it seem like this is some kind of accident that nobody would know about, when really the author was probably just being a creative writer, and the example was fundamental to the post.
There are also downsides to it. One of the benefits of debt is to have more liquidity. If nobody owed anybody anything, but at the same time it was very difficult to trade with anybody, you would have a very inflexible situation that might not really be preferable.
Like if I'm sitting with goods you want, and you sit with goods I want, but we have no way to swap them, then we are both worse off.
How do you think reasoning happens in our brains? I wonder if it's more like an LLM than we realise?
I'm non american too. They make this news look sad, while him and their companies let thousands of people dying at the hospital because they don't have the means to pay for their surgeries.

They have blood on their hands and americans can't have empathy for these people having the power to let someone live or not.
When this news came in a retired nurse on my discord said that UnitedHealthcare was one of the worst for denying coverage for even the most obvious cases.
that would be 6pm pacific time. still falls under reasonable US time.

i think US accounts for 25% or over of global wealth, so it makes sense the big moves come from there.
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People on the internet seem to have a problem differentiating between companies and human beings.

If you find pleasure in the death of a human, you need to reflect on what inside you is broken.

It’s possible to have no love for insurance companies and still regret a tragic loss of life.
What do you should be done with him then?
It's possible! I do it here: https://github.com/chromium-for-lambda/chromium-binaries/act...
I've given the strength of the US economy a lot of thought recently and it comes down to 8 main reasons. The two obvious ones are:

- Liberal labour and corporate laws

- abundance of resources (fossil fuels + fertile soil)

The other 6:

- Low housing prices due to vast land reserves and cheap construction. leaves more capital available to invest into the stock and bond markets

- An excellent system of highways. reduces transportation costs for companies and allows for high labour market flexibility (+ high willingness of Americans to commute large distances)

- Coherent labour market that spans roughly 330M people

- A nation wide well established 401k system that funnels a lot of the retirement savings into US stocks and bonds - incl. venture capital.

- higher affinity for risk taking. Americans are in large parts descendants of risk taking expats

- Large maritime borders and only two (friendly) neighboring countries
Not to call into question your experience, but for gauging this anecdote: what sorts/levels of experts and how many have you been speaking with?
He gets the blame as a "representative" of the industry, and certainly deserves all the blame for what his own company did. The fattest check in the company and all the executive power come with all the blame.

But let's not dilute the issue, politicians didn't create the circles of hell of getting a claim assessed and denied in milliseconds by some algorithm. That was CEOs' chase for the profit.
Unloading doesn't increase price. Price is driven by supply and demand. Unloading lowers price.

There isn't an "increase price so I can unload" button.
Also Greece - I can't remember their name, 17 November?
Hitmen at the paygrade seen here absolutely do exist, you just usually don't notice that very often unless it's either secret services that are involved (e.g. Russia's various assassinations in the UK or Germany) or it's major figures assassinated by drug cartels who are not members of some sort of cartel (e.g. the murder of journalist Peter R. de Vries). Drug and other organized crime networks routinely kill each other, but it doesn't make the headlines if it's not done in the public.
There is no black box 'reasoning' component in humans either.

I will grant you that humans are far more intelligent, and after spending thousands of hours playing with LLMs, it's hard not to see their limitations. At the same time... they're dumb like a very dumb person who has (implausibly) read the Library of Congress, not like a rock or a computer.

I often use Claude to write short stories, largely just for fun. Certainly, its skill at English vastly outmatches its skill at reasoning. It doesn't write well, but it regularly produces turns of phrase that makes me laugh; meanwhile, it needs hand-holding to successfully handle situations with asymmetrical knowledge. It's bad at theory of mind.

But it's just bad, in more or less the same way that a two-year-old is bad at it.

Not the best reasoner in the world. It would be false to claim it's as smart as the typical seven-year-old...

It's almost as wrong to claim that it can't reason at all.
The LLM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fC2oke5MFg&ab_channel=TraeB...
Huh, in my energy industry experience, we always remediated sites. And set aside funding for it before any construction was done. The cost estimation and funding of it was part of the initial planning and approval. I thought it was mandatory and mostly did happen. Some quick research says it is legally required, but IANAL nor an expert.

Of course, that has not always been the case, and things falls through the cracks, but I would not immediately dismiss the entire industry as being non-compliant. I would dismiss the entire industry as flawed and needing change, but not on this specific point - it is vastly improved over past decades.
Literally the first sentence of the Bitcoin paper states that it was designed for peer to peer cash transactions:

https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
As a thought exercise, on one hand the technology's purpose is having no purpose at all, just doing what it was made to do. So I'd rather focus on the technology people, where some develop it for the sake of developing, and others want to extract most money possible out of it. Nothing surprising because capitalism, but now there's a real possibility that the AI owner(s) will extract all the money there is. And I have no idea how our society will function then - until now rulers always needed subjects... We try building guardrails in laws and regulations exactly because we don't know where all this can lead, but as even today humans find ways to circumvent laws I expect the AI finding ways around its guardrails as well (with human help for sure). Thus sooner or later we will unavoidably come to that point where we have no idea what's gonna happen, and that's when usually unrest peaks.
By the most reasonable extent of my imagination: daily usage, the browser is the best of all available. It’s super fast, super stable and not spyware. It’s also great fit for the ecosystem.
There's the risk of them talking. Also if you visibly have security it's way more likely people will take pictures of you and post them.
It should be, but it's very much not in the real world at least as far as I've seen.

Using std::move for anything other than "unique ownership without pointers" really messes things up. People put std::move everywhere expecting performance gains, just like we used to put "&" everywhere expecting performance gains. It's a bit of cargo cultism that can be nicely dispelled by realizing std::move is just std::copy with a compiler-defined constructor invocation potentially run to determine the old value. With that phrasing, it's hard to hallucinate performance gains that might come automatically.
It's difficult to eliminate witnesses, if they're physical security professionals.

j/k
Do they denied their surgery or did they get it but bankrupt after?
/sarcasm/
The real question is : will it eat us ? (Like in matrix) if we believe there is only one dominant intelligence
Does anyone have examples of OSS projects using this framework, and having good documentation?

I find the framework doesn't really speak to me (as a user, or prospective docs writer), and IME trying it out in communities I'm a part of, it didn't particularly improve the situation, as I had perhaps naively expected.
"Not in this country" is some reevaluation from "outside of Hollywood movies". Other countries are real.
They exist, but they're FBI agents. Try rentahitman.com
Anyone wanna guess how many deaths this guy was responsible for?
Company routinely denied coverage in very obvious cases. Like claiming gunshot to stomach not being an emergency etc. The company overall had claim denial rate of 32% which is double the industry avg.
Relieve him of his worldy posessions.
Even for folks who can pay for medical care... UnitedHealthcare is notorious for denying claims from their policyholders.

An example that was posted on Reddit recently from a physician:

"UHC denied my patient's prescription for a Lovenox bridge so her Coumadin could be held prior to surgery. The reason? I prescribed it twice daily instead of once daily, which is the standard of care for a Lovenox bridge. I was so pissed off I just paid for the medication out of pocket myself and gave it to my patient.

It was $12. Twelve. Fucking. Dollars. They were totally okay with the possibility of her suffering a stroke or major thromboembolic event to save TWELVE DOLLARS."

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/1h6h0wp/comment/m0ew8...
What kind of Intelligent Design bullshit does "biologically built" mean?
I'm not talking about childbirth and breastfeeding, I mean raising the children.

What part of woman's biology is tailored for changing diapers, reading books, playing around, walking them to school.
Have woman nostrils evolved to not smell baby shit?

Just admit you want to live in the Handmaiden's Tale, or Taliban Afghanistan, or 1950's America. You want a live-in prostitute cum maid cum babysitter.

Why coat political thoughts in fake scientific thought? Man up and admit opressing women is the goal.
I think most people aren't finding pleasure in his death, but perhaps a sense of justice.
FYI, the term was first used in Britain in 1750, according to the term's Wikipedia page[0], which discusses how the term was used in different countries in a neutral way until about 1860 in Germany, at which point it was used in a more antisemitic context.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_question
Most Hollywood movies are set in the US. If you want a realistic portrayal of foreign counties there's always foreign cinema.
What Abe did?
>The situation in Georgia and in Ukraine is what you get when European affairs are left to Europeans.

What are you smoking?

>Additionally, the EU's inability to supply Ukraine with basic military equipment such as artillery shells is indicative of how Europe is devoid of industrial capacity and couldn't rally in its own defense if it had to.

https://www.president.pl/storage/image/core_files/2024/11/12...
There's more art to it, because there's also an off-putting way of doing that, which frequently shows up in presentations: you're greeted with a powerpoint slide with the topics in bullet points, which the presenter reads out loud, then come the slides with each of those points, also read out loud, and at the end there's a summary that almost copies the first slides, and which --for good measure-- is also read out loud. That makes me want to forget everything that's been told.
Sewage, heating, and power plants are included in GDP figures. Government spending is a GDP subheading. And such things certainly create value. I derive significant value every day from my warm, insulated, suburban bathroom.

Furthermore, your assertion that the defense industry doesn’t provide value is questionable. Until you can convince the various state governments of the world to unite in a global superstate, defense spending is a necessary deterrent to invasion and exploitation by other states, so it is, in fact, valuable.

And while I agree that suburbs aren’t the ideal form of urban organization, they aren’t actually the cause of all the social ills that you imagine them to be. Depression and addiction are driven by loneliness, and loneliness is almost as high in urban societies as suburban ones. Obesity may be slightly aggravated by car dependence, but it is still historically high and a major problem in the walking/public transport countries of Europe.

So no, the demon of suburban car dependence does not provide the explanation for all ills.
What's the point in surviving if no one wants to mate with you, evolutionary speaking.

Is your type, dating wise, someone who is warm and dry?
They are literally the worst. The deny more cases than any other insurance company.
Hey, article author, co-founder and tech lead at Meilisearch here. If you have any questions, don't hesitate.
Still not ideal for the life loving CEO. Anyone who had to go around with a security detail because of genuine threats to their lives knows it's a crap situation.

Plenty of your customers may have nothing to lose. It's just a matter of kicking off the trend and way more people start seeing options like this, previously considered crazy, as more and more realistic.
"If lots of optimistic things happen, then it can't be more than X" doesn't require predicting the future.

For example, the total value of all gold is something like $10-20T. At 21M coins, if bitcoin fully replaced all gold you'd be looking at something like 500k-1M. I don't really get the difference between M1 and M2 for money supply but this is about the same as all US dollars.

So $500k-$1M seems like a realistic maximum value. That's different from "I think this will happen" and you can have a value much lower than this but the key part here IMO is saying "I cannot see a way it can be higher". I think there are other investments that require significantly less optimism to see 5-10x growth over any reasonable timeframe.

> Also I'm not sure how to process "the max value is only 5-10x from current prices so the big money has already been made". Can you explain?

A maximum upside of 5-10x assuming lots of things go extremely well for your investment requiring massive global shifts is a tricky sell. To make a huge amount of money you have to put a lot on the line.

So I think broadly this is just about whether you read "realistic max value" as "the maximum I expect this to reach" or "scenarios where it goes above this are unrealistic even with a lot of optimism".
Didn't seem to bother JFK, though it did cause "morale problems" with the Secret Service. Thought it's true, they weren't private security.
Thanks for pointing it out! Fixing it
That music is an experience, really nicely done.

Does anybody know if the executable will run under Linux?
Wealth tax. Increasing tax on wealth, capping at a 100% tax for wealth above $10M. Exact numbers negotiable, but that's where I'm starting the bid. When you've hit your wealth cap, it removes the motivation to drive up your bank account's high score (or at least makes it much more difficult) which is what drives most of this evil.
Makes me really wish I could find that wallet I mined 50 bitcoin into from my laptop back in 2009 and then got bored of because they were essentially worthless.
Video of a robot leading a mass escape stokes laughs and fears over AI in China
The man probably has a higher body count than Bin Laden. I think schadenfreude from most is to be expected.
I’m not entirely sure why it matters that silos of messaging data exist, if it’s encrypted like Signal and WhatsApp the centralized model is far superior to an arbitrary and unknown number of parties receiving metadata about messaging. It might have been an easier case to make if Matrix wasn’t an uphill battle in terms of usability and performance.
I don't know why you're being downvoted.

Cryptocurrencies in general are a big pain in the ass for banks, due to how much of fraud is associated with those currencies. AML and KYC regulations have made practical use of cryptocurrencies a pain for both parties, for the past 10 years. It's just now, in the very recent years, that it has become somewhat easier and streamlined.