skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The real question in this context might be 'can LLM output be divinely inspired'?

If we charitably accept that all holy texts are written by human beings in the grip of divine inspiration (as compared to texts magically appearing on the tops of mountains), in a manner opaque to tools of scientific inquiry such that no such divine interventions can be detected or measured, then why can't LLMs also be used in this manner by the divine presence?

Is it thus possible to create a new 'true' religion, with a holy text generated by a consortium of LLMs passing prompts and outputs back and forth among one another, with a few stipulations such as 'start with an origin story of the universe'?
Also, the “ao” (actually ão) suffix in brazilian portuguese means “a huge version of” - so the URL picaos means “a lot of large penises”

Not that this matters at all, the platform seems nice and we brazilians love this kind of humor
That is one of the better maps I've seen. Thanks for the lovely historical insight! I wish these games were still popular in my youth as it would have been a blast to play with friends (although GoldenEye was fun too).
The Mercosur-EU Trade Agreement is a good start.
I found this a remarkably well written take.

It's quite a different level of commitment to truth than one usually runs across these days. Instead of a world of meme and vibes, a costly commitment to only say things that are true.
that line (generalized) has been the most useful piece of advice i've ever read

got me out of a gaslighting relationship, and allowed me to stay at a company during a rough patch (knowing i had a line i'd bail at)
Ooh, now do the Laffer curve!
Feels like it's built by a first year junior dev. There's a doge in the HTML in ASCII block characters as well.

Separate thought, I wonder how much it bothers Elon that the industry standardized on meta tags with "twitter" namespacing, and that will unlikely ever change.
How Technology Shapes Our Perception
according to the article- things that Must be immediately verified, and brainstorming for things like creative writing where making something up is the point
Agreed.

Honestly, the problem isn't just which devices, but even more so, this (from the page, not your comment):

> No guarantees of future support but we will try hard to add support.

During the Great GPU Shortage, I bought an AMD RX5xx card for ML work. It was explicitly advertised to work with ROCm. Within a couple of months, AMD dropped ROCm support. EOLing an actively-sold product from being used for an advertised purpose within the warranty period was, if I understand consumer protection laws in my state correctly, fraud. There was no support from either the card vendor (MSI). No support from AMD. No support from the reseller. Short of small claims, which was not worth it, there was no recourse.

This is on a long list of issues AMD needs to sort out to be a credible player in this space:

* Those are the kinds of experiences which cause people to drop a vendor and not look back. AMD needs to either support cards forever, or at the very least, have an advertised expiration date (like Chromebooks and Android phones).

* Broad support is helpful from a consumer perspective from the simply pragmatic point of view that only a tiny fraction of the population has the time to read online forums, footnotes, or fine print. People should be able to buy a card on Amazon, at Best Buy, and Microcenter, and expect things to Just Work.

* Being able to plan is essential for enterprise use. I can't build a system around AMD if AMD might stop supporting their platform on 0 days notice, and the next day, there might be a security exploit which requires a version bump.

I'm hoping Intel gets their act together here, since NVidia needs a credible competitor. I've given up on AMD.
Because they are not confusing it. They believe in the opposite political opinion and want to smear their believed opponents whenever possible.
That can be fixed with more capitalism, for example there is a business opportunity right there:

> Why, when the restaurant is busy and crying out for couriers, does the app say there are none available?

Let the restaurant know they can call you.
Living in a world where consequences no longer matter, this doesn't say much to me. :(
It is already more than enough to know which country to contact the authorities and to pinpoint a rough area where to look.

If the scammer is in Nigeria, tough luck. If he is in the EU or US then exists a feasible chance to go after the person.
My mobile browser shows the doge.gov url but sharing the site actually shares x.com/doge
If only we knew OBL's Discord handle then we would have known he was about where we figured he was all along...

And then this whole thing gets thrown off if one uses a VPN with an endpoint somewhere other than where you are. Click a button, suddenly my datacenter is AMS. Click it again, suddenly its OTP...
> not even just requiring mobile numbers but requiring POST PAID mobile numbers

Wow, I live in a first world country and that would still ban like half the adults I know (Mostly because our bill pay phone plans are terrible value), along with basically every teenager (which for COD, you would think is the core target market).
Concept cells help your brain abstract information and build memories
Similar arguments for all religions, see also all cults/sects, etc.
There is the famous Henry Ford quote, something about how id he'd listened to his customers, he'd have built a faster horse.
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Computers are binary.

John 1:1-18 uses a lot of contrasts (light and dark, right and wrong, life and death).

I see no reason why AI can’t be a part of the discussion to interpret Scripture in a modern context.
Yes, that is correct. VPN near location would be disclosed, not yours.
My coworkers in the former Yugoslavia countries said they import cars from Germany after TUF denies them. I think they are getter “newer” cars now, newer meaning 10-15 years old.
> Am I the only one to expect a S curve regarding progress and not an eternal exponential ?

To LLMs specifically as they're now? Sure.

To LLMs in general, or generative AI in general? Eventually, in some distant future, yes.

Sure, progress can't ride the exponent forever - observable universe is finite, as far as we can tell right now, we're fundamentally limited by the size of our light cone. And while in any field narrow enough, progress too follows an S-curve, new discoveries spin off new avenues with their own S-curves. If you zoom out a little those S-curves neatly add up to an exponential function.

So no, for the time being, I don't expect LLMs or generative AIs to slow down - there's plenty of tangential improvements that people are barely beginning to explore. There's more than enough to sustain exponential advancement for some time.
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one unintended side effect i had with myfitnesspal was that i ended up eating more prepackaged/highly-processed foods because i disliked estimating calories in home-cooked stuff so much (especially because i knew it'd be an inaccurate guess)
You take a few points from the students that posted inane code by following the LLM, and those students will learn to never blindly follow an LLM again.
And expensive to match the size! A pastrami sandwich at Katz's is ~$30. A croque madame at a similar place in Paris is ~€15.

People generally split a Pastrami sandwich over a couple meals or with someone else.
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> Also I wish more "good" hackers were in games, like the guy in GTA Online I ran into once who was shooting me with a money machine gun because Rockstar are greedy assholes.

Eh? Rockstar doesn't force you to buy Shark Cards, and everyone has gotten 11 years worth of DLCs for free. Making in-game money IS an essential part of the game. You also don't have to purchase every single vehicle or other item the game offers.

During my years of playing, I've met only a few cheaters who weren't complete douchebags (though some of them did act that way towards other players). I consider the "good" cheater to be a myth.
It's not the only factor for sure, but it definitely contributes.

Jokingly Swedish and Spanish colleagues have said that weather probably plays a part too - because it's so cold outside, lots of time is spent indoors - some of it with friends socialising or chilling (they even have a word for it, Fika), but not only. So you have lots of opportunities to read, think, explore, experiment.

In contrast, in Spain the weather is often nice and sunny, so you're outside more often, with friends, drinking and eating. You don't really have a lot of alone time at home to think and tinker and innovate.

It's purely anecdotal, but there might be something to it.
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Bullshitting? yes, absolutely.

But you can't make up scripture without being immediately spotted. Their comments would be flooded with people calling them out.

It's like trying to talk about star trek episodes that don't exist with star trek nerds. There would be a few seconds of confusion before the righteous indignation.
I am definitely lazier today in regards to doing math in my head compared to when I was young.

I think a comparison with calculators is possible, but the degree to which calculators are capable of assisting us is so incomparably smaller that the comparison would be meaningless.

Smart phones changed society a lot more than calculators did and now AI is starting to do the same, albeit in a more subtle manner.

Treating AI like it's just a calulator seems naïve/optimistic. We're still reeling from the smart phone revolution and have not solved many of the issues it brought upon its arrival.

I have a feeling the world has become a bit cynical and less motivated to debate how to approach these major technological changes. It's been too many of them in too short of a time and now everyone has a whatever attitude towards the problems these adcancements introduce.
Digital Infrastructure Solutions to Advance Data Agency in the Age of AI [pdf]
Means that it rests on claims of real-world events.

As opposed to Buddhism, Taoism, Shinto, Jainism, etc.
"Be trained how to map" implies someone is feeding in a list of every token and what the letters for that token are as training data and then training that. More realistically, this just happens automatically during training as the model figures out what splits work with which tokens because that answer was right when it came across a spelling example or question. The "reasoning" portion comes into play by its ability to judge whether what it's doing is working rather than go with the first guess. E.g. feeding "zygomaticomaxillary" and asking for the count of 'a's gives a CoT

> <comes to an initial guess>
> Wait, is that correct? Let me double-check because sometimes I might miscount or miss letters.
> Maybe I should just go through each letter one by one. Let's write the word out in order:
> <writes one letter per line with the conclusion for each
> *Answer:* There are 3 "a"s in "zygomaticomaxillary."

It's not the only example of how to judge a model but there are more ways to accurately answering this problem than "hardcode the tokenizer data in the training" and heavily trained CoT models should be expected to hit on at least several of these other ways or it is suspect they miss similar types of things elsewhere.
It would be really helpful to see an example of one of these naughty excess demand curves, along with the utility function for each agent. For an economy with a small enough number of commodities and agents that it might be comprehensible, say two or three.
Oh man so many... inaccuracies to be polite in 1 post.

My wife uses GPS all the time, why else you would buy premium watch like Fenix for. Apple watch needs charging / daily/bi-daily. Garmins of my wife who even sleeps with them with monitoring on - every 5-6 days, after cca 4 years of ownership already with same battery. You can definitely wear them all the time, and if you can't, same goes for other watch as well. This is what these watches are for if you still have issues understanding their market proposition, long term usage, without battery anxiety and additional management of frequent charging.

They can have eSim, but I really don't see a reason and the price to pay in terms of battery drain is too steep. I don't know anybody around who is using it, everybody still have their phone with them.

If I want to be reachable, there is phone which I can put into any pocket, if I want some quiet peace time, I can just listen to the music streamed from watch. I would never rely on tiny watch with crappy battery and super tiny cellular antenna re safety ie in wilderness or mountains where signal is non-ideal.
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To answer the title, I think Christians should use AI as little as possible. More like a research tool or generating templates. The reason is that the Holy Spirit works through God’s Word (or truth), His people, and Christ-like character with human connections. AI can only deliver one.

Also, Christians always face persecution which includes people trying to censor or attack them. A common method, which I’ve experienced, is misrepresenting their words or actions. Paul kept saying they were blameless among them, just told the truth, and didn’t use worldly tricks. Our integrity, including not using fake things, is both a defense and a positive example in an increasingly, fake world.

Far as training them, here’s a few sites with material that might help:

https://www.biblicaltraining.org/

https://www.gotquestions.org/

https://apologeticspress.org/

https://answersingenesis.org/

I’m not endorsing everything on the sites. They just each have good things on specific topics.
And yet Trump easily won the election. I think your "everyone" is a minority.
My system updates¹ the entry and marks the changes in the first case. What is right and what is wrong depends on what you want, I think.

The latter is annoying, I agree.

¹ It is an NNTP interface so the article is superseded; https://feedbase.org/about/ - if you don't want to see updates, you can configure your newsreader to skip supersedes.
How user-centric are you? Probably not enough
I disagree.

The VC is there for profit because they expect the 1 win to overshoot the loss from the other 9.

They expect potential for profit in all the ventures they invest. Period.

And they put forth capital in the amount representative of their belief that a particular venture will turn a profit.

Those they believe have more potential will receive more funding/resources than those ventures that seem less favorable.

They are not, as you put it, performing in a patronage system, because simply they are not interested in losing their capital.
My opinion is: let people know ~6 months in advance that they will be laid off and encourage them to find new jobs during this time.
> If no one tried to make the world a better place, the world would never get better.

This is kind of a cost-benefit issue though. The benefits of having a local community outweigh the negatives of the platform having its own issues.

If your issues on the platform cause you to ditch it, which ruins your community, than what have you actually done?

I believe when it comes to anything that is not-for-profit, that the path of least resistance the only path. Therefore moving off of Facebook is simply not a consideration.
It's usually not designed to persuade skeptics, it's designed to persuade people who are on the fence about their faith, both the author and those who, like them, need an intellectual justification.
To an extent, I also think the determination of the Apologetics Project also shows the tendency of people to go into denial about the limits of the technology. There is a lovely SF short story, The Quest for Saint Aquin, on how a true AI might feel about religious belief but we are a long way short of that.

It worries me a lot more that governments and the like will also be in denial about what they can do with AI. I can ignore low quality apologetics, I cannot ignore the government (I have to pay taxes, for example).
I'm biased but I think the most interesting opportunities involve software that interacts with the physical world in some way. These projects will definitely involve some electrical + mechanical engineering, product design etc., but I'd guess that in terms of number of hours worked, they are still more software engineering than any other single discipline. Probably with a very different set of tools than those used on the web.
While I've seen all the points made in the article (besides some that wouldn't work outside of this particular religious context), they are well laid out and highlight not only the technological limitations, but also the moral implications of building a llm product.

Moral issues that are not limited to religion, I've had conversations with a friend where I was trying to explain to them that their llm website idea will, with certainty, mislead people at some point. I think the exact idea was to build a gpt-based trip planner. I'd hate to have someone spend time and money on hotel, transportations, etc... To end up stranded in the middle of nowhere.

Anyway, the article came out 4 months ago and the chatbox is still there.

> Which programming language would allow me to get closer to God?

> If I had to choose a programming language that reflects some aspect of God's nature, I would say that a language with a strong emphasis on order, logic, and beauty, such as Python, could be seen as a reflection of God's character. The Bible says, "God is not a God of disorder but of peace" (1 Corinthians 14:33, ESV), and Python's simplicity and readability can be seen as a reflection of this aspect of God's nature.

At least we got that one out of the way.
I joined HN only a few years past you, but given what's being done in the name of tech these days I find it very hard not be cynical
They claim to know the truth but the reasoning behind it is different between religions. I'm no religious expert but I'm very familiar with Mormonism and they push really hard on the idea that faith is intentionally separate from truth and you learn about the truth of the church by meditating on your feelings and experiencing frisson, not via logic. Yes everyone has their mythology and Mormonism has its share of things the prophet says God says but it is very different than the Christian apologists that try to reconcile the Bible with things like astrophysics and other observed phenomena.
Neither, he should not be criminally liable for that, not because he has immunity invented by a Court in clear defiance of the Constitution, but because the act is, in fact, legal pursuant to the 9/11 AUMF.

That the decision is wrong is pretty clear from the Constitution itself: where it intends there to be a Constitutional legal immunity for official acts for Constitutional officers, it explicitly states it (e.g., the speech and debate clause in Article I.) The absence of any such statement for the President and the narrow one provided for members of Congress make it clear that creating a broad Presidential official act immunity ex nihilo for the President is contrary to and an inversion of the Constitutional design, putting a single actor above the law rather than bound by it.
All OSS on Github gets free compute. I doubt they want you to waste it.
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for the starter plan you will get 2000 tokens in nodeflow and for the pro one u will get 7500 tokens and 300,000 for the enterprise plan
> You seem to think that predicting s t -> s t is easier than predicting st (single token) -> s t.

Yes, it is significantly easier to train a model to do the first than the second across any real vocabulary. If you don't understand why, maybe go back to basics.
zealots rarely change minds, which I suspect is what you really want to happen
people learn when they’re given kind, direct, actionable feedback from people they trust - not when they’re called sensationalists by random critics on the internet.

what have you made lately?
Probably most believe a "soul" is required to receive inspiration.
> In my feeling truly innovative opportunities are still rather easy to find.

Such as? Can you name a few?
Absolutely. I made my choice, and it was startups > athletics.
There are a lot of justified, boring reasons to not do something. I despise Facebook, but I'm also not going to waste my time trying to convince my cohorts to use a self-hosted federated alternative. You have to be blindly foolish to even hold out the slightest hope that these people will use an alternative, and I say that as a Mastodon user/apologist.
I would say there are both intellectual and felt needs. Apologetics is kind of its own genre of rhetoric and doesn’t satisfy everyone. It can be better to offer to research an objection together, rather than try to win it (more fun, too.)

Religious debates in a friendly setting can also lead to personal sharing that opens someone to emotional or spiritual experiences.

Minimizing intellectual concerns by overriding with an emotional experience does not “work”, not long-term and certainly not over generations.

But there are also people who have few or no intellectual concerns! Caveats all the way down.
In both my trips to Japan (one recent, one 20yrs ago), I never noticed this, and I think I drink a lot of water in general, and especially as a tourist because I'm doing much more walking.
In what way was Musk not doing a roman salute or just throwing his heart out to the masses?
Doesn't the section where the author goes through the LLM completely fabricating or confounding different parts of scripture give you pause about the truthfulness of the responses?
The problem for restaurant-employed delivery staff is nearly the same as the customer-employed delivery staff mentioned above. The driver sits around in the restaurant parking lot twiddling his thumbs and then 10 lunch orders come in over the course of an hour, most of which while the driver’s out delivering the first order. The last order ends up taking 2 hours to get to the customer who is not at all pleased with cold, soggy food long after the lunch break ended.

The food delivery app business works like the insurance business: the aggregate drivers form a risk pool [1] to protect restaurants from the variability of demand. This allows a single restaurant to be able to accept 10 food delivery orders in a matter of minutes just as easily as they would for orders coming in from the tables in their dining room. The app would dispatch up to 10 drivers to handle those orders and even automatically batch them according to proximity of destination.

Of course the app can also handle multiple restaurants in a similar area in the same way so that drivers can be dispatched most efficiently to handle all the demand for an entire city. The more drivers, restaurants, and customers centralize on a single delivery app, the more efficient the system can be (assuming the app developers know how to optimize the transshipment problem [2]).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_pool

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transshipment_problem
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