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grob

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Recovering developer.
Itinerant.
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Also on Bluesky @deciduous.bsky.social

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grob, to random
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I’m not sure which is more annoying, Google’s offer to summarize web pages, or trying to read those ad-choked pages directly

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I'm on Bluesky as well as @deciduous.bsky.social

rodhilton, (edited ) to random
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I want to expand more on the comedy of errors that led to the eviction of from their Boulder, Colorado office.

The story that leads up to this building even existing is bizarre and hilarious, so here goes...

A thread 🧵

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/06/judge-ruled-twitter-must-be-evicted-from-colorado-office-over-unpaid-rent/

grob,
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@rodhilton Here’s the inverse story: REI built a beautiful, brand new headquarters in Bellevue, Washington.

The pandemic hit as construction was finishing, just before the building was to be occupied. But REI had already sold its old headquarters in nearby Kent, Washington.

Concerned more with cash than with sunk costs, REI sold the new headquarters building to Facebook. REI continues to have its headquarters employees work remotely.

grob, to random
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Earnest statements that LLM chatbots are just bullshitters and mindless autocomplete are similar to the centuries of assertions that human intelligence must differ from and exceed that of animals.

Pick any criteria at which humans supposedly are fundamentally different or better than animals, and it is easy to find counterexamples.

Similarly, mindless and unreliable autocomplete may also be the majority of human intelligence.

Human exceptionalism rarely survives scientific scrutiny.

grob,
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@gray17 Sure, LLMs are brute-force and inefficient, and insufficient for many kinds of reasoning. And the number of potentially useful architectures is vast, though few researchers explore those.

But the surprising emergent properties already point out that general human thought and behavior is more automatic response than reasoning. Arguing for human intelligence being better and different than machine evokes a magical wishfulness similar to denying that humans evolved from other species.

grob,
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@gray17 No argument from me on the future direction of AI; these are early days.

My thoughts here are about seeing assertions of human exceptionalism (or even just of unfathomable human complexity) made in a manner that increasingly seem sad and desperate.

We don't want to accept that much of our existence may be accomplished with bad autocomplete but, as with evolution, that reality is staring us in the face.

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