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lannisterstark··on Aphantasia: I can not picture things in my mind
>Why would I remember that?

Why wouldn't you lol

lannisterstark··on Aphantasia: I can not picture things in my mind
>And I don’t know what I had for breakfast today ಠ_ಠ

what the fuck

lannisterstark··on ChatGPT is biased against resumes with credentials that imply a disability
>There is a slight difference between glasses and hiring someone actually disabled - blind, deaf, can't do physical labor, autistic, etc.

Except you can be legally blind, have glasses, and still have nearly perfect vision. You can be legally deaf, but listen fairly well with correctives etc. all of these are reasonable accommodations too.

>what happens with an Amazon worker who can't stand up for longer periods of time?

There's 0(generally -in most cases) justification for workers not being able to sit on their stations in amazon warehouses except for "we don't want you to," so nothing happens.

>a blind person applying to be a QA?

Believe it or not, blind QA people who work in accessibility exist.

lannisterstark··on ChatGPT is biased against resumes with credentials that imply a disability
This is a really odd take and I am confused by the points you are trying to make.

>Of course, this sucks for the disabled

You question the obvious benefits -- the fact that business can't just fire/not hire you for say, a work related injury, or getting injured elsewhere, or being disabled in general, and then you provide absolutely 0 recourse except "Sucks for you bro."

>a disability will impact your ability perform general tasks (and require additional accommodation).

The entire point is _REASONABLE_ accommodation. With reasonable accommodation, most people who suffer from disabilities can do their jobs just fine. Your glasses are _reasonable accommodation_ against you not having 20/20 vision, so is a hearing aid.

Does me having a ?/10 vision corrected to 20/20 (just an example) with glasses affect my performance as far as me being a (software engineer, accountant, construction worker, truck driver, scientist, biologist, doctor, pharmacist, teacher etc.) goes? What about an accountant who uses hearing aid to listen? What about a wheelchair bound software engineer who doesn't really have to move to do their job?

Unless your alternative is just that disabled people should be out on the street starving, worker protections in general are a good thing.

lannisterstark··on Generating audio for video
Yep - I use LibreChat (and other services) via OpenAI API, and I save an incredible amount of time having it write boilerplate code, verify stuff in code, double check it after I've already reviewed something to see if I missed x or y, ask questions based on it which I can't figure out to get ideas etc etc.

It's also exceptional at making IEPs/Learning Plans for certain things I'd like to learn for the week etc which I am already somewhat familiar with. I use it as a rough guide and it has worked well so far.

lannisterstark··on Claude 3.5 Sonnet
I use LibreChat for this as self hosted UI. Works awesome.
lannisterstark··on Safe Superintelligence Inc.
>Short of solving this issue

Solving human nature is indeed, hard.

lannisterstark··on EU Council to Vote on Chat Scanning Proposal on Thursday
Oh I'm sorry, how dare I inconvenience a public servant.
lannisterstark··on How Meta trains large language models at scale
>Why not just display the alerts for your area?

Because "Flood warning on roads" is very different than "hey there is a possible tornado/aftershocks/*" and I'd like the 2nd one to take up the entire home-assistant dashboard.

I can either code it myself, or let the model figure it out after passing it the YAML file for the dashboard.

>Why is a complex system of smaller models reporting up to a slightly larger model necessary?

because as the other poster said, cost and speed. thousands of queries every day (potentially) at 30 cents per million tokens is very different than 15 dollars per million tokens.

lannisterstark··on How Meta trains large language models at scale
Well, yes, but Not all models need to be "super large." Smaller models, specialized in specific tasks, working together - and then reporting to a slightly larger model is the way to go.

Think of everything being connected to a "Home Computer" in those "Future House of 2020" videos that were out there in 70s or what not.

Another example (very rough) would be something like "Weather data gets to a small model via an API, model looks at it, updates the home dashboard, also sees if there's any alerts, if so, adds x or y to home dashboard appropriately as to what it thinks best."

We can probably achieve the latter example today. (without any significant 'coding' on anyone's part except the API owner)

lannisterstark··on Claude's Character
Just examples. Feel free to replace them with anything. You people are too pedantic.
lannisterstark··on Claude's Character
Great, then you should then be able to freely hand your financial and banking, health data to a person next to you on a subway, right?

or maybe, context is important and you should read that comment in the context I was speaking in :)

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Speaking of, you also trust random machines daily. So that point is really silly.

lannisterstark··on Apple Intelligence for iPhone, iPad, and Mac
As opposed to what: If you hired an actual human assistant, it wouldn't be?
lannisterstark··on Claude's Character
> But you can never trust it as you would trust a human.

Why would I trust a random human? If anything, I can be certain that a well trained machine will not call me slurs for being brown, or x sexual orientation, or break into my house.

lannisterstark··on I'm forking Ladybird and stepping down as SerenityOS BDFL
No, it wasn't about the pedantry, it was about the fact that they don't really sharpen anything. Honing rods are just used to keep the edge, generally. They won't sharpen a dull knife.
lannisterstark··on Gene therapy restores hearing to children with inherited deafness
>not unlike queer people and the attempts to “fix” them.

To be fair, LGBTQ community isn't 'broken.' Some people are inherently gay, lesbian, etc.

Deafness _is_ an actual defect. The weird thing that we should not strive to fix human defects when they are truly defects is astounding.

lannisterstark··on Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders ID'd in WA plane crash
He was 90. You're reading too much into it. It's like when people get angry about a "Bless you."
lannisterstark··on I'm forking Ladybird and stepping down as SerenityOS BDFL
>sharpening steels

Are you talking about honing rods? Because they 'sharpen' nothing.

lannisterstark··on Linux May Be the Best Way to Avoid the AI Nightmare
As I said in another comment in this thread:

There have been countless times where I was like "Oh I remember there was a book I was searching but not what the name is."

and I didn't know what the name was, when I was looking for it, or the terms that I used for it. THIS is when I expect it to be useful.

I'm fine with taking snapshots of my whole PC activity, as long as data is stored locally. I take plenty of screenshots myself. People act like they have never used a computer for productivity.

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Again, if someone has physical access to my PC, I have better things to worry about.

lannisterstark··on Linux May Be the Best Way to Avoid the AI Nightmare
>I don't expect anything like Recall to make me more effective.

I expect stuff like Recall to help me y'know...Recall.

There have been countless times where I was like "Oh I remember there was a book I was searching but not what the name is."

and I didn't know what the name was, when I was looking for it, or the terms that I used for it. THIS is when I expect it to be useful.

lannisterstark··on Linux May Be the Best Way to Avoid the AI Nightmare
Maybe. I use my computers and software as tools that make me/my task better.
lannisterstark··on Linux May Be the Best Way to Avoid the AI Nightmare
I'm not sure it is. I'm looking forward to several of those features (including recall) because they will undoubtedly improve over time, for all their flaws.

LLMs and "AI" features have made my life significantly easier over the last two years.

lannisterstark··on Sal Khan is pioneering innovation in education again
Not everything needs to be analyzed ad-nauseum. Sometimes I just want an answer so I can move on and use that for something productive in my life.
lannisterstark··on Sam Altman is showing us who he really is
>there's nothing you can do to take it back

Given the fact that many, many people make their software MIT licensed (or rather, do whatever, I don't care license), I think most of us will be ok with that :)

lannisterstark··on Introducing Copilot+ PCs
I can almost guarantee you that this was a sales exec decision rather than an engineering decision.
lannisterstark··on Reflections on our Responsible Scaling Policy
>. The idea of an LLM (with capabilities of e.g. <1 yr away) being given access to a VM and spinning up others without oversight, IMHO, is real enough.

Is that really a danger? I can shut off a machine or VMs.

lannisterstark··on Reflections on our Responsible Scaling Policy
the problem is that there's a very real danger in one thing, and on the other hand, the danger is "omg haven't you read this scifi novel or seen this movie?!?!"

Bullets kill people when fired by firearms. I fail to see how LLMs do.

lannisterstark··on Reflections on our Responsible Scaling Policy
If you're including actual announcement then why ignore this portion too?

> Due to our concerns about malicious applications of the technology, we are not releasing the trained model. As an experiment in responsible disclosure, we are instead releasing a much smaller model(opens in a new window) for researchers to experiment with, as well as a technical paper(opens in a new window).

If you note, that's pretty much verbatim to what I said. So no, people don't have defective memories, some people just selectively quote stuff :P

You should actually read the paper associated with it. It's largely a journey in "why would you think that" reading.

lannisterstark··on Reflections on our Responsible Scaling Policy
Remember when OAI said:

"Oh no we're not going to release GPT-2 because its so advanced that it's a threat to humankind" meanwhile it was dumb as rocks.

Scaremongering purely for the sake of it.

The only remotely possible "safety" part I would acknowledge is that it should be balanced against biases if used in systems like loans, grants, etc.

lannisterstark··on Reflections on our Responsible Scaling Policy
Oh no I had to press alt/Ctrl+L to reset my terminal not being able to display an escape character.
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