CoT is both correlated and causal of the model's real computations, it's just imperfect. If you manually add "Let's wrap it up" in the CoT during generation, most LLMs will actually wrap it up (this is a commonly used trick in local LLM circles to get long-winded LLMs to stop reasoning). This wouldn't work if CoT text didn't affect the actual internal model logic.
> Most importantly my entire family uses it. You know how difficult it was to get them to use a password manager consistently. [...] I asked my parents whether they knew of linux or dhh and they do not. Most people dont. They will ask: why move if its working and no issue with the software itself. [...] Say I find a new one, am I suppose to research what their corporate policy is and who they support. Sorry, I have a life to live.
It's just such an uphill battle to get anyone you care about to use a password manager, getting them to switch it out unless it stops working would probably be ever harder.
> Bernie Sanders: Open borders? No, that's a Koch brothers proposal.
> Ezra Klein: Really?
> Bernie Sanders:Of course. That's a right wing proposal which says essentially there is no United States.
> Ezra Klein: But it would make ...
> Bernie Sanders: Excuse me ...
> Ezra Klein: It would make a lot of global poor richer, wouldn't it?
> Bernie Sanders: It would make everybody in America poorer, you're doing away with the concept of a nation state and I don't think there's any country in the world which believes in that. If you believe in a nation state or in a country called the United States or UK or Denmark or any other country, you have an obligation in my view to do everything we can to help poor people. What right wing people in this country would love is an open border policy. Bring in all kinds of people, work for 2 or $3 an hour, that would be great for them. I don't believe in that.
> This feels a lot more like computing in the 90s after taking an odd 25 year detour of an obsession with the tools themselves instead of what the tools can actually do.
This sounds more like the opposite of what you're saying. Music is one of my main hobbies too but I enjoy using a DAW to ... play and write music. Writing out specs for a new custom DAW seems closer to writing code in an IDE than playing music.
wow thanks for all the feedback - this was very helpful and I hope I'll be able to apply many of this advice in my next iteration of my backup storage set-up.
Surely part of the problem is that intelligence seems to be implicitly conditioned on embodiment, to the point that "covering only cognitive tasks" seems inherently ill-defined or arbitrary. Everything we do is a cognitive task. At some point, the criticism will be "sure, it can solve research-grade math problems, but it can't fold my laundry".
Even our large language models have an implicit embodiment in the domain of text (and more recently, multimodal inputs). That seems sufficient for certain things, and insufficient for others. I suspect that AGI that does everything a human can do eventually turns out to be fairly analogous to humans in terms of sensory input and domain output, even if the scale is radically different (e.g. thousands of robots uploading (touch, sight, audio, smell, etc.) sensory data to a single model, and each being actuated individually).
The big open question is whether a set of 5 (permutation fair) 30-sided dice exists.
I’ve been working on that on and off since 2012. I picked it up again about a month ago and have made dramatic speed improvements to my search, but exhausting the whole space I’m searching will still take my computer an estimated 70 years.
> The real issue is the existing system needs to change entirely to facilitate, I know this, Good developers know this
1. I’ll often include boilerplate in a prompt to tell it to make the broader fix. [1]
2. However, a top HN AGENTS.md post 11 days ago included the standard guidance “As much as possible try to minimize the number of changed lines when implementing a feature.” I.e. some devs want LLMs to avoid broader changes and so some of that likely makes it into the training, even if others like us want the opposite.
[1] As far as whether my boilerplate is effective, I don’t know.
"Being a person in all of its aspects" isn't the same as "generally intelligent". The latter is at best subset of the former, and it's also easy to imagine a system that is more generally intelligent than humans, without being a person. See also discussions of the personhood of various animals who are less intelligent than average humans.
He's not "voicing being impacted by immigrants", he's advocated for removing anyone who isn't white from the UK.
That is called ethnic cleansing, and yeah, comparisons to Hitler's "policies", especially during the early stages of his rise to power, are quite fair.
> It’d be so great if CEOs would keep their views to themselves.
Would it, really? I personally appreciate it when they're so open, it gives me absolute certainty about two things:
1. Whether I want to work for their company
2. Whether I want to buy what they're selling
This is extremely valuable information. If they were keeping that information hidden, it would be far more difficult to obtain answers to these questions. This way I don't even have to do any real work (job application, accepting an offer, moving, etc) to find out.
Sadly only the odious behaviors convey such certainty, the sneaky nice ones are who you have to watch out for.
Yes, everyone on the devices received false alarms. It's why there was a call center that managed the false alarm flows. I highly suggest you read the articles I've shared.
I fought tooth and nail to get access to the data showing how often devices reported "invalid" status (where the device's specs said it was something like, within 150 feet of inaccuracy it reported "invalid"). They initially told me they couldn't get me that data because it'd crash their database running that query. Basically threatened to sue them and over the next 6mo or so I got two 100GB MSSQL dumps. Hundreds of millions of rows of devices reporting back that their GPS signal was invalid. It would take a lot of time to make it sharable because they included the actual GPS location infos.
For the curious. This is the thing everyone is mad about. [0]
I'll leave it you to decide if advocating that your country deport the homeless people who are publicly defecating in the bushes makes you into actual Hitler (as he's been compared to even in this post).
> What if it can be Einstein, but can’t draw a Pelican, write a solid college-level essay, or fold clothes?
Then it’s an expert system.
Stephen Hawking wasn’t very good at folding clothes.
The ‘General’ part of the term ‘AGI’ seems like a trap to me, because there will always be new workflows to master. Can Astra one-shot level completion on some yet-to-be-released video game? If no, does that mean it’s not yet ‘Generally’ intelligent?
You won’t get pure ‘general’ intelligence until you find Einstein’s hidden variables and load the state of the entire universe into context.
Meanwhile, building a series of expert systems targeting specific valuable workflows is useful today and seems like it’ll continue to scale to cover huge swathes of economically valuable workflows.
I think that’s the more interesting thing to be measuring. The surface area of useful economic workflows that can be addressed with expert systems built with today’s tech.
Hitting some ‘Artificial Expert Intelligence’ coverage threshold on economically valuable workflows is what will matter for humans well before pure ‘general’ intelligence.
I care far far far more about technical excellence and capability when it comes to security critical pieces of software like 1Password and as long as they demonstrate they are capable then I could care less if the founder voted Rasputin and worships Morgoth.
I don't care if the guy who made my hammer is a Pastifarian I care how well the hammer hammers, I don't care if my accountant likes to dress up as a skunk and go to conventions demanding people address him by Sir Reginald Stinkington as long as he does a good job at my taxes.
In this case it seems the concern is that the company donated to an OS project that is headed by a guy whom you don't like....
That just seems like there are plenty of other problems to address in the world.
