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If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cutā€™nā€™paste it into its own post ā€” thereā€™s no quota for posting and the bar really isnā€™t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many ā€œesotericā€ right wing freaks, but thereā€™s no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iā€™m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged ā€œculture criticsā€ who write about everything but understand nothing. Iā€™m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyā€™re inescapable at this point, yet I donā€™t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnā€™t be surgeons because they didnā€™t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canā€™t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

Last weekā€™s thread

(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this)

  • hrrrngh@awful.systems
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    3 months ago

    This quote flashbanged me a little

    When you describe your symptoms to a doctor, and that doctor needs to form a diagnosis on what disease or ailment that is, thatā€™s a next word prediction task. When choosing appropriate treatment options for said ailment, thatā€™s also a next word prediction task.

    From this thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/1fkn0aw/chatgpt_is_still_very_far_away_from_making_a/lnx8k9l/

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      3 months ago

      Instead of improving LLMs, they are working backwards to prove that all other things are actually word prediction tasks. It is so annoying and also quite dumb. No chemisty isnā€™t like coding/legos. The law isnā€™t invalid because it doesnā€™t have gold fringes and you use magical words.

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      3 months ago

      None of these fucking goblins have learned that analogies arenā€™t equivalences!!! They break down!!! Auuuuuuugggggaaaaaaarghhhh!!!

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      3 months ago

      The problem is that there could be any number of possible next words, and the available results suggest that the appropriate context isnā€™t covered in the statistical relationships between prior words for anything but the most trivial of tasks i.e. automating the writing and parsing of emails that nobody ever wanted to read in the first place.

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      3 months ago

      This is just standard promptfondler false equivalence: ā€œwhen people (including me) speak, they just select the next most likely token, just like an LLMā€