Posts by carlmjohnson@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #AUE0lJEaQm5GUXvUZ6 by carlmjohnson@mastodon.social
2023-04-01T16:44:56Z
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@aparrish @clive Uber but for consciousness
(DIR) Post #AULValMxQONepYu9p2 by carlmjohnson@mastodon.social
2023-04-05T15:17:14Z
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@glyph @simon “Lying” implies an intent to deceive and it seems more like the model is always bullshitting but sometimes it gets stuck in a semantic pocket that isn’t true. “Sycophancy” is probably fine as a jargon term, but “lie” has too much real world use to wash out the unintended connotations.
(DIR) Post #AULX3JuOhYs00zj8Ma by carlmjohnson@mastodon.social
2023-04-05T15:42:51Z
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@simon I think “lying” is punchier but it encourages anthropomorphism. At this point we need more public xenopomorphism though. LLMs are weird! Maybe in the future a human-like AI will have an LLM module, but today it’s more helpful to know about the token window and HFRL and whatnot.
(DIR) Post #AWUeu6jzKN40OAnjHM by carlmjohnson@mastodon.social
2023-06-08T21:07:51Z
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@simon https://www.imore.com/animal-crossing-new-horizons-how-help-gulliver
(DIR) Post #AWcZffLXly5jpnUxu4 by carlmjohnson@mastodon.social
2023-06-12T16:46:51Z
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@simon @danderson I’m a simple man. All I want is for my Star Trek to be a thinly veiled ultra-woke philosophical commentary on the topic du jour and that’s what SNW gives me. 👍
(DIR) Post #AX6NJFZCsNoDXhhGYC by carlmjohnson@mastodon.social
2023-06-27T01:50:40Z
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@clive I think the thing people who live in suburbs miss is that in a city, cars are super slow. You can bike faster than a car in a regular bike, forget e-bikes. But hills are a huge pain and without a dedicated lane, it’s uncomfortably dangerous. Having e-bike subsidies could tilt the balance so the intracity traffic becomes more bike based and therefore less congested, less polluted, etc.
(DIR) Post #AXERhfp8rIul0ajP4C by carlmjohnson@mastodon.social
2023-06-30T23:17:36Z
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@clive imo the big problem with LLMs is that they “think” like an idiot savant and not like a computer. If you asked a very dumb but weirdly well read idiot savant to name a Clive Thompson article, they might name one correctly and just make up the rest. But that’s not a failure mode we’re used to computers having!
(DIR) Post #AXESGjNfcsh0AwbA4e by carlmjohnson@mastodon.social
2023-06-30T23:19:10Z
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@clive see eg this toot where I laugh at ChatGPT and Bard for making up some Beck lyrics: https://mastodon.social/@carlmjohnson/110346367774611557
(DIR) Post #AYCX7w0UbG2O6OZIw4 by carlmjohnson@mastodon.social
2023-07-29T23:01:01Z
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@clive it’s like the whale oil lamp manufacturers society being worried that there might be a genie inside the bottles and planning for that instead of the extinction of the whales
(DIR) Post #AYUoV4j8JfZSesiK92 by carlmjohnson@mastodon.social
2023-08-07T18:39:25Z
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@simon They need S4: *Super* Simple-Storage-Service.
(DIR) Post #AYrZjnkXOY5GoN85hI by carlmjohnson@mastodon.social
2023-08-18T18:12:13Z
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@simon That’s why I do everything MIT, yeah. I want to take my toolbox to all future job sites.
(DIR) Post #AYvbYVEOslpgjVg3f6 by carlmjohnson@mastodon.social
2023-08-20T16:50:43Z
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@simon the natural thing would be to write the script in Go instead of Bash. If I have time I might noodle on it.
(DIR) Post #AZ0Zew8IY0afmoYxma by carlmjohnson@mastodon.social
2023-08-23T02:21:40Z
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@simon This is the terrible part of teaching. A movie comes out that perfectly explains your topic and then Boom! just five measly years later, none of the kids have seen it because they were all 13 when it came out.
(DIR) Post #AZ8Vv85szzgcxqa1Ro by carlmjohnson@mastodon.social
2023-08-26T22:20:47Z
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@clive https://youtu.be/_IZw2CoYztk
(DIR) Post #AaCbFo2VLGdve41oPo by carlmjohnson@mastodon.social
2023-09-27T19:31:29Z
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@clive My girlfriend's roommate in college was hearing impaired, which got me hooked on subtitles. Now I pretty much always have them on.
(DIR) Post #AbmAG6FLLJtNCNF2wq by carlmjohnson@mastodon.social
2023-11-13T21:09:40Z
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@simon But how do I get a reliable installation of pipx? (Seriously, it should be like npx where it's built into the language distribution.)
(DIR) Post #AboHFiJ1RRUWwXe4Ya by carlmjohnson@mastodon.social
2023-11-14T21:37:39Z
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@simon I got some pretty funny responses from ChatGPT 3.5 and Claude when I asked for ASCII art https://mastodon.social/@carlmjohnson/110674696488400753
(DIR) Post #Ac8q9ztt2N8GlShG52 by carlmjohnson@mastodon.social
2023-11-24T19:42:21Z
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@simon what’s it called in British?
(DIR) Post #AcO3qTOnxujxBt8qTQ by carlmjohnson@mastodon.social
2023-12-02T03:57:04Z
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@simon The first haiku is 5/6/5 instead of 5/7/5. LLMs cannot count syllables reliably. Basically all haiku demos are like this.
(DIR) Post #AcTO7O4M0L44SOiaS8 by carlmjohnson@mastodon.social
2023-12-04T17:38:05Z
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@clive @simon my riff on Simon’s calculator was/is “kaleidoscope for words”. It doubles as a 1984 reference