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by empiricus 540 days ago
What's with the beef? In the paper Terence describes how he currently uses some imperfect but useful tools, which will surely change in the future if better tools appear. It does not say "LLM will be smarter than a kid bwahaha world domination".
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rthanb 540 days ago
This paper just namedrops ChatGPT. Previously, we had this:

https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/113132502735585408

It may only take one or two further iterations of improved capability (and integration with other tools, such as computer algebra packages and proof assistants) until the level of "(static simulation of a) competent graduate student" is reached, at which point I could see this tool being of significant use in research level tasks.

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benreesman 540 days ago
The beef is that many of us have enough grime on our hands. Many of us at the absolute elite frontier of this technology find its application in both technical reality and fundraising fantasy to be beneath any possible ideal.

And there are a lot of us.

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benreesman 540 days ago
some of the most demonstrably evil people alive at scale are extravagant in their claims of precisely “blah blah world domination”.

I’m calling bullshit on AGI. I’m repudiating as offensive both the ill intentions and the technical failure of these people.

I’m proposing that all sincere hackers denounce OpenAI as a matter of principle.

Did I stutter?

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