Since I discovered and started reading Lesswrong a couple years ago, I keep seeing dismissive or sneering comments across the (technical) internet, usually with very little substance - like this one (what does it even mean? I find the article rather reasonable and on point). I know that yudkowski's more recent stance is controversial (I haven't started reading his work on how AGI will kill us all so I'm suspending judgement ), but is there a valid reason for the widespread smugness or is it just a bandwagon effect?
I would love this tbh, but it's just that context window issue for me right now. For my personal use, I have a MacBook Air M5 (maxed out), but I don't think I can run anything decent with large context window (for longer chat sessions) on it. I should also mention that I'm still learning about LLMs, so if I've missed something please do let me know. Running local LLMs is something I'm very interested in.
> Logseq is cool, but the desktop client is slow and keyboard usability is low.
this was my issue as well: both the desktop app and the ios app feel slow and clunky, and i don't think they have gotten any meaningful updates in a very long time... i do love logseq, but i have since built that workflow into obsidian through a bunch of templates and plugins.
The project is still alive but they've bifurcated into a v2 that uses a SQLite-based database backend instead of plain files (this was announced a couple of weeks ago). The new version has a number of QoL improvements and seems faster, but I haven't tested it with a large graph.
When I read the title of the article in my RSS feed my first instinct was to go straight to here with a snarky “How was it not actually AI that did this?” in my head…
I would love to be proven wrong, but if you ignore all the hype pieces and (from what I can tell) a TON of pseudo-scientific shit floating around, while it's possible to make these systems as accurate as possible, they would still be fundamentally unreliable since the systems aren't deterministic. Try asking the usual "is 9.11 greater than 9.9" question, on my last test with 3.7 Sonnet it first said "yes" and then eventually converged to "no". Quite hilarious at times.
Point being, LLMs don't really understand what they're saying; they're just predicting the next word. I'm not trying to downplay that, by the way - it's all very impressive. But it's not intelligent intelligent, and I think we should all be wary of comments like "oh we should just keep throwing more compute and data at it and consciousness/self awareness would eventually emerge". I think that's just fodder to raise/burn VC money (and the planet).
Conciousness/self awareness can emerge if they put more effort into accuracy and reasoning, ie the human touch. I agree with you on most companies thinking that AI can arrive to its own reasoning/conciousness. The hype is getting to their brains, lol.
I fucking hate LinkedIn so much it's unreal. When it comes to that platform, I lose all rationality altogether. Perhaps I need to go to therapy, but not before LinkedIn influencers are all assembled in the town square and publicly executed for their crimes upon humanity.
Over the years, I’ve applied to over a thousand jobs through LinkedIn, ‘earned’ dozens of skill badges; but all I’ve had to show for it was a compromised social security number. LinkedIn has proliferated the scammer.
Meanwhile, Indeed has connected me with real employers who’ve actually interviewed me. Most who started interviewing me had conducted multiple rounds, enough to get to the mature conclusion that it’s not a good fit. I’ve interviewed my way into two great fitting roles over the years via that platform.
> Firstly I would not go back to London unless I had the protection level of a government Minister. My life is not worth any amount of money and violence is out of control.
I feel like there's heavy observation bias here. Maybe you had a bad experience or two, but I've been living in London for the past 4 years and haven't had any such encounter(s) so far. You make it sound like London's some third world warzone; I personally felt that New York, SF, and LA were far more unsafe when I was living there with the amount of homeless people and fentanyl addicts walking around.
