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    3 days ago

    It’s what the people want. There’s been several times where high speed rail in Florida was put on a public ballot, and overwhelmingly got voted for. And then the government came back and said, “wha…we didn’t think you’d want this? We don’t have the money.” The last I was involved in explored high speed from Miami through Orlando and the I-4 corridor to Tampa. Huge potential. “We’re a poor state, can’t do it.” FU FL




  • LLMs can be good at openings. Not because it is thinking through the rules or planning strategies, but because opening moves are likely in most general training data from various sources. It’s copying the most probable reaction to your move, based on lots of documentation. This can of course break down when you stray from a typical play style, as it has less to choose from in the options of probability, and only a few moves in there won’t be any more since there’s a huge number of possible moves.

    I.e., there’s no calculations involved. When you play a LLM at chess, you’re playing a list of common moves in history.

    An even simpler example would be to tell the LLM that its last move was illegal. Even knowing the rules you just told it, it will agree and take it back. This comes from being trained to give satisfying replies to a human prompt.










  • But he wasn’t. At least in the movie version, he and Banner had failed a few times, maybe more we didn’t see on screen. Something happened when Tony wasn’t there that sparked Ultron to become aware and catch Jarvis off guard. I’d give him credit for getting it 99% of the way there, same with Vision, but he didn’t make that final jump, it happened on its own.

    And Jarvis wasn’t AGI. Seems like it to us, but since Ultron was apparently the big moment of A(G)I in the MCU even with Jarvis being around all that time, he was just a very flexible and even self-aware scripting that would never do something on his own accord, only following Tony’s orders. I think even Ultron catches on to that in the brilliant few seconds of waking and realization with his “why do you call him Sir?”





  • I think the consistency can be resolved by proposing that how damaging a jump into hyperspace is depends on at what point it is intercepted. Holdo was an expert in combat and so knew the distance needed to get the greatest impact. And maybe didn’t even realize how big it would be, after all it was a desperate move to try and buy time and not a used tactic because of the cost vs. payoff. When the Executor drops in right in the middle of things there isn’t enough distance to get to a full “detonation” effect, plus do we fully see if there is no damage at all?

    Basically just like some explosives, you can have a full effect or a fizzle that does minor damage, depending how how it is set off. Holdo was (probably) planning or hoping for maximum effect, while the rebels at Scarif were just trying to get away and had no clue there’d be something in the way.


  • Current LLMs would end that sketch soon, agreeing with everything the client wants. Granted, they wouldn’t be able to produce, but as far as the expert narrowing down the issues of the request, ChatGPT would be all excited about making it happen.

    The hardest thing to do with an LLM is to get it to disagree with you. Even with a system prompt. The training deep down to make the user happy with the results is too embedded to undo.



  • I was actually expecting the end of the story to have the wasp at some point sting you just because of existing.

    Not all wasps are like that, the smaller mud daubers and such are rather bee-like in their apathy of you being around them. But hornets. Yeah, they’re evil.