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AI question: Are reasoning language models like DeepSeek R1 and OpenAI o3 inherently inefficient due to their tendency to engage in extensive internal dialogue before providing an (often short) answer? Do the computational resources required to support such reasoning capabilities outweigh any potential benefits they may offer?
I don't know the details of DeepSeek and OpenAI o3, but I know that even older models have to run the entire model for each word they produce. That seems pretty inefficient. And also, I think I heard that LLMs are now taking a nontrivial proportion of the world's energy (and hence carbon footprint)--as much as some small countries. Add to that that their apparent benefits are dubious--they take human jobs, they're prone to inaccuracies that sound believable, or making programs with subtle bugs, etc. And now we can't tell what's actually human-produced vs what's AI-produced, like for example news articles...and some students' essays are being incorrectly flagged as probable AI, which threatens their entire education. And so on.
I'm kind of proud, but I also kind of feel like a loser. I won't get my life on track--I feel like I can't--but I do have a sophisticated intellect, I'm a good philosopher, and I've managed to avoid the common pitfall of scientism, physicalism, radical skepticism/denialism, etc. And I know spiritual truth when I see it, which makes me more aware (at least as far as theory goes) than the vast majority of people. Oh, and I'm also proud of my scribbles3 program, https://github.com/inhahe/scribbles3 , and the algorithms I've come up with...I figured out the popular efficient algorithm for converting one numeric base to another on my own (and my program converts the decimal part of the number, too, and detects repeating decimals), I figured out the most efficient way of finding all the prime numbers within a range (besides the sieve method), I figured out a memory allocation algorithm, with no prior knowledge of how memory allocation works, that I later discovered somebody else had also discovered and that was then implemented in the Linux kernel. And there's one other algorithm named after somebody that I independently discovered, but I can't remember what it was atm.
I'd take the groceries. I don't buy lotto already, because it's a waste of money, so why should I give up $50 of something useful for lotto? You might say it's different because it's free anyway, but it's functionally the same as spending on lotto; for example, who's to say it wouldn't be $50 of my own money I'm spending on lotto, while the man's gift just allows me to spend $50 more of my money on something else, given that all money is interchangeable?
Lotto preys on people's hopes for salvation through a large fortune. It's exploitative. And statistically, the more you spend on lotto, the more money you lose.
The US stock market registered a noticeable decline in tech stocks just because a chinese AI company announced their newest generative model was cheaper to operate. Are investors dumb? I maintain my opinion that tech companies are overvalued but that decline felt pretty exaggerated.
I answered this in response to Sean's answer, but apparently nobody read it, so I'll answer it here: @ColorStorm
inhahe · 1d
i imagine there's somewhat of a recursive, self-fueling feature to it. like, it may seem dumb for the price to go down so much just because of that, but investors foresee that that the other investors will foresee that the other investors will foresee, etc. that they'll all be dumb and the price will go down, so they end up being right, and therefore smart.
There are some things you can get in trouble for telling a psychiatrist/psychologist/therapist in the US, don't know about in the UK. For example, if you're planning on killing someone, they're obligated to tell the police. And I think if you say you want to commit suicide you can end up forcibly hospitalized.
which website are you going to once retro shuts down?
maybe https://ask.absturztau.be/ , it seems to be the only retrospring clone, and i don't like the others like curiouscat, similarworlds, etc.
When I sift through social media with questions the two most given answers are. IDK and IDC. Conclusion: people are careless and dumb. Hence there is the sort of society we got. Am I right?
Q: What's the difference between ignorance and apathy?
A: I don't know and I don't care.
Idk, to me, stupidity and evil are the two biggest causes of problems and suffering in society, but dumbness/stupidity is actually relative. To a hamster, humans are super smart. To someone of above-average intelligence like you and me, most humans are dumb. And, of course, probably most humans of average intelligence think most other humans are dumber than them...
As for carelessness, people don't seem particularly careless to me, by and large, but I suppose more carefulness wouldn't hurt in a lot of cases. But if you consider disregard for others to be carelessness, then yeah, carelessness is a big problem.
I wear wind pants (i.e., windbreaker pants) because they're more convenient, I don't have to worry about getting the exact right size, when my size tends to fluctuate. A long time ago I used to wear exclusively green jeans, but I switched to Dickie's when I got a job at the post office, and then I guess I switched to wind pants after that. I also have a couple that are like wind pants but thicker--I'm wearing one right now. I also have a pair of white "beach pants." I prefer colorful wind pants, like with patterns or at least all blue/green/blue-green, and I have a few, but most of them are black because black is the easiest to find.
I don't know enough about the name to have any opinion. AFAIK, they named it after some famous astronomer. Why are they disputing it? Was there a more famous astronomer they should have named it after? That would be a bad reason. Or did James Webb do something that was un-woke and get canceled? As for the telescope, it's cool. Just progress as usual - the new Hubble. I remember there was a setback, a defect in the main mirror when it came out, but they fixed it, or at least partially fixed it. The mirror was warped, and they installed a smaller mirror that it reflects off of that was warped in just the right way to counter the warpedness of the main mirror. But I don't hold that against them...it's almost expected for something to go wrong. Pulling off a project like the James Webb telescope is a miracle of human engineering.
I don't know what Bermuda shorts are, but people should be allowed to wear whatever they want. Sure, we may prefer seeing professionals in professional attire, but to enforce any kind of dress code in any context is needlessly authoritarian. (Well, except for in entertainment where costumes are a part of the production.)
People shouldn't even have to wear clothes in public if they don't want to. The fact that we forcibly imprison people for exposing their natural body parts is a sad testament to how sexually hung up society is.
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