niplav @niplav@schelling.pt

fiction story about a species where females disguise as males for procreation to steal metabolically difficult to produce eggs from other females

They're STILL releasing new versions of the AmigaOS‽

i heard that you can summon a particular LessWronger by saying “The Categories Were Made For Man, Not Man For The Categories” three times in front of a mirror

AI arms race is more akin to a winners curse than a prisoner's dilemma

Things I regret having spent as much time on:

• Reading classical philosophy (exceptions exist)
• Learning languages

Things I don't regret:

• Having learned coding
• Having done forecasting
• Reading STEM non-fiction

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Does OpenAI still publish interpretability research?

a tensor is just an element in the tensor product of vector spaces and their duals, what's the problem?

(Non-joke question) Is there a tensor product of tensor products

Strong kudos to Jaron Lanier for forseeing the current discourse on generative model. My respect has increased.

Calibration of the intellect, optimism of the will

Wait, do neural networks implement a sensible prior?

(like the speed or simplicity prior?)

If yes, which one?

Is there another AI paradigm that could result in AGI[1] other than neural networks[2]?

[1]: Please don't ask me to pin down that term.
[2]: Assuming the scaling hypothesis. "Neural network"="Stacked matrix multiplication with non-linearities thrown in".

Can DALL·E do Bongard problems?

Wikipedia article “List of Largest Snakes”:

»There are eleven living snakes«

Does regularization of RL policies act as an impact measure?

Which way modern man

Which way modern man

Man Google is just not very helpful anymore. I remember a story on LW about singularity in the 1980s from an EURISKO-like system, but Google just doesn't have a clue what I want to find