@cremieuxrecueil This happened to me at a subway before and it took me a few hours to realize it was because i was still wearing my hospital visitation tag from earlier in the day
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hunter
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@jimstewartson what a confident claim into something that im sure you have very limited understanding of
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I’m getting tired of “experts” like this misunderstanding what they’re looking at.
LLMs are giant databases of stuff HUMAN BEINGS have done.
They are the EXHAUST of humanity.
Prompts are database queries into EXISTING DATA.
It’s a fuzzy search engine, not intelligence.
Daniel Lemire@lemire
I am getting tired of reading 'experts' like LeCun repeatedly claiming that our AIs are nowhere near human-level intelligence. Let us look at the evidence. US universities rank students based on standardized tests like the SAT. Current AIs achieve near-perfect SAT scores. They also beat tests like the GRE. A few years ago, it was notable when early ChatGPT scored ~120 on an IQ test, a common measure of human intelligence. An IQ of 120 is well above average. Current AIs reportedly have IQ scores similar to those of leading scientists. It is not just in tests. I can ask an AI to produce a science paper that looks undistinguishable from what a PhD level student could do. I just have to give it the data. Better yet, from a prompt, agents can run the experiments and collect the data, and then write the papers. Those of us who try to get work done with AI know what is possible. You can't possibly just say 'this is nowhere near human-level intelligence'. In software, good AIs show a greater mastery of, say, C++, than your average software engineering professor. You could just build a formal test to prove it. The difficulty is that the professors would refuse to take your tests. At this point point, someone will object 'yeah, but your AI can't do this simple thing that we can all do'. Fine. These AIs do not have *human* intelligence. They are very much not human beings. They are something like alien intelligence. They can code straight in assembly language, but have trouble counting characters in words. But that's the result of trade-offs. A dog or a monkey can solve some problems faster than you can. But let us be fair. As a species, these AIs have definitively 'human-level intelligence'. You can't spend decades setting up cognitive tests for human beings, have these AIs beat us in these tests and then say 'well, that's not real intelligence'. Come on !
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@redtachyon he certainly doesn't come across as a brilliant hidden genius
should probably still be able to get a job though
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@bnjmn_marie can you remedy this at 5bit or 6bit on the 35b?
ive noticed this issue a couple of times at 4 bit
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4-bit Qwen3.6 models, even with some layers kept in 16-bit, are more prone to endless thinking loops.
FP8 behaves well.
The worst case is the NVFP4 version with quantized linear attention, although the behavior curve is interesting: when it does not loop, responses tend to be shorter.
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@HSVSphere amd open source drivers have been completely flawless for me on my 6800xt
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AMD and Nvidia drivers are both dogshit, but for different reasons. If you want this meme to be accurate, left should be Intel.
Was among the reasons why I considered getting an Arc. If they produce powerful enough GPUs, my next one will be an Arc.
sudox@kmcnam1
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@CFBChuckk he's a satisfying pickup if he isn't starting
if he's a starter than I'm definitely more mehhhh on him.
don't love his fit as a starting 4 or 5
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@huntrr @ElGranSenglar That's not true at all. Both in the case of the right to property and the right to freedom of expression, a court system is required to uphold those rights.
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@VOR467 @ElGranSenglar to the og pt.: courts and enf. aren't inconsistent with the view that rights shouldn't require the labor of others. under this framework, courts don't create rights or provide services. they enforce duties people already owe each other. 6/6
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@VOR467 @ElGranSenglar where reasonable minds should disagree is whether natural rights are the right framework to begin with. libertarians draw the line at enforcing pre-existing duties. others argue that if we've already consented to pool resources, the social contract doesn't have to stop there. 5/
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@ElGranSenglar reasonable people can disagree on what it means when the government uses tax-funded labor to defend your property from others. if enforcing a right requires collective resources, is it meaningfully different from providing a service?
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@ElGranSenglar property rights enforcement is a better counter but perhaps a bit misunderstood in my opinion.
the government recognizing your property requires no labor. they just don't take it.
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@NielsRogge "As it's an LLM, it is only good at stuff humans have already done"
very strong claim. this strikes me as generally true but not necessarily true. scaling can be surprising
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Don't let Anthropic fool you - it's literally just an LLM with scaled-up pre-training and post-training.
As it's an LLM, it is only good at stuff humans have already done; it cannot invent new things. Anthropic themselves consider the catastrophic risks low
Anthropic@AnthropicAI
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@RizomaSchool completely unrelated question:
are you pro or anti nuclear reactors?
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The pro data center people confuse me so much. What even motivates them? Cuck for some big corporation? The enshittification of everything digital?
robert@rfhirschfeld
The data center going into Joliet, IL is the size of Central Park and will pull more energy than half of what the entire city of Chicago uses. If that’s not enough physical interaction with a community, what numbers would qualify?
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