There are trillions of dollars riding on the fact that they in fact think, and a bunch of people here have their lottery tickets tied up in that, so good luck with that
Don’t worry, goalpost shifting will ensure that no matter how useful LLMs get, there will always be a large contingent of people who insist that anything non-human is not thinking, just sparkling cognition.
LLMs are not/will never be thinking though, no matter how good they get? You could potentially argue that there is some level of cognition during the training phases (as long as that isn't being outsourced to humans anyways), but generation of output is stachostic selection of most common (/highly ranked if tuned) following patterns? They cannot learn things outside of training, nor do they actually "know" things. To use the parrot example from above, a parrot doesnt "know" what the words its been taught to mimic are, nor does an LLM "know" what the concept of love is, its just be trained to regurgitate the words that are used by humans to describe such a thing. This isn't a criticism of LLMs, that's what they're supposed to do, but its certainly not cognition.
You’re assuming that thinking requires learning, which I don’t necessarily agree with. Humans can have brain damage which inhibits the formation of long term memories, but such people can still function in the world. Would you say the thing such a person’s brain is doing is something other than thinking?
At any rate, just because the architecture of current LLMs doesn’t support learning at inference time does not constitute a fundamental limit that can never be changed, just a local maximum that has worked well to productize the approach.
And I’m quite certain that once systems that include post-training learning exist people like you will find a way to distinguish that from human learning, moving the goalposts again. You’re not arguing in good faith, you have an essentially religious opinion and you will stick to it as long as you are able.
> but generation of output is stachostic selection of most common (/highly ranked if tuned) following patterns
This is not an accurate description of the transformer architecture. I’m not surprised that you are misinformed about this.
There is nothing wrong with that though. At some point, observation comes back. When practicing regularly, that happens more quickly.
I should pick up practice again. I feel very lucky having discovered Vipassana meditation when I was 19 and having had some great teachers throughout my twenties. It helped me accept parts of my youth that were not great or safe. In hindsight, going to a psychologist would have been a good addition, but that never occurred to early to mid 20s me, but in lieu of that Vipassa helped me a lot.
A hypothesis is an unverified tentative insight into something which could be true. Current research is correlating dementia with a wide variety of areas including even personality typologies which are nothing more than statistical clusters of observations.
What I did when I stated this is looked at a number of observations from current literature and asked a what-if question. People unwilling to ask these questions are blinding themselves to entire areas of possible explanations. My hope when posting this was that people might engage with the idea instead of calling it a guess. Retirement, isolation from pandemic lockdowns, isolation from solitary imprisonment, and isolation from death of a partner are all associated with cognitive decline.
There's enough correlation here that it would be worth researching. That's all I am saying, I am specifically not saying my claim is factual just that it is a possible explanation that if true would explain a lot.
I do think that there's some loss in translated manga, actually!
When the mangaka is creating the layout, they're conceptualizing the flow not only of the panels, but also of the text inside panels, to be RTL.
Translating the text into a LTR language without mirroring the image, makes it so that your eyes have to zig zag around a bit more, going RTL panel wise, but LTR text box wise.
Compared to the problems that mirroring the art brings, I still think that's best compromise of the options, but doesn't mean it's not an actual impact on the experience, even if a subtle one.
I have wondered before, though, about how had might it be to learn to read mirrored, RLT english. Might be a bit of a challenge at first, but would enable you to read translated manga RTL with no compromises (other than the inherent lossiness of language translation in general).
This is pretty misguided.A casual mistake like forgetting your cough syrup has acetaminophen can easily cause an overdose and then you fucking die. That’s not the risk profile you want for “most people in most circumstances”.
500mg from a capsule and 500 from cough syrup 4 times a day is still fine. With a 100% safety margin still.
If you’re taking more meds than that without clinical supervision Id say something is wrong in the system or your medicine practices.
Where I’m from it’s common to walk to the nearest pharmacy and get meds when needed. Even over the counter stuff like paracetamols. And talking to the pharmacist. They’ll ask what you’re already taking and tell you what else to get.
8g is not an insignificant amount. That's 16 500mg pills. You really need to mess up to take 16 pills and not realise you're doing something wrong. If a patient is not lucid than we have bigger issues.
And from what I see in pharmacies, you would rarely see a "cough syrup" called just like that if it contains paracetamol. It would usually be marketed as a flu-relief all-around symptom relief.
Or stuck with HCOL that is the Bay Area. There’s not really any purely “ethical” companies in the Bay Area that pay enough for you to live there.
You’d be surprised how few people actually buy into the corporate culture at these companies. It’s just to get paid because everyone needs a job to pay their expenses.
You want to solve this then lower the cost of housing.
Medical device companies are run very differently from most technology development companies. They have to be because the stakes are high, evaluation criteria are different, and medical related marketing and sales have separate industry managed channels and venues.
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