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Comment Maybe you could pay teachers enough (Score 2) 107

And fund schools enough, and get more concerned with actual education practices like not teaching books at all but re-written excerpts dumbed down for different reading levels, and acknowledge that the US teachers union is more interested in paying teachers by seniority and keeping bullying sex pests in their jobs rather than educating children at all regardless of your stupid assed "political teams"

It's ironic that the people putting the most energy into education in the US are drooling fascist Karens who get a rush forcing school libraries to ban random books. At least school shootings have become so blase loner gunman are turning to assassinating politically charged celebrities instead. You started solving one of the problems by doing absolutely nothing, good job USA!

Comment Re:Makes sense (Score 2) 112

A pair of businesses I like, a small ice cream place and a small coffee place on coastal california only accepted cash last I was at either. I think they were trying to avoid credit card fees. Admittedly it's been nigh a year since I've been to either, if they've not changed yet I wonder how long they'll last.

Comment Bullshit analysis (Score 1) 81

Physics and engineering dictate what can be "innovated" on in a smartphone, not executives in a boardroom. No one else "innovates" any better, unless there's a vast industry wide conspiracy to not compete we've just reached the max a these little glass slabs can do for the moment.

Comment Re:Emphasis is interesting (Score 1) 60

It's important to note the skills of these AI math solvers don't come from the stochastic transformer networks for the most part. Instead they come from logic engines with entirely predictable output steps based on inputs, for which the transformers only assist by trying to (appropriately enough) transform the word/notation parts into the appropriate inputs for the logic engines. So the math that comes out of these can be entirely correct, assuming the inputs are correct.

However that part, transforming the wording and notation into correct inputs, is going to be quite tricky I assume. Exactly what the notation in anything is going to be representing is not going to be perfectly clear and self evident paragraph to paragraph (my own papers held up as the shining example), as stated above even for a small proof errors start creeping in. And that, I assume, is because a careful understanding of what the words and notations mean exactly is a bare minimum requirement for generating a correct proof from such. And right now transformer LLMs are the literal "Chinese Room" thought experiment, doing nothing but memorizing the bare minimum rules for translating one thing to another, rather than doing any useful work (to translate from thermodynamics into complexity theory), on that translation. And so the instant it comes across something memorized slightly imperfectly, and there's such an enormous problem space for this memorizing it would be laughable, it's probably going to fuck up.

Logic engines are cool. Connecting logic engines to an LLM is a cool tech demo, but my impression is that there's a long way to go from the cool tech demo to something useful. Which is so often the case with tech demos, one more on the pile should be unsurprising.

Comment The Real Terminator (Score 5, Funny) 28

The year is 2063, a video of a concert gets uploaded to youtube. A totally real band plays to a totally real Coachella crowd that spreads out for hundreds of miles into the distance. The video has twenty three trillion likes from totally real people. The last actual human died of starvation a decade ago watching AI slop while waiting for an AI delivered doordash that got stuck in a bootloop, but the AI show goes on unabated.

Comment Didn't the US do this already? (Score 5, Insightful) 134

Like, over 200 years ago, sort out that individual state issues coinage was bad? Oh right I'm sorry all the old ideas that are bad are good again because history is fake and illiteracy is good. I'd communicate my apology in grunts and hand gestures, fortunately I'm already safe due to the whole illiteracy thing.

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