conscion
I believe there's a confusion in this thread between what an LLM _does_ and what an LLM _is_. What is does is output a next token. What it is, is a universal function approximator ([1], i.e. a neural net).
With back probation in the neural net, there could be a full state machine being approximated inside the weight. And a state machine is the exact step-wise reasoning the author claims it needs.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_approximation_theore...
The emergent capabilities are the only capabilities we care about
Anthropic looked into this and the answer is because it makes the model more stupid
https://www.anthropic.com/research/evaluating-feature-steeri...
> Distribution centres are built around motorway junctions (J24 of the M1, the Golden Triangle in the East Midlands) because that’s where road access is.
But they skip _why_ is that road access and motor junction there. It's there because the government decided building roads was something that was it's responsibility. I know this article is UK focused, but for the US if the government decided to build rails also, then they could put them in more convenient places. Instead they allow rail companies to decide which monopoly corridors the companies get to control.
And how many managers are effective vs. only information funnels?
This feels like a misrepresentation of the "Chinese Room" thought experiment. That the "thinking" isn't the clerk nor the book; it's the entire room itself.
I think Anthropic has already provided some evidence that intelligence is tied to morality (and vice versa) [1]. When they tried to steer LLM models morals they saw intelligence degradation also.
[1]: https://www.anthropic.com/research/evaluating-feature-steeri...
What do you think was funding the sketchy mortgages? The fraudulent financial shenanigans
How does it kill the ability to custom order? My understanding of removing de minimus is only that the tariffs now apply to all orders. And because most tariffs now have been set ~30%, an order that was previously $100 is now $130. It seems like many willing to order custom made clothing would also be willing to pay an extra 30%.
People stated reason for not liking news is the stress, attributing this to the negativity of the news. I think a larger issue is the frequency and transience of the updates, leading to oscillations in peoples understand of situations (similar to the car dealership example in the "Thinking in Systems" book).
Modern news networks are always pushing shallow views of new events (i.e. "BREAKING"). Unless someone explicitly follows up on a story, they were only exposed to the crisis and not the resolution of it. I'd love a network that was "yesterdays news" which waited to publish any news until a broader picture of the situation was understood.
Job hunting is a market and the government should tryu to make every market as efficient as possible. Imagine if you went to any other store and 17% of the items you bought were just junk and didn't work.
They even call this out a couple times during the intro:
> This feature was developed primarily as part of our exploratory work on potential AI welfare
> We remain highly uncertain about the potential moral status of Claude and other LLMs, now or in the future
With nationalized rails, the US could set standards for rail-sharing which could help passenger rail and invest in improved rail connections between cities which would improve both freight and passenger rail service.
Currently, each railroad company gets to maintain their own little fiefdoms in certain parts of the US
https://public.railinc.com/about-railinc/blog/who-owns-railr...
"Elon Musk didn't make a billion dollars, his employees did"
If anyone else is frustrated by this experience, I've found that changing the setting in Google Maps to have the map always point north has helped me with actually building a mental model of directions. I found instead of just following the line, it forced me to think about whether I'm going north, south, east, or west for each directions.