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You can just run more tests to get increased statistical power.

Good feedback, thanks!

Saying we don’t understand why LLMs are intelligent is both true and completely unrelated to religion. You inserted the word “spirit” so perhaps you are the one conflating the two.

Correct, my opinions have nothing to do with financials. If I was around for the discovery of fire I wouldn’t be wondering about the impact on the bottom line.

If Acetaminophen started exhibiting signs of human level intelligence I would have a similar perspective

It’s not a religious angle, we literally don’t know how or why these models work.

Yes we know how to grow them, but we don’t know what is actually going on inside of them. This is why Anthropic’s CEO wrote the post he did about the need for massive investment in interpretability.

It should rattle you that deep learning has these emergent capabilities. I don’t see any reason to think we will see another winter.

Yep, this time it’s different.

I’m saying that seeing dubious economics is blinding people from accepting what’s actually going on with neural networks, and it leads to them having a profoundly miscalibrated mental model. This is not like analyzing a typical tech cycle. We are dealing with something here that we don’t really understand and transcends basic models like “it’s just a really good tool.”

Yeah, I know. It’s weird to admit this kind of obvious error in public though, speaks to a very big epistemological hole on your part.

Do people really buy this nonsense? I mean just this week Sora 2 is creating videos that were unimaginable a few months ago. People writing these screeds at this point to me seem like they’re going through some kind of coping mechanism that has nothing to do with the financials of AI companies and everything to do with their own personal fears around what’s happening with machine intelligence.

I tried that and it made the gameplay worse since it harmed your ability to control the camera precisely with your hand. The goal of this is primarily to enable gameplay, and secondarily to deliver a portal effect.

That’s not the main app, that’s the controller app you install on a phone to use with the main app. The main app must be side loaded, because Google will not approve it in the Play store since it installs third party apps.

I video it and demo it on a tablet since it helps make it clear how it works, but my preferred display device is a Galaxy Fold. Pockets great, and is a nice comfortable size when unfolded.

I was going to name it Portal, but I named it PortalVR to minimize confusion.

It’s called PortalVR because there is no better name to describe what it’s like to play VR this way. It is like playing games by looking through a portal you hold in your hand.

Truthfully I’m just going to stop posting here. This place has become a disaster in terms of the general attitude of many commenters. The spirit of the site is to celebrate hacking, and this person is trashing some of the greatest hackers alive who are pushing the boundaries and sometimes succeeding sometimes failing. I did in fact want to know if they have been seeing mental health professionals about their attitude - it’s not an insult to ask a question, it’s a genuine curiosity of mine if these people who have this mindset have certain pathologies they are working through.

Do you see a therapist about this? Genuine question.

This community is largely full of old, cynical engineers, many of whom have moved into management and no longer build anything. The young, optimisic people working in tech are not here anymore. The Musk hate is just part of that. The average poster here sounds like Grady Booch, and that's not a complement.

Because he's living in their heads in the same bucket as Trump at this point. It's deranged.

Correct, the person you are replying to is telling on themselves!

This is the kindest response I’ve ever seen to someone suffering from whatever it is that causes these kinds of comments on this specific website.

C++ is king for game engines, but many games opt for languages like Lua or Unreal Blueprints because C++ is to those as Rust is to C++

Personally I like Javascript

I wonder why they didn’t go with the file system permissions on the .auto.conf file, and gracefully handling that as a way to disable the feature. Seems like an obvious solution that doesn’t lead to surprising semantics. The container use case would work fine.

I mean kinda. But there's a good chance this is also misleading. Lots of people have been fooled into thinking LLMs are inherently stupid because they have had bad experiences with GPT-3.5. The whole point is that the mistakes they make and even more fundamentally what they're doing changes as you scale them up.

Sounds like you understand WebRTC yet take issue with describing it as a p2p-enabling technology. It is literally technology which enabled peer to peer connectivity in the browser. Without it, browsers would not be able to directly connect to one another over the Internet. These kinds of definition-focused posts on HN are always so tiresome.

Claude's better.

Stop whatever you're doing right now and go sign up for $20/mo at claude.ai and use Claude Opus. There's something like 20 or 30 IQ points you can add to your experience by just doing this simple step.