Olivier Galibert

Olivier Galibert

  • Commented on We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus
    But nobody serious ever called that actual intelligence; that came later, when some ambitious second- and third-rate academics took over much of computer science. You missed the reason why though. Artificial Intelligence as a term was created around 1955....
  • Commented on I should blog more, but ...
    Not online. Rocket building/flying simulation that has actually heard about this thing called physics. Time sink though, like all good simulations....
  • Commented on Pushing it back
    Since we're in SF-land, how about a civilisation derived from "prey-species" (I so don't like that term...) which used to survive by hiding from predators. It could stay as a cultural trait well after said predators have been throughly eliminated....
  • Commented on Pushing it back
    I think you're underestimating the duration of european houses. I've lived in a 200+years old unremarkable stone house in town for a while. If in use, hence with in particular the roof not leaking, they can stay up a very...
  • Commented on Fuck the Monarchy
    (conspiracy theorist mode) But you see, nobody thinking they'd do it, that's how the US manages to... burn flags with impunity...
  • Commented on Fuck the Monarchy
    You seem to be considering that the deficit is a problem. That's not a given in the first place, the USA printing their own money and debasing the dollar being pretty much impossible....
  • Commented on Fuck the Monarchy
    IIRC, you can be pardoned only of an actual conviction....
  • Commented on Minor updates
    Interestingly, it is known that a big driver of the performance differences between gpt-2 and its successors (gpt-3, chatgpt, gpt-4) is a lot of work in cleaning up the training data. But somehow I suspect "copyright status" may not have...
  • Commented on Fuck the Monarchy
    Keyword: ancestors. The situation then in not the situation now....
  • Commented on Minor updates
    The protagnonist is superb. Naomi Novik riffs on another excellent idea, what if the protagonist was blessed with superpowers needed to fulfill her destiny, except the destiny seems to be "be the most powerful evil dark sorceress in the world"...
  • Commented on Crib Sheet: Escape from Yokai Land
    IIRC it's python which has a refcounting gc. pip install cthulhu exists, probably plausible deniability...
  • Commented on Crib Sheet: Escape from Yokai Land
    I wonder what the Enochian equivalent of Rust's borrow checker would be......
  • Commented on Crib Sheet: Escape from Yokai Land
    If they drop the legacy blue checks, then whether it's brought or legacy will be known at a glance, and somehow they're not convinced yet they want that. I don't see why, really....
  • Commented on Crib Sheet: Escape from Yokai Land
    But he's very good at rationalizing it. In a very irrational world at that point though....
  • Commented on Crib Sheet: Escape from Yokai Land
    Yokai Land is a nice read, had a good time, and promptly forgot about it. Probably because it's kind of... unsurprising. Very comfortable reading, but par for the course for a middle-of-the-power-leveling Bob novel, where nothing could really have consequences...
  • Commented on Crib Sheet: Escape from Yokai Land
    Mastodon search is designed to suck, for privacy reasons....
  • Commented on Crib Sheet: Escape from Yokai Land
    Yes, create an account is on the right. It's not a requirement, but I find it useful. There is no requirement to be on the same server....
  • Commented on Place your bets
    If you asked me to build a drone capable of taking out a mach-ish bizjet at 20km altitude I could definitely do that, given the necessary resources and 90% by buying COTS parts. Bruce Simpson caused a few ructions a...
  • Commented on Place your bets
    How do you know a human mind is not a bigger, fancier version of ChatGPT? ChatGPT lacks reasoning, and while I do not have insider information, I think it is structural. The principle of those systems (simplified) is that there's...
  • Commented on Place your bets
    I strongly suggest you read "Rule 34" before continuing on this path ... I did, twice I think. Perhaps it's time for the third time though, this pair of books is really enjoyable....
  • Commented on Place your bets
    These systems have their uses, but I think it's easier to get funding for those fancy Markov chain chat engines and image generators than for real expert systems. Especially as you'd need some kind of domain knowledge for the expert...
  • Commented on Place your bets
    Also, what we're seeing isn't "AI" in any meaningful sense, it's just the use of deep neural networks for machine learning on a scale that was hitherto unimaginably vast: Moore's Law finally caught up with where we needed to go...
  • Commented on Place your bets
    We actually agree, we're just using terms differently. To me, symbols include numbers and words coded as numbers. Thinking without words is basically doing everything by feel. I'd argue the LLMs indeed do everything by feel, fsvo "feel". The numbers...
  • Commented on Place your bets
    So what is AI then? It's obligate and incredibly sophisticated symbol manipulation, using a system that uses symbols to process other symbols. In other words, it looks a lot like the way a believer might conceive The Word making reality....
  • Commented on Make Up a Guy
    Which means there's a momentum transfer to the magnet through photon exchange. Going through a magnetic field instead of Vas der Valls forces may have the good side effect of smearing the force through the whole size of the magnet...
  • Commented on Make Up a Guy
    It gets even more fun when you remember that the conservation of momentum that is often presented as the method of action used by reaction engines is just a math trick turning a local property of conservation into a global...
  • Commented on WTF
    My lab did some tests on the Grenfell cladding. They have all the equipment for testing the resistance to temperatures and fire in a controlled, calibrated environment designed for that, and cladding testing is one of their things. IIRC (it...
  • Commented on Decision Fatigue
    s/at least/at last/...
  • Commented on Decision Fatigue
    I think, given the recent and ongoing cultural evolutions in the acceptance of LGBT+ people, that it is close to impossible to distinguish between an actual change in the number of them and a change in how many can now,...
  • Commented on Decision Fatigue
    Twitter is subject to GDPR, which is fun, but it is also subject to labor laws, which tend to be a little more pointed in Europe than the US. It's going to be interesting if the financial impacts on EM...
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