I think that shows how LLMs lack an important part of what we as intelligent agents have, as the parent comment pointed out, the innate ability to have some sort of train of thought or self check mechanism. In a human, as you said, we don't immediately blurt out or write out a phrase, since if someone gave us this problem we would immediately start considering the constraints and possibilities. By contrast, LLMs do not have this and the ability has to be "bolted on" through a pre prompt like "consider if your answer is correct" and "think step by step" etc. As far as actually choosing a viable strategy, such as figuring out to go alphabetically, this probably emerges as they get larger and larger; i.e, they need both the bolted on train of thought ability and also an actual good sense of reasoning and logic, which could be compared to a person (maybe a child) who can't come up with a good solution, let's say, to making a pangram (in this case).
this is very true with diabetes equipment since there is constant alerts (for example from insulin pumps) of low battery, undelivered insulin, etc. I think it definitely helps to give users the right amount of control if it's non life critical like a CGM or for insulin delivery.
Well I think the bigger issue is a "Kessler syndrome" type problem than meteorites (i.e space junk hitting the earth), although we've already seen issues with the latter..
the thing with the Boltzmann brain is that, even though it sounds compelling (in a philosophy thought experiment / random thought kind of way), I think there's one main criticism that shuts it down. If the brain is having all these experiences/thoughts itself, it came up with the idea of a Boltzmann brain, and the laws of physics, and logic, etc. So therefore, the laws of physics that Boltzmann brain is using the justify the Boltzmann brain are completely made up by it, and can't really be used as a valid argument.
Commonly called neo-brutalist ui, iirc. The only issue I have (well not only, but main), is that many have really really large text and it's hard to read. For example: gumroad
No, not really, and I don't think the other reply about it being a 0th dimension makes much sense either. The key word is `spacial-dimensions`, whenever math talks about just spacial dimensions, there is no time dimension. In other words, a 0-dimensional 'world' would just be a point, 1 dimensional a line, etc. In something like flatland, where there are living beings, of course there would be a time dimension. But if you are just talking about the volume of shapes, all the dimensions are spacial. So when we go from 3D -> 4D in this scenario, we are adding an extra spacial dimension perpendicular to all the other 3. The idea that 4th D is time is more of something from physics, although the fact that we call it the 4th dimension doesn't mean much, it could be called 1st 2nd 3rd dimension and then a spacial one gets moved to a different number.
maybe, I read some discussion about it and someone suggested something like reading Code and seeing if it's interesting then partaking in nand2tetris. Also nand2tetris actually makes you implement everything yourself.
I'm not sure if red and green necessarily have a negative and positive connotation to me. First, red and green are often colors for + and - and second, you can read the code you need and see why it was deleted.
once you use a program enough,imo, you'll learn useful shortcuts even if they're incoherent. I hate editing text or programming with a mouse after using vim for a while. Same with many other programs. + you can always rebind but it's a lot of effort and stuck on your computer
I did LOGO as a kid and scratch, although not much of either. Either way, though, you teach programmatic thinking. Not only that, but an introduction to variables, loops, if else, etc. all in an easy to parse manner (scratch blocks). I think I saw that, by numbers, scratch is now a hugely used language. Given that there's a shortage of programming teaching in schools, I think it's nice.
from what I've seen, 10c change (even in a developed country) would fundamentally change life and at least how much we spend on commodities like food, energy, water
but isn't the problem that you could get stuck in an infinite contingency loop? i.e if you pick God, what if God is contingent and so on. Sure you can say something is required but it's rather arbitrary.