I would conjecture that this is another manifestation of the
NP-completeness wall that slammed symbolic AI, causing the
first AI winter. It's always possible to turn an NP-complete
algorithm into one that runs quickly, if you don't mind that it
fails to generate any output if you hit a timeout. The
transformer equivalent of this is generating plausible, wrong,
hallucinated output in cases where it can't pattern match a
good result based on its training. The problem, though, is that
with traditional AI algorithms you typically know if you've hit
a timeout, or if none of your knowledge rules match. With
transformers, generating wrong output looks exactly like
generating correct output, and there is no way to know which is
which.
> ... Cathedral is a better model than the Bazaar ...
well, for the desktop possible choices from the `Cathedral` are:
- windows, and
- macos
of late, both seem to have gone in directions that are antithetical to what $random user wants f.e. pushing ai-features, tahoe ui snafu respectively etc. etc.
in `Bazaar` mode, xfce has been an *excellent* choice for quite a while now, and should probably serve `Cathedral` refugees quite well.
all in all, not super convinced of the argument that you seem to be proffering here.
I know it can be annoying when 'your' thread gets merged into the other one and thus you 'lose' - it's still on the list to extend the software to aggregate multiple submissions better. But it does even out in the long run if an account keeps submitting good articles to HN, which your account certainly does (and we appreciate it!)
> You should not go to an LLM for emotional conversations
indeed:
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Weizenbaum's own secretary reportedly asked Weizenbaum to leave the room so that she and ELIZA could have a real conversation. Weizenbaum was surprised by this, later writing: "I had not realized ... that extremely short exposures to a relatively simple computer program could induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people."[23]
Unfortunately not and it's worse than you think because with "some people", "they", and "the few" they means Jews. You can look at the post history for the pattern, after which this is pretty obvious. I already emailed about this some time ago but antisemitism is completely fine if you use thinly veiled euphemisms and don't directly insult people, apparently.
Didn't we turn the clocks back recently? Maybe someone just gave it too big a push... oh god, so it's only April 2025? I don't want to go through all that again.
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