What is it about non-materialism that you guys seem to find so upsetting? Is it that it decenters your experience of the self? Is it the idea of unknowable truth? Its like I have attacked you personally by suggesting another way of looking at reality.
Edit: One of the reasons I have rejected materialism/physicalism is that you can’t have free will under it. Its deterministic. I think most people, even those that turn to that way of thinking for comfort, find the idea of no free will disturbing.
Science isn't a philosophy, its a process for approaching the truth. Yes, I can't prove what I am saying and it is based more on a strong feeling than direct proof. I think the question of consciousness is a particularly important one, and we know very little about it still.
Consciousness is more like gravity or electrical charge than a cognitive state. It permeates space and is an inherent property of matter and energy. I think the narrow definition we have had for it is in need of expanding, and the science keeps going in that direction.
The way the big guys are feigning improvement right now is through recursion. They feed the LLM back into itself a few thousand/million times to narrow the normal curve of result accuracy. This is incredibly expensive, unsustainable, and not possible to do (in reasonable time frames) without data centers on data centers. Don’t expect open models to achieve the same kind of results with coding related queries because the underlying technology has plateaued.
TLDR: Any improvements in LLM output in the last 3 years have come from brute force recursion, not from fundamental improvements. This means a couple things; the technology itself has plateaued, and they're not going to be able to continue spending at this rate to pretend it hasn't.
One of the realities of being an adult is that having non-work non-school friends now requires you to put in the effort of making plans and arrangements to do stuff. Its absolutely vital to have those relationships through your adult hood, and yea that won’t just happen without you putting in the effort to maintain your friendships. But the fact is it remains absolutely vital to your health and happiness. If most of your relationships are built on convenience and circumstance, reflect on what you can do to change that.
Locally hosted LLMs are a better option, but it doesn't change the fact that the technology is designed outright to give a statistically likely result (based on the training data), instead of a correct one. LLMs make "guesses" about what the output should be and are not capable of internal regulation. They do not understand concepts and merely regurgitate jumbled data back at you with no consideration for content beyond that what can be analyzed statistically. It's not a question of if they will make a mistake, but where and when.
https://youtube.com/shorts/ZMP8_jD-y0s These kinds of responses are an inherent feature of how they function, they cannot be fixed or tweaked out of the system.
Its a buzz term they've been using to obfuscate the fact that every piece of LLM slop needs a human to review it, thus costing more time and money than hiring a competent human straight out.
I had that batman begins on disk as a kid, much much preferred watching Black Pearl. I've seen interstellar probably 3 or 4 times at other people's houses. All I can remember is that its trite and they were trying to get home and "this little maneuver...". Nolan is a vibes based film maker and his vibes don't vibe with me.
Have printed using a brother printer from linux mint. It was easier than any other time ive done it lol.