InsanityCheck
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InsanityCheck
1yr ago
I did some CBT a few years back, and one of the things I most appreciated was being held responsible.
Learning to handle anxiety is not fun. I could have gotten most information from reading a few articles or books and then not acted upon it. It helps having another human involved in your process. You are not afraid of being judged by GPT, but I think you need that to get your shit together.
Nowadays this would help me much less I think, as I am able to hold myself responsible for my goals. And even though therapy helped a little, I am very skeptical of its general use. I think of all the people I know doing therapy, less than 1 in 4 have actually "solved" their issue, and those that have solved it are mostly low-level anxiety people, while those that haven't are Depression/Bipolar level people.
InsanityCheck
1yr ago
I personally think that the sports question is extremely overblown and only used as a proxy for the larger culture war.
Many, many people are unable to compete in sports even when training their whole life, simply because they were born with bodies that are unable to reach top performances. I think the best examples for this would be sprinting and basketball.
Since >90% of the people born are unable to match top athlete performance, I don't see what the big deal is to just say "Well, yeah, you are a woman but you still cannot compete, you were sadly born in a body that barrs you from it, sorry."
It sucks for them, but life isn't always fair and that is fine.
InsanityCheck
2yr ago
From Wikipedia:
Vitamin B12 is the most chemically complex of all vitamins,[6] and for humans, the only vitamin that must be sourced from animal-derived foods or from supplements.[2][7] Only some archaea and bacteria can synthesize vitamin B12.
In either case, getting Vitamin B12 would often not have been possible in the past without animal products.
If you punish a child it often throws a tantrum. If said child is "stronger" or more capable than you, that can be an issue. Why should it listen to you. Do you accept punishment from other people?
The only reason humans are "aligned" to each other is because we are not that different, capability wise. No matter how brilliant you are, if you break the law there is a chance to get caught, which is risky.
Regarding initialization: Yes they (mostly) converge to the same performance - on the training data. How the network behaves on out of distribution data can essentially be random, and should be.
Lastly, there are actually "optimization demons" in LLMs. A recent paper showed that LLMs contain learned subnetworks that simulate a few iterations of a gradient descent algorithm. I have, however, not read it in depth, might be stupid (as much research is nowadays)
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