LLMs are advancing the frontiers of knowledge. Is it really that hard for you to believe that people are simply genuinely fascinated about these developments?

People are burnt twice shy and have become comically cynical. Your discernment has been completely shot.

I wouldn't rule out pilot testimony of UFO sightings, nor the possibility we're indeed developing a machine God.

There's ample evidence to support both by now.

Both

You might like this article about how large scale order emerges out of the small scale.

Definitely lends credence to the idea that however these models work, focusing so much on them being next token predictors may rather be incidental to deeper mechanisms behind their function.

> Some of these networks organize themselves into states that can reliably identify macroscopic patterns in data regardless of microscopic differences between the states of individual neurons in the network. The decision of which pattern will be output by the network “works at a higher level,” said Rosas.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-new-math-of-how-large-sca...

You're blaming the wrong thing.

It's the Linux kernel that deliberately does not provide user land a way to change file creation times.

Meanwhile XNU/macOS does.

FYI most physicians would find parent's advice agreeable. My physician said as much.

It doesn't take much reading about a topic as contentious as vitamin d supplements to come to similar conclusions. Have you done any review at all of the relevant literature?

I have read every article that has hit HN's front page. It seems like at least one per month since I joined in the heat of COVID at which point in time HN was adamant that bolus doses of vitamin d prevented COVID...

Each and every article leads to the same conclusion for me though - people should really be asking an endocrinologist instead of Dunning–Kruger-ing their health.

As per the research, what vitamin D did, if an optimal level, is prevent mortality from Covid, not prevent one from getting Covid. I don't recall any basis for claims that it prevented Covid.

Doctors are utterly useless when it comes to vitamin D. They don't even test anyone who doesn't beg for it. They also never help optimize anyone's level.

Let me get this straight: the source of your expertise on multivitamins and vitamin D is HackerNews articles, which makes you more qualified than the average physician, and you're accusing others of Dunning-Kruger?

First you need to prove that human cognitive function is also not fundamentally driven by statistical processes.

It's possible that "statistically driven prediction" is all we are.

It's an open question whether they're different in a way that actually matters

Unsubstantiated? Maybe if you're living under a rock and haven't once experimented with frontier LLMs yourself.

So your use of a frontier model is evidence that openai's model hacked hugging face? Just want to make sure I'm following your line of thinking

You are confusing construction of data centers with their normal operation.

Data centers are silent in normal operation. It's the construction you're hearing about that is noisy, but that goes for any construction.

This is plainly wrong considering many people's complaints about the ridiculous amount of noise these things spew out. The whiring of gas turbines and cooling systems of complete, fully operational, data centres has nothing to do with construction.

Again, this isn't unknowable, you can literally just pull up next to CHI1 and open your window and listen. You won't hear anything.