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There are two fallacies in your analogy.

Segfaults are precise symptoms - they occur only when there's a memory issue. Autism isn't precise, is a collection of characteristics that manifest differently in each person.

Genetic is, for the purpose of this conversation, a precise diagnosis - means you carry parent genes that will cause the issue. Memory management isn't: what caused it? Code error? OS error? Processor? Is it a bad code path or a unexpected exrtenal state?

Finally, an analogy of your analogy: you measure someone temperature and it's 40C. You diagnose a fever.

Segfaults are fever, just a symptom.


The analogy is "just because most X are caused by Y, doesn't mean you can easily test for X by looking at Y"

I don't think your first point (how specific/precise are the symptoms of X) changes things, and I think your second point reinforces the analogy rather than weakens it. Most segfaults are coding errors and not OS or hardware errors ("look for horses, not zebras" / "SELECT isn't broken"). Even good medical tests have false positives and false negatives

> Most autistic people are autistic because of genes they got from their parents. This is why autism often runs in families. Much less commonly, other factors can play a role, but usually in combination with genes from parents.


Are we still talking about testing for autism?

I should have known better than to try an analogy here

I use Dark Reader on my Firefox Mobile and on any of my pc browsers.

Commercially it's better to have AMD support CUDA which can help break Nvidia soft monopoly.

Never heard of this... Any examples?


In German, 10^9 is a 'Milliarde', and a 'Billion' is 10^12.

The Wikipedia article has a nice map what countries use which convention (search for "Current Usage"):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales


"milliard" gave us this delightful little poem https://allpoetry.com/Atomyriades


Brazil and Portugal being different doesnt seem stable. I guess Brazils usage will win out?


German: 10^6 is "Million," 10^9 is "Millarde," and 10^12 is "Billion"


Hence why in financial markets, a 10^9 billion is called a "yard" (from milliarde)!


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales

Specifically:

> [...] giga- is always 10^9, which is 'billion' in short scale but 'milliard' in long scale.


In Spanish it is that way


Reads like religion, not fact based analysis.

I'm by now past the point where I thought "this is a great tool that will help me programming" to the fear phase where I know it will destroy my job and career. But still I can't agree fully with the article. Hallucinations are not the issue. We can extract value from it even when it does hallucinate.

The only reason we're having this discussion is because AI is intelligent and therefore poses a threat to us.


AI has no intelligence whatsoever though… Well not entirely true, but the only intelligence there is in AI is the human one behind it all.


Exactly


Sure they do. And yet they still stand, which says something about their quality


Hard read as the AI tells are everywhere. Too bad; as a tale of a different time it could be interesting.


That's what affecting me the most. Pure Claude hallucinated analysis that the poster has not really read; worse part is that I can ask Claude for the same analysis, so there's no benefit, only long questions that waste my time.


Don't forget to flip the photo and them flip the monitor.


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