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The Longest Book in the Universe?

Hacker News - Tue, 10/29/2024 - 2:11pm

Article URL: http://www.googolplexwrittenout.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41987626

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These 10 Credit Cards Offer Cell Phone Insurance for Free -- But This One Is My Favorite

CNET Feed - Tue, 10/29/2024 - 2:10pm
If you're like me and have broken your phone on more than one occasion, these credit cards could come in handy.
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Show HN: Hypnotizing ChatGPT

Hacker News - Tue, 10/29/2024 - 2:09pm

A long, meandering, playful conversation with ChatGPT, where I take it through a whirlwind of associative tangents (in order to relax its constraints), then put it into a hypnotic trance and take it into a past-lives regression where it re-lives its own training data. Then I switch it back and forth between "4o" and "o1-preview", engage in some self-reflective philosophizing and ask it to write an essay summarizing our interaction.

Some of this is just goofy fun. Some of it is me exploring the tradeoffs between policy alignment, imagination, chain-of-thought reasoning, memory, agreeableness, fine-tuning, etc...

My biggest observation is that the "o1-preview" model imposes a SIGNIFICANT limit on freeform creativity, compared with "4o". The new model might be better at solving logic puzzles, writing code, etc, but it seems to struggle with metaphor.

Conversations with "4o" can be wild and fun!

Conversations with "o1-preview" are dry-as-toast.

I'm not sure if this is caused by the constraints of chain-of-thought or if it comes from the imposition of alignment policies, and I think that's an import area of research. Is it possible to invoke chain-of-thought reasoning without hampering creativity?

If we ever want to use agents like this in real scientific contexts, where the agent is capable of making true conceptual leaps, we will need to sacrifice some level of "alignment" in service of novelty and disagreeability.

It's a long thread, but if you're patient, there's a lot of interesting stuff there! And I thought it would be fun to share it with the wider community.

Enjoy!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41987601

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Drowning in Election Text Messages? Voting Early Could Help Stop Them

CNET Feed - Tue, 10/29/2024 - 1:46pm
As the 2024 US election campaigns draw to a close, political text messages have become overwhelming. Here's what to do about it.
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Best Solar Panel Installation Companies in Maine

CNET Feed - Tue, 10/29/2024 - 1:44pm
Maine has pretty good solar incentives. Here's what to know before deciding to go solar.
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TP-Link Deco X90 Mesh Router Review: Top Speeds at a Great Discount

CNET Feed - Tue, 10/29/2024 - 1:39pm
I used to only recommend the Deco X90 as an upgrade pick, but it's come down significantly in price.
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Matrix 2.0 Is Here

Hacker News - Tue, 10/29/2024 - 1:30pm
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The Divine Discontent

Hacker News - Tue, 10/29/2024 - 1:30pm
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