I have what I like to call a semiphotographic memory. I can abstractly remember the positions, shapes, colors and numbers of things extremely well. I can remember sequences of words very well. I can strongly associate it with sensory memories.
But I have some weaknesses with it, like temporal trouble. It's hard to natively remember dates and sequences of events. I can strongly remember what the pieced together moments were like, but it's difficult to recall "Did that happen before X or Y?"
With things like that I need to remember, I visualize a timeline or a graph in my head or draw it out and take a mental snapshot of that. I've also found that's why I'm a "visual" person when it comes to things like project management.
I've imagined a lot of memory management for others must be like that: You find your innate abilities of mental organization, and use it to map the world outside to the world inside. I imagine it looks very different for everyone.
Way back I had concept for short story around someone with perfect memory, but as a result they experience everything as presently happening, no memory fading to sort temporal experience
StackOverflow's poor gameification of the platform is the singular reason it suffered from its awful culture.
If you had enough reputation, you'd be invited to these review queues, like the Close Vote queue.
You got a point toward a new badge if you voted to Close. You get nothing if you chose to keep it open. There was always a perverse incentive there to act, to make a question "better," to nitpick a perfectly fine answer.
I do seem to be misremembering. I see there's the Custodian, Reviewer, and Steward badges after all.
I wonder if there was a quirk with the way these worked? Or were these introduced later along the way? I do remember taking legit issue with this all that time ago.
Given that Jagex (and whoever owns them now) can pull the rug and kill Runelite at any time, it's remarkable there's been some sense of harmony at all. Concessions have been made both ways.
The relationship isn't perfect. But the fact that there's a relationship and a two way dialogue at all? Unheard of.
If Jagex moved against Runelite even a little bit, the player base would instantly abandon the game. It would be suicide for jagex. They know this and so do the players.
Honestly, the symbiotic relationship between jagex and the players is what has made the game great. Without the players checking jagex, and without jagex ignoring the idiots on reddit who suggest 'improvements' (while listening to the users with nuanced suggestions/critiques) the game would have died a long time ago.
This is common knowledge though, and not some deep math problem, small children understand this concept.
If they cannot get something so simple right, while at the same time offered as a decision with likelihoods machine, why should I trust their other answers with "probability" they produce?
I think a better way to view these numbers is that they are "confidence" levels, not probabilities in the sense you are interpreting.
You should never trust the machine. ;) But you can have a level of confidence with it, and you can know where it's strong and weak.
This is a language association machine, not a math and probability machine. It is specifically weak with any real math.
As simple as a coin flip is -- as simple as a child may be able to understand it -- the machine is specifically not designed to produce an accurate mathematical probability.
That's just not how LLMs work. It's not how they're designed. Nor these decision models which use identical principals.
All that aside... agreed regardless. Irreversible choices should never be finalized by such a volatile technology, regardless of how well we benchmark it. If there's even a chance it could be wrong, that is unacceptable.
> not probabilities in the sense you are interpreting
I am not interpreting them that way, that's how they are being sold by the companies behind them. I do not think "confidence" is accurate either. As far as we can tell, and in the open source/model versions, it's derived logit values.
But I have some weaknesses with it, like temporal trouble. It's hard to natively remember dates and sequences of events. I can strongly remember what the pieced together moments were like, but it's difficult to recall "Did that happen before X or Y?"
With things like that I need to remember, I visualize a timeline or a graph in my head or draw it out and take a mental snapshot of that. I've also found that's why I'm a "visual" person when it comes to things like project management.
I've imagined a lot of memory management for others must be like that: You find your innate abilities of mental organization, and use it to map the world outside to the world inside. I imagine it looks very different for everyone.
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