williamcotton/empirical-philosophy
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A collection of empirical experiments using large language models and other neural network architectures to test the usefulness of metaphysical constructs.
19 mentions on Hacker News by 3 people: 1 story, 18 comments · first 2023-02-21 · latest 2023-05-04
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…for synthetic tasks. I'm using "analytic" and "synthetic" in the same way as in this writeup https://github.com/williamcotton/empirical-philosophy/blob/m...
comment by killthebuddha · 2023-05-04 · in Google “We have no moat, and neither does OpenAI” -
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How ReAct Prompting Works in Detailstory by williamcotton · 2023-05-01 · 0 comments
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…the approach: From Prompt Alchemy to Prompt Engineering: An Introduction to Analytic Augmentation https://github.com/williamcotton/empirical-philosophy/blob/m...
comment by williamcotton · 2023-04-22 · in Prompt engineering vs. blind prompting -
…and projects: From Prompt Alchemy to Prompt Engineering: An Introduction to Analytic Augmentation: https://github.com/williamcotton/empirical-philosophy/blob/m... Writing Web Applications with LLMs: https://www.williamcotton.com/articles/wr…
comment by williamcotton · 2023-04-20 · in Ask HN: People who were laid off or quit recently, how are you doing? -
You’re not actually doing any research. Here is my research: https://github.com/williamcotton/empirical-philosophy/blob/m... It is clear that analytic augmentations will result in more factual information. Your claims are unfounded and…
comment by williamcotton · 2023-04-08 · in We need to tell people ChatGPT will lie to them, not debate linguistics -
You call it lying because you don’t understand how it works. https://github.com/williamcotton/empirical-philosophy/blob/m... https://williamcotton.com/articles/chatgpt-and-the-analytic-...
comment by williamcotton · 2023-04-07 · in We need to tell people ChatGPT will lie to them, not debate linguistics -
https://github.com/williamcotton/empirical-philosophy/blob/m... You are very wrong about how these things work.
comment by williamcotton · 2023-04-07 · in We need to tell people ChatGPT will lie to them, not debate linguistics -
Take a look at https://github.com/williamcotton/empirical-philosophy/blob/m... https://langchain.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ They can be taught!
comment by Spivak · 2023-03-24 · in ChatGPT and Wolfram Is Insane -
It is both a reliable synthesizer of fiction and a translator of fact, and empirically so: https://github.com/williamcotton/empirical-philosophy/blob/m...
comment by williamcotton · 2023-03-02 · in Oceania Always at War with Eastasia: Generative AI and Knowledge Pollution -
…exact factoid. If I do need an exact factoid, I have a tool I made myself based on this approach: https://github.com/williamcotton/empirical-philosophy/blob/m...
comment by williamcotton · 2023-03-02 · in Introducing ChatGPT and Whisper APIs -
…if there’s a Python or JS interpreter involved. Here’s the kind of approach I’ve been using: https://github.com/williamcotton/empirical-philosophy/blob/m... The initial call to the LLM will return a completion that includes JavaScript.…
comment by williamcotton · 2023-03-01 · in Indirect Prompt Injection on Bing Chat -
It can be made more reliable. Here’s how: https://github.com/williamcotton/empirical-philosophy/blob/m...
comment by williamcotton · 2023-02-28 · in Keep your AI claims in check -
…better yet the search results from an academic journal search engine. Here’s the general approach: https://github.com/williamcotton/empirical-philosophy/blob/m...
comment by williamcotton · 2023-02-26 · in Ask HN: Anyone else had problems with ChatGPT returning real looking, fake DOIs? -
…to empirically improve the results of questions involving calculations like the lengths of strings: https://github.com/williamcotton/empirical-philosophy/blob/m...
comment by williamcotton · 2023-02-24 · in AI chatbots are having their “tulip mania” moment -
It's not that hard: https://github.com/williamcotton/empirical-philosophy/blob/m...
comment by williamcotton · 2023-02-24 · in AI chatbots are having their “tulip mania” moment -
I show an approach here: https://github.com/williamcotton/empirical-philosophy/blob/m...
comment by williamcotton · 2023-02-23 · in Software 2.0 (2017) -
…very useful: From Prompt Alchemy to Prompt Engineering: An Introduction to Analytic Augmentation: https://github.com/williamcotton/empirical-philosophy/blob/m... A few more edits and it's ready for me to submit to HN and then get literally…
comment by williamcotton · 2023-02-21 · in Prompt Engineering Guide: Guides, papers, and resources for prompt engineering -
…empirical evidence, I find that analytic augmentations do indeed result in more accurate results: https://github.com/williamcotton/empirical-philosophy/blob/m...
comment by williamcotton · 2023-02-21 · in Professor writes history essays with ChatGPT and has students correct them -
…to see how to do what I’m talking about, here’s an almost finished article describing the above: https://github.com/williamcotton/empirical-philosophy/blob/m...
comment by williamcotton · 2023-02-21 · in Professor writes history essays with ChatGPT and has students correct them