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by AIPedant 1y ago
The marks were probably quite faint, and if you ask a multimodal LLM "can you see that big mark on my neck?" it will frequently say "yes" even if your neck doesn't have a mark on it.
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by AIPedant 1y ago
Therapy isn't about being pleasant, it's about healing and strengthening and it's supposed to be somewhat unpleasant. Colin Fraser had a good tweet about this: https://xcancel.com/colin_fraser/status&#x2F
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by AIPedant 1y ago
I don't think they would win, the law specifies a class of "information content provider" which ChatGPT clearly falls into: https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/section-230-wont-protec... See also https
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by AIPedant 1y ago
I think the "encouraging someone to take a non-criminal action" angle is weakened in cases like this: the person is obviously mentally ill and not able to make good decisions. "Obvious" is important, it has to be clear
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by AIPedant 1y ago
No, it's simply not "easily preventable," this stuff is still very much an unsolved problem for transformer LLMs. ChatGPT does have these safeguards and they were often triggered: the problem is that the safeguards are all pr
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by AIPedant 1y ago
I think it's fine to be "morally absolutist" when it's non-medical technology, developed with zero input from federal regulators, yet being misused and misleadingly marketed for medical purposes.
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by AIPedant 1y ago
Yes, if this were an adult human OpenAI employee DMing this stuff to a kid through an official OpenAI platform, then a) the human would (deservedly[1]) be arrested for manslaughter, possibly murder b) OpenAI would be deeply (and deservedly)
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by AIPedant 1y ago
Is there something specific you are referring to? I haven't played any of the non-Nintendo Switch 2 ports, but the reviews haven't suggested widespread performance problems. What is true is that (for example) Split Fiction and Ton
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by AIPedant 1y ago
I wonder if part of this is that the Switch 1 was hurt by Unity/etc slop and lazy AAA ports, so Nintendo wants to manage that better for the Switch 2. The Switch 2 doesn't have many games but it is also refreshingly free of hentai
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by AIPedant 1y ago
Yeah, I figured this was clickbait but my jaw still dropped a bit when I saw this: I cloned the backend for Truco and gave Claude a long prompt explaining the rules of Escoba and asking it to refactor the code to implement it. How lo
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by AIPedant 1y ago
It is vacuously true that a Turing machine can implement human intelligence: simply solve the Schrödinger equation for every atom in the human body and local environment. Obviously this is cost-prohibitive and we don’t have even 0.1% of the
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by AIPedant 1y ago
This seems like a cool company and I don't want to nitpick too much, but gamers have no respect for history: Castlevania... [so] called because it is a Metroidvania game set in a Castle. Ouch - this is precisely backwards. Metro
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by AIPedant 1y ago
It does seem like it helps with math, but in a way that demonstrates the futility of the enterprise: "after training the LLM on 10,000,000 examples of K-8 arithmetic it is now superhuman up to 12 digits, after which it falls off a clif
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by AIPedant 1y ago
I just don't understand being so cynical and lazy that you'll accept a meaningfully higher chance of being misinformed if it saves a few minutes of searching and reading[1]. Nobody is that busy. [1] If the search takes more than a
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by AIPedant 1y ago
This is true - the most compelling evidence we are in a bubble is not the content of this story (maybe it's just a day in the markets) but the triviality of the cause for hand-wringing. A somewhat disappointing product release from a s
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by AIPedant 1y ago
Yes - the submission title used to be As Alaska's salmon plummet, scientists home in on the killer - Science - AAAS seemingly a goofy copy-paste thing.
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by AIPedant 1y ago
My comment was sarcastic.
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by AIPedant 1y ago
It's just regular old G, defined in mass-of-sun units: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_constant (fourth item in the first table: NASA also uses meters whereas Wiki uses km) Gauss's constant k is
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by AIPedant 1y ago
Information and well-crafted sentences are available on the Language Tree, easily plucked by anyone at zero cost. It's greedy for those so-called novelists and subject matter experts to expect a living wage. "Information wants to
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by AIPedant 1y ago
> it's people not wanting to lose control or relative status in the world. It's amazing how widespread this belief is among the HN crowd, despite being a shameless ad hominem with zero evidence. I think there are a lot of us wh
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by AIPedant 1y ago
I am less interested in questioning training data corruption than I am in questioning claims like this: test reasoning abilities such as pattern recognition, lateral thinking, abstraction, contextual reasoning (accounting for British cu
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by AIPedant 1y ago
I don't think Yudkowski is at all like L. Ron Hubbard. Hubbard was insane and pure evil. Yudkowski seems like a decent and basically reasonable guy, he's just kind of a blowhard and he's wrong about the science. L. Ron Hubbar
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by AIPedant 1y ago
I think I found the problem! The rationalist community was drawn together by AI researcher Eliezer Yudkowsky’s blog post series The Sequences, a set of essays about how to think more rationally I actually don't mind Yudkowski as
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by AIPedant 1y ago
Not quite true, they got in trouble recently for running a Nintendo ad without properly labelling it (until it was pointed out, the video is fixed now): https://youtube.com/watch?v=V10wHzV5zp0 Screenshot of original video:
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by AIPedant 1y ago
Right but my point was that "given classes of templated in-context examples" is either a) a game of roulette where you hope the LLM provider has RLHFed something very close to your use case, or b) trying to few-shot it with in-con
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by AIPedant 1y ago
I know ACM Queue is a non-peer-reviewed magazine for practitioners but this still feels like too much of an advertisement, without any attempt whatsoever to discuss downsides or limitations. This really doesn't inspire confidence:
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by AIPedant 1y ago
I don't use it either, but TikTok has real people on it and ChatGPT does not, so it makes sense that people would be more emotional about TikTok.
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by AIPedant 1y ago
I think Tamagotchi effect is more appropriate than "some emotional Turing test." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamagotchi_effect
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by AIPedant 1y ago
No, most of programming is at least implicitly coming up with a human-language description of the problem and solution that isn't full of gaps and errors. LLM users often don't give themselves enough credit for how much thought go
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by AIPedant 1y ago
It is actually incredible how they managed to find an even more unscientific definition than "can perform a majority of economically useful tasks." At least that definition requires a little thought to recognize it has problems[1

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