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by AIPedant 1y ago
That is not true: https://archive.is/A23eV https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1155/2024/6355613 Simply running a gas burner generates about twice as much PM2.5 emissions as pan-frying a c
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by AIPedant 1y ago
I actually suspect this is a "happy accident" from Trump's POV: DOGE layoffs and other disruption means BLS can't collect enough data. https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/05/economy/cpi-data-b
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by AIPedant 1y ago
Gas extraction and transmission certainly affects people outside the house, so anything to reduce gas consumption is a win. Also, gas burning absolutely affects the entire neighborhood: https://concernedhealthny.org/2022
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by AIPedant 1y ago
Axons are not just wires, they also do computation and signal processing: https://www.nature.com/articles/nrn1397 Your idea would sinoly not work.
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by AIPedant 1y ago
It's not just "direction of ideology," it's direction of science. We know now that stoves are bad for the environment and extremely bad for public health. 60 years ago the environmental impact was seen as minor compare
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by AIPedant 1y ago
I would say that using a high-pollution method of cooking when cleaner options are easily available, simply because it's more enjoyable, is aggressive and uncalled for. "Yes, this is bad for kids with asthma who have the misfortun
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by AIPedant 1y ago
I would not draw that conclusion from this article - we don't have such fine-grained data from other planets, perhaps their axes are more wobbly than Earth's. E.g it was only in 2020 that we discovered Mars has a "Chandler wo
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by AIPedant 1y ago
By this standard we passed the milestone in the 60s when Lisp was used to build better Lisp compilers. By a more honest standard we are still a very long way away from AI suggesting new ANN architectures, new approaches to managing RLHF, be
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by AIPedant 1y ago
I don't think the problem is using Claude - in fact some of the writing is quite clumsy and amateurish, suggesting an actual human wrote it. The overall post reads like a collection of survey responses, with no overarching organization
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by AIPedant 1y ago
If you don't have a Twitter account then x.com links are useless, use a mirror: https://xcancel.com/polynoamial/status/1946478249187377206 Anyway, that doesn't refute my point, it's just PR from a w
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by AIPedant 1y ago
It almost certainly is specialized to IMO problems, look at the way it is answering the questions: https://xcancel.com/alexwei_/status/1946477742855532918 E.g here: https://pbs.twimg.com/media&#x
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by AIPedant 1y ago
No, it's a voluntary code of conduct so AI providers can start implementing changes before the conduct becomes a legal requirement, and so the code itself can be updated in the face of reality before legislators have to finalize anythi
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by AIPedant 1y ago
FWIW I don't think this is quite true for domestic cats - cross-species collaboration is very common in carnivores. A famous example is the coyote and badger, which will team up to hunt prairie dogs: the badger chases them out of the b
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by AIPedant 1y ago
It's not a law, it's a voluntary code of conduct given heft by EU endorsement.
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by AIPedant 1y ago
The fact that these were specifically incest games makes me think a title was somehow involved in distributing CSAM, which is often why Visa/MC crack down on porn websites. But it is possible that Visa sensibly and correctly said &quot
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by AIPedant 1y ago
It didn't "collapse" but it lost a ton of users and stopped being a public service where anyone could freely read most tweets. The load on Twitter's servers and the scope of its services have gone down dramatically, and
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by AIPedant 1y ago
I don't think Mark Zuckerberg salivating about data centers bigger than Manhattan is "nuanced." People gleefully predicting a 30% increase in national energy consumption strikes me as pretty darn exuberant.
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by AIPedant 1y ago
The actual posts totally undermine your point: My general sense is that for research-level mathematical tasks at least, current models fluctuate between "genuinely useful with only broad guidance from user" and "only usef
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by AIPedant 1y ago
Most proof assistants do a good job with autogenerating a (deterministically correct) proof given a careful description of the theorem. Working on integrating this into mainstream languages seems much more worthwhile than training an LLM to
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by AIPedant 1y ago
The AI could not have possibly done that, but the blog says "through a combination of threat intelligence and Big Sleep." I am not sure what "threat intelligence" precisely means here but it was definitely not just the A
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by AIPedant 1y ago
I didn’t move any goalposts. Cursor set up the goalposts themselves by making a small volunteer-run service a critical component of their massive for-profit product. It’s greedy and irresponsible.
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by AIPedant 1y ago
Cursor does bear significant responsibility in the sense that OpenVSX transformed from a niche service used by free software nerds into a major component of many developers’ process. There were a few months were Cursor were the scrappy upst
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by AIPedant 1y ago
It's more like using a faulty and dangerous automated foundry to make steel when you could just hire steelworkers. That's the real problem here - these companies are swimming in money and have armies of humans working around the c
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by AIPedant 1y ago
"Simple" is unfair to the humans who discovered that knowledge, but not to the LLM. The point is that such questions are indistinguishable from niche trivia - the questions aren't actually "hard" in a cognitive sens
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by AIPedant 1y ago
A lot of the questions are simple subject matter knowledge, and some of them are multiple-choice. Asking LLMs multiple-choice questions is scientific malpractice: it is not interesting that statistical next-token predictors can attain super
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by AIPedant 1y ago
The AP News story[1] had a tidbit I missed: In late June, [Elon Musk] invited X users to help train the chatbot on their commentary in a way that invited a flood of racist responses and conspiracy theories. “Please reply to this post
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by AIPedant 1y ago
My dad taught high school science until retiring this year, and at least in 2024 the LLM tutors were totally useless for honest learning. They were good at the “happy path” but the space of high schoolers’ misconceptions about physics great
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by AIPedant 1y ago
I don't think they deemed it "useful": We’ve never supported ASCII tab; ChatGPT was outright lying to people. And making us look bad in the process, setting false expectations about our service.... We ended up deciding: w
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by AIPedant 1y ago
Current robots perform very badly on my patented and highly scientific ROACH-AGI benchmark - "is this thing smarter at navigating unfamiliar 3D spaces than a cockroach?"
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by AIPedant 1y ago
This is a bad faith reading of the comment. They meant that “theories” of consciousness often rely on semi-mystical woo-woo with very little actual evidence and no plausible causal explanation. And that is exactly what has happened here - s

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