DiogenesKynikos

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by DiogenesKynikos 5mo ago
How do you think medical treatments make it to the stage of doing clinical trials? The basic research that leads to these treatments is all selected and evaluated using peer review. Even the results of the clinical trials are analyzed using
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Universities have produced medical breakthrough after medical breakthrough. Peer review isn't perfect, but it has gotten us incredibly far, and it's way better than political appointees who don't believe that AIDS is caused b
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> 4th grade math problem And it turns out to be an extremely difficult problem given to Russian math prodigies, which requires one to bend the rules and turn "8 7" into "87".
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by DiogenesKynikos 5mo ago
And if you give your LLM access to a calculator, it will have to problem multiplying 20-digit numbers.
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by DiogenesKynikos 5mo ago
"Let’s not forget that discrimination against AI does not exist. It simply generates plausible text based on instructions." That's a prime example of anti-AI bigotry right there. I'm only half joking. I don't even k
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by DiogenesKynikos 5mo ago
1 billion downloads, even if only 10% of those are active users, is a massive number. Heck, I haven't even downloaded the ChatGPT app, but I use their website all the time. AI use has taken off, and a large fraction of the population i
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by DiogenesKynikos 5mo ago
ChatGPT has been downloaded >1 billion times on the Android PlayStore. AI is incredibly popular. People have all sorts of concerns about how AI will change society, but that's precisely because it's so useful for so many things
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by DiogenesKynikos 5mo ago
Most people I meet in everyday life think AI is incredibly useful and use it all the time. I have run into a few people in real life who vehemently oppose it, and many more online, but out in the world, they appear to be a minority.
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by DiogenesKynikos 5mo ago
> AI being pushed so hard. What I see is people using AI of their own free will, because it's incredibly useful. It's true that inside tech companies, AI is being pushed into products, but outside of those companies, normal peo
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The same thing works for guessing German grammar from English. The farther back you go in English, the more its grammar resembles German. "What sayest thou?" -> "Was sagst du?" In fact, for the above, you don't e
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by DiogenesKynikos 5mo ago
As the article explains, Norway's National Library has a database of practically everything published and broadcast in Norwegian going back many decades. From the way the dataset described in the article, it does not sound like OpenAI
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by DiogenesKynikos 5mo ago
Jefferson is much closer to the American credo than Hamilton was, though the United States did not remain stuck in the 1770s-1790s, so it's just a fallacy to treat the founders as the sole source of American identity. But if you do wan
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by DiogenesKynikos 5mo ago
Alexander Hamilton was a monarchist. He's hardly the single authority on what American values are. If we're playing the "what did the founders think?" game, then I'll see your Hamilton and raise you a Washington [0]
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by DiogenesKynikos 5mo ago
A country is not a company. The central belief that defines Americans is that the country is open to immigrants, and that it will accept anyone who embraces the civic creed: democracy and civil rights, as defined by the Constitution. The at
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by DiogenesKynikos 5mo ago
"Bait and switch"? Applying for a Green Card while in the US is allowed by the law, and has been the norm for decades. Yes, the US has had other xenophobic phases in its history. That doesn't justify the new wave of xenophobi
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by DiogenesKynikos 5mo ago
More like he's been given a political mandate to be needlessly cruel to non-citizens, and he's constantly finding new ways to do so - whether legal or illegal. The latest move even forces spouses of US citizens to leave the countr
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by DiogenesKynikos 5mo ago
The PICO images do look more realistic at first glance, but when you zoom in, it turns out that PICO has changed all sorts of small details in the images. For example, if you zoom in on the trees in the first image, PICO has moved branches
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by DiogenesKynikos 5mo ago
> That's always been true. Except it is completely contrary to how the immigration system has worked in the US for decades. It is absolutely standard for people who are already in the US on other types of visas to apply for Green Ca
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by DiogenesKynikos 5mo ago
This interpretation makes the entire immigration system extremely arbitrary and capricious. It's almost as if Trump supporters just want to give non-citizens a hard time for no reason. The cruelty is the point.
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International collaboration is the norm in science. Telling researchers that they have to get permission before they can co-author a paper with a foreign colleague is insane, unless we're talking about a very small set of highly sensit
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by DiogenesKynikos 5mo ago
Calling all LLM skeptics. How did a "stochastic parrot" just disprove an Erdős conjecture that mathematicians couldn't figure out for decades?
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This is a thousand unusually smart monkeys who speak every major human language fluently and are proficient in every major programming language, but sometimes still make bizarre mistakes and need to be put back on track.
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by DiogenesKynikos 5mo ago
Depends on how exactly it happened. If the author just wanted to add a citation to some canonical paper (like "Attention is all you need") at the last minute, used LLM autocomplete to do it, and didn't carefully check that th
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And it would mean the permanent end of American dominance over the international software and cloud compute market. You can only ever play a card like that once. Afterwards, no one will trust you or use your services again.
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Like humans, LLMs sometimes bullshit. That doesn't mean it's in any way reasonable to dismiss LLMs in general as "bullshit generators."
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US GDP is only about 30% larger than EU GDP in nominal terms, which is not enough to matter in this discussion. It's "on par" for all intents and purposes. The EU has plenty of ways to hurt the US economy very severely.
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by DiogenesKynikos 5mo ago
The EU could absolutely find ways to hurt the US economy just as much as vice versa. It doesn't have to use the same tools as the US. Just ban major US companies from doing business in the EU. Impose massive fines. Get creative. The EU
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by DiogenesKynikos 5mo ago
The concern over "digital sovereignty" is motivated by the US wielding sanctions as a political tool against Europe. It's impossible to fully eliminate any exposure to US sanctions. If the EU wants to fully shield itself, it
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by DiogenesKynikos 5mo ago
In 2026, LLMs are highly intelligent. In many ways, they even surpass human intelligence and ability. Dismissing them as "bullshit generators" is utterly unserious, and shows that one does not want to deal with the reality of the
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There are lots of 100-author papers, especially from big projects. Responsibility really is diffuse. That's the nature of things. On a 100-author paper, 80 people are there because they worked on the upstream data source. 15 are there

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