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by beloch 1y ago
A better policy might be for arXiv to do the following: 1. Require LLM produced papers to be attributed to the relevant LLM and not the person who wrote the prompt. 2. Treat submissions that misrepresent authorship as plagiarism. Remove
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by beloch 1y ago
Bray brought up a really good point. The Grokipedia entry on him was several times the length of his Wikipedia entry, not just because Grok's writing style is verbose, but also because it went into exhaustive detail on insignificant p
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by beloch 1y ago
I have to agree with you. I've heard competing claims that Musk is doing, with Tesla, something similar to what he did with Hyperloop: Promise a futuristic but ultimately impractical solution to forestall those trying to proceed with
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by beloch 1y ago
How much of this is the result of reversing the deforestation caused by the Great Leap Forward and other anti-nature policies of the mid twentieth century? It's not a bad thing if this is mostly just restoring forests ravaged by bad po
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by beloch 1y ago
Years and years ago, Facebook asked me for a picture of my passport when I was trying to recover my password. Obviously, I said, "No". I eventually found the password, but I stopped using Facebook shortly afterwards anyways. The
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by beloch 1y ago
If protesting ICE is anti-fascist, what does that make ICE? Sending the FBI to the homes of law-abiding citizens who happen to be planning to protest against government actions... What's that? More Americans need to start asking them
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by beloch 1y ago
The North American auto sector is propped up by subsidies on both sides of the border. What the article in the parent post doesn't mention is that Stellantis and GM received massive handouts from the Canadian government to retool facto
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by beloch 1y ago
Systems like this need to report confidence in their assertions. e.g. Not "this student has a gun" but "this model says the student has a gun with a probability of 60%". If an AI can't quantify it's degree of c
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by beloch 1y ago
It will be interesting to see what they do next. The SF approach would be to lock down every aspect of the new zippers with as much proprietary BS as possible for as long as possible, charging high fees the whole time and quite likely causi
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by beloch 1y ago
In the U.S. each state runs their own part of the federal election. In Canada, federal elections are run by Elections Canada, which is a non-partisan independent agency. It's responsible for both defining ridings (to avoid gerrymander
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by beloch 1y ago
The problem is that people are still falling for exactly the same sort of comic-book evil even though it's every bit as obvious. e.g. Haitian's eating dogs, illegal immigrants scamming medical services, stealing high-paying job
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by beloch 1y ago
Tip: If you don't trust Microsoft but need to use Onedrive, there are encrypted volume tools (e.g. Cryptomator) specifically designed for use with Onedrive.
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by beloch 1y ago
People outside the U.S. should care about this because so much social media is based in the U.S.. i.e. If you post an anti-MAGA meme to Facebook or reddit from an identifiable account you could be charged as this man was. Perhaps the U.S.
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by beloch 1y ago
The first thing an American politician does after winning an election is start fundraising for their next election. Governing would be an afterthought were it not so helpful in raising money.
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by beloch 1y ago
Another quirk is that much of it was highly contextual. e.g. Depending on context, the same numerals might indicate N, N x 60, N x 60^2, etc.. Cuneiform was also used over such a vast period of time that significant evolution took place.
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by beloch 1y ago
“The politically motivated assassination of Charlie Kirk claimed the life of a husband, father, and American patriot. In the wake of this tragedy, and amid other acts of politically motivated violence, Congress has a duty to oversee the onl
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by beloch 1y ago
I boycotted Amazon in January because of you-know-who and Bezo's swift and utter obeisance to him. It's surprisingly easy to go back to the old ways of waiting a little while for shipments if you're capable of planning ahead
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by beloch 1y ago
Some have described what we're seeing as an impassioned overreaction to Hamas' initial strike and kidnappings. However, Netanyahu's actions appear far more deliberate. Rhetoric from his own cabinet ministers is now impossib
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by beloch 1y ago
A similar thing worked for Google when they were trying to stop Canada's Digital Services Tax. You can probably expect Trump to start threatening more tariff's over this any day now, although Tim Cook might need to have another 2
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by beloch 1y ago
Tobacco style anti-advertising laws for sports betting would reduce harm done to addicts and provide immense relief to everyone else.
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by beloch 1y ago
In theory, relatively poor people should be easy to coerce into different behaviours with taxes. In practice, that doesn't appear to be true. e.g. We've seen that carbon taxes on fuel don't really change vehicle purchases o
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by beloch 1y ago
It is correct to observe that "Up = North" is merely a convention, but there's usually a reason for conventions. e.g. We drive on a particular side of the road because that is a convention enforced by both the law (in most p
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by beloch 1y ago
Flipping the U.S. really is the key to ending this conflict. The U.S. reliably uses its security council veto to nix any meaningful UN response and the U.S. remains, by far, the biggest supplier of arms to the IDF. If the US were to stop
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by beloch 1y ago
Cookies are surprisingly sensitive to slightly different ingredients or practices. e.g. Using different brands of butter, different sizes of eggs, or storing the dough at different temperatures can have a large impact on the final product,
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If the origin of these recipes was indeed Betty Crocker's own marketing department, undoing a very successful bit of advertising in this manner would be hilariously dumb. In any case, it typically pays to carefully observe how people
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Reconstruction is great provided archaeologists are done with the site and at least some of the tourism revenue generated is put towards archaeology. Ancient Mesopotamia is, in my view, one of the most exciting fields out there, simply be
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by beloch 1y ago
Would the author of this post have enjoyed or hated seeing a movie in Cinerama? Anyone who has been seated too close to a flat IMAX screen knows that even a flat screen can give a severely distorted viewing experience if you're not in
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by beloch 1y ago
I'd accept that the allocation of public research funding can be too conservative. However, billionaires are more likely to buy a yacht than spend money on research that isn't immediately commercializable and directly connected
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Medieval craftsmen often ran what we would consider to be sweatshops, with many young (i.e. child) apprentices banging out work and not receiving much instruction in exchange. We're romanticizing and idealizing a past that was, in rea
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by beloch 1y ago
I was gob-smacked when the American ambassador went on CBC and called Canadians "Nasty" for boycotting American goods. Then he kept doing it! It doesn't matter whether it was because the Americans selected a inept ambassado

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