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> one of the worst possible outcomes of machine translation is something that ends up being accidentally offensive The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy claims the opposite: "Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removi
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The first spell-checkers were great. I worked at Ericsson then. The word processor replaced every occurrence of "Ericsson" with "Erection".
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> For example, tell an LLM this: Write a list of ten essential laws for a newly formed country Here's what I got from ChatGPT (paid version). Didn't look too bad at a first glance? But it might be argued that the "ten esse
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In my eyes, the LLM took very generic high-level instructions, interpreted them correctly, and then followed the instructions to generate output text that was similar to what it had seen before. What it didn't do was to just use the in
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Here's what ChatGPT 4 (paid version) responded with for that exact prompt: --- Subject: Embracing New Horizons Together Dear Team, As I resume my role as CEO, I am filled with gratitude and renewed vigor. The recent challenges we faced
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Why can't 100 employees incorporate and get 1% of the shares each?
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Thanks, good answer. I've been in other types of very stressful situations. Simple things like getting hold of the right person or the right tool can be astonishingly time consuming in a tight spot.
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In the movie WarGames, someone suggested "just turn the damn power off", and got a good answer on why that was "a bad idea"™. I'm kinda wondering the same thing here, and can't think of the reason why not?
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> If your greatest achievement ended up with a bunch of people dead - maybe there would have been more utility in self-destruction. In other words, American Indians who were proud of their spears and axes should instead have embraced sel
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You first wrote: > They were soviet nukes. They had as much control over them as Germany has over the US nukes parked in Germany. The Soviet Union ceased to exist in 1991. We are talking about what happened after that. You compared the s
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The Soviet Union was dissolved in 1991. We are talking about the time after that, when Ukraine became an independent country. Since Russia had to negotiate to transfer the weapons from Ukraine to Russia, it stands to reason that Russia did
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No, you're right. Old-school radar displays were basically like oscilloscopes where the X and Y position were controlled by the angle of the radar, and the current range of the radar return. So it's a type of polar plot. The phosp
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In Swedish, there's a commonly used word "lärdomar" which is a direct match for "learnings". But where the Swedish word sounds natural in that language, "learnings" just sounds wrong in English, even thoug
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- "We can deliver the car in ten years" <Flips through calendar> - "Sorry, I'll get my new dishwasher then"
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US nukes in Germany are guarded by US troops. Who guarded the ex-Soviet nukes in Ukraine? Ukrainian troops, or Russian?
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What? Are you calling me a sock puppet for mentioning that he was my professor in the 90s?
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He was very good both at teaching and being interesting just in general.
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30 years ago, so I don't remember that part. But yeah, overall he was perhaps the best teacher I ever had.
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Countless ethnic groups have been eradicated throughout history by their stronger neighbors. Was it a good thing that they could not successfully defend themselves? "If no-one has weapons..." / "If people would just be n
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I really like his books. A fun anecdote is that I had him as a college professor in the early 90's before I knew that he was a SciFi author. Among other things, he taught me how to write pre-emptive task switching in 68k assembly langu
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I live in Europe. Germany, France and other large countries became virtual ghost towns overnight as it became illegal to leave your home for other than critical errands. Wasn't it the same in big parts of the US? I remember seeing vide
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> Cripple enough infrastructure and humanity is going to be starving to death within weeks. Just the threat of a malicious AGI that people take seriously enough would cause ourselves to pull the plug on the Internet and all computers unt
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> The implicit argument is that one can't engineer something one doesn't understand. Isn't that easy to debunk? I'd be hard pressed to implement an algorithm that can control a double-jointed inverted pendulum without
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> Ironically they would’ve had a better outcome if they just asked GPT-4 and followed its advice. I just tried, and GPT-4 gave me a professional and neutrally worded press release like you pointed out. More realistically, this is why you
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> Want to know a dirty secret? > Nobody knows what they're doing. There is a famous quote from the 1600s: "An nescis, mi fili, quantilla prudentia mundus regatur" "Do you not know, my son, with how little wisdom th
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As illustrated in Breaking Bad when they carry a barrel instead of rolling it. Book smarts versus street smarts.
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If you do happen to end up in a tourist trap location and are looking for a good lunch restaurant, pick one where the local construction workers and police go to eat.
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Not an expert either. But I think you have fairly strong protections in the law from getting unjustly fired. The union agreement will give you extra protection on top of that, but I think the biggest thing in your favor is that the union la
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> If you're at Volvo with a collective bargaining agreement that probably makes it harder for Volvo to lay you off or fire you. I've never seen that stop Volvo from mass layoffs when sales are bad? But sure, unfounded firings s
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From my somewhat limited perspective, unions in the US and in Sweden are two completely different things. I've heard some horror stories in Sweden about small local unions that act like the US ones, but that's pretty rare. Sweden

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