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by gwern 1y ago
That is unintentional and a bug in the dark-mode. For dark-mode, we rely on https://invertornot.com/ to dynamically decide whether to fade or negate/invert. (Background: https://gwern.net/invertornot )
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by gwern 1y ago
The final section pounding the desk about how terrible ending the program was seems like it is oddly at variance with all the evidence OP had just laid out about how the program wasn't working well anymore and so wasn't actually f
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by gwern 1y ago
The mountain gave birth to a mouse.
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by gwern 1y ago
Value of LLM writing advice: −$3,480; total value: −$3,500.
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by gwern 1y ago
The initial tweet, 2020-03-05: https://x.com/joeld/status/1235652084264886272 > "I have been working on a reimagining of the blog idea for a few years, and it includes an idea (“series”) that is quite simi
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by gwern 1y ago
Might be thinking of https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/gwern-branwen#%C2%A7influencing-t...
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by gwern 1y ago
> Edit: if someone can explain why this was instantly downvoted I would genuinely appreciate knowing where I went wrong here Alluding to some conversation which supposedly demonstrates my unsuitability for such a role, while pointedly re
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by gwern 1y ago
> But it felt like a lot of the wording is speculative or hyperbolic in nature and aggressively tries to paint Volvo in a bad light. For example: Part of it is that he clearly used ChatGPT or Claude to write the prose. (I really should n
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by gwern 1y ago
Because it has many of the typical 4o stylistic tics like 'it's not X, it's Y' or enumeration or the em dashes, or the twist ending. It's not 100% unedited ChatGPT and far from the most blatant instance that has cau
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by gwern 1y ago
New HN metric: how many comments do you have to scroll down on a LLM-edited/written submission before someone points it out? Triple bonus if the submission is about LLM writing and the need to think for yourself without a LLM, and st
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by gwern 1y ago
No. The tanks problem is when you are picking up a genuine signal in the data. If you collected more data exactly the same way, then it would continue to predict well on this new data; and many other model architectures would also pick up t
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by gwern 1y ago
It's an open question how far this will transfer. Given the local basin/optima approach, and the incestuous nature of AI outputs + training, it's entirely possible that you could start to see 'lineages' of AIs (ofte
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by gwern 1y ago
> there's no loophole where they'd specifically freeze it out of participating in tender offers. Again, who said anything about a 'specific loophole'? Needing permission to participate in a tender (which is the only
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by gwern 1y ago
>135 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44578070
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by gwern 1y ago
Then how was that "fixed"?
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by gwern 1y ago
I think the fact that you consider that a defense is a good illustration of why I had to ask that question. ("Yes, the gun is on the table, but the trigger has never been pulled. Sorry to ruin your witch hunt.")
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by gwern 1y ago
So OA PPUs can now be sold and transferred without restriction to arbitrary buyers, outside the tender offer windows?
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by gwern 1y ago
> It's no longer hanging over anyone's head, The tender offer limitations still are, last I heard. Sure, maybe OA can no longer cancel your vested equity for $0... but how valuable is (non-dividend-paying) equity you can't
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by gwern 1y ago
My point was that 'child prodigy' was not loose flattery or exaggeration by a friend, because he was at 'has newspaper articles being written about him' levels of child prodigy and was unarguably a child prodigy.
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by gwern 1y ago
'Child prodigy' is not an exaggeration here: https://trout.me.uk/prec/
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by gwern 1y ago
Actually, I came up with that all on my own after I noted to myself that capture-recapture would work; and it amused me so much that I resolved to try to come up with a proper list filling out the idea. I did get some of the other ideas fro
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by gwern 1y ago
> I'm going to call out the WP article as being factually wanting on that point. No, it's not. What is factually wanting is any case of an actual tomb honey. When I looked into it, every single supposed tomb honey, not alre
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by gwern 1y ago
https://xkcd.com/1425/ One of the frustrating things about web dev, I find, is the staggering gulf between apparently nearly identical tasks and unpredictability of it. So often I will find myself on gwernnet asking Sa
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by gwern 1y ago
> Oscar Gross was preparing to take the case all the way to the supreme court, but backed out after someone was killed crossing the street while wearing headphones. The kind of tragic anecdote that is the inevitable and unavoidable price
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by gwern 1y ago
The exposure therapy part was definitely the most interesting part for me: licking dumpsters, hugging crazy homeless people (who then run away shrieking at invisible people), (very slightly) vandalizing cars, running a gauntlet of people ho
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by gwern 1y ago
Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randomness_extractor#Von_Neuma...
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by gwern 1y ago
I don't think it's well known that TI has FB CoIs. I didn't know myself until fairly recently. You can talk to a lot of people about this sort of stuff without anyone pointing it out.
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by gwern 1y ago
I'm fascinated by all these comments I see on HN and elsewhere where people will deny that a blatantly LLM-written article was not LLM-written, including cases where people praise it for not being LLM-written (eg. https://
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by gwern 1y ago
FWIW, I call this approach 'square' writing, and have compiled some links at https://gwern.net/doc/design/typography/square/index Probably the most interesting one is the 'Hangulatin'
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by gwern 1y ago
> She is the author of “Investable! When Pandemic Risk Meets Speculative Finance – A Cautionary Tale,” from which this article is adapted. So I think structurally, the conclusion here is that 'cat bonds are an example of how insurer

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