jasonfarnon

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by jasonfarnon 7d ago
Yeah. Which doesn't mean Google isn't happy to comply for its own profit motivations.
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by jasonfarnon 9d ago
that quote is definitely making its way into a lawsuit
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by jasonfarnon 10d ago
I don't think there's much grounds for a serious legal attack at this point, and also it would look so horrible from a PR standpoint no non-desperate would dare it. Anyway, google has been steering enough traffic away, now that it
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by jasonfarnon 14d ago
"Although if no one understands the frontier math (because no one is getting paid to), I'm not sure it even matters what the quality of the cpu math is?" Presumably AI will be connect the dots to the applications. As the decl
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by jasonfarnon 15d ago
Actually my hypothetical is completely realistic as I've been involved in such scenarios. It's unrealistic maybe for a millennium problem to come in on a rumor and still front-run but not at all for the many other problems we work
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by jasonfarnon 15d ago
"I'd say advantage humans this time." Well LLMs were instrumental in any account of what happened. It's just a question of which company's LLMs did the breakthrough, and most of us outside silicon valley don't
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by jasonfarnon 15d ago
Would this be unethical if it was a human who heard rumors about a solution then attacked the problem, solved it and published first? Often knowing of the mere existence of a solution carries a lot of information--you would know the problem
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by jasonfarnon 15d ago
That sounds like PR nonsense to me. These companies have had teams of mathematicians for at least 1.5 years looking to make headlines, and they didn't bother trying all 10 millennium problems? Yeah right.
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by jasonfarnon 15d ago
yeah, there were some posts of his that always got top hit on certain google searches in the days before stackexchange. And this sounds like typical John D Cook. All these people claim to identify some "tells" and whenever a study
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by jasonfarnon 21d ago
No, for example, people torrent vastly more mp3's than they could ever listen to
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by jasonfarnon 21d ago
maybe, but openAI is exposed to a lot more legal liability here than whoever was exaggerating about moltbook.
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by jasonfarnon 22d ago
naive question--does " He did this at the key opening and middle-game sections and never burnt through the full buffer of handicap points in the last two games. " imply in retrospect he could have won with a smaller handicap? or w
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by jasonfarnon 22d ago
I'm guessing their defn of AGI is something like the sum total of all humans' abilities? Still though some of those tasks (e.g. beat an index fund) may very well be impossible, and worse yet a lot of those tasks are not coherently
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by jasonfarnon 23d ago
It has been pretty weird to me, as an American, to hear how much less distinctive Australian/NZ accents have become over the last 40 yrs or so.
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by jasonfarnon 23d ago
1. 22 "investigated" as part of a wide scope review, ie, it could mean an entire department was investigated 2. review was for "staff internet usage" so those sanctions could be for anything from regular internet porn or
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by jasonfarnon 24d ago
so you would call it a "plague" if it was just one guy? hopefully you can see how ridiculous that would work out in practice.
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by jasonfarnon 24d ago
I mean, the headline says "second". Anything greater than 0 is bad but seems a little short of a "plague".
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by jasonfarnon 25d ago
"easy to replicate (no fancy equipment needed, just ask some people to proofread)" ? This was a human subject study, that would cost $$ and there would be very little upside to confirmation and only a little notoriety with a failu
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by jasonfarnon 25d ago
No, that would never happen. People would just be skeptical of most findings until they see replications (where we are headed in the social sciences, anyway). If people see replications the original discoverer will get all the accolades, no
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by jasonfarnon 25d ago
I guess that's why the same passage says Ariely maintained the relationship long after the Epstein's pedophile convictions. Not definitive either, but pretty suggestive.
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by jasonfarnon 25d ago
That's fine. Based on my recollection I don't agree with your thesis (or think it's at least greatly exaggerated) but reading source documents from the past and advancing an argument is solid history scholarship.
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by jasonfarnon 27d ago
You probably defragged frequently enough. You would definitely notice it if a file system got fragmented enough.
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by jasonfarnon 1mo ago
They have Amber Alert here and the other day I noticed it linked to twitter for more information...which I couldn't actually but for a split-second when a pop-up loaded. This is silly. Perhaps govt can reach more people by posting a me
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by jasonfarnon 1mo ago
"burnishing his resume" i guess that's what college kids are calling it now
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by jasonfarnon 1mo ago
"AI is a tutor you can message at any time, day or night, for free" which makes it not a tutor. if it is true that tutors have always made people better students, then those tutors are definitely imposing some limits on how many a
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by jasonfarnon 1mo ago
" If the law is just about intent, you can never defeat it." Yeah I think that's what people are missing. Intent is almost sufficient. Note that the officers efforts to examine your device would actually be frustrated by what
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by jasonfarnon 1mo ago
Besides, the premise seems stupid to me. Employers don't like wfh because of perceived lower performance. 'For years, many employers have worried that work-from-home arrangements leave employees isolated, disconnected from coworke
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by jasonfarnon 1mo ago
Definitely. I think the way microsoft brought their user base along between 1990 and 2000 from Dos to 32-bit protected mode was beautifully respectful of their users. To me it's the standard for how to change a user's preferences
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by jasonfarnon 1mo ago
It's LLMs' generalist skills. I think reverse engineering is usually hard when you're in an unfamiliar domain. Eg I've never programmed a videogame or windows application but I'm trying to crack one. On the other ha
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by jasonfarnon 1mo ago
I'm clueless about healthcare economics, but this sounds fishy to me. Why would insurers go along with that? In fact I would expect insurers to be in a much better position to bargain with a hospital than a private party. Actually it&#

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