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by mckirk 2y ago
That's a really interesting idea! As others have mentioned, the one thing I'd change is giving the AIs randomized names, disconnected from their model. On the other hand, it would also be quite cool to see whether, at some point,
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by mckirk 2y ago
TIL about the term 'sanewashing'; thanks, I'll definitely use that. In exchange, I offer a cool word I learned yesterday: The Broligarchs.
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by mckirk 2y ago
I wonder what the conservation law is connected to the 'analysis invariance', i.e. the fact that no matter how well you've thought through everything beforehand, there will still be some recalcitrant pocket of the experiment
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by mckirk 2y ago
At some point I'll write a better response here to express my gratitude for your comment. Tomorrow, maybe. Or one of these days, anyway.
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by mckirk 2y ago
There usually are links to the news articles and the corresponding Wikipedia articles. (Though sometimes it's redirected me to some nirvana-page that just shows '[object Object]', not sure what that's about.)
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by mckirk 2y ago
I don't have a subscription so far, I just use it in its default setting. I'm not sure there is a filter like that even with a subscription, though.
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by mckirk 2y ago
I can recommend https://newsasfacts.com for at least having a news source that, thanks to its matter-of-fact tone and lack of imagery, is useful for staying informed without getting overwhelmed so easily. It also puts things int
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by mckirk 2y ago
This looks great! While we're at it, is there already some kind of standardized local storage location/scheme for LLM models? If not, this project could potentially be a great place to set an example that others can follow, if the
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by mckirk 2y ago
This is what I'd hoped to find when I clicked on the link. Just today I had a discussion with a friend of mine, who is diagnosed with ADHD and currently trying out Elvanse (kind of similar to Adderall), and he was adamant about not wan
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by mckirk 2y ago
Alright, I'll bite. How much does it cost?
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by mckirk 2y ago
This is actually something you probably want to avoid, if at all possible, because it makes it very hard to maintain insight into what the AIs are communicating among them. But that insight is crucial to stay informed about their progress i
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by mckirk 2y ago
They are among the highlights for me every year. Just the right amount of brain melting information density.
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by mckirk 2y ago
There definitely are quite a few different ways to participate in AoC, and for the people that are smart enough to just see it as a great opportunity to solve some fun coding puzzles and maybe try a new language, nothing much has changed or
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by mckirk 2y ago
It would be very interesting to have solve times for more than the top 100 spots this year. If you analyzed those, I think there's a decent chance you would see a clear bimodal distribution -- one for people coding 'legit', a
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by mckirk 2y ago
Fun fact: 1999 was also 'peak public phone booths'. Ever since then, they've declined in number and now are almost impossible to find. Every year it gets harder to follow that damn rabbit...
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by mckirk 2y ago
A very interesting observation. I wonder though if the difference is genuinely a different kind of self-understanding between the generations, or more a question of the prevalence of these two approaches to identity. I think in my generatio
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by mckirk 2y ago
The AI safety team was really proud of that one.
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by mckirk 2y ago
And don't forget the rich vocabulary you pick up over voice chat. ;)
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by mckirk 2y ago
I imagine that to look something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSK3maq8Cyk
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by mckirk 2y ago
You might as well quote the rule in full, if you are going to throw the guidelines around. > Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're t
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by mckirk 2y ago
Usually, the Dark Reader failure mode is that things look a bit off and you can tell that something is not working, which tells you as a user that you might have to disable it. In this case, there simply was nothing shown for the affected e
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by mckirk 2y ago
Just fyi, Dark Reader (Firefox extension) completely broke the more interesting experiments and I had to disable it to see them. Only the 'square color gradient' experiments survived, for some reason.
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by mckirk 2y ago
Provided you limit the charge level to something like 80% (ideally even 60%). Keeping these batteries at 100% constantly also leads to degradation, even if you don't really 'use' them.
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by mckirk 2y ago
I looked into this a bit a while ago, and what I've learned basically boils down to: The MBTI does measure aspects that roughly correlate with other, scientifically accepted measures (such as the Big Five, where the classic MBTI basica
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by mckirk 2y ago
I'm pretty sure they could, if you asked them. As an example, I am confident that a true successor to Battlefield 3/4, unencumbered by EA's often terrible decisions, would sell very well. The problem is, it probably wouldn&#x
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by mckirk 2y ago
There's also https://brainaural.com/ which I quite like and think pairs well with this site. (Of course it is also created by Dr. Pigeon, as most of these high-quality background noise websites seem to be.)
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by mckirk 2y ago
I started a side-project in SvelteKit a while ago, and so far I still like it a lot. When I saw what projects using it look like, it somehow just intuitively 'made sense' to me. For me it's also just the right amount of &#x27
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by mckirk 2y ago
Then I think this sub-thread is not the discussion you were looking for.
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by mckirk 2y ago
Well, I understand, and I suspect that a lot of people commenting here see the term similarly to you; but there's an official definition regardless of your personal interpretation, and it does include the 'somebody else's wor
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by mckirk 2y ago
What we are talking about in this sub-thread is exclusively the 'this is clearly plagiarism' part. If you used Google Translate for your German 101 exam, that would be academic dishonesty/cheating, but not plagiarism.

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