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Claude Opus Soul Spec(lesswrong.com)
4 points by panarky 11mo ago|0 comments
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by panarky 11mo ago
> a real photo taken with their phone's camera How "real" are iPhone photos? They're also computationally generated, not just the light that came through the lens. Even without any other post-processing, iPhones gen
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by panarky 11mo ago
A paywall warning would be appreciated.
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Generative UI(research.google)
3 points by panarky 11mo ago|1 comments
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by panarky 11mo ago
Hmmm, I wrote those words myself, maybe I've spent too much time with LLMs and now I'm talking like them?? I'd be interested in any evidence-based arguments you might have beyond attacking my writing style and insinuating bad
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by panarky 11mo ago
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by panarky 11mo ago
> I can't pay for it and it has 20 minutes of use You can't provide an API key for a project that has billing enabled?
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by panarky 11mo ago
The jump in ARC-AGI and MathArena suggests Google has solved the data scarcity problem for reasoning, maybe with synthetic data self-play?? This was the primary bottleneck preventing models from tackling novel scientific problems they haven
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by panarky 11mo ago
Claude Opus is $15 input, $75 output.
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by panarky 11mo ago
The thing about bubbles is that it's devilishly difficult to tell the difference between a total sham and a genuine regime shift while it's happening because the hype level is similar for both.
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by panarky 11mo ago
93% of American drivers think they're better drivers than the median driver [0]. This overconfidence causes humans to take unnecessary risks that not only endanger themselves, but everyone else on the road. After taking several dozen W
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by panarky 11mo ago
If a science experiment works and is transformational can be worth a trillion dollars, how much is it worth if it has a 5% chance of being transformational?
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by panarky 11mo ago
Right-click on the Firefox icon and choose "Open Profile Manager". Or add "-p" to the startup command to do the same thing without right-clicking: firefox -p
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by panarky 11mo ago
Nearly everything in life is non-deterministic. Most things that are generally helpful and beneficial are not 100% helpful and beneficial 100% of the time. I used GPT-4 as a second opinion on my medical tests and doctor's advice, and i
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by panarky 11mo ago
Does eating fiber by itself reduce mortality? Or do healthy and wealthy people with active lifestyles and excellent healthcare happen to also eat more fiber?
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by panarky 11mo ago
> how many accidents (with Tesla at fault) It's not just about fault. Waymo has a well deserved reputation for vastly reducing the frequency and severity of accidents where it is at fault. But if you look at the data for all crashes
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Ghosts in the Codex Machine(docs.google.com)
1 points by panarky 1y ago|0 comments
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by panarky 1y ago
My county sends me a text message when they've counted my ballot.
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by panarky 1y ago
Results > memes. If we ship more for less because the new agent doesn't tap out, that's not a honeymoon, it's an upgrade.
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by panarky 1y ago
> cars can't cause any accidents If standard is zero accidents then you can't accept a solution that yield's a 50% or 80% reduction.
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by panarky 1y ago
I'm sorry, but the whole stochastic parrot thing is so thoroughly debunked at this point that we should stop repeating it as if it's some kind of rare wisdom. AlphaGo showed that even pre-LLM models could generate brand new approa
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by panarky 1y ago
When my mom and dad bought their home 50 years ago, they took out a mortgage to buy a home. My dad was a "light equipment operator" with the county road department. My dad's paycheck was their only income. They paid off the m
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by panarky 1y ago
In the Augustean system, 1 aureus = 25 denarii = 100 sestertii (not 1000 sestertii as stated above). But at 8 grams of gold per aureus, the ~40 troy ounces of gold annual salary is about right.
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by panarky 1y ago
When the price of everything goes up at the same time it's not because everything is more expensive, it's because each unit of currency is worth less in terms of real stuff. And contrary to the typical gold bug narrative, it'
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by panarky 1y ago
It's not about being faster than you. It's about working independently while you do other things.
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by panarky 1y ago
People always wring their hands that operating at a new, higher level of abstraction with destroy people's ability to think and reason. But people still think and reason just fine, but now at a higher level that gives them greater powe
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Claude Agent SDK(anthropic.com)
3 points by panarky 1y ago|0 comments
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by panarky 1y ago
If the alternative is Microsoft or Meta or Amazon or OpenAI or X, then I'll happily use Google.
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by panarky 1y ago
> shitty VoIP ... Or grey-route bulk messaging and SMS OTP bypass so actors can register throwaway accounts on Signal/WhatsApp/Telegram, social platforms, fintech, crypto etc. then burn the numbers after use. You need 100k SI
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by panarky 1y ago
Hard to see how 100,000 SIMs are needed to make a few anonymous threats.

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