paytonjjones

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by paytonjjones 1mo ago
Yes, memory loss surrounding the hours/days of the treatment is the major side effect. Care to share the meta-analysis? How does 1/39 compare to the base rate of those with severe depression who did not receive ECT?
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by paytonjjones 1mo ago
That does sound rough. The initial shock, without sedation, could cause mild to moderate pain and would certainly be a scary experience. Even then, though, it's a far cry from being the antiquated mental lobotomy that many people wrong
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by paytonjjones 1mo ago
Do you think a potential bad actor would change their behavior if they took, say, a 12 hour course instead? I am of course biased, but I have often been exasperated by the various "trainings", IRB processes, ethics classes, etc, t
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by paytonjjones 1mo ago
I don't know the details here but I am a psychologist. The "electric shock" normally used in psych studies is tiny, it's like the equivalent of one of those little toy prank buzzers. You couldn't possibly hurt someo
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by paytonjjones 1mo ago
No, it's still separate. I don't know what that exploit was though, so possibly they just patched that.
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by paytonjjones 1mo ago
> I believe ChatGPT Work sessions are billed against your Codex allowance, while ChatGPT Chat Sessions get their own, separate allowance. This may help explain the model availability differences That's correct, and also why ChatGPT
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by paytonjjones 1mo ago
It's a good point, but in practice it depends on how easy those customizations are to implement / maintain, and how much money and effort you save. At some point the compute cost can disrupt even the nicest scale story. I think th
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by paytonjjones 1mo ago
In this case, because there's a vastly more efficient economic path for the adversaries (cloning). They're not trying to engage in an arms race, they're trying to channel a racing river into its natural course.
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by paytonjjones 1mo ago
I've had the same observation that Luna will quickly fill up its context window with reasoning, but it surprisingly hasn't been a problem really. It will cycle through like 3 /compacts, complete the complex goal successfully,
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by paytonjjones 1mo ago
Your point is well taken, but one thing stood out to me. > A classic management failure is not paying enough attention to something. This is usually not a problem for computer systems. This is actually my #1 problem with frontier LLMs.
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by paytonjjones 2mo ago
The closer comparison would be 5.6-Luna. On DeepSWE at Xhigh it's 57% at 1/6 the cost of Sol M, on Max it's 67% at 1/3rd the cost. Still an advance, I just thought it worthy to note Sol isn't nearly as impressive on
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by paytonjjones 2mo ago
It's a nice idea and I can see it working in some cases. I'll be the first to admit I don't know the specifics, but I imagine in some cases, it's economically prohibitive to lower the price by such an amount that it make
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by paytonjjones 2mo ago
No, but I'd say it's slightly more likely than by chance (after all, success begets capital). I actually prefer Dr. Pepper, but a lot of people think Coke makes the best cola, Apple makes the best laptops, etc.
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by paytonjjones 2mo ago
> advertise everywhere you want Except, apparently, the surface that's actually closest to the purchasing decision? Why must that surface be forbidden?
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by paytonjjones 2mo ago
Amazon is a two-sided marketplace. Why should their obligation in search be 100% to one side? Even for the buyer, there are second order consequences if you remove the ability for sellers to effectively sell. If sellers can't effective
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by paytonjjones 2mo ago
> They know the best-reviewed, least-returned, best-priced model. The only purpose of the ads is to get you to pick an air fryer that isn’t that one Thoughtless take. Say you've just invented a better looking, better functioning, ch
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by paytonjjones 2mo ago
Dystopia just decomposes to "bad place", of which there are many and varied types Yes, institutional control features heavily in The Hunger Games, but so do "reckless uprisings, a long dark age, the collapse of institutions..
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by paytonjjones 2mo ago
"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way" There are many forms of dystopia and picking two that prominently feature absolute institutional control also seems like cherry picking. The Hunger Gam
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by paytonjjones 2mo ago
It's honestly weird Claude converges on this language because it's incredibly wordy and hard to parse. One would think semantic density would win out in training.
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by paytonjjones 2mo ago
That's very interesting, I wonder if this applies also to models quantized to ints like (-1,0,1), and I wonder if the labs could maintain frontier performance if they removed floating points but arbitrarily scaled up the parameters. Ed
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by paytonjjones 2mo ago
For me, that unfamiliarity is precisely the point of reading something ancient.
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by paytonjjones 2mo ago
Maybe it's just me, but "modern" and "context-aware" are the two things I most want to avoid when seeking out a translation of an ancient text.
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by paytonjjones 2mo ago
https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-pay-per-crawl/
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by paytonjjones 2mo ago
There's a difference in the latency distribution between when you submit a query and you see the response, which is what the comment is (clumsily) asking about. But yeah, there are a lot of factors, so it's hard to answer, and to
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by paytonjjones 2mo ago
Speedruns are for playing the track solo, right? If you're playing normally (with other people and items), even the most skilled player can't avoid getting hit by some universal items and will benefit from acceleration. Hence, as
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by paytonjjones 2mo ago
> there's nothing wrong with traumatic harm or abuse because people are resilient and it doesn't matter to their well-being I know it's just a throwaway example, but this statement isn't internally inconsistent. Traum
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by paytonjjones 2mo ago
As someone who does _very_ related research, I'd push back on your skepticism. I recommend Gilbert's "Stumbling on Happiness". It very accessibly addresses almost every point you raised. In particular, people have very b
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by paytonjjones 2mo ago
Alpha School is a decent counterpoint to this. Of course, it's a highly selected group of students. I very much doubt it's scalable in the way one would hope.
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by paytonjjones 2mo ago
Maybe worth checking the data first... https://ourworldindata.org/happiness-and-life-satisfaction
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by paytonjjones 2mo ago
That's very interesting. It kind of mirrors the experience of having a very smart friend. Edit: https://xkcd.com/2501/

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