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There are always explanations for why the invented persona needs cash, and the scammer also presents sophisticated evidence chains for it. Most people are susceptible to it; see the massive success of spear phishing in corporate environment
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Your timeline there is a bit off. When she met this Brad Pitt, she was still married. She started sending money to him; got divorced; got a settlement of €775,000; and proceeded to give all of that as well to Brad Pitt. Still worthy of symp
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The people who say "it's to make you interact with normal people!" miss a key point. In the real world, you meet a person, and if they treat you like shit, you walk away. If they physically assault you in the workplace, you c
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Google's search engine is worse than Google from 2 decades ago.
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Depending on how powerful your model is, a few tokens per second per data center would still be extraordinarily valuable. It's not out of the realm of possibility that a next generation super intelligence could be trained with a couple
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1) Push for regulations around data provenance. If you train on anything, you have to prove that you had the rights to train on it. This would kill all but the largest providers in the USA, though China would still pose a problem. You could
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Misread your comment as saying that thee wasn't informal =)
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In early modern English, thou and thee were both the informal 2pp, with thou being the subject pronoun and thee being the object pronoun. Thou/you is similar to tu/vous. Eventually, thou became archaic, and we think of archaic wor
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You're competing against other agents, with some combination of planning, coordination, and motor skills. That drives learning. The video game modality is incidental to the learning process.
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Scale and cost are defining considerations of LLMs. By saying they're rolling out to billions of users, they're pointing out they're doing something pretty unique and have confidence in a major competitive advantage. Point bi
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Windows Phone was superior to everything else on the market at the time. But phones are an ecosystem, and MS was a latecomer.
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If you add multiple hearing points, you massively constrain the space of possible drums. The question then becomes something like "can you see the shape of a drum?" Proof of concept: echolocation.
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"Sanguinary" might be the intended word here.
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Floats don't have multiplicative inverses, and the floating point operations don't give us any of the mathematical structures we expect of numbers. Floating point division already abandons algebra for the sake of usefulness.
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The issue is deeper than that: it's that we take some singular conception of what a dog is, and ruthlessly beat any deviation from that idealized dog out of all the individual dogs. Which ends up being every dog.
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Naming the programs gifted and creating a gifted identity is the core issue. Instead, call it something like asynchronous development, and place kids in classes appropriate to their pace of development. I'm hopeful that AI can offer hi
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The third prong is a bit badly posed: descriptively, white kids test better than black kids, and each of the three prongs offers an explanation. The third prong points to a discredited belief of genetic inferiority; by positioning the three
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Getting rid of a test that measures effects from redlining does nothing to eliminate the effects of redlining.
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> This is institutional racism. The opportunity is not equal. The test is not a form of racism, institutional or otherwise. It's doubling as a proxy measure for the socioeconomic disadvantage the students have experienced up to that
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Not getting into how we define what are valid complaints vs invalid, because that's besides the point. You'd find it exhausting. People similarly find the race and gender preoccupation exhausting. Your justification for the differ
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Imagine a world where literature was preoccupied with height. A character is always slotted in who's explicitly the token short character, and the storyline is always, subtly or not, written to highlight how the world is biased against
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There's carry-less multiplication ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLMUL_instruction_set ), introduced by Intel in 2010.
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I grant that the horse one looks pretty solid and interesting. But it's the choice of topics. SciAm has an extremely narrow view of what science is worth publicizing, one that aligns very closely with online causes du jour. Looking at
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Looking at https://www.scientificamerican.com/ I see the following front page topics and articles: - Nutrition: It’s Actually Healthier to Enjoy Holiday Foods without the Anxiety - Climate Change: Climate Change Is Altering
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That comment is just a fanciful flight of whimsy. > Gwern was the first patient to successfully complete a medical transition to the gender he was originally assigned at birth... his older brother died of a Nuvigil overdose in 2001... hi
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There have been multiple times where I read a comment somewhere; thought to myself, wow, this guy is brilliant, let me see who wrote it so I can see if there are other things they've written; and, lo and behold, gwern.
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In principle, it seems like you could have semantic watermarking. For instance, suppose I want a short story. There are lots of different narrative and semantic aspects of it that each carry some number of bits of information: setting, char
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But, if all the good models can only be trained by large mega corps with close connections to the government, it's only a matter of time until that other LLM will just add its own watermark.
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I'm subscribed to all of Claude, Gemini, and ChatGPT. Benchmarks aside, my go-to is always Claude. Subjectively speaking, it consistently gives better results than anything else out there. The only reason I keep the other subscriptions
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Although I agree it's a matter of finding the right therapist, I think that undersells the problem a fair bit. There are large barriers to trialing a lot of therapists, and finding the right one can be like finding a needle in a haysta

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