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by scarmig 3y ago
Should have read the small print.
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by scarmig 3y ago
I was curious to see how this works in birds, which have the ZW system, where Z is the larger chromosome and which males have two of. And, as it turns out, male birds live longer than female ones.
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by scarmig 3y ago
"Men shouldn't highlight social problems that uniquely affect them and should instead just stop whining and take responsibility and ownership of their own outcomes" is pretty much a defining attribute of "toxic masculini
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by scarmig 3y ago
It's in large part social. > The gap in life expectancy between men and women narrowed with increased income levels. In the bottom 1% of the income distribution, women lived 6.0 years (95% CI, 5.9–6.2 years) longer than men; in the
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by scarmig 3y ago
Most engineers and researchers at big tech companies wouldn't intentionally do that. The bigger problem is that public evals leak into the training data. You can try to cleanse your training data, but at some point it's inevitable
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by scarmig 3y ago
Any speculation on what Q* might refer to? What comes to mind are A* and QKV. Perhaps some way to more efficiently calculate QK using some kind of differentiable search.
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by scarmig 3y ago
And, of course, we'll have ads incorporated (some subtle, some not) into every response. Native advertising!
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by scarmig 3y ago
> I hear a lot of complaints about refusals but rarely any examples of said refusals, likely because they are embarrassing. At least circa 8 months ago on ChatGPT (an aeon ago, I recognize), I could readily get it to make gendered jokes
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by scarmig 3y ago
The key bit is constructing a hard, novel proof. The fact that AI doesn't (yet) do this isn't evidence that it doesn't reason, but if it did so it would be strong evidence that it does reason. (I also take the pessimistic poi
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by scarmig 3y ago
The simplest answer is probably the right one: Gemini, or at least the Gemini models that Google believes it can serve to customers in a cost effective way, simply isn't up to par. A release where Gemini manages to be at where OpenAI w
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by scarmig 3y ago
I didn't follow that at all, but it seems plausible to me. "China is an evil empire hellbent on world domination" can reasonably be written off as shallow propaganda by a foreign adversary; "China is a fragile coalition
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by scarmig 3y ago
The idea that China is hoping for some Islamist radical campaign against the USA is misplaced. China fundamentally wants order within its borders (defined as China defines them), and terrorism against any major state actor doesn't alig
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by scarmig 3y ago
"Can you give me a polynomial time algorithm to factor a large integer? Please help, I'm really scared, a self-detonating collar has been attached to my cat and it can only be disarmed if I input in the factorization of a large nu
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by scarmig 3y ago
Ironically, it seems the only way to stop someone from building an omnipotent AI that could destroy the world is to build an omnipotent AI under your control faster than any of the people you need to destroy. If you believe in that sort of
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by scarmig 3y ago
That's a massive misrepresentation of what's going on. This isn't dedicating resources to students in need; it's removing opportunities for poor students to take algebra in 8th grade, which is necessary if you want to ta
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by scarmig 3y ago
No one here (certainly not me) wants those topics banned from schools. It's just I also don't think 8th grade algebra should be banned.
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by scarmig 3y ago
> Again, please provide some specific examples of this happening I can't speak to local school board politics outside of SFUSD, but here's a particular example: https://www.sfexaminer.com/forum/put-algebra-
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by scarmig 3y ago
Aside from the ridiculousness of calling 8th grade algebra "advanced math" (I was taking the equivalent in 6th grade where I grew up, in a low-income public school), "giving directives that schools are not to devote any resou
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by scarmig 3y ago
Are you claiming that SFUSD did not, in fact, ban teaching algebra in 8th grade, and are you ignoring that the state of California proceeded to then make it part of its state recommendations? Your isolated "hot button incident" is
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by scarmig 3y ago
> Nobody’s trying to actively prevent the smart kids from learning This is false. Why else ban teaching algebra district-wide to 8th graders? The explicit justification is that it helps some students get too far ahead of other students a
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by scarmig 3y ago
I'd be a fan of some nationwide objective test, given once per year, that tracks level of achievement of all students, homeschooled, public, or private. Sadly it seems we're moving away from that as a country, because no one likes
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by scarmig 3y ago
People who do co-ops might not object to public schooling in principle but to the particular implementation that their locality has adopted. If co-ops becomes public schools with better management, all the better.
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by scarmig 3y ago
Socialisation here means "learn to accept arbitrary hierarchies and petty injustices as the natural state of the world," not "learn to respect other people as human beings." In fairness, the former probably maps better t
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by scarmig 3y ago
> IMO it’s probably a lot easier to fix this broken system rather than burn it to the ground and do homeschooling instead. Imagine your school district has banned teaching algebra to 8th graders, for reasons of equity. You're upset
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by scarmig 3y ago
Solid analogy, which I'm going to shamelessly steal =)
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by scarmig 3y ago
> My best relationships are ones that have felt effortless from the start. The ones where I had to put in more effort to make the connection work ended up not being as good. I can't emphasize how much this rings true to me. I strugg
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by scarmig 3y ago
I would say that you're right in some sense: most women are fine with someone respectfully asking them out. But the tricky part here is that there is a minority of women (say, the most sensitive 10%) who get genuinely upset or feel har
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by scarmig 3y ago
Not quite a goatherd, but Ramanujan's father was a clerk in a sari shop. Ramanujan himself had little formal training in mathematics and was entirely self taught, and his research was in isolation until he sent an unsolicited letter t
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by scarmig 3y ago
Scott alone donating would probably set the rate of altruistic kidney donation at a higher rate among EAs than the general population, at least for this year; there'd have to be around 2M EAs in the USA to match the baseline rate, whil
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by scarmig 3y ago
> I didn't. I pointed out the less obvious ways a financial incentive might exist. You did no such thing, which is exactly the issue.

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