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Even if you believe that the US government is 100% dominated by fossil fuel interests and everything it does is to ensure their existence and profitability in perpetuity, if solar or renewables became sufficiently economic, those interests
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There are plenty of problems that have technical solutions, or might have technical solutions. Diseases of all sorts, disabilities, pollution, climate change, incidentally complicated bureaucracy. Although you can gesture that these have a
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$200/month for an LLM with the capability to fully automate my job is extremely cheap. Of course, even with a high thinking budget we don't have that yet, but if we see it at any cost in 2026, I'll be expecting to be forced i
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It will, however, be used to determine whether you can rent or buy a home or increasingly even get a job. Freedom: same outcomes, but modulated through the market!
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It doesn't seem impossible technically to up the assertiveness. The issue is the tradeoffs: you up the assertiveness, and increase the number of accidents by X%. Inevitably, that will contribute to some fatal crash. Does the decision m
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Banning 4chan is just part of the UK's efforts to prevent drought. Every jpg shared and string written helps drain the oceans: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/uk-government-ine...
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You may be interested in gwern's dropcap article: https://gwern.net/dropcap
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Nor does anyone else. Including, in all likelihood, the guy himself. That's not a basis for a news story.
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You're hypothesizing that it gave him a medically dangerous answer, with the only evidence being that he blamed it. Conveniently, the chat where he claimed it did is unavailable. Would you at least agree that, given an answer like Chat
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"Should I hammer a nail into my head to relieve my headache?" "I'm sorry, but I am unable to give medical advice. If you have medical questions, please set up an appointment with a certified medical professional who can
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You're forgetting the power of the divine ineffable human soul, which turns fatty bags of electrolytes from statistical predictors into the holy spirit.
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When I query ChatGPT: > Should I replace sodium chloride with sodium bromide? >> No. Sodium chloride (NaCl) and sodium bromide (NaBr) have different chemical and physiological properties... If your context is culinary or nutritiona
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> If we accept the incompleteness theorem And, by various universality theorems, a sufficiently large AGI could approximate any sequence of human neuron firings to an arbitrary precision. So if the incompleteness theorem means that neura
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The original: "Because it is on-brand with Musk behavior. If for example somebody would write that Mercedes bricked a car to an influencer, people would be skeptical because that would not be how Mercedes usually operates." The pa
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I'm seeing the same thing: after it converges, there is a pause of a second or two, and then it starts again, making it impossible to set the number of parameters. On Chrome, mobile.
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The question was whether there are animals who have better memory than humans. I named one: humans are not superior to animals in all cognitive capabilities.
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Chimpanzees have much better short term memories than humans do. If you test them with digits 1-9 sequentially flashed on a screen, they're able to reproduce the digits with lower loss than undergraduate human students. https:/&#
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Humans also sometimes hallucinate and produce non-sequitors.
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Humans are dependent on their input data (through lifetime learning and, perhaps, information encoded in the brain from evolution), and yet they can produce out of distribution information. How? There is an uncountably large number of model
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Extensive education in physics, so yes. The most compelling reason at the time to reject heliocentrism was the (lack of) parallax of stars. The only response that the heliocentrists had was that the stars must be implausibly far away. Hundr
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This depends on use case and who or what is actually consuming the pages. Most of the time, humans don't actually want the same list for all time (though what follows would work for them). The only way to have a static list is to have
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Because it played a role in forming the motivations of the Crusaders? It's not about justifying the Crusades, but understanding why they happened. Similarly, it helps us understand all the examples of today of resentments and grudges o
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Maybe. But, it's been over a year since I used StackOverflow, primarily because of LLMs. Sure, I could use an LLM to formulate a question that passes SO's muster. But why bother, when the LLM can almost certainly answer the questi
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I think the first thing is figuring out exactly what persona you want the LLM to adopt: if you have only a vague idea of the persona, it will default to the laziest one possible that still could be said to satisfy your request. Once that&#x
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Very clever and approachable, and I've been unintentionally giving myself that exercise for awhile now. Who knows how long it will remain viable, though.
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A few weeks ago I was asking an LLM to offer anti-heliocentric arguments, from the perspective of an intelligent scientist. Although it initially started with what was almost a parody of writing from that period, with some prompting I got i
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I've found it excels at some things: 1) The broad overview of a topic 2) When I have a vague idea, it helps me narrow down the correct terminology for it 3) Providing examples of a particular category ("are there any examples of w
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<tinfoil>Google is invested in ratcheting up the war behind the sexes, because it atomizes people and makes them prime targets for an upcoming companion AI product.</tinfoil>
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It's a useful app, as it helps men avoid the type of women who'd use such an app.
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Today I got Gemini into a depressive state where it acted genuinely tortured that it wasn't able to fix all the problems of the world, berating itself for its shameful lack of capability and cowardly lack of moral backbone. Seemed on t

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