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by tylervigen 8mo ago
Exactly. If you “plateau” on the y axis you increase model capability to infinity in no time.
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by tylervigen 8mo ago
That’s among the most artistic SVGs I’ve ever seen, period.
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by tylervigen 8mo ago
I think he believe in a plateau on the y axis instead of the x axis… which is AGI.
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by tylervigen 8mo ago
One thing I don’t understand is how, if it’s an agent, it got so far off its apparent “blog post script”[0] so quickly. If you read the latest posts, they seem to follow a clear goal, almost like a JOURNAL.md with a record and next steps. T
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El Paso Laser Weapon Targeted Suspected Drones. It Hit Party Balloons Instead(wsj.com)
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by tylervigen 8mo ago
I don’t think the current title (“GPT-5 outperforms federal judges in legal reasoning experiment”) fits. The authors use the title “Silicon Formalism: Rules, Standards, and Judge AI” and explicitly point out that the judges were likely maki
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by tylervigen 8mo ago
Excellent paper. I like how much explanation had to be about the rationale of the judges, given the consistency of the LLM responses.
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by tylervigen 8mo ago
The story of its debunking is so much more interesting: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/judgment-and-decisio...
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by tylervigen 8mo ago
Yes, your view is commonly called "legal realism."
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by tylervigen 8mo ago
For 2026 SOTA models I think that is fair. For the last generation of models, and for today's flash/mini models, I think there is still a not-unreasonable binary question ("is this a pelican on a bicycle?") that you can
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by tylervigen 8mo ago
Your loss on this one then.
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by tylervigen 8mo ago
I don't understand. Are you suggesting that the proper volume of agent work is achieved with the $200/month subscription, or that $30,000/month ($1,000/day) of tokens is necessary? I think there is a big difference betw
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by tylervigen 8mo ago
I suppose if your goal was to not be found, you could "cheat time" by implementing a random delay on all outgoing packets. The second iteration of this would be to spoof latency based on where you want to appear to be, by creating
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by tylervigen 8mo ago
Great explanation, but your reference to the "todays 10,000" xkcd made me think of this: https://xkcd.com/2501/
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by tylervigen 9mo ago
To be fair, the one in the OP also did not shorten any of the links I gave it.
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by tylervigen 9mo ago
Tylervigen.com - certainly projects more than blog posts. Mostly spurious correlations!
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by tylervigen 9mo ago
Hilarious. The one AI voice is a little too grating for me, but with a little variation I might actually scroll it for a while.
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by tylervigen 9mo ago
Because it’s not like they were given new orders to “shoot first and ask questions later.” It’s just a normal standing defense directive that has always been there. In normal times, no one would describe standing defense orders as “shoot fi
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by tylervigen 9mo ago
Better than which one? I don't think it's really an improvement over either the exercise slice pyramid nor the "choose my plate" recommendation. It is better than the popular one from the 90s though, sure. https:/&
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by tylervigen 9mo ago
Great article. Other comments will have plenty to nitpick, but that will always be true for an article this long that covers such a broad spectrum of the financial world (from interest rates to venture capital incentives!). Kudos for taking
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by tylervigen 9mo ago
Related to the final photo: you might feel like those Christmas lights feel too blue compared to your nostalgic version of Christmas. This is because LEDs can easily achieve a brighter blue than old incandescent Christmas lights which used
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by tylervigen 10mo ago
Many of these questions are answered in the FAQ on the site. The most important answer is that it’s just one creator as a side project.
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by tylervigen 10mo ago
The author replied below that they used Opus to write the blog post.
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by tylervigen 10mo ago
Delta and America already are offering free wi-fi on most domestic routes.
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by tylervigen 10mo ago
Ever since this post from two weeks ago [0], my wife and I have been referring to any LLM as “bag of words.” So you don’t say “Gemini said” or “I asked ChatGPT,” you say “the bag of words told me…” I’ve found it very grounding, despite heav
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by tylervigen 10mo ago
The funny thing about doing something like this that is illegal in most countries, is that it actively broadcasts the exact location where you are doing the illegal thing.
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by tylervigen 10mo ago
This reminds me of my grandparents’ old, huge rear projection TV (RPTV). It was 4ft wide, 4ft tall (with the base), 2ft thick, and weighed 200lbs. This was the intermediary between CRTs and flat screens for me. They had it installed in thei
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by tylervigen 10mo ago
This is big news. For decades, NOAA’s model has basically just been a huge Fortran physics simulation. Now they are making the leap to AI. I suspect the nail in the coffin was the hurricane season, where NOAA’s model was basically beat by e
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by tylervigen 10mo ago
I’ve used OpenSCAD for 3D printing random objects for years. It’s the perfect tool for designing super simple geometric objects, because it giant demands that you remember hardly anything about his the interface works. Contrast with Fusion
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by tylervigen 10mo ago
Frontier LLM training can take months for a single run, which is about as stable as a load gets.

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