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961.
by wat10000 7mo ago
There's Goodhart's law: "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."
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by wat10000 7mo ago
I don't want my fries and milkshakes to await. I want them to be made fresh when I order them. Silly robots.
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by wat10000 7mo ago
Do you mean CBP? TSA likes their power trips but they don’t get to really interrogate people. I certainly can’t blame anyone who doesn’t want to connect through the US, especially now.
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by wat10000 7mo ago
And people wonder why I refuse to connect through Dubai.
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by wat10000 7mo ago
Your phrasing is very strange. Nobody threatens anyone else does indeed sound ideal.
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by wat10000 7mo ago
This sounds like a criticism, but non-threatening seems like a really good thing.
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by wat10000 7mo ago
Even nuttier is the one from the Peacekeeper. Float a perfect beryllium sphere in fluorocarbon. Use thrusters to keep it oriented. No gimbal lock, because no gimbals. Six million dollars per unit, in 1987 . So good that a system with liter
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by wat10000 7mo ago
That’s the fun thing about the Wager. If the reward is infinite then any finite cost is worth it for any finite probability of obtaining it. Pascal did actually consider other religions. He just concluded that they were definitely wrong. In
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by wat10000 7mo ago
I agree with the overall sentiment, but having an HOA app go down around the time when dues need to be paid could be a serious issue.
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by wat10000 7mo ago
The Wager doesn't attempt to prove God, it merely states that you might as well worship, because the cost is small and the potential payoff is huge. It falls apart because, based on what's actually known, there's no reason to
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by wat10000 7mo ago
Why bother, though? What does trying to believe in this ill-defined entity do for me?
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by wat10000 7mo ago
The exposure was brief, too. Wikipedia says mesothelioma has been known to develop from exposures of "only" 1 month. That's a scary short time if it's in your home or workplace, but comfortably longer than an Apollo miss
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by wat10000 7mo ago
That's silly. My car is not absolutely guaranteed to turn left when I turn the steering wheel left, but you wouldn't say I can't control my car on that basis. Steering an LLM with a prompt is way less reliable than steering a
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by wat10000 7mo ago
How does this fit with those of us who found one, then later on decided it was silly and gave up the whole idea?
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by wat10000 7mo ago
Per Wikipedia, he published 40 novels and over 280 non-fiction books. He's best known for SF but he certainly didn't spend his whole career on it.
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by wat10000 7mo ago
Not believing that a prompt is an effective way to actually control their behavior is obviously incorrect to anyone who's actually used these things. It's not a guaranteed way to control their behavior, but you can more than m
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by wat10000 7mo ago
In this era of abundance, it's ridiculous for students to be sharing textbooks.
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by wat10000 7mo ago
It's very difficult to overcome the push to teach the tools that will be used (or that out-of-touch people think will be used) professionally. We see the same issue in non-game programming where a lot of places start by teaching Java,
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by wat10000 7mo ago
They don't even need to do anything. LLMs are effectively random anyway. Even ignoring temperature and inadvertent nondeterminism in inference, the change in outputs from a change in inputs is unpredictable and basically pseudorandom.
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by wat10000 7mo ago
There are people who spend a thousand times more money on a boat or an airplane. This hardly seems worth worrying about.
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by wat10000 7mo ago
Probably a much better prompt, too. I just literally pasted in the top part of my comment and let fly to see what would happen.
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by wat10000 7mo ago
You can run GPT2! Here's the medium model: https://huggingface.co/openai-community/gpt2-medium I will now have it continue this comment: I've been running gps for a long time, and I always liked that there wa
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by wat10000 7mo ago
May I suggest reading a dictionary? Incidentally it appears that the meaning of sin or breaking God's laws came before the meaning of breaking secular law.
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by wat10000 7mo ago
Oddly enough, not only can a word have multiple meanings, but a meaning can have multiple words.
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by wat10000 7mo ago
I mostly think the US system is too punitive, but I don’t see a problem here. Someone died because of what he did. He did it deliberately and the death was a foreseeable outcome of what he did. I’m not too upset that he spent two decades in
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by wat10000 7mo ago
Higher IQ would correlate with an increased ability to predict the consequences of one’s actions. “If I stab this person I will go to prison” versus “if I stab this person everyone will think I’m great because that person sucks.”
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by wat10000 7mo ago
“Crime” has multiple meanings. It can be used to describe a violation of morality, not just law.
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by wat10000 7mo ago
Likewise a lot of crime isn’t “crime” at all. Kill someone by putting lead in their lungs by means of a firearm and we call it murder and you go to prison. Do it by dumping lead into the air from your factory smokestack and we call it busin
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by wat10000 7mo ago
That had nothing to do with Skylab itself. It was caused by NASA’s lack of space flight capability in that time period due to Shuttle delays.
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by wat10000 7mo ago
According to police, that is what they did. Fellow was given the choice of leaving unrestrained or in handcuffs and he chose the latter option.

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