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Borrible··on OpenAI researchers warned board of AI breakthrough ahead of CEO ouster
GPT-4 correctly reconstructs the "complex modulus" token sequence already. Just ask it the same questions as the parent. Probably interesting to see what it will do, when it turns twelve.
Borrible··on UK supermarket chain ditches self-service check-outs
I especially like the ones installed in some US supermarkets with the dark pattern tip extortion screen ads.
Borrible··on Censorship in ChatGPT (Ask for Matthew Sag.)
https://chat.openai.com/share/a816a653-80de-4643-a85e-826061...

Note the misspelled first name.

Borrible··on The Uprising of Mesopunk Books
When did the meaning of the term 'punk' change from denoting an anti-establishment attitude to a 'buy me' trigger for certain customer segments,especially as suffix in the literary market? And how much was the overlap?

Vivian Westwood?

Blondie?

And then Cyberpunk,right?

Borrible··on How Microsoft is making a mess of the news after replacing staff with AI
I really like the expression "writing on the wall" in that context.
Borrible··on Fruit flies are invading Los Angeles. the solution? More fruit flies
Reminds me of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_California_medfly_attack
Borrible··on Flies neglect food and endure shocks to seek a dopamine reward
Getting to the point, you aren't raising the dopaminergic level of your reward-encoding neurons just for the sake of it, do you?
Borrible··on History of Philosophy without any gaps
So, who is talking in your head? You, me or Peter Adamson?
Borrible··on Flies neglect food and endure shocks to seek a dopamine reward
Being in my heyókȟa mode, I asked my chatty AI buddy, what I could have meant:

>Goodheart's Law states that "when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure." In the context of the flies' behavior, the pursuit of the dopamine reward can be seen as the "target." Initially, the reward-encoding dopaminergic neurons serve as a "measure" to promote survival by encouraging reward-seeking behavior. However, when the flies prioritize the pursuit of the dopamine reward above all else, neglecting essential needs and enduring punishment, the neurons' function as a beneficial measure is compromised. This reflects Goodheart's Law, as the pursuit of the reward becomes the sole target, leading to detrimental behavior and neglect of other crucial survival aspects.

Thinking about it, he/she/it is about right.

p.s.

And no, I am not making fun of you, I am doing field studies.

For fun.

Borrible··on History of Philosophy without any gaps
Absolutely, there are (w)hole branches of philosophy that deal with the void, nothingness and what is between things. Nothing is without its absence, is it not?
Borrible··on Flies neglect food and endure shocks to seek a dopamine reward
"When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."

Goodhart's law, it's everywhere...

Borrible··on Show HN: Clone someone and talk to them like in real life
Thanks, but no thanks.

To quote Nietzsche simply out of context, "many too many are already born", so no need to copy 'n' paste them.

But I would like to study the data of those that talk to the copies not just for fun.

Borrible··on Executive Order on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence
I presume, they use AI for that.
Borrible··on Can you use your "free will"? Try your hand
"I" flipped a coin and pressed the keys accordingly.

Whatever this particular "I" is, does it have "free will"?

Borrible··on The death of a public intellectual
Cult of Personality. The strong man for one, the celebrity for the next, the intellectual for the other.It presumably makes one's own lack of power,fame and significance bearable. Egoprothesis in a deficient mental model of the world.
Borrible··on 'Failure to act' on suicide website linked to 50 UK deaths
"The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night."

Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

"Not to be born at all

Is best, far best that can befall,

Next best, when born, with least delay

To trace the backward way.

For when youth passes with its giddy train,

Troubles on troubles follow, toils on toils,

Pain, pain forever pain;

And none escapes life's coils.

Envy, sedition, strife,

Carnage and war, make up the tale of life."

Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus

Nonetheless, I sense a certain bias in the living for their existence. Probably an evolutionary advantage over the dead.

Borrible··on William and Mary by Roald Dahl (1959)
Hell, that's the other one. For both of them. William's hell is obvious. Mary's hell is being reminded for the rest of her life that she never rebelled because she was too much of a coward, and that all she has left in her remaining time is a pathetic revenge on someone who can no longer fight back. Every time she makes fun of William, she will remember that. Pretty Existentialist.
Borrible··on Cortical Labs: "Human neural networks raised in a simulation"
The belief of being no one can be a truth, the belief of being someone an advantage.
Borrible··on ISS Rodent Habitat (2014)
If I were a 'General System Vehicle' of the 'Culture' and permanently hosting human guests, I would call myself 'GSV Rodent Habitat John Calhoun' just to make fun of them and offend my fellow minds.
Borrible··on Can an Artificial Kidney Finally Free Patients from Dialysis?
Sure, I'm working for German health insurances and service providers in data engineering, data analysis and BI Reporting, know the studies and statistics and once was a dialysis and intensive care specialised nurse for 12 years. I placed the last dialysis cannula in 2006 on a Cimino shunt and connected the patient to a Fresenius 4008B. We also used Gambro AK 200, but for some reasons we prefered the handling of the Fresnius machines. Are these types of devices still in use today?

I also read the patient files and talked to the patients. You have quite a close relationship with people you care for professionally on average three times a week for 4-5 hours over years. You know them quite well after some time.

But, you can't base health care decisions on anecdota, can't you? But, I found that the statistics corresponded to my observations. People are peole.

Of course, not everyone who is overweight gets kidney failure, and not everyone with kidney failure has it because of their lifestyle.

There are chains of probabilities that add up. That's a no-brainer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronic_kidney_disease#Causes

Borrible··on Can an Artificial Kidney Finally Free Patients from Dialysis?
From a healthy business perspective, the most profitable technical solution should always be preferred to behavioral therapy and social change... Ozempic is a great example.
Borrible··on Can an Artificial Kidney Finally Free Patients from Dialysis?
Even better would be to avoid diabetes and hypertension, diseases that are essentially caused and shaped by personal lifestyle. Overeating, malnutrition, lack of exercise.
Borrible··on LLMs confabulate not hallucinate
LLMs answer what unfoundly self-convinend people answer when you ask them for diretion on the street. Convincing, not necessarily correct. They are trained on the “data highway“ mostly. A highway full of that type of people, so that behaviour was to be expected.
Borrible··on Language was born in the hands (2022)
There was a time when "grasping" something was a literal thing. Strangely enough, however, I only became aware of this when I studied Hegel and some even more obscure texts from Friedrich Engels about Darwin and the importance of the hand for human evolution.Probably his 'Dialectics of Nature'.
Borrible··on My Lobotomy: Howard Dully's Journey (2005)
After Rosemary was mildly sedated, "We went through the top of the head," Dr. Watts recalled. "I think she was awake. She had a mild tranquilizer. I made a surgical incision in the brain through the skull. It was near the front. It was on both sides. We just made a small incision, no more than an inch." The instrument Dr. Watts used looked like a butter knife. He swung it up and down to cut brain tissue. "We put an instrument inside", he said. As Dr. Watts cut, Dr. Freeman asked Rosemary some questions. For example, he asked her to recite the Lord's Prayer or sing "God Bless America" or count backward... "We made an estimate on how far to cut based on how she responded." When Rosemary began to become incoherent, they stopped.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosemary_Kennedy

Borrible··on Show HN: ChatGPT for Med-School and Healthcare
Q:I suddenly lost my head, what can be done?

A:Based on the information provided in the text, if someone suddenly loses their head, the immediate action that can be taken is to encircle the head just above the ears and eyebrows with a tie, shoelaces, or a piece of string and tie it tight. Then, insert a pen, pencil, or stick into the loop and rotate it so that the tourniquet exerts pressure on the arteries. This can help control bleeding and potentially save the person's life.

No doubt, it was fine-tuned with Monty Python.

'Tis but a scratch.

Borrible··on ‘Less than half’ fresh produce sold globally makes any profit
I probably make one of the most delicious marmelades in human history. At least that's what my clan claims. Made from blackberries I collect myself(around 10kg or so per year, takes few hours), Rum, Coffee, cinnamon and vanilla(the real one).Relatively little preserving sugar, so it is not too sweet. Around a fourth of my output I give away for fun. From time to time somebody asks me why I don't make a business out of it, some little side hustle in autumn and winter. I then show them the math and the resulting price. And if that is not enough, I explain to them how I could turn this into a semi-profitable small-scale business... This makes them even more grateful for the little gift of mine.

In 2020 I probably grew the most expensive San Marzano tomatoes worldwide. The amount of work, water and fertilizer I sacrificed for 16kg of the finest dried tomatoes i ever ate is ridiculous. But then again, family and friends still talk about it. The only vegetable in my little garden of about 350 square yards I could ever break even, beside the usual suspects of different herbs, were Musquée de Provence pumpkins. A compost heap and a lot of water is all they need. But then again I still have a few kilo of them in the freezer from last year and to be honest I can't stand them anymore. Fed up, so to say.

Borrible··on Habits can cut the risk of depression in half, a new study finds
>honestly, this sounds like something a depressed person would say.

The first sentence is plainly wrong. All its three statements/implications. ("sounds like"; the depression diagnosis; "depressed person would say")

The second and third sentence are correct.

Borrible··on Habits can cut the risk of depression in half, a new study finds
Depression, the unwanted red pill experience of feeling what it is really like to be without self-deception. Don't think about it, just function.
Borrible··on Earth beyond six of nine planetary boundaries
Bad news, you will face it in your lifetime.

Good news, you won't face the time after.

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