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Lots of words that boil down to a 2500 year old mathematical formula, 天下之所惡唯孤寡不穀而王公以自名也, which in English translates as something like, Society's only problems are performative victimhood, colonization of the moral virtue of the vulnerable and oppressed, and mandatory penance rituals, especially when presidents and professors make it their job.

Cynical and fun to read but no. Too many parasites have already chewed their way to the empty heart of power of the post-war liberal system, and I think the next time it gets power at the highest levels in the US will be the end if it there. Maybe it will last another generation in Europe, but not long enough to see the scenario you describe play out.

All this agitprop makes me wonder which of your bosses is going down.

I think your skepticism is warranted. Top comments look a lot like ads to me.

I've just noticed this hierarchal tripartism so I'm happy to see that other people have retconned it too.

Heh. I haven't tried it yet, but even grok says Claude is the way to go.

They should laugh while they can ;) Still waiting for the crash and to see what lives on and what gets recycled. My bet is that grok is here to stay ;)

(Don't hurt me, I just like his chatbot. It's the best I've tried at, "Find the passage in X that reminded me of the passage in Y given this that and the other thing." It has a tendency to blow smoke if you let it, but they all seek to affirm more than I'd like, but ain't that the modern world? It can also be hilariously funny in surprisingly apt ways.)

I had in mind the datasets of Easy2Hard-Bench that the study tested against: math competitions, math word problems, programming, chess puzzles, science QA, and commonsense reasoning.

The last problem like this that I myself asked an LLM to solve was to find tax and base price of items on an invoice given total price and tax rates. I couldn't make sense of the answer, but asking the LLM questions made me realize that I had framed the problem badly, and moreso that I didn't know how to ask. (Though the process also triggered a surprising ability of my own to dredge up and actually apply basic algebra.) I'm sure it's that I'm still learning what and how to ask.

Not sure. I tend to think the "why" of things is always emergent, then applied to analogies.

Honestly I had no idea what to make of the abstract at first so I questioned duck.ai GPT5 mini to try to understand it in my own words, and according to mini, the first paragraph aligns pretty well with the abstract.

The second paragraph is my own opinion, but according to mini, aligns with at least a subset of cognitive theory in the context of problem solving.

I highly recommend asking an LLM to explore this interesting question you've asked. They're all extremely useful for testing assumptions, and the next time I can't sleep I'll probably do so myself.

Personally I haven't had any luck getting an LLM to solve even simple problems, but I suspect I don't know yet how to ask, and it's possible that the people who are building them are still working it out themselves.

My interpretation of the abstract is that humans are pretty good at judging how difficult a problem is and LLMs aren't as reliable, that problem difficulty correlates with activations during inference, and finally that an accurate human judgement of problem difficulty (*as input) leads to better problem solving.

If so, this is a nice training signal for my own neural net, since my view of LLMs is that they are essentially analogy-making machines, and that reasoning is essentially a chain of analogies that ends in a result that aligns somewhat with reality. Or that I'm as crazy as most people seem to think I am.

Well said. I'm too offended by justification of it not to scold the author of the original comment, but the aggressive assumptions in the replies made it worthwhile. I share your guarded hope. I'm fairly sure India will put people like this in their place eventually.

So basically you are saying that India is a society that is still soaked in an ideology that justifies the special privileges of temple staff and tells peasants that being a sharecropper in a rent for protection racket is their own fault, so hand it over, and moreso that you approve. You sound like every temple staff worker ever. Grow up.

It's Google's response to the remedies required by the Antitrust act decision last August. The timing is explained by the US Supreme Court decision of Oct 6 to deny Google its request to pause implementation of said remedies.

Hi I'm nobody and the stories on here constantly remind me of this old parable. There once was a man who was afraid of his own shadow and who hated his own footprints. Somehow he got it into his head that if he could just run fast enough he could outrun them, so he ran and he ran, but no matter how fast he ran his shadow stayed by his side, and the faster he ran the more footprints he made. Somehow the man got it into his head that he just wasn't running fast enough, so he ran and he ran and he didn't stop or rest and he died. Not knowing that standing still is how to stop making footprints, and that resting under a tree is how to stop making shadows, is just so tragic.

I wonder if this is the same person behind a series of accounts and similar opinions in the taosim subreddit.

Thank you. One person. One person is able to question the narrative of human intelligence and arrive at the essential distinction. Maybe a reflexive habit of mind that seeks to find differences between the human and the other and is incapable of seeing the other in the human.