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surprise $10k bill is getting off easy

yes I think two-way vs one-way communication is a good characterization

hmm, been a minute since I got my ticket, but neither calling CQ nor working a net seem like one to one.

I wanted to say that seems like a stretch but then I often find myself visualizing my best guess at the appearance, including species, of an unknown dog. It seems like size of dog and pitch of bark are negatively correlated

I thought this was always already settled https://alignmentalignment.ai/

I don't buy it. You can kick someone out of a park for not following the rules of the park. The refs just need to be empowered.

me too and I hadn't thought of it in what feels like 20 years. I'm mad that's not what it was

wouldn't AI solving problems in science, engineering, economics, etc be able to apply the new AI math?

reminds me of a line from The Green Pearl by Jack Vance. "If you please, I cannot properly answer negative questions. There are numberless acts which I have not performed; we could confer here forever while I detailed the deeds I have not done."

it's often not a single prompt but a tree or rooted DAG of many prompts, with the root node being the final prompt. the prompts on interior nodes might not make much sense without the intermediate responses as well. how would you like this communicated?

isn't this still a form of chemical weathering?

Why would an open local model use less resources?

Human explaining something: are you familiar with phlox gabrania? no? let me give you some background first

Claude explaining something: gedarkin load bearing phlox gabrania seam. Also, you didn't ask about cheesecake but let me tell you about phlox gabrania cheesecake woles.

My dad added parental controls to our PC sometime around 1997. It also had Eudora installed, which my dad used for email. Poking around, I found the ini file that had the ciphertext of the password for the email server. On a whim, I made another account in Eudora and put the ciphertext in as my password. In the ini, the plaintext of the password came out; I guess Eudora used some symmetric rot16 or xor like cipher! The same password worked to unlock parental controls, which had taken me just about a week to circumvent.

> are using known math to solve them rather than inventing anything new.

Isn't a new proof new math? If not, what qualifies as new math?

the streams aren't man-made and have tons of native fish species that also live in the impoundments now

what is the approximation linear in?

it's certainly not a definite procedure for determining if an arbitrary mathematical statement is true or not. it's more like educated guess and check which definitely scales up

this is cool but the leaderboard is just going to converge on large companies unless it's normalized somehow

just to be clear, it appears you're making up studies, results and explanations for results all in one go, is that right?

tuning defaults for performance feels much more acceptable than tuning defaults for correctness

this was my experience as well. "here's a trend, it's not true in these cases for reasons we won't explain." I only had two semesters and the second was much better than the first.

it is both because the "objective" system is also rife with subjective judgements

is true that if you've done some amount of mental effort in the day, learning becomes "pretty inefficient"? I could see that being true if you're exhausted, but then doing a workout would also be a problem.

presumably whatever the top model uses and then some, since the human can use the model.

I wonder if a model could score higher if it had a human at its disposal?

me too, but they apparently feel more comfortable, so I try to consider that

I agree for the most part. I have seen some non-native English speakers improve their short form English communication with an LLM, as a counter case.

so, the option to disable alerts is not present in the settings menu, despite appearances

any cool features you can share?

I feel great about my degree from my third tier college. I learned a lot I didn't expect to, got into a top tier grad school afterwards, and came away with no debt. Maybe me and the millions of other third tier college students are too dumb to know what's good for us, though.