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Corps don’t act on their own. The same people that work in corps are consumers

Half (or more?) of the point of writing docs is for you to understand the system better.

Opus 5 scoring higher than 5.5 makes me question of the value of this benchmark to real world usage

My favorite math class I ever took had optional homework, but every exam problem was taken directly from the homework. So if you did all the homework the exams were very easy.

I imagine this would work very well in the current period since there’s no reason to use LLMs for this homework. Of course even back then many students didn’t do it and got low grades, but you have to be responsible at some point.

You forgot the small caps headings or tags added randomly everywhere.

It’s already mostly AI written.

Pangram flags it as mostly AI.

Sol6 is clearly worse than 5.6. Have you tried using it? And Astra is more expensive.

HN is social media :)

At that point I might as well do it myself

Last time I estimated it was like 30 years to pay back. I doubt the hardware will even last that long.

Why not “Teen Cigarette Bans Miss the Point”?

Just because compliance isn’t 100% doesn’t mean there’s no benefit. Also these things can take time to work, but we do have evidence that bans reduce usage to an extent.

Gaming is much healthier than social media.

Are you sure they even will want it back? Might be better to just donate it all now and save the money.

You could say the same of any critique about anything.

Reverse signaling

Technology keeps advancing in a domain until suddenly it doesn’t. Where are my flying cars?

Republican != conservative

:)

Also some of the numbers are very sensitive to start/end dates (remind me, did anything happen in 2020?)

The American founders predicted all these problems, which is why they formed a representative democracy. However over the years we have chipped away at that aspect and ended up with an election systems that encourage populism.

Apart from a brief period (which also had higher inflation) yields were more like 6% in thr 90s.

Rates also encode inflation expectations. So it may be that inflation is expected higher in the US

Gell-Mann Amnesia HN version?

Right, the real world doesn’t blow up. So if N-S does then it means in some situations it doesn’t model the real world well. That’s important because if we can understand those situations we can avoid erroneously relying on it.

If I said “I ate 7 cookies, all chocolate chip” surely it wouldn’t be ambiguous? :)

Limits can be defined within finitism as long as the end result is finite. Essentially it’s just a process which lets us get as close to 2 as we want.

A better example would be a limit that equals sqrt(2) which finitists would probably say cannot represent a real object because it is only defined as the end of an infinite process.

Streaming is basically a sounding error in my budget. Now if we’re talking about food or health care…

300 songs is not many at all. I have purchased around 20,000 songs in my life. Would it have been cheaper to use Spotify? I suppose so but (a) they don’t have all the music I want and (b) I prefer having the independence to control my media. Also Spotify didn’t exist when I started :)

LLMs seem to be much better at finding counterexamples than other types of proof. It’s unlikely the other millennium problems will be solved with counter examples

Isn’t that how research works? You build on what others have done. I don’t understand the big deal. I’d rather have the result available sooner than later just to assuage some egos

And yet it happens constantly in the history of science