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by CrazyStat 3d ago
Codex still does this regularly, in my experience: “two tests mistakenly asserted [insert condition here], I have corrected them.” It always apologizes when caught, of course.
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by CrazyStat 5d ago
You can claim you’re acting honestly all day long but you still have a CEO with a long-standing reputation for lying.
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by CrazyStat 5d ago
Ok, but this doesn’t scale well. It takes a nontrivial amount of time to evaluate each person, and it would have to be done repeatedly as they age. You would need an entire government bureaucracy devoted to it. Then people will want an appe
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by CrazyStat 5d ago
The whole purpose of law is to be a uniform system of justice. At best it could offer guidelines for how to evaluate people: perhaps level of education attained, demonstrated ability to take responsibility for themselves, etc. But the evalu
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by CrazyStat 5d ago
It’s hard to give the misunderstanding/coincidence claim credence when Altman explicitly referenced Her in relation to the feature.
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by CrazyStat 5d ago
If a law is going to treat 5 year olds differently from 50 year olds then a line has to be drawn somewhere. 18 is arbitrary, but no more arbitrary than any other age you could pick.
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by CrazyStat 5d ago
It's almost been 15 years since the Snowden leaks, and there were rumors going around before that. I don't think it would have been that outlandish.
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by CrazyStat 6d ago
> I've heard some people say the model's solution is quite different from theirs (but I have no clue how to personally assess the spiritual truth of this, so please give it zero weight) Why would you include a statement that yo
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by CrazyStat 13d ago
I hardly think it’s fair to label an objection so old that Turing included it (and discussed it at length) in the list of objections to thinking machines in 1950 “moving the goalposts.” > These arguments take the form, “I grant you that
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by CrazyStat 15d ago
Even better, from the BMJ christmas edition https://www.bmj.com/content/347/bmj.f7102 > Around 0.5% of women consistently affirmed their status as virgins and did not use assisted reproductive technology, yet r
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by CrazyStat 18d ago
> it clearly is just technology debt they've been carrying around from a silly decision over a decade ago Almost three decades ago—development started in 1999 and the game was released in 2003.
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by CrazyStat 23d ago
The mandatory policy was part of the codebase that the agent was working on. The agent didn’t feel like figuring out how to make the new feature it was working on respect that policy, so it just changed the policy.
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by CrazyStat 23d ago
My ex-Catholic's friend's mother refused to speak to him until his first child was born, at which point the draw of a grandchild overcame her aversion I guess. They've (mostly) reconciled now.
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by CrazyStat 24d ago
Today Codex decided that it could resolve the blocker by just changing the mandatory policy it was running up against into an “advisory policy.”
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by CrazyStat 24d ago
People I know personally were strongly ostracized after leaving Jehovah's Witnesses (in the US) and the Catholic church (in Latin America). Cut out of their existing social circles, immediate family members refusing to attend their wed
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by CrazyStat 2mo ago
Sam Altman: “GPT-5 is the first time that it really feels like talking to an expert in any topic, like a PhD-level expert.” Elon Musk on Grok: “better than PhD level in everything.”
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by CrazyStat 2mo ago
> Now talk to someone living near the equator like Singapore, and 0F is unimaginably cold (even 40F is basically unheard of), and 100F is very hot but not extraordinarily so. Bad example--Singapore has never had a single 100F day in reco
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by CrazyStat 2mo ago
This matches my experience as a statistician who used to begrudgingly write bad code when I had to. LLMs have opened up huge new possibilities for me. No doubt there's some Gell-Mann amnesia going on, because I regularly have to correc
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by CrazyStat 2mo ago
If you haven't tried a creatine supplement, I'd suggest trying it. 5g/day makes a huge difference for me in workout recovery.
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by CrazyStat 3mo ago
Agreed. The concept of “don’t reuse your old work when you’re supposed to be creating new work” may be valid, especially in training environments, but it shouldn’t be called self-plagiarism or treated like plagiarism.
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by CrazyStat 3mo ago
Perhaps an easier to intuit version of it is how full airliners are. An airline might report that their flights are on average 60% full, and that might be completely absolutely 100% true. But that's not what passengers experience. If w
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by CrazyStat 3mo ago
I have similar feelings about TV shows. There are shows that I wish hadn’t ended after a couple of seasons, but there are also a ton of shows that dragged on for 6, 8, 15 seasons when it clearly would have been better to end them years earl
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by CrazyStat 3mo ago
Make sure to remind it to make no mistakes.
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by CrazyStat 3mo ago
An LLM trained only on true statements will still hallucinate.
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by CrazyStat 3mo ago
> Remember, the only thing that stops a guy with an evil god-in-a-box is a guy with a benevolent god-in-a-box, and only Antrophic can lead us to the second one – but only if we act together as a nation and ban those subversive open weigh
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by CrazyStat 3mo ago
A highly publicized recent example: the author (of a book about genAI!) who doesn’t understand why he should be held responsible for the fake quotes he copy and pasted into his book from ChatGPT [1]. > I do not understand why it's m
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by CrazyStat 3mo ago
Fair. The concept predates Marx, but in contemporary thought is most closely associated with Marxism. The quote about silver from Peru is particularly striking to my ears. That’s a long and dangerous journey, and obviously (to my modern sen
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by CrazyStat 3mo ago
Labor theory of value is a Marxist idea, not an Adam Smith idea. Internet Marxists sometimes point to a passage in The Wealth of Nations to suggest that Smith also supported a labor theory of value, but this is—in the most generous interpre
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by CrazyStat 3mo ago
Doesn’t it? It seems in line with the matplotlib drama where the llm agent wrote a blog post attacking the maintainer for rejecting its pull request [1]. It’s not something that stock claude code would say, but certainly seems within the re
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by CrazyStat 3mo ago
Giraffes neurons can be up to 15 feet long. Blue whales are speculated to have neurons up to 100 feet long, though they've never been directly observed (dissected).

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