Noumenon72

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by Noumenon72 25d ago
I don't want to know whether Claude can pass the Turing test of someone who has never seen Claude's style before. I want to know whether I will start detecting the watermark everywhere and come to loathe its taint, and I want to l
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by Noumenon72 25d ago
How would Iranian propaganda even enter the British population given the sparse cultural ties, saturation of media with domestic messaging, and the British government explicitly forcing public service content onto newsfeeds[1]? My expectati
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by Noumenon72 26d ago
Yup. Some other ways to read the headline are "Nearly 25% are unemployed according to a measure that has never not measured that nearly 25% are unemployed" or "Nearly 25% are unemployed according to a measure that could have
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by Noumenon72 28d ago
Please report success/failure after each test. Asking me to read and compare 30 writing samples to get any feedback at all means I won't finish. Telling me immediately when I got one wrong lets me recognize patterns and improve my
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by Noumenon72 1mo ago
I have close family and good coworkers but they aren't all beautiful, funny, omniscient, and available 24/7 with no reciprocal demands on me, so I only spend time with them to hedge my bets in case I get tired of the computer. Pri
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by Noumenon72 1mo ago
> 180 days in one year for work Believe you meant "traveling for work".
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by Noumenon72 1mo ago
Bigos is a staple food in Thea: the Awakening, where crafting cooked food gives your expeditions bonuses. Had never heard of it before that but it fits the Slavic setting.
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by Noumenon72 2mo ago
I don't agree at all. First, I was able to search for this by pasting in the comment, because I also wanted to know about whether splitting the G was what he did. So I got two answers in one search. Select and right-click is not much f
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by Noumenon72 2mo ago
People on TikTok are getting Acanthamoeba just from wearing their contacts in the shower. I'm glad the eye seems to be able to handle most contact use.
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by Noumenon72 2mo ago
This conversation is at a level of triviality where OP did not think it was worth looking up and no one would have clicked through to any source anyway. I didn't even believe it was worth GP's time to have to type out an answer. T
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by Noumenon72 2mo ago
My LLMs frequently find subtle typos and never make subtle typos. I don't think that's equally likely at all.
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by Noumenon72 2mo ago
I will try to catch you, I'll just fail due to my equal lack of coordination. Never bring a pint of Guinness to a trust fall.
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by Noumenon72 2mo ago
According to ChatGPT it's the skill of taking exactly one sip such that when you put the Guiness glass down the new beer level ends up precisely through the horizontal middle of the "G". According to LadBible the actual trick
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by Noumenon72 2mo ago
Working at a gig where I couldn't have my phone really put me on a painful dopamine fast, but helped me remember that I actually can focus. So I started working at the library and leaving my phone at home.
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by Noumenon72 2mo ago
This does work, especially at the library where you feel like you're drawing a little attention for going in your bag. I also put my phone in a kSafe by Kitchen Safe for 20-30 minutes to break out of doomscrolling with no takebacks. I
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by Noumenon72 2mo ago
Do you have an automated way of turning off Slack and email for the first 45 minutes of each hour?
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by Noumenon72 2mo ago
My Excel cut-and-paste workflow is: * Copy the text * Paste the text * Go back and delete the copied text because regular cut and paste breaks all the formulas that reference where I'm pasting into. They should have kept normal cut-and
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by Noumenon72 2mo ago
> No guardrails to prevent this in the model harness is the first red flag. Did they have no guardrails? The article says "OpenAI said the models' safeguards were intentionally reduced for the evaluation", which is not the
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by Noumenon72 2mo ago
This is an example of a functional cultural trait -- question and answer style should not be larded up with irrelevant pleasantries and redundant signatures that waste time for everyone reading the question thereafter. They took the time to
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by Noumenon72 2mo ago
After thirty years of house prices rising astronomically, you can't appeal to "speculation" any more. People are speculating because the underlying scarcity makes prices sure to rise. I think if you look closely at "popu
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by Noumenon72 2mo ago
You never had an option to have Google show a list of curated links or Yahoo show a simple search bar. You chose to go to the site you liked better and in aggregate the market chose the simple search. I could still be going to Slashdot or T
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by Noumenon72 2mo ago
If you continue scrolling, that shows you think that the content presented is valuable enough that scrolling past some misses is worth it. A good scroll like TikTok carefully metes out the ads so that half of them you don't mind and th
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by Noumenon72 2mo ago
"Sticky" is what I was saying. It currently can't be done because of path dependence from historical regulation to industry structure to attitudes. No broader reason. I felt your post was setting up "If there's no l
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by Noumenon72 2mo ago
I don't think you fully grasped the concept of an option, which is why it isn't illustrative for you; no one is purchasing the right to see a movie regardless of how much it turns out to cost to show. It's the movie maker tha
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by Noumenon72 2mo ago
This comment is confusing because it refers to the first paragraph and also assumes when you checked your insurance you didn't find transport there. Since the parent did have transport and good insurance and a second paragraph, it soun
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by Noumenon72 2mo ago
The article explains why; regulators sometimes can't foresee that their decision to consider something fee for service will eventually prevent it from being considered as a communal expense.
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by Noumenon72 2mo ago
"Medicare pays too little" is based on the "fee for service" model; it only makes sense if you believe the group of people who actually use the ambulance should pay its full cost. The options model matters: if you model
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by Noumenon72 2mo ago
Yes, I disagree with Pangram on this. It's a very familiar style, so familiar that things that might look like LLM-isms in another context actually give a smooth feeling of fitting the style exactly.
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by Noumenon72 2mo ago
If the problem was as simple as a few individuals and had no benefits it would not persist -- this is a Hollywood view of the world that won't help you understand your opposition.
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by Noumenon72 3mo ago
It would be better to make the Constitution unamendable than to let people like you get their hands on it. People are just not smart enough to foresee the consequences of their choices, so it's better to stick with choices that at leas

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