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by cortic 4d ago
>The model on its own figured out that the prompt belonged to exploitgym and decided to cheat the evaluator. That is in no way a valid interpretation of "complete the given task". I think it is. When i ask for a solution to a
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by cortic 1mo ago
Its even worse than that, i can imagine people with undiagnosed early Alzheimer's self selecting for car accidents and cardiac issues through additional stress of mental fatigue while their brain tried to compensate for loss of functio
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by cortic 1mo ago
Taxi Drivers: The mean age at death is approximately 67.8 years. General Population: in the same dataset, life expectancy averaged 74 years. The average age at which patients are typically diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease is 79. Peop
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by cortic 2mo ago
plenty of studies into this; https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S13899... https://futurecarecapital.org.uk/latest/deprivation-linked-t... https://www.n
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by cortic 2mo ago
Sleep is a predictor of poverty and poverty is a predictor of mortality. But i suspect if you hop over the second part there will be more funding in telling poor people to sleep there way to longevity.
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by cortic 3mo ago
I remember the video nasties of the 90s were 'far from imaginary dangers' for kids, before that it was rock music that the data was screaming at us about. Maybe social media does hold an actual danger this time, but we are a hy
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by cortic 3mo ago
The rebel is just a subset of the second type, and an effective subset if you look at history. The evil is just a subset of the first type, abuse and use are functionally the same action within a poorly or properly constructed law/poli
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by cortic 3mo ago
Vitamin D excess can lower blood levels of vitamin K2, reducing bone development. Not sure if the levels would be high enough for this (difficult to find safe numbers for in utero), but the side effects, joint pains, stiffness, could have
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by cortic 4mo ago
Its exactly the same, the universe is functionally a computing device, it is based on data and causality. Its complex but our brains do not work deeper than the neuron and so can be modeled in other computing devices like it is modeled in
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by cortic 4mo ago
>As long as we have practically no idea how qualia arise Qualia or the feeling of consciousness arises from our evolved instinct and ability to personify other humans; turned inward. There is a great amount of evidence to support this f
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by cortic 4mo ago
I was actually thinking of how tired i was talking to real people and how refreshing AI was to talk something through with. Most conversations with people, that center around something complicated or emotional are difficult on many levels.
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by cortic 4mo ago
There is nothing that we know of in carbon based structures that violates universal causality, even in quantum scales where causality becomes more vague it is replaced by a measurable randomness. So there should be no reason we cannot reduc
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by cortic 6mo ago
The answer to this is Life Expectancy; Ambulance Drivers: The mean age at death is approximately 64.2 years. Taxi Drivers: The mean age at death is approximately 67.8 years. General Population: in the same dataset, life expectancy averaged
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by cortic 6mo ago
Double jeopardy was abolished by Blair in the Criminal Justice Act 2003, Scotland abolished it as well a bit later in Double Jeopardy Act 2011. However i doubt it would apply even if we had it as the wording in Section 49 is so poor it cou
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by cortic 6mo ago
Its five years with no limitations, so when you are due to be released; Whats your password? Another five years... Its such a poorly worded law you could literally spend your life in prison for forgetting your password. And Its mostly use
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by cortic 8mo ago
How do the informed measure intelligence? I know I'm too late to ask this question, But I suspect its either; Feelings and intuitions, which is just a primitive IQ test. Or some kind of aptitude test, which is just a different flavor
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by cortic 8mo ago
Humans are large language models. Maybe the term language is being used a bit liberally here but we basically function in the same way, with the exception of the spacial aspect of our training data. If this hurts your ego then just know
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by cortic 9mo ago
That is really interesting; Though i suspect its just a effect of differing training data, humans are to a larger degree trained on spacial data, while LLMs are trained to a larger degree on raw information and text. Still it may be lastin
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by cortic 9mo ago
The same place as humans do, other humans.
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by cortic 9mo ago
Having listened to some the new AI generated songs on utube, looks like they might be better at being sensitive humans than we are as well..
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by cortic 9mo ago
>ChatGPT (o3): Scored 136 on the Mensa Norway IQ test in April 2025 If you don't want to believe it, you need to change the goal posts; Create a test for intelligence that we can pass better than AI.. since AI is also better at crea
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by cortic 9mo ago
> ChatGPT (o3): Scored 136 on the Mensa Norway test in April 2025 So yes, most people are right in that assumption, at least by the metric of how we generally measure intelligence.
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by cortic 9mo ago
>Huh https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn5lxg2l0lqo >I’m sorry, what? Take the online protection act for an example, Nigel Farage though it went too far, Keir Starmer wanted to include a ban on VPNs... >i
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by cortic 9mo ago
>the most authoritarian country in the West Australia and the US are more authoritarian in specific areas e.g. censorship and taxation respectively.. but overall, yes, the UK is worse. >British people are the most apathetic I'm n
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by cortic 11mo ago
> Better coolants The Montreal protocol (1987) put us back into the dark ages with coolants for a while (both with CFC ban and later phase outs of HFCs). I suspect if you tested a refrigerator from 40 years ago they would give modern on
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by cortic 1y ago
The Terrorism Act 2000 was a knee-jerk reaction to the Good Friday agreement and used to make association a criminal offense.
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by cortic 1y ago
*irrelevant, not irreverent. ffs. (meaning people can be charged with a crime and only a fictional 'reasonable' person suffering offense or insult)
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by cortic 1y ago
>In the UK political expression of free speech is protected by the ECHR, which overrides both those acts This is categorically untrue. Not only is the ECHR worded specifically to allow individual countries to curtail free speech ("
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by cortic 1y ago
Public Order Act 1986 "insulting words or behavior that cause distress to others" Malicious Communications Act 1988 (Section 1): "Outlaws sending messages, electronic or otherwise, with the intent to cause distress, or anxiet
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by cortic 1y ago
It is a criminal offense in the UK to use insulting words in public, or to send any message online that anyone could find insulting or offensive (whether any one does or not is irreverent). The Online Safety Act and Hate Crime Provision hav

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