grog454

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by grog454 8d ago
> We have now seen that even the rumor of someone working on a problem can trigger a massive amount of AI-powered effort to flatten it before the original research project has time to reach its full potential. In other words, the "r
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by grog454 26d ago
Some people have to work a thousand times harder than someone else for 1/1000th the payoff due to their starting point. That's just life. But that doesn't reduce the impact your choices have on your own life. With a few extre
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by grog454 26d ago
I could be mistaken but my interpretation is that "studying for your own good" is being contrasted with "studying so you don't fail". If you actually fail students, they'll have a second motivation beyond trust
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by grog454 27d ago
Overlap the splits?
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by grog454 4mo ago
> occasionally paging back up to pretend to reread some earlier section No eye tracking in this dystopia I guess.
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by grog454 4mo ago
> Information bubbles mean people are more convinced than ever. And therefore critical thinking is more important than ever. That isn't intrinsically a problem, but it is a problem for people that lack it.
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by grog454 4mo ago
> It has been over a decade since any ordinary off-the-shelf closed-source software was meaningfully obscured from serious adversaries. Probably goes without saying but the last line of defense is not deploying your software publicly an
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by grog454 5mo ago
Throttle and yoke aren't a vote of no confidence from aircraft manufacturers. Some modes of operation are suitable for autopilot and some are not.
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by grog454 5mo ago
Where does your 500 come from? Why can't Satoshi be someone who simply had no deanonymized online presence?
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by grog454 7mo ago
> You would not start with "The car is functional [...]" Nope, and a human might not respond with "drive". They would want to know why you are asking the question in the first place, since the question implies someth
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by grog454 7mo ago
> You said it correctly with "would've been safer to start building a distance buffer", that is the proxy the insurance companies want to use for risk assessment. Then use it? Mandate reaction speed tests or other driving
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by grog454 7mo ago
The landing page video's first incident is a car coming from behind and from the right, cutting off the filming car. The filming car didn't react at all when instant (but measured) braking would've been safer to start buildin
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by grog454 8mo ago
> I reboot, log into Epic and GOG, and start downloading The Outer Worlds, a game from 2019 I’ve been playing a bit lately. It runs fine with Proton, and I can even sync my saves from the cloud. I play it for a few minutes with my trackb
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by grog454 8mo ago
For those hoping for more elaboration (including myself): 1. Only the portion of the principal that is due to be paid within the next 12 months is considered a "current liability". 2. Interest is a "future cash flow" tha
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by grog454 8mo ago
Wouldn't the principle be a current liability, and the interest the future liability?
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by grog454 8mo ago
Not OP and not an accountant. I see the reasoning for accountants keeping future liabilities off of the balance sheet. I do this myself in multiple contexts. Still, when making decisions about whether to take out or grant a loan (personal o
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by grog454 9mo ago
> One way would be to use a polycentric form of law where each individual could determine what or which form of law to live under that protects them by voluntarily entering some sort of protective group. Or choose none at all and merely
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by grog454 9mo ago
Who or what should determine the natural rights that one lives by?
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by grog454 9mo ago
> Neither was slavery. Was that OK too? And to clarify (though it’s worrying this point needs to be made), I mean morally. It may well have been morally OK to most people (see: moral relativism), and since you're implying it wouldn&
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by grog454 9mo ago
My question was "What's the value of a secret benchmark to anyone but the secret holder?" The root of this whole discussion was a post about how Gemini 3 outperformed other models on some presumably informal question benchmar
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by grog454 9mo ago
I learned in another thread there is some work being done to avoid contamination of training data during evaluation of remote models using trusted execution environments ( https://arxiv.org/pdf/2403.00393 ). It requires
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by grog454 9mo ago
I see the potential value of private evaluations. They aren't scientific but you can certainly beat a "vibe test". I don't understand the value of a public post discussing their results beyond maybe entertainment. We hav
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by grog454 9mo ago
It's hard to have any certainty around concealment unless you are only testing local LLMs. As a matter of principle I assume the input and output of any query I run in a remote LLM is permanently public information (same with search qu
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by grog454 9mo ago
I guess there's two things I'm still stuck on: 1. What is the purpose of the benchmark? 2. What is the purpose of publicly discussing a benchmark's results but keeping the methodology secret? To me it's in the same spiri
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by grog454 9mo ago
Ok, but then your "post" isn't scientific by definition since it cannot be verified. "Post" is in quotes because I don't know what you're trying to but you're implying some sort of public discourse. F
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by grog454 9mo ago
This thought process is pretty baffling to me, and this is at least the second time I've encountered it on HN. What's the value of a secret benchmark to anyone but the secret holder? Does your niche benchmark even influence which
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by grog454 9mo ago
> By this logic, literally nobody anywhere has free speech. Nobody anywhere has freedom of speech. And a majority of people don't really think about what it means and don't want it in the purest form despite what they say. Two
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by grog454 10mo ago
What image are you using? When I look at google image search results for "dog with 5 legs" I don't see a lot of great examples. The first unequivocal "dog with 5 legs" was an illustration. Here was my conversation w
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by grog454 10mo ago
Who did Satoshi talk to?
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by grog454 2y ago
> Exploits need to plug into a business plan Or, you know, develop a new "business plan" around an exploit.

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