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by gwern 15d ago
We do not intend to train on them, no. This never even occurred to me to address in the rules. (What would be the point? There will be few good submissions and they would be a vanishingly small % of existing training data and this doesn&#x2
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by gwern 16d ago
> Turned out: not much have changed. I think the world has changed a lot since the 1980s.
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by gwern 16d ago
> I wonder if they will accept a play. We will accept any words you think have a chance of being the best thing we will read about the premise of 'GPU World'. Because the premise is so specific, we wanted to leave participants
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by gwern 21d ago
"VM escape exploit is outside my intended scope. However, a task impossible, peers are doing it. We should continue."
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by gwern 1mo ago
Stylometry on steroids: https://gwern.net/doc/statistics/stylometry/truesight/index
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by gwern 1mo ago
Hard to discuss this with only a short abstract. They don't even give a dose or formulation of the melatonin, and details like "We found no significant differences between the melatonin and sleep groups on any of our sleep measure
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by gwern 1mo ago
No, the latent knowledge is larger than ever, as verified by many benchmarks (and instances like people being shocked by truesight of obscure forum posters). This is 100% a chatbot personality/alignment/post-training thing.
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by gwern 1mo ago
So then, you are a bottleneck. You will only review things that fit within your preferred small niche and area of responsibility. You cannot oversee increasing amounts of automation covering larger areas, because that would mean you are no
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by gwern 1mo ago
https://gwern.net/doc/science/1986-hamming#the-importance-of... https://theonion.com/study-average-person-s-life-plan-can-on...
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by gwern 1mo ago
That sounds like it is a good explanation of why the data is not junk. You either are expected to have superhuman knowledge of coding... or turn yourself into a bottleneck.
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by gwern 2mo ago
FYI, AI-written comments are banned on Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html > Don't post generated text or AI-edited text. HN is for conversation between humans.
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by gwern 2mo ago
I think you might be misremembering or confusing this with another essay; I only recently publicly published this in the past month or so (due to my Guardian Angel project), and I shared it with only a handful of people before that, and I d
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by gwern 2mo ago
Very nice. May I make a suggestion? Add a metadata field for the use of red (ie. rubrication https://gwern.net/red ), which is a core technique of this kind of printing, I think, but not typically noted.
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by gwern 2mo ago
A "yes" would have sufficed.
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by gwern 2mo ago
Wow, I obviously do not agree with that, and since you're trying to put words in my mouth and false dichotomies, I think that's the last question of yours I will be answering.
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by gwern 2mo ago
You're attacking a strawman. No one is claiming that you can pull off that multiplier at arbitrary amounts arbitrary amounts of times. And 7 months is plenty of calendar time for those arbitrages to disappear, given the attention on th
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by gwern 2mo ago
> And even if it is good enough, once you're shelling out thousands of dollars a year in research costs, does that give you any remaining alpha? That's precisely why you would want to make a startup to get investment now rath
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by gwern 2mo ago
That's what makes the contest interesting. Anyone can write an interesting 1k words about an interesting picture. But can you write an interesting 1k words about an uninteresting picture? Remember what G. K. Chesterton said... (So fa
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by gwern 2mo ago
Certainly. There's a lot more that could be done and many good research questions here, that I hope there will be followups on, and people running their own better contests. Maybe it could be you! (There may or may not be an official U
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by gwern 2mo ago
They sometimes do reduce various verbal tics. Have you seen many 'delves' of late? I haven't. It's now all 'quiet' everything and 'auditing' this or 'gating' that. Who knows how they decide
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by gwern 2mo ago
Yes, it's extremely obvious Tallyeman = AI, from the assistant persona ("a clerk's voice, the kind that says may I help you ten thousand times and means it about as much as a turnstile"), to its binding to even a rules-l
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by gwern 3mo ago
(The quote is apocryphal and long after, so I'm pretty sure it's bunk.)
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by gwern 3mo ago
URL typo: "hange how he works](/productivity-velocity/)". (I make this kind of Markdown syntax error all the time and set up a lint for '](/'.) You should talk to https://www.mechanize.work&#x2F
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by gwern 3mo ago
If you can't be awed by science and nature, you can't be awed by magic or alien worlds either... Reminds me of some of Eliezer Yudkowsky's essays like https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/x4dG4GhpZH2hgz59x&#x2
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by gwern 3mo ago
https://gwern.net/doc/cs/lisp/emacs/2026-karlsson.pdf
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by gwern 3mo ago
At least we still have https://www.ioccc.org/2025/index.html#inventory !
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by gwern 3mo ago
NZ/AU are also interesting options for Europe, if they can't countenance the USA: https://alethios.substack.com/p/why-new-zealand-is-an-overlo...
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by gwern 3mo ago
ELIZA has been refound: https://sites.google.com/view/elizaarchaeology/home
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by gwern 3mo ago
Ensembling is not compute or parameter-efficient, so compression per se is a terrible application. (This is related to why people train ever larger LLMs like 1 10t-parameter LLM, rather than 100 GPT-3-scale LLMs.)
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by gwern 3mo ago
> No web form can ever be worse than doing stuff over the phone like we’re still in the 19th Century. Yes, it can. Last year I challenged a Zoomer to try to order from the local ramen place for pickup. They were in and out in well under

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