kalavan

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by kalavan 6mo ago
Also called the door-in-the-face method.
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by kalavan 6mo ago
Sounds like classic crowding-out of intrinsic motivation. There's a story, I can't find the page at the moment, of someone who was getting pranked all the time (his house TPed or egged or something). So he offered the miscreants $
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by kalavan 8mo ago
Human lockpickers use feedback when picking. I'm wondering if a bot could do the same - e.g. measuring the travel distance to find a binding pin, or the resistance to moving the wire?
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by kalavan 10mo ago
It's surprising that series and movies with gazillion-dollar budgets don't seem to have money for decent writers. About the only explanation I can think of is that the way the series or movie is made itself makes story too hard to
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by kalavan 10mo ago
> And the idea of spammers using bot nets (therefore not paying for computer themselves) would be less relevant to LLM scraping. It's possible that the services that reward users for running proxies (or are bundled with mobile apps
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by kalavan 10mo ago
There's this paper from 2004: "Proof-of-Work Proves Not to Work": https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rnc1/proofwork.pdf The conclusion back then was that it's impossible to make a threshold that is both low
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by kalavan 10mo ago
That then raises the question: what is a unit of communication? If communication is 20% verbal and 80% nonverbal, and if communication is very nonlinear in understanding (as with your book example), how do we know what 1% of communication i
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by kalavan 11mo ago
It's more likely a reference to France currently being the Fifth Republic.[1] The transition from the Fourth to the Fifth happened in 1958 without much violence. [1] https://thegoodlifefrance.com/short-history-of-the-fi
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by kalavan 11mo ago
It's probably getting amplified by the RLHF stage because the earlier models didn't do that. But that just shifts the question to "what kind of reviewer actually likes 'it's not just X' cliche?" I have no
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by kalavan 11mo ago
It might be that democratic countries are more resilient to that kind of effect because (and to the degree that) they already decouple productive power from representation. E.g. a welfare state doesn't make sense from a purely GDP-self
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by kalavan 11mo ago
Doesn't Norway bring that conclusion in doubt? The state gets massive revenue from oil as well as oil-financed investments, but is still very much a democracy.[0] [0] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/democracy-in
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by kalavan 1y ago
> Every other field is aligned "aligned" when the humans in it are "aligned", That doesn't seem like the whole story. Pick two countries, for instance, one of which has evolved to be democratic (with high regard
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by kalavan 1y ago
I just have to find a way to deal with all this prisoner's honey first.
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by kalavan 1y ago
It's considered mysterious because of the hard problem of consciousness. Describing a mechanism that could be considered analogous to consciousness "from the outside" is pretty easy (just do self reference). But the subjectiv