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QuadmasterXLII
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- QuadmasterXLIIAt home pissing about- 5x faster. At work, I think actively slows me down. At first I thought the difference was that at work I needed something very precise, and I wasn’t good enough at prompting to deliver that precision. Now I think it’s that if I try to do a hobby project and the AI steamrolls over any prompting to do a slightly different worse hobby project, I’m way less likely to notice or resist because there’s no iron requirement of profit maintaining discipline.
- Growing up, the lyrics always included the verse as well as the chorus: “… and the joker got away! // Batman in the kitchen // Robin in the hall // Joker in the bathroom // peeing on the wall. // …” but I can’t remember how it ended. does anyone else remember this?
- I think it outside of implementability, it provides a nice proof that no algorithm can answer questions like “is the trajectory of this ball in this billiard eventually periodic.” Of course it (if I am reading correctly) leaves open that an algorithm could exist assuming the wall isn’t fractal
- This is a really cool result! It's computation in a single ball bouncing around a 2-D container, with the infinite state needed encoded in infinite digits of the real number coordinates of the ball (and balls velocity.) Am I reading correctly that the boundary of the billiard table is fractal, with infinite complexity, but the complexity is simple in some sense? Otherwise, a fractal wall encoding a look-up-table of halt/doesn't halt would also do turing computation (better even!) but the paper seems less trivial than this
- To answer your literal question of "why do people think..."
For a while there was a widespread standing principle to not assume malice for actions that could be explained as a simple mistake. If only one person follows this policy, it's great. However, so many people were following this policy that it created massive incentives to disguise profit motivated malice as explainable accidents. We're in the midst of a massive backswing against this.
So, there is very little taste for patience when agents of ycombinator make mistakes that benefit a16z such as accidentally removing them from the title of a negative article, due to the billions of dollars entangling ycombinator with the reputation of a16z. This is not because it wasn't an accident- it's because any culture of patience with this will lead (and has led) to an explosion of copycat whoopsies.
- reading the paper, I’d say this is a case of hoofbeats meaning horses- people are just getting high and crashing.. Although, this seems like a case where the average is very vulnerable to a ‘spiders georg’ type distortion, especially because of the tolerances people build.
- Thank you that helps to inject a lot of skepticism. I was wondering how it so easily worked out what Q: A: stood for when that formatting took off in the 1940s
- The US is currently starting a war with Venezuela. You are ascribing coherence and deliberateness where I don’t see evidence for its presence.
- Pretty funny if it's Mississippi and they're just correct.
- i mean, a theory of everything should at least make retrodictions, which afaik string theory never got to. if someone wants to point me to where someone solved e.g. the hydrogen spectrum using a string theory, then I will be wrong but very happy
- as well as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripwire ;)
- The second paragraph is highly derivative of the adversarial turbo encabulator, which Schmithuber invented in the 90s. No citation of course.
- Threat model is probably third party ad and tracking libraries that pay to get into apps. If I caught it, I'd expect it to be from an app to use a parking deck, a colorful desk lamp, an otoscope etc where the developers sold out years ago
- The problem with this reasoning is pretty simple: Alignment is capability, but capability is not necessarily alignment.
- It seems like the GPT zero team is automating it! Up to very recently, no one sane would cite a paper with correct title but make up random authors- and shortly, this specific signal will be goodhearted away by a “make my malpractice less detectable MCP,” so I can see why this automation is happening exactly now.
- Throw in nc and a while loop, and you can have a server too!
- My hottest take is that it wasn’t anonymity, but auto correct, that spelled (literally) the end. Without autocorrect and auto-grammar, ideas were tagged with the credential/authority of “I can use they’re / their / there” correctly, which was a high ass bar.
- Approximately 50% of people with autism have intellectual disability.
The people without intellectual disability are more convenient to recruit for studies. As a result, across a wide variety of studies on autism, only 6% of autistic participants had intellectual disability.
- I had an abstract algebra exam where for the last question, I couldn’t remember the theorem to do it in a sensible way, but could see that the brute force approach only needed ~40 modular multiplications. That came down to the wire!
Shockingly I got full credit, although the professor probably picked a bigger prime for her next class.