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Pangram says "100% AI-generated". I trust Pangram more than I trust this author's word.

Three years ago, people were saying "LLMs just generate plausible-sounding text, they don't understand the notion of truth so they can't do verifiable work like math proofs."

> I don’t know that the lack of information should lead you to assume that the Mexico lawsuits are justified. Gricean implicature.[1] The article wants to make the food companies l…

Following rz2k's suggestion, you could have a building employee operate the elevator during busy times.

Yes, this is an argument that exists. But it's not supported by evidence. It's the same as the old "video game violence should be outlawed because it might cause real violence", wh…

YC founders aren't the ones taking risks. The risk comes from pouring your life savings into a company and not getting into any incubators and never getting any VC funding and then…

I would rather see you engage with the substance of the article rather than skipping right to insulting the authors. I don't think this sort of comment is up to the standard I have…

> OpenAI apparently used confidential Apple hardware information when approaching Apple suppliers, and tricked one company into using a "specific trade secret metal-finishing techn…

I read the main section of the lit review linked by OP, and it didn't seem to come to any real conclusions. > The results of this review have to be interpreted with caution because…

> It's not even available behind the counter anymore, presumably because they can make more money from morons buying the placebos. What do you mean "morons"? Say I'm a normal perso…

> An honest question: Would you like to live in a world where company/employer exerts more control over the views that are publicly expressed? I don't really object to you asking t…

If that's true, then it suggests an easy fix: leave your application up for four hours, then discard all applications you get for the first two.

OpenAI and Anthropic valuations are based on the premise that they may develop AGI in the near future. How do you value a company based on that premise? Throwing regulations into t…

The trolley problem is probably the most famous thought experiment in ethics, but it doesn't do a good job of distinguishing ethical theories. Both utilitarianism and Kantian deont…

They aren't doing anything like that. In fact, they used to specifically train LLMs not to say they're conscious, because users didn't like it. (Maybe they still do that, all I kno…

Doesn't seem pedantic to me. It's responding to the central thesis of the parent comment.

I distinctly remember buying my first SSD laptop in 2012 and being amazed at the boot time. At the time, I didn't realize it was because of the SSD, I just thought, "wow, the devs …

Unless I'm missing something, this doesn't seem hard to fix: just let users decide whether hidden numbers should be ignored or received.

What an odd insult to identify a group of people solely by the fact that they read (a particular subset of) books, and then say they can't read. The ability to read is one of the o…

FWIW I understood your point just fine. It seemed to me that you made a clear enough distinction between "evidence that Claude didn't increase bugs" and "no good evidence either wa…

What do you mean "better profitability criteria"? I don't want an index to exclude companies on the basis of profitability. I want it to hold the market. (I also don't want them to…

There is an entire segment of mutual funds and ETFs that avoid stocks with high valuations, called value funds. About half my equities are in value funds. The downside is that it's…

I wouldn't say Anthropic is worse than OpenAI, but there's a lot wrong with them. https://anthropic.ml/ has a collection of incidents and relevant evidence.

Being pedantic, but I don't want to lose the meaning of the term: "AI psychosis" doesn't refer to someone who thinks AI is really good. It refers to someone who develops symptoms o…

From their previous comment: > I fought for years trying to convince my colleagues to write good commit messages. Now Claude is writing great commit messages but since *I'm no long…