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100%, the author believes they learned the lesson, but failed to recognize what it looks like when a person on the other side initiates this process. It's amazing the dissonance he…

The author there reads the point "Two different data entry operators, given a person’s name, will by necessity enter bitwise equivalent strings on any single system, if the system …

Officially, Fable/Mythos testing was delayed because of Anthropic's data retention policy. Don't know if there's word on them working that out yet. https://x.com/arcprize/status/20…

True, though I think the point they're aiming at is that symbols like [new driver mark] contrast with literal pictograms like [symbol of person in wheelchair]. You can infer/guess …

> complacent ("smug satisfaction with oneself" - I disagree that complacency is intrinsically smug) I agree that it doesn't seem 'smug', but weirdly both dictionary dot com and Wik…

I don't normally experience the time interval between when my input streams shut down every night and reboot every morning either, though. Nothing prevents one from running an LLM …

The Thaler case here is something different than "AI-generated = uncopyrightable" though. Thaler was not trying to copyright work in the way humans who make work with tools normall…

If it's not your thing, it's not your thing, but if 'lying' is really the only barrier, note that a lot of churches actually consider it part of their mission to work with nonbelie…

As someone who's done just that... if it helps, understand that this is the kind of person who would be spending hours writing that paragraph anyway, LLM or no. There are many poss…

So, could this be an example of an LLM trained fully on public domain copyright-expired data? Or is this not intended to be the case.

In fact in this case, it's not the known limitation of floating point numbers to blame: this Calculator application gives you the ability (submenu under View > Decimal Places) to c…

> I'm on Mastodon. It's only very mildly nice. The reality is that it still suffers from all of this. Most of it, at least - it does give the option to not be shown forwarded messa…

Unfortunately English "fun" is used both for good wholesome fun and for the cruel fun that is "making fun of" people (laughing at their misfortune).

The site also says (at the bottom) that it grabbed the translations from Google Translate back in 2014 and hasn't updated them since.

Yeah, the bit that gets me is the assumption that an artist just _yields_ to the AI's choices. The author says in the article "my own hand, the single most valuable asset I possess…

Lots of black-and-white pictures, lots of pictures in silhouette. Pictures of the tower can also have a lot of... texture? If you don't know you're looking at "brown with shadows" …

Internet Archive suggests the original discussion was a Usenet thread; here is the link to Google Groups' version of it: https://groups.google.com/d/topic/geometry.research/7pyFhAA…