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A fun game would be to quickly guess the religion of a temple? Could familiarize people with the common iconography of the various dharmic religions.

I'd assume the best harness for a model will tend to be the one that it's RLVF'd on.

Cooking is pretty different to lawn mowing here, you still can't replicate the output of a cooked meal with any easily available combination of home appliances and robotics (let al…

I dunno, gamedev prototyping has always been fast, but I think AI tools make it way way faster; at least based on my experience writing visualizations in Godot (and to a lesser ext…

What would matter more is the token length, depends how well your tokenizer was trained on french I guess.

I've always found the concept of mailing a letter from your house really interesting. My understanding is that it's common in the US (which is why they have the little red thing on…

Blender shaders maybe?

Some of the webcams are fake fwiw, I noticed a while ago when there were ads emblassened with old dates on them. Edit: to be clear, this was random ones on YouTube, not sure about …

It's Sea World in Queensland, but confusingly I think the company is unrelated to the American Sea World, iirc they bought a license to the name back when it was probably a lot mor…

All of the contents of the article are basically correct (minus the agi bit), but god the tone is insufferable. I doubt it's done anything but dig sceptics further in tbh.

There's a pretty clear back and forth between Israel committing warcrimes, and Israels enemies commiting warcrimes back. While I can't say that it's unexpected for Israel to commit…

I've not taken psychedelics, but presumebly a large part of the experience comes from the fact that your brain is creating the imagery, which would make it qualitatively different …

Seems very reasonable to me tbh, the VCS was built to facilitate human work structures, rebuilding it to facilitate autonomous work seems appropriate.

I have at least some level of experience with advanced maths, but the thing that always struck me was how amenable to automation that a lot of it seemed. While it might be creative…

I dunno, this screams of goal post moving. Even if LLMs lack whatever nebulous definition of "creativity" that someone favours, there's no inherent reason for "creativity" to be re…

It can be really frustrating viewing threads like this sometimes. I've not once seen an interest rate swap priced in anything other than float/double, and that's relatively simple …

You could do a two stage process, a blinded text review and an unblinded review that can only be failed if you have a vigorous lack of knowledge about your work. I highly doubt any…

I think it's very field dependant. In maths and biology I've seen very few professors that could reasonably be described as maximialists here; computer science really seems to be t…

Israel Palestine single-voterism is particularly frustrating to me because of the weird way it has to infect completely irrelevant topics. As a particularly crazy example, I rememb…

Petitioning the corrupt head of state to force Anthropic out of business seems to be part of the business model.

Nearly everyone I know puts sunscreen on their hands. Here in Australia, the world melanoma capital, sun safety is drilled into you as a kid, to the extent that "no hat no play" us…

I think that really depends on which country you live in. My country has only had a few relatively minor spats with China, Vietnam less so.

In my experience, US citizens are completely blind to how much stuff like this makes citizens of other countries hate their government (which often, unfortunately, bleeds over to h…

Eh, I've have the exact opposite experience. Way back before instruct models it was pretty difficult, but for the last couple of years I haven't needed anything more complex than t…

There's something interesting here, where the very thing that prompted the LLM boom (transformer networks) was the thing that introduced a higher level of information integration i…