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I still haven’t seen a convincing exoneration for how to avoid UBI warping politics. It seems politically impossible to lower (see Alaska’s challenges [1]) and too attractive for p…

I had that same issue, and to solve it, I connected to the TV with ADB and disabled the default launcher.

I agree. My Google TV with Projectivity Launcher shows zero launcher ads unlike my Apple TV. As a bonus, it lets me install SmartTube and use DeArrow and Sponsor Block. I just wish…

This post unfortunately isn’t drawing the necessary distinctions between utility models, published applications, and issued patents. And it isn’t focusing on the claims. Patent law…

They could benchmark the price against comparable countries/regions. Pay no more than, say, 110% of the average cost of the drug in Europe.

Right. If it were trained through August 1939, how much prompting would be necessary to get it to predict aspects of WWII.

I had a similar thought but about asking the LLM to predict “future” major historical events. How much prompting would it take to predict wars, etc.?

A plausible alternative explanation for asking Johansson: (1) They cast the current actor to test the technology and have a fallback. The actor sounds somewhat different from Johan…

I’m not sure of the meta factors have driven it recently, but at least in some large US metro areas, it became enough of a problem that some coffee chains have recently switched fr…

I wonder how much this has to do with LLMs making the essay portion of college applications (and even high school grades) somewhat useless at distinguishing among students. Having …

The article is light on the actual allegations, but at least they link to the complaint [1] (so few articles do). The claims are: Public Nuisance, Negligence, and Gross Negligence.…

> In other words, and I'm hardly the only one saying this: ChatGPT is not a replacement for people. It's an augmentation. It's a bicycle for the mind, to steal Steve Jobs's famous …

The vaccine was the shingles vaccine and it was administered in 2013.

How do we know that these are the actual confidential rules it follows rather than text it “made up” given the prompt?

The opinion: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/21-468_c0ne.pdf

It's also a way for them to save on credit card processing fees by trading the fees of multiple (relatively) small drink purchases for one fee for the gift card purchase. An often …

Here’s the decision being referenced: https://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldocs/myvmojgodvr/...

>The swift expansion of generative AI is driving the transition from a Social Graph to a Content Graph. . . . The core principle that Facebook was built on is gradually crumbling. …

OSS Simple Sabotage Field Manual https://archive.org/details/SimpleSabotageFieldManual/page/n... Pages 28-32 are the most referenced but the rest is interesting too.

> The intuition is that if a paper or patent is disruptive, the subsequent work that cites it is less likely to also cite its predecessors This intuition seems to overlook the cult…

Have there been any UBI plans designed to avoid warping politics? It seems politically impossible to lower (see Alaska’s challenges [1]) and too attractive for politicians to incre…