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I agree that "proof of thought" is a misleading name, but this whole "computers can't think" thing is making LLM skepticism seem very unscientific. There is no universally agreed u…

Sure, but when you're walking all the time, none of that time is wasted, because you're helping your body and brain function better. When you use a car, you really are wasting all …

Cite?

I don't think that "arguing that something is against the rules" is in the CIA sabotage manual, because it's not generally considered sabotage. Maybe if you argue things are agains…

The answer it seems is, it depends on what kind of code you're looking at. The post showed that `for` loops cause a lot more variable-name-biased reasoning, while `ifs` and functio…

Yeah that's linked a couple of times in the post

Thanks for pointing that out, it's fixed now.

If you're interested in a more scientific treatment of the topic, the post links to a technical report which reports the numbers in detail. This post is instead an attempt to expla…

This post actually mostly uses the subset of Python where nullability is checked. The point is not to introduce new LLM capabilities, but to understand more about how existing LLMs…

Many people don't think we have any good evidence that our brains aren't essentially the same thing: a stochastic statistical model that produces outputs based on inputs.

Yeah the link title is overclaiming a bit, the actual post title doesn't make such a general claim, and the post itself examines several specific models and compares their understa…

The post includes this caveat. Depending on your philosophical position about sentience you might say that LLMs can't possibly "understand" anything, and the post isn't trying to h…

Where would the "paper" part come in? Is that just based on the word "bench" in general?

"Didn't even win the democratic primary" might be a bit of a misnomer if it's implying that winning the democratic primary should be much easier than winning the general. Bernie ha…

I mean, yeah, they are saying that you can commit a crime and they won't punish you. That's what "suspending enforcement" means. I think what you mean is that "law and order" is us…

Yeah this was totally debunked, I believe the programs that were said to be "going to terrorists" were actually promoting women's literacy in Afghanistan.

SpaceX is a government contractor, immediately presenting a conflict of interest.

Yeah, if you're actually interested in government efficiency, Ro Khanna has been advocating for significant cuts to the federal budget in a way that actually improves efficiency.

Actually exit polls say that most people who voted for Trump did so because they thought he would lower grocery prices, not because they thought he would make the government more e…

Right, but we've already got limits on individual contributions, so even if you have a bunch of money, you can't have outsized influence through your individual contributions.

Anybody have a link to a description of the "Lot system" mentioned near the end?

The PHP in this refers to their product, and not the previously ubiquitous web programming language? This seems like a bad title.

Well like any political descriptor, "far right" is a generalization that applies to several groups. In this case, Elon is part of the corporate-techno-authoritarian far right that …

Actually many people on the right believe they have been censored by Musk because of this: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/08/technology/elon-musk-far-...

This post is about 20 years after WWII, so that timeline doesn't really line up.