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But that is not the standard for current GNU projects in large part because of all the easily avoidable friction. "If it was good enough for Richard Stallman in 1987, it's good eno…

At least for me, Monty Hall makes more intuitive sense to me when there are 10 doors than when there are 3, even though the benefit of the optimal strategy is quite small: there's …

Look at who the tools are marketed towards. Writing software involves a lot of tedium, eye strain, and frustration, even for experts who have put in a lot of hours practicing, so L…

> Might there be certain laws of physics that are also “necessary” in the same way? In his paper, Molinini argues that the principle of conservation may be one such law. In physics…

Isn't "plasticity is not necessary for intelligence" just defining intelligence downwards? It seems like you want to restrict "intelligence" to static knowledge and (apparent) shor…

Because they can learn a bunch of symbolic formal arithmetic without learning anything about quantity. They can learn 5 x 3 = 15 without learning ***** **** ******* ***** = ***** =…

> Recent examples I've seen fall well within the range of innumeracy that people routinely display. Here's GPT-4 Turbo in April botching a test almost all preschoolers could solve …

There was a very good paper in Nature showing this definitively: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41437933 Modern ANN architectures are not actually capable of long-term learni…

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In 2022 Ilya Sutskever claimed there wasn't a distinction: > It may look—on the surface—that we are just learning statistical correlations in text. But it turns out that to ‘just l…

I learn best via writing things out by hand in my own words, and almost never read the notes afterwards. I am also profoundly disorganized :) Before I got a reMarkable I had accumu…

My issue with this line of argument is that people always want to compare "do it with Copilot" to "do it completely by scratch" when they should be comparing it to "do it by ignora…

> But isn't the ability to learn also a major component of IQ? Not sure what you mean by this - it's certainly not something a single-day IQ test could possibly measure! The primar…

If you care about music: at least 100 years, almost certainly much longer. I don't think any of us in this comment section will live to see an AI that truly understands human music…

> why Drew is so sympathetic to the cause I think this is a mischaracterization. If you read the original post[1] it's clear he's not at all sympathetic to the cause, though given …

AFAICT it has not been described "in detail," the only writeup I know of is this vague, flowery blog post: https://waymo.com/blog/2024/05/fleet-response/ > it's not in a way that w…

Waymo's numbers aren't dishonest and their accomplishment is real, but this data should be taken in its proper context. 1) The comparison lumps in a lot of humans which cynically a…