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It's not the same rule set though. The rule set they evaluated the AI on isn't one of the ones that it supports. Edit: This is confusing for some people because there are essential…

No, it isn't related to superko. It has to do with Katago misidentifying the status of groups that are wrapped around an opposing group. I assume the name cyclic has to do with the…

There are two strategies described in this paper. The cyclic adversary, and the pass adversary. You are correct that the pass adversary is super dumb. It is essentially exploiting …

> So instead of looking, like the author of these new options, for ways to make life for the bad guys harder we do nothing? Random brute force attempts against SSH are already a 10…

This is essentially the Copenhagen interpretation of ethics. If you interact with a problem you become responsible for it. Improving someones situation is unethical while doing not…

Can you be more specific about what particular anthropomorphizing you object to? The only place the author uses the word want is in describing the wants of humans.

That’s not how these kinds of trials work. The 13% figure comes from comparing the control and intervention groups, which were observed over the same period of time. The change in …

As a result of how the doors were selected one of them is more likely to contain the prize. That is information.

When one door was opened it revealed information about the other two doors.

The best probability estimate you can make is constrained by the information you have available. The new person showing up has less information than the existing constant, so it ma…

> I've been in countless meetings with countless executives where the Google Sheet is busted out featuring engineering cost and tool cost and where cost/benefit is aggressively dec…

> If a "crappy" tool costs $10k/mo for the team and doesn't require much or any devops time to setup and maintain, it's likely cheaper than the $0/mo opensource but requires part o…

Well, interpreting the title in that way is incorrect, so it seems like GP kind of has a point then.

Of course they would. The coast guard saves thousands of people every year. Most of them aren't billionaires.

I wasn't talking about you when I was saying that some people are blaming depositors. Some other commenters are really angry at the VCs that participated in the run. Their anger is…

SVB didn’t collapse because of the bank run. There was a bank run because they collapsed. It is true that the bank run may have accelerated the collapse slightly but they were in r…

Something that I think is pretty important to keep in mind is that when handling a possible XY problem, the key is communication. It is good to ask clarifying questions and questio…

Not in Tromp Taylor rules. Basically, this paper is cheesing a win with a loophole in a rule set that no one actually uses. Kind of a shame that it is getting so much attention des…

Everyone should pay for the resources they consume. Lower density requires massively more resources per person, so the people who want it should wind up paying more. Nobody is advo…

I had that on the lowest setting already, it doesn't make a difference. I suspect that iOS already thinks its playing music quite softly and therefore won't know to down correct.

This is iOS. I haven't been able to find the ability to lower the minimum volume, and based on posts in the support forums, this seems like a common complaint that has yet to be ad…

Thanks for the recommendation! I'll definitely look into them.

I'm currently struggling to find usable bluetooth earbuds. One pair that I found comes flying out of my ears when I moved my head at all. Another is dangerously loud even on the lo…

I don't think that's true. The default constructor for std::string creates an empty string. See: https://www.cplusplus.com/reference/string/string/string/ The semantics of c++ obje…