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Compression is still prediction, the predictions just might not be good.

His videos on the people this article is about https://youtu.be/9cwcN-mm4xs https://youtu.be/XcDmr2_fvNo

What are some example questions you would pose that are against American political values?

It was standard procedure to do invasive surgeries on newborns without anesthesia until the 1980s, on the theory that they can’t feel pain. https://hms.harvard.edu/news/long-life-e…

Midwives don’t participate in C-sections

I was clicking around in response to this article and found this video that explains the inspection paradox nicely. https://youtu.be/Jd1wNizPjoE

You can evaluate the logic for the decipherment step by step and make sure all the claims are justified. But the best test is to try the proposed decipherment against some new text…

> Tom's work is credible enough that it's being reviewed by linguistics experts at Rutgers and Cambridge What does this mean? Like he e-mailed it to some people at Rutgers and Camb…

Gratuitous destruction of books by librarians has been done for a while. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Fold

Egyptian writing had phonetic elements (as does the modern Chinese writing system) but it was not an alphabet in the strict linguistic sense that individual symbols indicated indiv…

Close. One approach is to conjecture that the universe only supports a limited about of information per unit surface area. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropic_gravity

Also very well explained by PBS Spacetime here https://youtu.be/UKxQTvqcpSg

It’s not typeset in math mode so you can’t expect the hyphen to correspond to minus.

A mapping of Chinese characters to integers (like a tokenizer) would not be a dictionary. You’d also need definitions. At best it’s an index to a hypothetical dictionary.

Your model of what AI is good at is wrong. Generative AI is not good at wandering off into novel esoteric abstract corners while maintaining correctness, it is good at things that …

I have multiple friends now who used to quote me that factoid, then went to Florida and came back convinced that no, Florida man is real.

Google search already had a huge quality slide before 2022.

As early as last year "AI psychosis" seemed to refer to people going crazy due to talking to ChatGPT too much. That was a useful term for a real phenomenon! Now it seems like it's …

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PhD students paying tuition would be highly unusual.

Is there a $10 billion "fix everything easily" button you have in mind for homelessness?

China at least has this. The stuff you get at the Ole Supermarket inside a shopping mall is different from the stuff you get from the little store facing the street on the ground f…

On the contrary, the fact that they exclude free riders is what makes the whole thing possible.