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There's a spectrum between "barely scientific entertainment" and "dry technical reference". Also, it's not fully a zero-sum tradeoff, great authors have written serious textbooks t…

I certainly would only trust my textbook as the authoritative source, but i can see that in the absence of an expert teacher it's nice to have something that can critique a proof. …

Yeah, clean, neatly seperated and logically independent PRs are very nice for reviewers, but usually it requires one to complete the whole feature and then go back and think about …

I take credit given all my infosec-related reddit posts they used for training.

Well at least it seems pretty implausible to me that a machine learning model trained to reproduce human text can in principle generate something that is significantly above human …

The article is "not even wrong". Most of the argument just circles around an inconsistent definition of what "real world" means. > Remember "imaginary numbers" from algebra? You co…

> Any solution that can convince the Germans, the most privacy obsessed sticklers on the whole planet, has my support by proxy. If they think it's safe enough, it most likely is. A…

> Real life is not anonymous and consequence free either, why should online life be? In real life you are largely anonymous if you go to any place that is not in your social circle…

> even when they'd benefit from blabbing. Ok but what conspiracy theories are even filtered out by this? Whistleblowers almost always do it at great personal cost.

Formally politicians may be in charge, but at this point most political power derives from within the administrative state.

People, especially underage, commit suicide over private information of theirs getting leaked.

Also 95% of those 30k lines changed are fully self-contained inside of the aarch64 directory and of the remaining changes it looks like the majority is just adding "aarch64" as ano…

I don't understand that methodology in the first place. Does Anthropic even have some kind of somewhat objective definition to measure and judge "memorization"? Is there any eviden…

If we were perfectly rational, then yeah, more data should never lead to worse decisions. However, it's easy to fall into the trap where being data-driven makes you only work on th…

That's worse than a report that can be easily dismissed

https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~angelos/Papers/hydan.pdf Here's some more prior art

In x86, a basic immediate instruction with a 1 Byte immediate value is encoded like this: (1 Byte opcode), (1 Byte), (1 Byte) While xor eax, eax only uses 2 bytes. Since there are …

I would be surprised if modern CPUs didn't decode "xor eax, eax" into a set of micro-ops that simply moves from an externally invisible dedicated 0 register. These days the x86 ISA…

We have not been shown any evidence that shows anything approaching this scale of people dead, we have not been told on what basis that specific number of deaths was determined and…

> This also re-opens a lot of "party pooper" results in mathematics: impossibility of representing solutions to general quintic (fine print: if we restrict ourselves to arithmetic …

It's very common when people start doing a new exercise regimen. Muscles can become significantly stronger on a timescale of months, while an equivalent increase in the strength of…

Your view on the law seems a bit alien to me. My opinions on what the rules of the law should roughly look like, are largely independent of who specifically is involved in a legal …

So your proposed solution to AI slop PRs is to "donate" compute, so the maintainers can waste their time by generating the AI slop themselves?

"Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is 'close' to cutting business ties with Anthropic and designating the AI company a 'supply chain risk' — meaning anyone who wants to do business wi…