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I don’t think what you are pointing at is a real issue. Something exists. Therefore, on of the following 3 must hold: “one or more things exists or have existed which were not a co…

“GP” in this context is short for “grandparent” or “grandparent post”. It means the comment that they comment they are replying to, is a reply to.

Can you give an instrumentalization (spelling?) for “ingenuity” by which we can test whether a behavior (in a context) shows any “ingenuity”?

Well, of course at the real hardware level there will be some non-zero amount of nondeterminism, but the error correction steps that have been implemented are enough to make the pr…

It is true of course that there is no automatic procedure which takes in an arbitrary program and decides if it has a desired input/output behavior. (Whether an input program has a…

Eh? I don’t see how Gödel’s results imply that.

Most people don’t want to hurt lots of other people in an untargeted way, yes. But there are a lot of people, and, apparently a few of them shot up some electrical substations? If …

Whether or not this is compatible with how the constitution ought to be understood, in practice, it is illegal to create a nuclear bomb. Maybe those laws should be considered uncon…

Well, what’s the theorem statement for the result you’re thinking of then? Of course n bits can only encode for 2^n options. But to prove mathematically that we are close to the be…

So, when you said “proven” I thought you might have meant like, a mathematical proof. It appears that this is not what you meant. (Right?) (If it is what you meant, I was asking fo…

What proof of a ceiling are you talking about? Wouldn’t proving this require a good definition for intelligence, which I don’t think there is consensus on?

Do you think the sort of people who complain about articles being AI-written are incapable of writing articles or something? Why would not being willing to read articles produced t…

I think there is both value that comes from the work being authored by a human, and value which does not?

If your prediction is a probability distribution, rather than a discrete outcome label, then, assuming the distribution over the future depends continuously on your action, there s…

Do you know any browsers which don’t support https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/ (if you remove the google traffic tracking js that’s iirc tacked on at the end of the page (or maybe …

Was surprised and somewhat disappointed that the article doesn’t appear to evaluate how well the models work when running in the harnesses optimized for the other models. Do they s…

This seems implausible.

The criticism of “these posts are AI generated” seems like something that is about the posts themselves?

If that’s it, why is it using ∋ rather than ∈? I would expect “Ǝx∈ℕ”.

I feel like this didn’t really go anywhere? In the discussion section he says that this should provide reason to not expect easy theorems or answers, but I don’t feel like that was…

Huh? Any process on a computer by itself is also a Markov chain. If you include all the information the LLM uses to produce the next token as part of the state, then of course the …

A convex hull is a different thing than the linear span. It is smaller. And, my point is that the inputs it is often fed are not in the convex hull of the inputs in the training da…

I suppose it is conceivable that there are some useful ideas that cannot be described in terms of language we understand (e.g. if there are ideas that are alien to us and beyond wh…

Sorry, I don't understand what you mean. Are you agreeing or disagreeing with me? If it can only interpolate in a literal sense, that means that it only produces good outputs on co…